AFL-CIO endorses Biden

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MAY 27, 2020: Donald Trump will visit the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral today. The AFL-CIO endorsed Biden. 

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“Joe Biden’s national polling lead against President Donald Trump has been relatively stable for months. But the looming question for Biden is whether he can get the right combination of voters to turn out for him on Election Day — and in the right places.

Barack Obama beat his Republican challengers in 2008 and 2012 by driving historic turnout among African American voters and winning working-class white voters in Midwestern Rust Belt states. Replicating that exact playbook may not be realistic; Trump’s hold on white working-class voters can’t be underestimated. ...

The Biden campaign strategy will take a series of carefully executed plays. Cut into Trump’s margins with rural and exurban voters in states from the Upper Midwest to Florida. Make sure African American, Latino, and Asian American turnout is strong in Sun Belt and Rust Belt states alike. Appeal to a subset of voters where Democrats have been racking up big wins lately: suburban voters (especially women) who may have voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 but are wary of Trump.

And — maybe the biggest play of all — see if the campaign can win or at least significantly cut into the president’s margins with older voters, a traditionally more conservative and reliable bloc that suddenly seems to be turning away from the president.”

- Ella Nilsen, _Vox_

 
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JOE BIDEN ([link removed]) said ([link removed]) after Trump retweeted an image of Biden wearing a mask, “He's a fool, an absolute fool to talk that way. … I mean every leading doc in the world is saying you should wear a mask when you're in a crowd, and especially when you know you're going to be in a position where you're going to inadvertently get closer than 12 feet to somebody.”

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BIDEN’s campaign launched ([link removed]) a program called League 46, which it describes ([link removed]) as “a community to engage, mobilize, and empower young people to elect Joe Biden.”

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BIDEN’s campaign named ([link removed]) Rachana Desai Martin as its national director for voter protection and senior counsel.

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The AFL-CIO ([link removed]) endorsed ([link removed]) BIDEN.

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DONALD TRUMP ([link removed]) will visit the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, today to view the SpaceX rocket launch. A press secretary said ([link removed]) , “‘Launch America’ not only restores American dominance and unlocks our entrepreneurial spirit in space, but it also symbolizes America’s ‘transition to greatness’ after an unprecedented disruption.”

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TRUMP said North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper ([link removed]) (D) should decide within a week whether a full-scale Republican National Convention ([link removed]) can be held in the state. Trump said ([link removed]) , “It’s a massive expenditure, and we have to know. Yeah, I would say within a week, certainly, we’d have to know. Now if he can’t do it, if he feels he’s not going to do it, all he has to do is tell us, and then we’ll have to pick another location.”

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According to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE ([link removed]) chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel ([link removed]) , other states have offered to host the Republican National Convention. McDaniel said ([link removed]) , “The president is right to say to the governor, you need to assure us before we lock in all these hotel rooms and we bring all of this revenue to your state that you’re going to let us have this convention. … There’s a lot of states that are calling the president right now saying, hey, why don’t you bring that revenue to our state?”

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FiveThirtyEight: How Much Trump Could Help (Or Harm) Down-Ballot Republicans In November ([link removed])

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Los Angeles Times: Why Bernie Sanders is dead wrong about what Joe Biden should look for in a running mate ([link removed])

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The New York Times: Why a Biden Victory Hinges on Picking the Right Running Mate ([link removed])

FLASHBACK: MAY 27, 2016

After telling Jimmy Kimmel that he would debate Bernie Sanders ([link removed]) if ABC made a donation to charity, Trump issued the following statement ([link removed]) : “[N]ow that I am the presumptive Republican nominee, it seems inappropriate that I would debate the second place finisher. … Therefore, as much as I want to debate Bernie Sanders - and it would be an easy payday - I will wait to debate the first place finisher in the Democratic Party, probably Crooked Hillary Clinton, or whoever it may be.”
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