it is very unlikely that the election will be called by any TV network or media organization on election night

Because of the through-the-looking-glass nature of the early vote, it's even harder than normal to produce accurate turnout models on which networks base their projections.

But it's even more important to be cautious when you are making that sort of projection amid a pandemic and with a man in the White House who has made plain his (false) belief that something nefarious is going on in the voting.

Some experts are worried that the period following this election may become as chaotic and violent as the early 1970s.

people are more inclined to do everything they can in order to ensure that they’re winning elections, even if that means using violence, even if that means engaging in acts of extremism,”

If the ballots are still being counted days after November 3, people who have any credibility with the right could try to remind people that, ultimately, we’re all in this together.

In the opening minutes of the debate, Harris -- 12 feet from Pence and shielded by plexiglass --delivered a swift condemnation of the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, noting that some 210,000 people have died and more than 7.5 million people have contracted the disease.

Harris argued that because the election is underway, Republicans should not attempt to confirm a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who appears to have a clear path to the seat if Republicans can hew to their scheduled timeline of confirming her by the end of the year.

she could become the first woman of color—or woman, period, for that matter—to be elected vice president of the United States,

“Because when I see the people who have had the experience of having been given a name from their family, which is one of the greatest gifts that a family can give you—it’s the first gift that a child, when they enter the earth, receives from their family.”

To those men and anyone else who wants to “play childish games” she said the idea that the “highest elected leaders should conduct themselves like they did when they were children on the playground” ultimately “speaks poorly of their appreciation for the responsibility and the role that they have.”

Texas on Friday as recent polls have shown former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHarris to travel to Texas Friday after polls show tie between Trump, Biden Florida heat sends a dozen Trump rally attendees to hospital Harris more often the target of online misinformation than Pence: report MORE closing in on President Trump in the Lone Star State.

Biden's campaign is eyeing Houston's Harris County for a potential victory, which has become more Democratic in recent years and has already cast 1.1 million early ballots

"Harris visiting this close to the election is a game-changer and exactly what Texas Democrats need to get us over the top,"

ce Cube, the legendary Generation X rapper and hip hop icon, last week said he's open to working with the Trump administration on implementing his "Contract with Black America." That is a huge mistake which hurts the entire African American community

Apparently motivated by his reaction to Joe Biden's tax plan, 50 Cent posted, in part, on social media: "I don't care Trump doesn't like black people."

Black men's pain, which Ice Cube's scowling image from his classic first two albums -- "Amerikkka's Most Wanted and Death Certificate" -- so brilliantly reflect, is real as reflected in their extraordinary rates of imprisonment, punishment and death. Black women's pain is just as potent, as illustrated in their accelerating rates of incarceration, high rates of poverty and depressing levels of income and lower rates of wealth.

This part of Trump resonated with Kurtis, who told me he likes that the president “comes off as a man. He doesn’t come off as weak.” Trump’s strength is a benefit in the foreign-policy arena, Kurtis feels.

Kurtis’s father recently caught COVID-19 at church, which Kurtis saw as just another example of people knowing the risks but doing what they feel they need to do anyway.

Here’s the data: Overall, 93% of Democrats surveyed say entertainers should feel free to use their platforms to speak out on social and political issues, but, as shown above, just 62% say an awards show is the place to do it.

According to a new survey, young people think you should express yourself -- and what better time than when you have millions of people hanging on your every word.

Streep never invoked Trump’s name at the awards ceremony, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. She didn’t have to. Everyone knew who she meant when she blasted him for mocking a disabled New York Times reporter.

(CNN)The last president facing re-election troubles like Donald Trump's was Jimmy Carter in 1980. Injured by recession and impotent against a national crisis, Carter lost big.

"Trump is the worst President ever -- I can't imagine historians will spend more than 10 minutes debating that," says Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. But "he really has developed a rock-solid base."

"Everybody has PTSD from four years ago," Sabato says

"He was going off like, 'Oh, you drank the Kool-Aid,' and 'Kavanaugh didn't do anything,' " she recalled. "It made me sick. If this is his core ethics, I don't want that kind of person in my life."

"He went off on me saying essentially I'm a racist and a homophobe just because I'm a Trump supporter. No ifs, ands or buts. And he completely cut me out of his life," Langford said. They haven't spoken in years.

Dark warnings by scientists and new data showing a nationwide explosion in a virus Trump says is going away, crashing stock markets and real-time examples of the White House's delusions about its failed response are consuming the President as tens of millions of early voters cast judgment.

The economy grew at a record annualized rate of 33.1% between July and September and was up 7.4% quarter on quarter.

With more than 75 million votes already cast -- one-third of registered voters -- the chance for a late change to the race is limited, even as the President tried to shore up his far Western power base with rallies in Arizona, a state that could help Biden block his route to 270 electoral votes.

Many have speculated the 31-year-old left-wing icon may be a contender for the 2024 presidential race, as she will have reached the mandatory age minimum of 35 by then.

"I don't know," she said in April. "Honestly, this news cycle is so insane, who knows where any of us are going to be in 2022?"

Ocasio-Cortez gained attention in the Democratic Party with her Green New Deal, though whether her popularity gained by going after the Trump administration and her new progressive proposals is enough to push her through a national campaign is unclear at this time.

Although unlikely, a potential tie is not entirely impossible and does have historical precedent.

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However, an electoral tie did occur in 1800, during the presidential election between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The candidates each received 73 electoral votes. (There were fewer states at the time.)

President Trump is closing his re-election campaign by pleading with voters to ignore the evidence of a calamity unfolding before their eyes and trust his word that the disease is already disappearing as a threat to their personal health and economic well being.

The president has continued to declare before large and largely maskless crowds that the virus is vanishing, even as case counts soar, fatalities climb, the stock market dips and a fresh outbreak grips the staff of Vice President Mike Pence.

“With the fake news, everything is Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,”

The emergence of Arizona -- where both Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate Kamala Harris will travel on Wednesday -- as a swing state could throw a major wrench into Trump's electoral hopes and provide a big lifeline to Biden.

But under this map, if Trump were to win any of these Great Lake states and hold onto the rest of the states he won in 2016, the fewest number of electoral votes Trump could get would be 270.

Part of that underestimation may have to do with the high Hispanic population in the state. Hispanics will likely make up close to 20% of the Arizona electorate in 2020.

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That trust is now under considerable pressure around the world. Cracks have been evident for years in the field of climate change, with a number of politicians ignoring or seeking to undermine the irrefutable evidence showing that humans are the cause.

The fields of public-health and infectious-disease research have revealed much about the effects of pandemics and how to curb them. This year, a large volume of work on COVID-19 has illuminated the behaviour of both the virus and the disease. Research has also revealed uncertainties, gaps and errors in our knowledge, as would be expected. But that doesn’t excuse the behaviour we are seeing from politicians around the world, exemplified by Trump’s notorious actions: a chaotic, often ill-informed response, with scientists being attacked and undermined.

For Biden, whose campaign's primary focus is rebuilding the "blue wall" of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, a win in fast-counting Florida would be a sign of strength on election night -- and could bring the contest to an early, decisive end.

But, ignoring the reality that more than 200,000 Americans have died from the virus, he added: "The bottom line, you're going to get better. If I can get better anyone can get better."

The stakes in Florida are highest for Trump, who would have virtually no path to 270 electoral votes without winning the state where he defeated Hillary Clinton by 1.2 percentage points in 2016.

People have talked about Trump breaking norms, especially when it comes to talking about race, going as far as to say that he's the "most racist president in modern history."

After all, racism was baked into the founding of the United States, a country built on the genocide of Native American people and slavery; 12 of the first 18 presidents actually owned slaves.

different from what people are talking about with President Trump. In his case, it's his use of all that language in 2020 rather than 1964, right out in the public on his Twitter feed, in a presidential debate or at his rallies. I

most Hispanic voters continue to hold bleak views of the nation and its economy after months of widespread job losses and illness due to COVID-19, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 5.

For example, 57% of U.S. voters say they have confidence in Biden to handle the public health impact of the coronavirus outbreak, up from 52% in June

Four-in-ten U.S. registered voters (40%) say they have confidence in Trump to handle the health impact of COVID-19, and 30% have confidence that Trump can bring the country closer together.