The Latest – Friday, October 30

[matt (Matt Kiser)]

A community space for breaking news

A daily community thread to collect updates and events pertinent to the daily shock and awe, this is The Latest.

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What we’re talking about

• 🗳 2020 General Election - Trump vs Biden
• WTF - Get Out the Vote - Voter resources 2020 & Obstacles
• Portrait of a President
• Coronavirus (Community Thread)

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Voter Guides: FiveThirtyEight / Washington Post / NBC News / Wall Street Journal

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• The Latest – Wednesday, October 21

[Windthin (David Bythewood)]

New, horrifying info on how detainees who’ve died in ICE custody were treated.

Immigration: issues and policy

More Than 40 Immigrants Have Died In ICE Custody In The Past Four Years. Here Are Thousands Of Records About What Happened. BuzzFeed News has obtained thousands of pages of documents from internal investigations of deaths of immigrants held in ICE custody. Since January 2017, at least four dozen people have died while being held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some were old, and some were young. Some had been in the US for years before being detained; others came here on…

[matt (Matt Kiser)]

2020 General Election - Trump vs Biden

WTF to expect leading up to Election Day With less than 100 hours until the first polls close on Election Day, here’s a short guide for what you need to know between now and then (and the then after): Don’t Sweat the Polls: Why the 2020 election won’t be a 2016 sequel. The most important difference between 2016 and 2020 isn’t about polling methodology or the opposing candidate. It’s this: Four years ago, Trump ran on the vague promise of success, and this year he’s running on a clear record o…

[Windthin (David Bythewood)]

Trump’s outreach for LGBTQ votes isn’t just offensive. It’s a sign of desperation.

The Trump campaign is hurting so much that it’s scrounging to peel off LGBTQ voters from Joe Biden, despite the president’s vile record.

Trump’s outreach for LGBTQ votes isn’t just offensive. It’s a sign of...

[dragonfly9]

Gee…what could this mean??

Trump Cancels Election Night Party at Trump International Hotel

In the final few days before the big day, President Donald Trump has canceled his planned appearance at his nearby Trump International Hotel for an Election Night party and will instead probably stick around at the White House, The New York Times reports. The reason as to why Trump made this quick switch is uncertain, although he has been frequently criticized for mixing his personal business with his presidency. The Trump campaign, which hasn’t been doing so well financially, would have had to pay for the event and presumably make social-distancing accommodations considering that the COVID-19 pandemic is again spiking across the nation as well. “November 3rd will go down in history as the night we won FOUR MORE YEARS,” Trump wrote in the initial invitation to fundraisers that was sent out. “It will be absolutely EPIC, and the only thing that could make it better is having YOU there. Join us on Election Night.

[dragonfly9]

Stock market drop reflects the fear on Wall Street of not a very stable situation with rising Covid numbers and a panicked world.

Wall St. Suffers Worst Week Since March: Live Updates

• Stocks fell on Friday, dropping for the fourth time in the past five days in a retreat that has added up to Wall Street’s worst week since March, as rising pandemic cases, new shutdowns and a sell-off in large technology stocks all dragged the major benchmarks lower.
• The S&P 500 fell 1.2 percent, bringing its loss for the week to 5.6 percent. That’s its biggest weekly drop since the week through March 20, when stocks plunged 15 percent before they began to rebound after the Federal Reserve and lawmakers in Washington stepped in to bolster the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 6.5 percent this week.
• The latest sell-off has come as a second wave of cases forced more lockdowns in Europe, threatening the economic recovery and spooking investors around the world. In the United States, a record number of cases is prompting city and county governments to start imposing some curfews and limits on gatherings.
• And trading has been volatile for much of October, with investors whipsawed by expectations about whether Congress and the White House would agree on a new economic relief plan, anticipation of a contested election next week and concern about the sharp rise in virus cases.
• The decline on Friday leaves the S&P 500 with a gain of 1.2 percent for the year. As recently as Oct. 12, the index was up more than 9 percent for the year.

[dragonfly9]

Swing-state voters face major mail delays in returning ballots on time, USPS...

Over the past five days, the on-time rate for ballots in 17 postal districts representing 10 battleground states and 151 electoral votes was 89.1 percent — 5.9 percentage points lower than the national average. By that measure, more than 1 in 10 ballots are arriving outside the Postal Service’s one-to-three-day delivery window for first-class mail.

Those delays loom large over the election: 28 states will not accept ballots that arrive after Election Day, even if they are postmarked before. Continued snags in the mail system could invalidate tens of thousands of ballots across the country and could factor into whether President Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden captures crucial battleground states and, ultimately, the White House.