A week before the vote, the editor of Washington Post, Jeff Bezosthe founder of Amazon, explains, in a his article on the comments page, because he has decided that his newspaper will not endorse one or the other of the candidates for the White House this year. For Bezos, Americans do not trust the media and “endorsements create a perception of prejudice and lack of independence. Ending it is a decision of principle and it is the right decision.” A similar decision was made last week by the publisher of Los Angeles Timesthe Chinese-South African biotech entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong.
The election news is dominated by the aftermath of the rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday evening by the former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump“a display – states the Cnn – Of hatred, racism and extremism”. Among the most discussed passages, the intervention of a comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, who defined Puerto Rico “an island of garbage” and the speech of Trump’s deputy, JD Vance, who defended Trump’s idea of deploying the army against “internal enemies”, that is, his political opponents.
According to the New York Timesthe Trump campaign is worried that the sorties on Puerto Rico could harm the former president: Puerto Ricans do not vote for the president, despite being US citizens, but they can influence the millions of them who live in the United States and who vote. Indeed, The New Daythe most widely circulated newspaper in Puerto Rico, today has an editorial in which it peremptorily states that “Puerto Ricans need to vote for Kamala Harris”: “Today – says the editorial – all of us who love this Garden of America and the world are sorry and our hearts are full of anger and pain…”. And Puerto Rican stars such as Bud Bunny and Ricky Martin express their support for the Democratic candidate.
Candidates making final speeches, voters at polling stations (43 million have already voted)
In the analysis of Cnnthe two candidates are already “in the final speeches” of their campaign. Harris and his deputy Tim Waltz intend to visit, between now and November 5th, all and seven states in the balancewhere the situation appears blocked, after having taken a more aggressive tone towards Trump and having distanced himself more from President Joe Biden.
In these last lines, Harris and Trump are increasingly relying on podcastsconsidered an effective tool to reach an interested public, but which does not rely on traditional media.
The Cnn underlines that 43 million Americans have already voted by post or at the early voting polls – almost a third of those who will ultimately have expressed their vote, estimated at just over 150 million -. The NYT reports that former New York mayor and former candidate for the Republican nomination, Michael Bloomberg, has donated $50 million to support Harris.
Lottery blocked, ballots burned, dispute in Virginia
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has launched amillion dollar a day lottery lawsuit launched by Elon Musk in support of Trump. The prosecutor’s step comes a week after the Justice Department reported that Musk’s initiative violates federal law.
The state of Virginia has asked the US Supreme Court to uphold the exclusion from the rolls of 1,600 voters, after a federal appeals court unanimously upheld a lower court judge’s order to allow those voters back to vote. voters who would have been illegally excluded with an executive order of the governor of the state, the Republican Glenn Allen Youngkin.
Hundreds of cards they went destroyed nell’Oregon ea Vancouverin Washington State, when fires were set at mailboxes reserved for mail-in votes. Police arrested a suspect.
McConnell, belated regret of a long-time politician
In a biography published today, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell – set to be replaced in the next legislature – defends special prosecutor Jack Smith’s investigation against the former president for the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and says he hope that Trump “pays a price” for that riot. “If he hasn’t committed prosecutable crimes, I don’t know what is,” McConnell told journalist Michael Tackett, author of the biography ‘The Price of Power.’
McConnell’s remarks were made after Smith brought new federal charges against Trump, which take into account the Supreme Court’s ruling on the president’s partial immunity for his actions. “From the beginning, McConnell thought the charges against Trump had merit,” Tackett writes.
Tackett’s book also reveals that McConnell seriously considered voting to impeach Trump over the matter. In the end, he voted for acquittal, arguing that the former president could not be convicted under that instrument because he was no longer in office. But he added: “We have a system of criminal justice in this country. We have one civil justice. E former presidents are not immune from being held accountable in either“.
