Election 2020, ADVISORY
Columbia Basin Herald | UPDATED 4 years, 3 months AGO
Here are today’s plans for coverage of Election 2020. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan. Find the AP’s latest coverage in our Election 2020 hub. All times are Eastern.
UPCOMING:
VIRUS OUTBREAK -HOW IT HAPPENED: No one knows exactly how, when or from whom Trump became infected with the coronavirus. But to retrace his steps over the last week is to see risk at multiple turns. UPCOMING: 1000 words, photos by 5 p.m.
VIRUS OUTBREAK -WHITE HOUSE: With ready access to testing and the best public health minds, President Trump should have been the American safest from the COVID-19 virus. Instead, he ignored his own government’s guidelines and through his behavior - eschewing masks, relentlessly traveling, gathering big crowds - the president failed to protect himself. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 5 p.m.
ELECTION 2020 -VIRUS -BIDEN: Joe Biden has an opportunity to show how he would lead differently than President Trump in the wake of the president’s positive coronavirus test. UPCOMING: 950 words, photos by 6 p.m.
CONGRESS TESTING: Congressional leaders are taking a fresh look at virus testing in the Capitol after Trump’s positive diagnosis. UPCOMING: 850 words, photos by 4 p.m.
SENT/DEVELOPING:
VIRUS OUTBREAK -TRUMP: The White House says President Donald Trump is suffering “mild symptoms” of COVID-19, adding that he is in good spirits and working in quarantine from the family quarters. The announcement of his illness throws the country deeper into uncertainty just a month before the presidential election. SENT: 1200 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK -TRUMP -TIMELINE: With just a month to go until the election, President Donald Trump had a busy schedule in the week before the coronavirus hit home with him. The president was accompanied on two of his trips by aide Hope Hicks, who was diagnosed with the coronavirus after feeling ill and isolating herself on Air Force One on the way back to Washington after a rally in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday. SENT: 625 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020 -VIRUS: An election year already defined by a cascade of national crises is descending further into uncharted territory. No one knows exactly what comes next. But the development settles the focus of the campaign where Joe Biden has put his emphasis for months — on Trump’s response to a pandemic. SENT: 1000 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020 -VIRUS -REPUBLICANS: Hitched to Donald Trump, Republicans in Congress are facing perhaps their biggest loyalty test yet after the president tested positive for the coronavirus. The diagnosis is upending the Trump administration’s entire approach to COVID-19 weeks before the election. So far, the Republicans are standing by Trump. SENT: 800 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020- SANDERS – BIDEN: Bernie Sanders is returning to in-person campaigning for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March, heading to the battleground states of New Hampshire and Michigan to promote Joe Biden and sooth any lingering tensions between the Democratic Party’s progressive and centrist wings. SENT: 500 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020 -CAMPAIGN SPENDING: A new reports says candidates running for federal office and political action committees will spend nearly $11 billion dollars during the 2020 election cycle, a jaw-dropping sum that will far surpass what campaigns have spent in the past. SENT: 400 words.
VOTERS OF COLOR -DEBATE REACTION: Black Americans and other people of color say President Trump’s refusal to outright condemn white nationalists during this week’s debate has strengthened their resolve to vote. SENT: 950 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020 -TRUMP TAXES -VOTERS: Interviews with voters in swing-voting Wisconsin show scant evidence of damaging impact from The New York Times’ reporting this week on Trump’s long-secret tax returns. SENT: 800 words, photos.
AP POLL -FOREIGN INTERFERENCE: Most Americans are concerned at least somewhat by the potential for foreign interference in November’s election, and a majority believes that Russia sought in 2016 to influence the outcome of that race, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. SENT: 960 words, photo, graphics.
ELECTION 2020 - WISCONSIN -ABSENTEE: Republicans are asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to act in a matter of days to help undo a federal court ruling that extends the period absentee ballots can be counted in the battleground state until Nov. 9, six days after the election. SENT: 425 words.
AP VIDEO:
AP Video is pursuing reaction from lawmakers and voters around the country to President Trump's coronavirus infection. Video is also covering Joe Biden's trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Video is planning a piece looking at the timeline leading up to Trump's infection, as well as edits on political and medical analysis.
AP PHOTOS:
AP photos is covering Joe Biden's trip to Michigan and Kamala Harris' campaign events in Las Vegas.
INTERACTIVES/GRAPHICS:
ELECTION 2020-ADVANCE VOTING — Interactive guide. 2020 could be the first year in which more than half of voters cast their ballot for president before polls open on Election Day. AP is tracking these changes and has crafted an interactive guide giving you everything you need to know about early voting and mail-in ballots in each state. This guide will update dynamically as updated election rules and data are made available. Source: AP Election Services. Click for a preview.