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:
ELECTION 2020-VOTING INDECISION: For many voters the hardest decision this election isn’t who to vote for but how to cast their ballots. Expanded mail-in and early vote options, worries about security and postal delivery and misinformation spread by the president are causing confusion that election officials worry may create new problems. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 3 p.m.
SENT/DEVELOPING:
ELECTION 2020-DEBATE: Vice President Pence and Kamala Harris traded barbs through plexiglass shields Wednesday night in a debate dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. With less than four weeks before Election Day, the debate was one of the final opportunities for Trump and Pence to reset a contest that could be slipping away. SENT: 950 words, photos, videos.
ELECTION 2020 -TRUMP -BIDEN -DEBATE: It’s suddenly up in air when the next presidential debate, or maybe debates, may take place. President Trump says he will skip next week’s debate with Joe Biden if it’s virtual instead of face to face. Biden’s team countered by saying the town hall event should instead be moved back a week. By Thursday afternoon, it was unclear when or how the next debates would proceed, or whether voters would even get to see the two men running for the White House on the same stage again before Election Day. SENT: 800 words, photos.
VIRUS OUTBREAK -TRUMP: President Trump insists he’s ready to resume campaign rallies and feels “perfect,” although questions persist about the course of his recovery from COVID-19. SENT: 850 words, photos.
2020 ELECTION UNREST: Federal and state law enforcement officials have begun expanded preparations for the possibility of widespread unrest at the polls on Election Day, a response to extraordinarily high tensions among voters and anxieties about safety stoked in part by President Trump. SENT: 1000 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-TRUMP-WISCONSIN: President Trump’s once-comfortable advantage in the pivotal region of Wisconsin around the blue-collar hub of Green Bay has dwindled. In suburban Milwaukee, long a Republican-dominated area, it has thinned as well. His path to victory the state, which he won narrowly in 2016, has become increasingly complicated, and so has his path to the 270 electoral votes needed for his reelection. SENT: 960 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-ARIZONA: A decade ago, Arizona was known as the epicenter of the Republican push against illegal immigration. But today, it’s the nation’s newest political battleground, thanks to a combination of demographic and political changes. Biden and Harris are set to visit the Phoenix area Thursday, while Pence planned to campaign across town in his fourth appearance in the state this year. SENT: 808 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-IMMIGRATION POLITICS: The Department of Homeland Security has rolled out a series of immigration measures in recent days. The agency is helping to revive an issue that was at the heart of Trump’s successful 2016 campaign, but largely on the back burner in the current one. It has fueled charges that DHS and other agencies have become overtly politicized under President Donald Trump. SENT: 920 words, photos.
FUNDRAISER CHARGED: Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, has been charged in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund. SENT: 100 words.
AP VIDEO:
AP Video is covering Biden and Harris campaigning in Arizona and the latest developments with President Trump - including his health and plans for upcoming debates.
AP Video features analysis by AP reporters on the day’s campaign developments. Edits are expected by 4 p.m.
AP PHOTOS:
AP photos is covering Biden and Harris in Arizona and Vice President Pence in Nevada and Arizona.
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