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-BIDEN-EXPLAINER: A look at the questions surrounding a New York Post report that Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden had introduced his father to an adviser for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. UPCOMING: 850 words, photos by 5 p.m.
SENT/DEVELOPING:
ELECTION 2020: President Donald Trump tries to shore up support from constituencies that not so long ago he thought he had in the bag: Big business and voters in the red state of Iowa. Trump expresses puzzlement in an address to business leaders about why they would even consider supporting Democrat Joe Biden. Biden, for his part, takes time to raise more campaign cash but has no public events for the day, an unusual move just 20 days before the election. SENT: 900 words, Will be updated from Trump’s 7 p.m. rally.
ELECTION 2020 -THE LATEST: The latest on the 2020 presidential race. SENT: 600 words, photos. Updated throughout the day.
SUPREME COURT -BARRETT: Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has returned to Capitol Hill for a third day of confirmation hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senators are digging deeper into the conservative judge’s outlook on abortion, health care and a potentially disputed presidential election. The conservative judge has been giving hours of testimony, but few specifics. Wednesday’s session is set to be Barrett’s last. SENT: 900 words, photos. Will be updated throughout the day.
ELECTION 2020-HOUSE-TOUGH DISTRICTS: Democrats are making a run at a Republican-held House district in rural Virginia that until this spring wasn’t considered competitive. The fight is among a handful of districts around the country where one party is making a play for a House seat that in many years would seem out of reach. SENT: 1000 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020 -VOTING -PENNSYLVANIA: Pennsylvania is one of this year’s most hotly contested battleground states and also is facing a flurry of lawsuits, complaints and partisan finger-pointing over its election procedures and systems. Yet for all the anxiety over voting, election experts say concerns of fraud are way overblown. And so far, voters say they have found the registration and early voting process simple and easy. That is providing a glimmer of hope for a smooth Election Day. SENT: 1200 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020 – DUELING TOWN HALLS: NBC News agreed to put President Donald Trump before voters in a town hall event on Thursday after the president submitted to an independent coronavirus test with the results reviewed by Dr. Anthony Fauci. The announcement Wednesday sets up dueling town halls with Democratic opponent Joe Biden on a night the two candidates were supposed to meet for their second debate. Biden is appearing on a similar town hall event in Philadelphia, televised by ABC. SENT: 425 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020 -RACE-ON-THE-BALLOT: The Black Lives Matter movement isn’t named in any of the 120 statewide ballot measures up for a vote on Nov. 3. But the nationwide protests over police brutality and racial injustice are major factors in several states for measures with racial themes. SENT: 1000 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-KENTUCKY SENATE: Amy McGrath was in elementary school when Mitch McConnell was first elected to the Senate. Now, 36 years later, the Democrat who reached her dreams of becoming a military aviator has set her sights on a mission no one else has achieved — ending the Republican leader’s career. SENT: 1060 words, photos.
AP VIDEO:
AP Video is covering day 3 of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Video also President Trump’s rally in Des Moines, Iowa at 7 p.m.
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 the Senate’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, as well Trump in Iowa and Vice President Pence in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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