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Election 2020, ADVISORY

Columbia Basin Herald | UPDATED 4 years, 6 months AGO
| October 20, 2020 1:06 PM

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-TRUMP-BARR: President Trump calls on Attorney General William Barr to immediately launch an investigation into Democrat Joe Biden and his son, effectively demanding that the Justice Department muddy the president’s political opponent just two weeks before Election Day. The push is at odds with the department’s historical resistance to getting involved in shaping elections. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos by 5 p.m.

MELANIA TRUMP: Melania Trump’s return to the campaign trail will have to wait. Mrs. Trump decided not to accompany President Trump to a campaign rally in Pennsylvania because of a lingering cough following her recovery from COVID-19. UPCOMING: 400 words, photos by 4 p.m.

SENT/DEVELOPING

ELECTION 2020: President Trump shunned formal debate practice Tuesday and was heading instead for another of his big rallies, two days ahead of the final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the 2020 campaign. Joe Biden took the opposite approach, holing up for debate prep. SENT: 800 words, photos. Will be updated from Trump's 7 p.m. rally.

AP POLL-VIRUS OUTBREAK-FACTS: Americans have lost trust across the board in the people and institutions informing them about the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts. SENT: 909 words, photos.

RACIAL INJUSTICE-FEDERAL ARRESTS: President Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an Associated Press review of thousands of pages of court documents tells a different story. Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized extremist groups, and many are young suburban adults from the very neighborhoods Trump vows to protect from the violence. SENT: 1750 words, photos. An abridged version of 955 words is also available.

VIRUS OUTBREAK-CONGRESS: It’s deadline day for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on COVID-19 relief, with the contours of a potential deal taking shape behind the scenes even as President Trump’s GOP allies are recoiling at the administration’s tolerance for a $2 trillion package. SENT: 709 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020 -TRUMP -SPENDING: President Trump’s sprawling political operation raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 — and set a lot of it on fire. Now, with two weeks until the election, his campaign acknowledges it is facing difficult spending decisions at a time when Joe Biden has flooded the airwaves with advertising. SENT: 1100 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020 -VOTING REGISTRATION: The Republican Party has cut into Democrats’ advantage in voter registration tallies across some critical presidential battleground states, a fact they point to as evidence of steady — and overlooked — enthusiasm for President Trump and his party. SENT: 1000 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020 - GRANT FUNDING: A national conservative group may challenge the outcome of the Nov. 3 elections by arguing that municipalities are improperly using hundreds of millions of dollars in private money to administer the polls, a lawyer for the group said Tuesday. Judges have rejected the group’s arguments in lawsuits in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. SENT: 600 words.

AP VIDEO:

AP video is covering President Trump’s rally in Erie Pennsylvania 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 campaign President Trump's Pennsylvania rally as well as debate preps at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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

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