Election 2020, ADVISORY
Columbia Basin Herald | UPDATED 4 years, 4 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-TRUMP-TOWN HALL TAKEAWAYS: There’s no wishing away the coronavirus. Real people keep it real. Preparation matters. Some takeaways from President Trump’s televised town hall with uncommitted voters, which offered a preview of how he might operate in the upcoming presidential debates. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos by 3:30 p.m.
ELECTION 2020-IVANKA TRUMP: Ivanka Trump plans a stop in Phoenix Wednesday as her father’s presidential re-election campaign makes a full-court press for backing from Arizona voters. She has scheduled a roundtable event with Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, just two days after President Trump held a rally in Phoenix. UPCOMING: 500 words, photos by 4 p.m.
SENT/DEVELOPING:
ELECTION 2020-AMERICA DISRUPTED-ECONOMY: Appleton, Wisconsin, is a predominately white city of 75,000 people along Wisconsin’s Fox River. By almost any measure, President Donald Trump’s promises of an economic revival have gone unfulfilled. The area has lost about 8,000 jobs since he was elected, but the economy is being viewed through partisan lenses — filtered through the facts that voters want to see and hear, and those they don’t. Many Trump supporters remain faithful. SENT: 2740 words, photos. An abridged version of 1180 words is also available.
ELECTION 2020-NONPROFIT VOTING: As Congress balks, well-funded nonprofits are donating hundreds of millions of dollars to help state and local officials run elections during the pandemic — a sudden infusion of private cash in what was once considered a core government function. SENT: 1085 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020-BLOOMBERG: Mike Bloomberg’s pledge to spend $100 million in Florida to boost Joe Biden there will allow the Biden campaign to move resources to other battleground states and force the Trump campaign to spend more of their limited resources there. SENT: 1070 words, photos.
ELECTION 2020 - BALLOT -SNAFU-MICHIGAN: Local election clerks in Michigan downloading absentee ballots for residents overseas were given ballots that listed President Donald Trump’s Republican running mate as Jeremy Cohen, not Mike Pence. SENT: 220 words.
EXPLAINING ELECTION 2020 -CONTESTED ELECTION: Is it possible the election will be up in the air and we won’t have a president on Inauguration Day: Jan. 20, 2021? SENT: 370 words, graphics.
AP VIDEO:
AP Video is covering Joe Biden's events in Wilmington, Delaware: a virtual coronavirus vaccine briefing followed by remarks at 2:30 p.m.
AP Video will also feature analysis by AP reporters on the day’s campaign developments. Broadcast edits are expected by 4 p.m.
AP PHOTOS:
AP Photos is covering Biden in Delaware and Vice President Pence at a campaign event this afternoon in Zanesville, Ohio. Photos is also with Jill Biden and Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff who are campaigning together in New Hampshire.
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.