⁍ President Donald Trump headed for an evening campaign rally in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
⁍ The contenders have clashed over Trump’s intention to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left behind by liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died from cancer on Friday.
⁍ Biden will return to the campaign trail on Wednesday with his first trip as the Democratic nominee to North Carolina.
– With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, President Trump was set to hit the campaign trail for a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night—and he didn’t have Joe Biden by his side. The Democratic nominee, who has been among the most vocal critics of Trump’s plan to pick Neil Gorsuch to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, stayed off the trail to attend two virtual fundraisers with other Democrats, Reuters reports. At the fundraisers, Biden confirmed that Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain, would officially endorse him because of Trump’s alleged comments about US soldiers who died in combat. In other election news: A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday showed Trump and Biden even in the state. Voters in about a half-dozen states have already begun casting early in-person ballots, and election experts expect a surge of early and mail-in voting this year as people try to reduce their risk of exposure to the coronavirus. On Tuesday, North Carolina election officials agreed to count absentee ballots received up to nine days after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Nov. 3. Courts in several other key states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, have also extended absentee ballot deadlines despite Republican opposition. Biden will return to the campaign trail on Wednesday with his first trip as the Democratic nominee to North Carolina, another key state. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday showed Trump and Biden even in the state.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election/trump-to-campaign-in-pittsburgh-as-biden-earns-cindy-mccains-endorsement-idUSKCN26D1EF