Trump news – live: President boasts of 'high marks' despite spiralling coronavirus death toll, as Pence and Harris both take campaign to swing state
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump once more boasted about the United States’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, claiming the country was “starting to get VERY high marks” when compared to other nations.
The US president, who added that a coronavirus vaccine was “coming, and fast”, made those remarks despite rises in the number of infections across 22 US states, according to Reuters analysis., and the wolrd’s largest death toll.
Elsewhere on Monday, vice president Mike Pence and his would-be successor, Kamala Harris, are making separate visits to Wisconsin, a crucial swing state that was largely neglected by the 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, as the 2020 campaign enters the homestretch.
The North Portico
The president’s press conference today will take place at 1pm at the North Portico of the White House, which faces towards Lafayette Square. This isn’t the first time this location has been used, but it’s a rarity.
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Harris meeting with Blake family, according to reports
MSNBC reports that Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is currently meeting with the family of Jacob Blake and his legal team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mr Blake was shot seven times by a police officer in the city of Kenosha. He remains in hospital and is paralysed from the waist down.
Joe Biden met with the Blake family on a visit to Kenosha last week and spoke with Mr Blake on the phone.
Pence arrives in Wisconsin
Vice president Mike Pence is on the campaign trail today and has just arrived in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Senator Kamala Harris is also campaigning in the state today. Joe Biden will visit Pennsylvania.
President Trump has no events scheduled beyond a White House press conference, but plans a sweep through North Carolina, Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania later in the week.
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Here’s the Dow Jones Industrial Average year-to-date.
More on job numbers this Labor Day
Courtesy of The Lincoln Project and Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Trump reverses Pentagon move to close military newspaper amid blowback from veterans
Donald Trump claims he won’t allow the Pentagon to shutter the nation’s century-old military newspaper after Defence Department officials ordered the publication to cease operation by the end of the month.
Defending himself against several corroborated reports that he insulted military personnel, veterans and war dead as “losers” and “suckers” while in office, the president – reportedly prompted by White House staff after reviewing press coverage of the publication’s potential demise – said he’s reversing the decision.
Stars and Stripes, an editorially independent newspaper funded through the US Department of Defence, has published for nearly 160 years – from its founding by Union soldiers on the brink of the US Civil War through endless wars abroad – often provoking leadership with a “grunt’s”-eye view of the military and its brass.
Trump reverses Pentagon move to close 160-year-old military newspaper
Closure of Stars and Stripes a ‘fatal interference and permanent censorship’ of a vital lifeline for service members amid president’s attempts to undermine press
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