“Twitter will impose new warnings on politicians’ lies, restrict premature declarations of victory and block calls for polling violence or other disruptions, the company announced Friday as it rolled out wide-ranging changes designed to harden the platform against abuse related to the Nov. 3 U.S. election. The moves also will temporarily alter the look and feel of Twitter, a service built on instantaneous conversation, quips, and breaking news. Retweeting others, for example, will require an extra step designed to encourage users to add their own thoughts before posting. Recommendations and trends will get new curbs intended to prevent abuse” – Washington Post.

Reuters: “Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden now split American voters aged 55 years and older almost evenly: 47% say they are voting for Biden on Nov. 3 while 46% back Trump, according to Reuters/Ipsos national surveys in September and October. That could be an alarming sign for the president, who trails Biden with 25 days to go before the election. Republicans have relied on the support of older Americans in national elections for years, routinely benefiting from a demographic that consistently shows up in force on Election Day.”

Steve Scully, the second Debate Moderator, is a Never Trumper, just like the son of the great Mike Wallace. Fix!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2020

Part of the list of former military commanders endorsing Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden is retired four-star Air Force General Chuck Boyd, a former prisoner of war who spent seven years in a POW camp during the Vietnam War.

“I think the point at which he began telling the American people that the election process itself was fraudulent, that mail-in balloting was a disaster, was terrible,” Boyd said in an interview with NPR.  “I thought if our citizens lose faith in how they go about electing their leaders, then democracy itself is at risk, at deep risk. That’s the point at which I said I’ve got to get involved in this in some way.”

The margin of Biden’s likelihood of winning the Electoral College increased to 85% in the latest FiveThirtyEight assessment, with Trump having just a 14% chance of winning reelection.

In just 6% of scenarios, Trump wins the popular vote, but FiveThirtyEight assesses that in 9% of scenarios, Trump could lose the popular vote but win the Electoral College.  (FiveThirtyEight runs through 40,000 simulations, so rounding may make the numbers no add up precisely.)

The models started widening in Biden’s favor after Labor Day, and Trump’s pathway for election narrows as Election Day nears, voters pick a candidate, and early voting starts in most states.

The left worships government and has become so prideful that it has declared itself the judge of humanity by its own leftist standards.

Yelp’s racial rating system on business leaves me speechless.

Welcome to 1984. pic.twitter.com/VZdGNRdV2n

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) October 9, 2020

New York Times: “Mr. Trump is at even greater risk in the next-largest red state in the South: Georgia. In the latest Republican polling, Mr. Trump has fallen several points behind Mr. Biden in the state, where 16 Electoral College votes, two Senate seats and several competitive House races are on the ballot.”

“Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned that Republicans could see ‘a bloodbath of Watergate proportions’ if voters are angry and broke when casting their ballots this year. ‘If people are going back to work, if they’re optimistic, if they’re positive about the future, we could see a fantastic election: the president getting reelected with a big margin, Republicans winning both Houses of Congress,’ Cruz said in an interview on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ Friday. ‘But I also think if on Election Day, people are angry and they’ve given up hope and they’re depressed, which is what [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi, [D-Calif.], and [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer, [D-N.Y.], want them to be, I think it could be a terrible election. I think we could lose the White House and both houses of Congress, that it could be a bloodbath of Watergate proportions'” – CNBC.

CNN: “President Donald Trump’s increasing political desperation is raising concerns about his judgment following his aggressive Covid-19 treatment and as suspicion mounts that the White House is not telling the truth about his health.”

“In a day of chaos Thursday, Trump repeatedly shifted his position on a new plan for a virtual second presidential debate and suddenly decided to back negotiations over a coronavirus economic rescue package he had killed off earlier in the week. His actions suggested a campaign in disarray as he trails Democratic nominee Joe Biden by double digits only 26 days from Election Day. The President’s erratic conduct only emphasized an alarming leadership vacuum in a White House hollowed out by sickness as the pandemic takes an ominous turn amid fresh signs that a fragile economic rebound is slowing.”

Fox “News” announced that President Trump will undergo a remote physical evaluation on the Tucker Carlson show Friday night by Fox “News” medical contributor Marc Siegel, the Washington Post reports.

Associate Professor of Medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center and internal medicine specialist, Siegel “will conduct a medical evaluation and interview during the program,” according to the network.

Trump will be in Washington, DC and Siegel will be phoning in from New York.  They will not be in the same room, meaning the “evaluation” will be Trump answering a series of questions with no actual physical exam, tests or vital sign measurements.

Politico: “For at least seven years, GOP Rep. Jim Hagedorn appears to have enjoyed rent-free use of a campaign office supplied by a political donor — which would be a clear violation of federal election law that comes amid mounting scrutiny of his finances. In dozens of filings with the Federal Election Commission, as early as October 2013 and as recently as last month, Hagedorn has listed a basement suite in a downtown Mankato, Minn., building as his campaign’s headquarters: Suite 7 of the Brett’s Building at 11 Civic Center Plaza. But election spending records show Hagedorn has reported no payments for the use of that space over the course of the last four elections he’s run to represent Minnesota’s 1st District in Congress, including his current race.”

https://twitter.com/Soll_DeWitt/status/1314513380653305856

Barak Obama –

Does nothing and wins the Nobel Peace prize.

Donald Trump –

Brings peace between nations who were at conflict for decades but gets ignored.

You can hate Donald Trump all you like – but the Nobel Peace Prize is clearly a political joke.

— David Collier (@mishtal) October 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/Shirley32271418/status/1314495111896719362

“Attorney General Bill Barr has begun telling top Republicans that the Justice Department’s sweeping review into the origins of the Russia investigation will not be released before the election, a senior White House official and a congressional aide briefed on the conversations tell Axios. Republicans had long hoped the report, led by U.S. Attorney John Durham, would be a bombshell containing revelations about what they allege were serious abuses by the Obama administration and intelligence community probing for connections between President Trump and Russia” – Axios.

AP: “The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace in areas affected by conflict. The Rome-based organisation says it helps some 97 million people in about 88 countries each year, and that one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. ‘The need for international solidarity and multilateral cooperation is more conspicuous than ever,’ Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, told a news conference. The WFP is a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict, with the COVID-19 outbreak further boosting its relevance, she said.”

A US District Court judge rejected a move by the Ohio Secretary of State to limit ballot drop boxes to one site per county, a move done in Texas to make voting with absentee ballots more difficult, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

Judge Dan Polster, the judge for the Northern District of Ohio and a Clinton appointee, found that limiting drop boxes would disproportionately and unfairly impact people of color who live in urban areas.

A rambling Donald Trump made a number of extraordinary claims  while speaking to personal advisor and Fox “News” personality Sean Hannity, including:

• His economy is stupendous, even during the pandemic.
• Virginia Governor Ralph Northam murdered an infant.
• The Commission on Presidential Debates, whose chair, Frank Fahrenkopf, is a former RNC chair, is sabotaging him.
• Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer “complained” about the law enforcement who thwarted a kidnapping attempt.
• Trump never denounced the white nationalist militia group that planned to kidnap a state governor.
• If Biden is elected, the US will become a “Ninth World” country.
• Trump will have the same coronavirus treatments he received distributed to the American people “very soon” for free.
• Oh, and fish need water.

Trump declared that he is “looking to hold” a rally in Florida on Saturday and possibly following that up with on in Pennsylvania the next night. 

CNN: “Viewers who trust Fox News coverage more than CNN’s are slightly less likely to take preventative measures against the novel coronavirus and a little more likely to put themselves at risk, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal BMJ Global Health. ‘Health messaging, despite being one of the few effective ways to slow down the spread of the virus in the absence of a vaccine, is doomed to fail if the media prioritize political interests over population health,’ said study authors Erfei Zhao and Qiao Wu, who are both PhD students at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.”

“Among the nearly 5,000 adults who participated in an online survey every two weeks from March to June, around 29% said they trusted CNN more than Fox; about half (52%) expressed no preference, and one in five (20%) said they trusted Fox more than CNN. Devotees of Fox News consistently practiced more risky behaviors – such as going out to a bar or club, attending gatherings of more than 10 people or visiting others in their homes – than CNN viewers.”