Then-vice president Biden had in March 2016 threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees if Ukraine did not fire the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. [364] In early August, Trump complained in a phone call to Adelson that he had not done enough for him. [142], First Daughter and Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump introduced Vice President Pence at a GOP fundraiser. [282], On July 23, Trump announced the cancellation of the Jacksonville portion of the 2020 Republican National Convention, citing rising COVID-19 numbers. Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large, Updated 1513 GMT (2313 HKT) June 11, 2020, (CNN)Joe Biden said Wednesday night that he believes if President Donald Trump loses the election and refuses to leave the White House, many of the former generals who used to work for him "will escort him from the White House with great dispatch.". Thousands of volunteer attorneys and poll watchers across the country have been recruited. Get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. At an August 1 campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, Trump declared: "We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America, and curing childhood cancer very shortly." [344] FiveThirtyEight predicts that Biden will win 352 of 538 electoral votes, with odds currently 76.7% that he will beat Trump in the election. [231], The impeachment trial began on January 16.

On the narrow question of whether Barrett should be confirmed, 37 percent said they favor confirmation, 34 percent were opposed and 29 percent didn’t know or have an opinion.

[271][272], On July 19, in an interview aired on Fox News, Trump called the network's poll showing Biden leading by 8% "fake", further saying he would "have to see" if he would accept a loss in the election, citing postal voting as a way it would be rigged against him. [30], Since his three predecessors (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama) won reelection, if Trump is reelected, it would be the first time in American history that there have been four consecutive presidents who were elected to two terms. Easier than 2016! "[265][266], On the evening of July 4, musician and entrepreneur Kanye West announced his campaign for the presidency. The rightward shift could imperil much of the agenda of a potential Biden administration or a Democratic Congress, making it easier for the courts to block initiatives such as a "Green New Deal" or vast expansion of Medicare. Los Angeles Times reported that "It's unclear whether West has filed any of the necessary paperwork to formally join the race between incumbent Donald Trump – for whom West has expressed admiration," and said this "might be part of an effort to draw Black supporters away from Biden to help Trump. [376] To look at a narrower slice of this spending, in the third quarter of 2017, the Trump campaign spent $4.1 million (27% of its expenditures) on legal fees, including the personal legal expenses of Trump and his family. Express. [16][17][18] On November 7, 2018, Trump confirmed that Mike Pence would be his vice presidential running mate in 2020. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo. "Corporate America hates Trump. The use of the convention to perform a naturalization ceremony[d] and reveal the presidential pardon of Jon Ponder also drew scrutiny for using government business to promote Trump's campaign. Since February 2017, Trump has held several rallies and fundraisers for this campaign. [160] Lara Trump, while working for the reelection campaign, had reportedly held private political meetings with government officials such as Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Veteran Affairs Committee chairman Phil Roe and Representative Ron DeSantis. And he relishes the upcoming confirmation battle that could solidify the court’s conservative leaning for decades to come. In 2016, Moore successfully predicted Mr Trump would win, when all the big US polls said otherwise. [105][106][107], In 2017, Matt Braynard, a key member of Trump's 2016 campaign staff, established the organization Look Ahead America.

He also said at a press briefing, "I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots. [89][94], The ad claimed that the "fake news" media refused to report the successes of the administration,[89][91][95] but Forbes pointed out that the ad itself cited mainstream media sources including CNBC, The Boston Globe and The New York Times. [224], Previously, in sworn testimony, the administration officials said Giuliani directly conveyed the president's demands to them that Ukraine launch investigations into the son of former Vice President Joe Biden and a long-debunked 2016 election-related conspiracy. The redesign of Trump's campaign website was seen by media sources as laying the groundwork for a full-bodied reelection campaign.