Trump to campaign in Pittsburgh, Biden attending fundraisers
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[September 22, 2020]
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump
will make a stop in Pennsylvania and Democratic rival Joe Biden will
attend two virtual fundraisers on Tuesday as the White House contenders
battle for an advantage in the brewing fight over a new U.S. Supreme
Court justice.
Trump said he planned to reveal his pick to succeed liberal Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg by Saturday and hoped to have a Senate confirmation vote
before the Nov. 3 election, sparking fierce criticism from Biden and
congressional Democrats.
The death of Ginsburg last Friday and the prospect of a brutal political
struggle to replace her as Republicans look to cement a 6-3 conservative
majority on the court, injected a new air of uncertainty into a White
House campaign that Biden has led steadily in opinion polls.
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On the campaign trail on Monday, both candidates returned to themes that
dominated the race before Ginsburg's death. Biden in Wisconsin slammed
Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, and the Republican
president touted his economic record and fired back with criticism of
Biden's past support of free-trade deals, which he said cost the state
jobs.
Trump will return to the trail on Tuesday with an airport rally outside
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, another key battleground state - along with
Wisconsin and Michigan - that Trump narrowly won in 2016 but Biden is
hoping to recapture for Democrats in the November election.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Monday showed Biden leading Trump among likely
voters in Wisconsin, while the two were about even in Pennsylvania.
Biden is expected to participate in two fundraisers, with tickets for
both ranging up to $100,000, according to invitations seen by Reuters.
One will feature speakers including Jim Chanos, the famed Wall Street
short seller, and Robert Wolf, a former chief executive at UBS Americas
and an economic adviser to former President Barack Obama.
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President Donald Trump reacts while campaigning at Dayton
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The other fundraiser will be a conversation with Vivek Murthy, a
former U.S. surgeon general and one of Biden's top advisers on the
coronavirus pandemic.
Biden has built a major financial advantage for the campaign's final
stretch after a big fundraising haul in August. The campaign and its
party allies will report having $466 million in cash at the end of
August, while Trump's war chest stood at $325 million, according to
officials from both sides.
That has allowed Biden's campaign to push into new states it had not
been spending heavily in before. On Monday, Biden's campaign said it
would add Republican-leaning Georgia and Iowa, both won easily by
Trump in 2016 but also home to competitive U.S. Senate races, to a
list of 10 other states where it is running paid advertisements.
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.
(Reporting by John Whitesides, Trevor Hunnicutt and Lawrence
Delevingne; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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