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ELECTION

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2020
As Election Day arrives, Trump shifts between combativeness and grievance
President Donald Trump arrives at Election Day on Tuesday toggling between confidence and exasperation, bravado and grievance, and marinating in frustration that he is trailing Joe Biden, whom he considers an unworthy opponent.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 2, 2020
Trump’s dismissal of COVID-19 risk paved way to White House outbreak
The story of the president's inability to fend off the virus inside one of the most secure locations on earth is a microcosm of his administration's wider failure.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2020
Some statistics to enliven election night
Never mind the geysers of overheated 2020 rhetoric about a constitutional crisis. Tuesday evening in the U.S., the nation will likely know that Vice President Walter Mondale's elegant words of concession on election night 40 years ago are still apposite: "The American people quietly wielded their staggering...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2020
In dash to finish, Biden and Trump set up showdown in Pennsylvania
The president now appears more competitive in the state than in Michigan and Wisconsin, and Biden's clearest electoral path to the White House runs through it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2020
Biden warns Trump against declaring early White House win
The Democratic presidential nominee was responding to a report that Trump has told associates that he intends to declare victory early if the results show him ahead.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Nov 2, 2020
Make Science Great Again: U.S. researchers dream of life after Trump
Dozens of U.S.-based climate scientists shifted their research to France, or sought refuge in academia or in left-leaning states after Donald Trump was elected in 2016.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2020
Trump’s election gift to China
At the ideological level, a U.S. election meltdown featuring bitter political clashes and endless litigation would be a propaganda bonanza for the Chinese Communist Party.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 1, 2020
Whether it's Biden or Trump, allies fret being forgotten amid U.S. turmoil
No matter who emerges as the victor in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, one thing is clear: The winner's focus will turn immediately to domestic issues.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2020
Stanford statistical model estimates 700 COVID-19 deaths from Trump rallies
A White House spokesperson dismissed the study as 'a politically driven model based on flawed assumptions and meant to shame Trump supporters.”
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 1, 2020
As election looms, U.S. authorities seek to separate bluster from threats
Law enforcement, which has warned of potential violence around the Nov. 3 vote, must prepare for a range of potential threats, officials say.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2020
A frazzled world holds its breath while the U.S. chooses its leader
The world is on tenterhooks waiting to see whether the United States will choose to stay on its current rocky course.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2020
Does America still interfere in foreign elections?
Americans have been understandablyalarmed about foreign electoral interference. But the practice is not new; in fact, the U.S. was for a long time its leading exponent.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2020
Too hard to vote? Fired-up Black Americans are doing it anyway.
In the historically Black neighborhoods of Waco, Texas, the usual get-out-the-vote activities in this U.S. presidential election year were upended by the pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 29, 2020
Trump’s closing argument on virus clashes with science — and voters’ lives
The U.S. president has continued to declare before large and largely maskless crowds that the virus is vanishing, even as case counts soar.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 28, 2020
Cannabis, no longer so divisive, draws more conservative support
Initiatives on ballots in a handful of conservative states show Republicans are increasingly on board with legalization, paving the way for an end to federal prohibition.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 27, 2020
Nine scenarios for the 2020 U.S. elections
Can U.S. voters really stop the degradation of their politics? Will they make the right decision on Nov. 3? There is not much that friends and foes can do about it now.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2020
Biden picks up campaign pace as Trump blitzes battlegrounds
Joe Biden is picking up the pace of his campaign travel as the presidential race enters its final week, announcing plans to hit traditional battlegrounds as well as some states that seemed out of reach until recently.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 24, 2020
Biden's debate pledge to ‘transition’ from oil puts climate at center of campaign finale
The comment gave President Donald Trump what his campaign saw as an enormous opportunity to blunt his opponent's appeal to working-class voters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2020
Biden punts on expanding Supreme Court, calling for panel on issue
The matter took on new urgency after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last month and Republicans rushed to fill her seat amid the election endgame.

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