Good morning. There are 54 days until election day.
Trump admits playing down coronavirus' severity, according to new Woodward book "I wanted to always play it down," President Trump told journalist Bob Woodward on March 19, a new book says. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." NPR has the tick-tock on what was said when. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, addressed the revelations on Wednesday, calling them a "life-and-death betrayal of the American people."
Speaking in Michigan while on a campaign stop, Biden said Trump "knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. He had the information. He knew how dangerous it was. And while the deadly disease ripped through our nation, he failed to do his job on purpose."
KSTP/SurveyUSA: Joe Biden leads President Trump, but race in single digits "Former Vice President Joe Biden leads Trump 49% to 40%, with 7% undecided and 4% considering other candidates. That's compared to our final 2016 poll showing Clinton leading Trump 49% to 39% and then clinging to a victory of just 1.5%. "Joe Biden has a lead, but this race in Minnesota is not in the bag," said University of Minnesota political scientist Larry Jacobs. "We've got a five-point margin of error.""
"Trump can win Minnesota,"said Rep. Dean Phillips, who in 2018 became the first Democrat to win his suburban Minneapolis district since 1960. "It's real. It's absolutely real."
Surrogate report from the Forum News Service"The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., held a rally in Duluth on Wednesday night. Meanwhile, the former vice president’s wife, Jill Biden, toured an elementary school in Prior Lake with Gov. Tim Walz, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Education Minnesota President Denise Specht. The visits were among several planned in the weeks ahead of the November election. Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law and campaign adviser, was set to visit Minneapolis on Thursday."
My Pillow creator threatens CNN "Michael Lindell, the chair of President Donald Trump's reelection campaign in Minnesota and famous as the creator of My Pillow, is demanding a retraction and threatening 'legal redress' over CNN host Anderson Cooper's hostile interview of him where they discussed whether Oleandrin was a treatment for COVID-19." (Newsweek)
