TAKE with里克·克莱因
这标志着一个比政治更重要的时刻:74岁的美国总统检测呈阳性已经有超过207，000美国人死于这种疾病。
接下来会发生什么没有路线图。这将动摇市场，考验国家安全关系，并将竞选置于不确定和紧张的停顿状态。
总统唐纳德·特朗普第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普将被隔离在白宫，至少在不久的将来，即将到来的集会、筹款和官方活动将被取消。很难想象前副总统乔·拜登在对手孤立的情况下竞选，也比以往更难看到另一场辩论发生。
2020年9月29日，特朗普总统在前往克利夫兰与对手乔·拜登进行第一次电视辩论的途中，与第一夫人梅拉尼娅一起离开白宫。
这一消息几乎重置了美国这个已经令人恐惧的时刻的所有紧急情况，就在选举日的32天前，超过200万美国人已经投票。
它还把特朗普的所作所为和所言新视野中的新冠肺炎。他淡化了威胁;吹嘘他帮助驯服它;推广可疑的治疗方法;误导公众对其严重性的认识;与他自己政府的专家就如何最好地控制它而争吵;并暗示——就在最近他为周四晚上的一次活动录制的视频中——大流行的结束指日可待
不可否认，特朗普还多次将新冠肺炎作为政治武器。他威胁和哄骗州和地方领导人重开学校和企业，无视政府的指导方针举行大规模活动，甚至嘲笑政治对手采取的个人预防措施。
2020年10月1日，在华盛顿白宫南草坪，唐纳德·特朗普总统从新泽西州贝德明斯特返回时从海军陆战队一号走出来。
“我不像他那样戴面具，”特朗普在周二晚上的辩论中谈到拜登时说。“每次见到他，他都带着面具。他可能在离我200英尺的地方说话，他带着我见过的最大的面具出现了。”
特朗普把他的连任建立在他驯服了新冠肺炎并让经济复苏的基础上。一个想在危机时刻表现强硬的总统自己比以往任何时候都更加脆弱。
的纲要玛丽·爱丽丝·帕克斯
一夜之间的消息也可能改变国会山正在进行的救济支出谈判的基调。共和党人和特朗普政府可能会感到更大的压力，要求妥协或压制关于美国在这场流行病和经济衰退中扭转局面的言论。
众议院民主党人通过了他们自己的2.2万亿美元的流行病救助法案周四晚些时候，虽然细节和价格标签迄今已被参议院共和党人和白宫拒绝。
众议院的民主党法案将恢复600美元的联邦失业补助7月份过期数百万包括对美国人的另一轮直接检查，每个纳税人1200美元，每个家属500美元，如果共和党人接受，总统签署成为法律。
2020年10月1日，众议院议长南希·佩洛西在国会山举行每周新闻发布会。
民主党人表示需要更多的联邦资金航空公司和其他大型雇主今年秋天开始新一轮裁员。
他们的法案还将延长薪水保护计划，以帮助小企业保持员工在工资单上，该福利已于8月初到期。
另一个837，000美国人申请新的失业根据政府数据，上周有所帮助，这是历史上连续第28周高失业率索赔。每周报告显示，目前共有2600多万美国人正在接受州和联邦计划下的失业救济。
众议院议长南希·佩洛西和财政部长史蒂夫·姆努钦整个星期都在谈判，而且很可能在未来几天继续谈判，但是到目前为止还没有未能达成妥协。
小费奎因·斯坎兰
就在特朗普首次建议支持者尝试投票两次-首先通过邮件，然后在11月3日亲自-为了“测试系统”，格鲁吉亚国务卿布拉德·拉芬伯格声称，在夏季的选举中，有多达1000次潜在的双重投票。现在，他的办公室已经发布了初步的数据支持它。
美国副国务卿乔丹·富克斯(Jordan Fuchs)周四对美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)表示:“发布这份报告的目的是向竞选团队和选民强调，双重投票是重罪。”“通过我们的发现，很明显，有些人认为亲自投票两次是可以的——事实并非如此。”
2020年6月9日，亚特兰大，人们排队等候投票。
根据数据，在6月9日的初选中，1042人可能在格鲁吉亚159个县中的119个县投了两次票:85%的人邮寄了选票，也在选举日发了一张，这证实了许多选民不确定他们的选票是否有效的论点缺席投票会被计算在内。
但8月11日的决选数据描绘了一幅非常不同的画面——这种说法站不住脚。在294名潜在的双重选民中，近95%的人在2006年和2007年都获得了选票现场提前投票和选举日。
拉夫森伯格办公室的投票系统实施经理加布里埃尔·斯特林(Gabriel Sterling)说，这些情况仍在调查中，但主要的解决办法是县政府，除了人们没有出现两次投票选举官员遵循适当的程序，要求他们一旦在投票站投票，就在登记系统中向选民发放“信用”:“显然，这种情况至少没有发生几百次。”
还有一件事
唐纳德·特朗普总统和第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普新冠肺炎检测呈阳性。白宫医生肖恩·康利(Sean Conley)在一份声明中表示，特朗普一家“都很好”，他们计划“在康复期间留在白宫”。不久后，白宫发布了一份更新的公共日程，取消了总统周五在佛罗里达州的竞选集会。该声明是在消息披露几小时后发布的总统最亲密的顾问之一，霍普·希克斯，测试呈阳性。
The Note: A campaign on pause, with new questions about Trump’s own behavior
The TAKE withRick Klein
This marks a moment bigger than politics: The 74-year-old president of the United Stateshas tested positivefor a disease that has killed more than 207,000 Americans.
There is no roadmap for what happens next. This will rock markets, test national-security relationships and place the campaign in an uncertain and tense kind of pause.
PresidentDonald Trumpand first lady Melania Trump will be isolating at the White House, with upcoming rallies, fundraisers and official events called off for at least the immediate future. It’s hard to imagine that former Vice President Joe Biden campaigns while his rival isolates, and harder than ever to see another debate taking place.
President Trump, en route to Cleveland for the first televised debate with opponent Joe Biden, departs the White House with First Lady Melania, Sept. 29, 2020.
The news resets just about everything that seemed urgent about this already scary moment in the nation, just 32 days before Election Day and with more than 2 million Americans having already voted.
It also puts what Trump has done and said aboutCOVID-19 in a new light. He has played the threat down; bragged that he helped tame it; promoted dubious treatments; misled the public about its severity; quarreled with his own administration’s experts on how best to control it; and suggested – as recently as in a video he recorded for an event Thursday night – that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”
Trump has also, repeatedly and undeniably, used COVID-19 as a political weapon. He has threatened and cajoled state and local leaders around reopening schools and businesses, held massive events in defiance of his administration’s guidelines and mocked political opponents even for the personal precautions they have taken.
President Donald Trump walks from Marine One as he returns from Bedminster, N.J., on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Oct. 1, 2020.
“I don't wear masks like him,” Trump said about Biden at Tuesday night’s debate. “Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from me, and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen.”
Trump has banked his reelection on the perception that he tamed COVID-19 and has the economy roaring back. A president who has wanted to look tough during a moment of crisis is himself more vulnerable than ever.
The RUNDOWN withMaryAlice Parks
The news overnight could change the tone of the ongoing negotiations on Capitol Hill over relief spending too. Republicans and the Trump administration could feel more pressure to compromise or tamp down the rhetoric about the nation rounding a corner in this pandemic and economic recession.
House Democratspassed their own $2.2 trillion pandemic relief billlate Thursday night though the details and price tag so far have been rejected by Senate Republicans and this White House.
The Democrats' bill in the House would restore the $600 supplemental federal unemployment benefits thatexpired for millions in Julyand include another round of direct checks to Americans at $1,200 per taxpayer and $500 per dependent, should Republicans pick it up and the president sign it into law.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, D-California, holds her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 1, 2020.
Democrats say more federal funds are needed withairlines and other large employersbeginning new rounds of layoff this fall.
Their bill would also extend the Paycheck Protection Program to help small businesseskeep staff on payroll, a benefit which expired in early August.
Another837,000 Americans applied for new unemploymenthelp last week, according to government data -- the 28th straight week of historicallyhigh unemploymentclaims. The weekly report showed that in total over 26 million Americans are currently receiving unemployment benefits under state and federal programs.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin negotiated all week and will likely continue to in the coming days, but so far havefailed to reach a compromise.
The TIP withQuinn Scanlan
Just days after Trump first suggested that supporterstry to vote twice-- first by mail and then in person on Nov. 3 -- in order to "test the system," Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger alleged that there were up to 1,000 instances of potential doubling voting during elections over the summer. Now, his office has released preliminary data backing it up.
"The purpose of releasing this report is to emphasize to campaigns and voters that double voting is a felony," Jordan Fuchs, deputy secretary of state, told ABC News Thursday. "Through our findings, it is clear that some people believe voting in person twice is OK -- it's not."
People wait in line to vote in Georgia's primary election in Atlanta, June 9, 2020.
According to the data, 1,042 people may have voted twice across 119 of Georgia's 159 counties during the June 9 primary: 85% mailed in ballots and were also issued one on Election Day, lending credence to the argument that many voters were unsure if theirabsentee ballotswould actually be counted.
But the data for the Aug. 11 runoff paints a very different picture -- one where that argument wouldn't hold up. Nearly 95% of the 294 potential double voters were issued ballots both duringin-person early voting and on Election Day.
Gabriel Sterling, the voting system implementation manager in Raffensperger's office, said those instances are still being investigated but the main fix -- besides people not showing up to vote twice -- is countyelection officialsfollowing the processes in place, which require them to issue voters a "credit" in the registration system once they're given a ballot at the polls: "Obviously that did not happen a couple of hundred times -- at a minimum."
ONE MORE THING
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump havetested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, White House Dr. Sean Conley said the Trumps "are both well" and that they planned to "remain home at the White House during their convalescence." A short time later, the White House sent out an updated public schedule that removed the president's campaign rally in Florida on Friday. The announcement came only hours after it was revealed thatone of the president's closest advisers, Hope Hicks, had tested positive.
