TAKE with里克·克莱因
选举当然，有后果。会发生什么就在之前选举美国也有后果——或者说候选人希望如此。
还有三周的投票，总统唐纳德·特朗普和他的共和党发现自己陷入了不稳定的防御状态至少在十年前，共和党在一些问题上时而充满活力，时而受挫。
在华盛顿，民主党人不太关注阻塞艾米·科尼·巴雷特法官的最高法院提名，他们正在说明这可能意味着选举后几乎立即。他们认为，当特朗普政府的论点在选举后不久被听到时，她可能会发现奥巴马医改违宪。
身为副总统候选人和参议院司法委员会成员的参议员卡马拉·哈里斯(Kamala Harris)说:“共和党人终于意识到，《平价医疗法案》在国会太受欢迎了，无法废除，所以现在他们试图绕过选民的意愿，让最高法院做他们的脏活。”
2020年10月12日，在华盛顿特区国会山，参议员约翰·肯尼迪在听取最高法院大法官提名人艾米·科尼·巴雷特法官的参议院司法委员会确认听证会上，参议员卡马拉·哈里斯几乎在发言。
回到竞选活动中周一，在佛罗里达州，一个没有口罩但据白宫称现在已经没有病毒的总统唐纳德·特朗普向老年人做出了保护医疗保险的具体承诺，并承诺所有美国人都将获得他治疗新冠肺炎的“同样的该死的东西”。
但特朗普的竞选团队又陷入了与安东尼·福奇(Anthony Fauci)博士的斗争中，后者已明确表示，他不赞成自己的话在广告中被误解。在CNN的一次采访中，福奇警告竞选团队不要再有引用他的广告了。
“那太可怕了。我的意思是，如果他们这样做，那将是令人愤慨的，事实上，这可能会适得其反，”他说。“那就像是在玩一个我们不想玩的游戏。”
2020年10月12日，佛罗里达州桑福德市，唐纳德·特朗普总统在奥兰多桑福德国际机场参加竞选集会时投掷口罩。
至于特朗普的比赛，他的第一次复出表现出他怀疑地声称自己是“免疫的”——还有一个笑话，他可能会亲吻观众中的每个人。不管怎样，他又回来亲自陈述他的理由了。
的纲要玛丽·爱丽丝·帕克斯
参议院共和党人周一试图避免谈论他们多年来倡导的政策立场。他们甚至走到了表现愤怒和被冒犯当民主党人反问艾米·科尼·巴雷特法官是否会通过她的法律意见成为共和党人自己承诺要找到的那种正义时。
2020年10月12日，在华盛顿特区，最高法院提名人艾米·科尼·巴雷特在国会参议院司法委员会为最高法院法官举行的确认听证会上发言
“你会认为这是一场政治讨论，一场政策讨论，一场立法讨论。犹他州参议员李政颖说，他指的是民主党人对《平价医疗法案》或长期存在的堕胎法被推翻的前景表示担忧。
当然，共和党人多年来一直致力于推翻和废除巴拉克·奥巴马总统的医疗保健法，最高法院将在今年秋天再次审理一个挑战该法的案件。但是，共和党人争论那些问题对巴雷特不公平。
特朗普也多次表示，他计划只任命也将推翻堕胎合法化的罗伊诉韦德案的法官。
田纳西州参议员玛莎·布莱克本(Marsha Blackburn)在发言前为巴雷特辩护说:“鉴于你的记录，你会认为我的同事会抓住机会支持一位成功的女法律巨星，她受到民主党和共和党同事的高度重视，而且是一位工作的母亲。”
共和党人一再声称，巴雷特在面临关于妇女生殖健康和堕胎的不可避免的问题时，她的信仰受到了攻击，尽管共和党人是房间里唯一明确提出宗教的人。
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2020年10月12日，在华盛顿特区，参议员科里·布克在最高法院大法官提名人艾米·科尼·巴雷特的参议院司法委员会确认听证会上发言
新泽西州参议员科里·布克总结了民主党的基石论点，“我们在这里是因为在正在进行的选举中，共和党人在巴雷特法官身上找到了一个被提名人，去做他们做不到的事情，颠覆美国人民的意志，推翻(平价医疗法案)，推翻罗伊诉韦德案。这就是问题所在。”
听证会的第二天于周二上午9点开始，巴雷特将开始回答委员会成员的直接问题。周一晚间，参议院司法委员会主席林赛·格雷厄姆(Lindsey Graham)继续进行并正式安排了本周四(听证会最后一天的早上)的委员会投票。这意味着巴雷特的提名可能会在那次会议上提交给委员会投票，但随后会推迟一周。
小费奎因·斯坎兰
选举官员预计会有早期投票站的排队但是三周提前投票期第一天的投票率如此之高全州的选民尤其是在人口最密集的大都市地区，等了几个小时参加投票。
批评家们很快指出了这一长串问题压制选民的证据但是事实上，各县扩大了提前投票的机会，而且在离选举日还有三周的时候，已经有大量的格鲁吉亚人投票，这提供了一个不同的解释:选民热情高涨。
人们在佐治亚州迪凯特排队投票。，2020年10月12日。
“这是一次投票率极高的选举。我在发言，”副国务卿乔丹·富克斯告诉美国广播公司新闻。
据报道，在2016年提前投票的第一天之前，约有57，000人已经在桃子州投票，但当周一提前投票开始时，近440，000格鲁吉亚人(增加了670%)已经退回了缺席选票佐治亚州选票分析。据Fuchs称，周一有近12.7万格鲁吉亚人亲自投票，159个县中只有110个县开放投票，因为这是联邦假日。2016年第一天出来9万左右。
该州最大的地铁县提高了两个提前投票地点的数量与2016年相比，本周期大选的开放时间。在富尔顿县，33个投票地点周一开放，而2016年是26个，其中一个是拥有300台投票机的NBA球馆。在迪卡布县，所有12个投票站相比之下，2016年只有10家中的3家每天营业。周一，在格温内特县的一个地方，等待时间估计达到了8个小时，但是仍然有九个提前投票地点开放与2016年不同，2016年的头两周，主办公室是选民唯一可以去的地方。
The Note: Republicans stuck on uneasy defense on health care
The TAKE withRick Klein
Elections, of course, have consequences. What happensright beforeelections also has consequences – or so candidates hope.
With three weeks of voting left, PresidentDonald Trumpand his Republican Party find themselves in anuneasy state of defensewhen it comes to issues that have alternately energized and frustrated the GOP going back at least a decade.
In Washington, Democrats areless focused on blockingJudge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination than they are making the case about what that could mean almost immediately after the election. They are arguing that she would likely find Obamacare unconstitutional when the Trump administration's arguments are heard shortly after the election.
Said Sen. Kamala Harris, doing double duty as vice-presidential candidate and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee: "Republicans finally realized that the Affordable Care Act is too popular to repeal in Congress, so now they are trying to bypass the will of the voters and have the Supreme Court do their dirty work."
Sen. Kamala Harris speaks virtually during Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice, as Sen. John Kennedy listens, on Capitol Hill, Oct. 12, 2020 in Washington, D.C.
Back on the campaign trailin Florida Monday, a mask-less but -- according to the White House -- now virus-free President Donald Trump made a specific pledge to seniors to protect Medicare and promised that all Americans would have access to "the same damn thing" he did to treat COVID-19.
But the Trump campaign is locked in yet another fight with Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has made clear he doesn't approve of how his words have been misconstrued in an ad. In an interview on CNN, Fauci warned the campaign against any further ads quoting him.
"That would be terrible. I mean, that would be outrageous if they do that, in fact, that might actually come back to backfire on them," he said. "That would be kind of playing a game that we don't want to play."
President Donald Trump throws face masks as arrives for a campaign rally at Orlando Sanford International Airport, Oct. 12, 2020, in Sanford, Fla.
As for Trump's game, his first rally back featured him dubiously claiming he is "immune" -- along with a joke that he may kiss everyone in the audience. He's back to making his case in person, for all that is worth.
The RUNDOWN withMaryAlice Parks
Senate Republicans Monday tried to avoid talking aboutpolicy positions that they have advocated for years. They went as far as toact indignant and offendedwhen Democrats asked rhetorically if Judge Amy Coney Barrett would be, through her legal opinions, the very kind of justice that Republicans themselves had promised to find.
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett speaks during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice on Capitol Hill, Oct. 12, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
"You would think that this was a political discussion, a policy discussion, a legislative discussion. You are not being reviewed for a legislative position or policy making position," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said referring to Democrats’ stated anxieties about the prospects of the Affordable Care Act or long-standing abortion law being overturned.
Republicans, of course, for years have worked to overturn and repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, and the Supreme Court will hear a case challenging the law again this fall. But still, Republicansargued those questionsto Barrett would somehow be unfair.
Trump has said many times too that he planned to only appoint judges who would also overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion.
"Given your track record, you would think that my colleagues would jump at the opportunity to support a successful female legal superstar, who is highly regarded by both her Democratic and Republican colleagues, and who is a working mom," said Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., defending Barrett before she spoke.
Republicans repeatedly claimed Barrett was under attack for her faith when facing inevitable questions about women's reproductive health and abortion, though Republicans were the only ones in the room to bring up religion explicitly.
Sen. Sen. Cory Booker speaks during Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice, Oct. 12, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., summed up Democrats' cornerstone argument, "We're here because in the middle of an ongoing election, Republicans have found a nominee in Judge Barrett, to do what they couldn't do, subvert the will of the American people and overturn the (Affordable Care Act) and overturn Roe v. Wade. That's what this is about."
The second day of hearings gets underway at 9 a.m. Tuesday, where Barrett will begin to answer direct questions from the committee members. Late Monday, the Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham went ahead and formally scheduled a committee vote this Thursday -- the morning of the last day of hearings. That means Barrett's nomination will likely be brought up for a committee vote in that meeting, but then delayed for one week.
The TIP withQuinn Scanlan
Election officials expected there to belines at early voting sitesin Georgia on Monday, but turnout for first day of the three-week advance voting period was so high thatvoters across the state, and especially in the most populated metro areas,waited for hoursin socially distanced lines to vote.
Critics were quick to point to the long lines asevidence of voter suppression, but the fact that counties expanded early voting opportunities and the sheer number of Georgians who've already voted with three weeks until Election Day offers a different explanation: Voterenthusiasm is through the roof.
People wait in line to vote in Decatur, Ga., Oct. 12, 2020.
"This is a fantastic turnout election. I am on the floor," Jordan Fuchs, deputy secretary of state, told ABC News.
Ahead of the first day of early voting in 2016, about 57,000 people had already voted in the Peach State, but when early voting started Monday, nearly 440,000 Georgians -- a 670% increase -- had already returned absentee ballots, according toGeorgia Votes' analyses. Nearly 127,000 Georgians voted in person Monday, according to Fuchs, and only 110 out of 159 counties were open for voting, since it was a federal holiday. In 2016, about 90,000 came out on the first day.
The state's largest metro counties upped both thenumber of early voting locationsand the hours they're open for the general election this cycle, compared to 2016. In Fulton County,33 voting locationswere open Monday, compared to 26 in 2016, and one of them was a NBA arena that had 300 voting machines. In Dekalb County, all12 voting sitesare open daily the entire three weeks, compared to just three of 10 open daily in 2016. In Gwinnett County, while the wait time reached an estimated eight hours at one location Monday, there werenine early voting locations open, and they'll also be open daily, unlike 2016, when the main office was the only place voters could go for the first two weeks.
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