TAKE with里克·克莱因
只是公告的基本内容——突然联邦调查局和国家情报局的简报，大选前13天，也就是总统辩论的前一天晚上，足以让人头晕目眩。
虽然周三晚上的声明意图惊喜新闻发布会是告诉美国人他们应该相信他们的选票至少有一名信使迅速进入政界，足以引起怀疑。
国家情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫断然表示俄罗斯的威胁选举安全“旨在恐吓选民，煽动社会动荡和损害特朗普总统。”
拉特克利夫和联邦调查局局长克里斯多佛·雷没有解释为什么他们相信特朗普似乎成了目标。
到目前为止，从佛罗里达传出的报道称，外国演员假扮成极右翼“骄傲的男孩”团体的一员对民主党的威胁。
抛开那些电子邮件不谈，俄罗斯和伊朗实体正在利用美国选民档案试图影响美国选民的事实，最终应该解决的问题是外国干涉是一种威胁。
联邦当局称他们正在调查此案。但这一切都是一个潜在的尴尬的辩论话题总统谁不总是相信他的代理机构。
的纲要玛丽·爱丽丝·帕克斯
在他的周三晚上费城的活动，巴拉克·奥巴马总统表示，对唐纳德·特朗普总统有双重标准。
参考来自的报告《纽约时报》特朗普欠了数百万美元的债务，据称在中国有一个银行账户，奥巴马说，“他们会叫我北京巴里。有一个欠海外人民一大笔钱的总统不是一个好主意。”
美国广播公司新闻尚未独立证实《纽约时报》报道总统的税收。
前总统痛斥他的前任他的处理方式的冠状病毒大流行也是。
“我们其他人不得不忍受他证明自己没有能力认真对待这份工作的后果。至少有22万美国人已经死亡，”他说。“真正比四年前富裕的人只有那些得到他减税的亿万富翁。”
特朗普的竞选发言人对奥巴马上台前出现在竞选活动中作出了反应，当天早些时候表示，前副总统拜登“无法胜任竞选活动的严格要求”，并呼吁“增援”。拜登当然，在辩论舞台上不会有援军，但特朗普也不能置之不理关于流行病的问题，它继续每天杀死数百名美国人。
在亚特兰大疾病控制和预防中心的新闻发布会上，该机构负责传染病的副主任杰伊·巴特勒周三说，“我认识到我们都越来越累了，这种影响新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎)已经影响了我们的生活，我们已经厌倦了戴面具，但它仍然一如既往的重要。"
小费凯尔西·沃尔什
随着12天直到选举日，一些版本的提前投票已经开始在所有50个州，加上华盛顿特区。在报告数据的州中，超过4400万张选票在2020年的大选中选举。提前投票数据继续全国创纪录的数字。如果提前投票的人数继续以目前的速度增加，美国将超过2016年选举的总投票率，当时共有1.38亿张选票。
在一个数字的细分，提前投票已经增加的是2016年的10倍。皮尤研究中心于2016年10月21日报道430万提前投票。选民已经投下了2016年大选计票总数的30%。德克萨斯州以最早的选票领先全国，至少有5215655张选票返回。
本周，全国范围内，早期投票出现了几个令人印象深刻的单日增长。例如，在威斯康星州面对面投票的第一天，将近10万选民前往投票站，投了79774票。亲自提前投票的第二天，佛罗里达增加了一百万张选票。相比之下，美国北卡罗来纳州每天都有50万人提前投票。此外，蒙大拿州在一天内增加了8万张选票。周二，蒙大拿州有16万张选票，据报道周三有超过24万张早期选票。
根据美国选举项目，19个国家按政党登记提供了提前投票数据。在这些州，52%的早期选票是由注册的民主党人投的，26%的早期选票是注册的共和党人。
The Note: Foreign meddling becomes real on eve of final debate
The TAKE withRick Klein
Just the basics of the announcement -- a suddenFBI and national intelligence briefing,13 days before the election, the night before the presidential debate -- was enough to spin heads.
And while the stated intention of Wednesday night'ssurprise news conferencewas to tell Americans they should beconfident their voteswill be protected from foreign interference, at least one messenger jumped to politics quickly enough to arouse suspicion.
The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Cleveland is watched by patrons at The Abbey in West Hollywood, Calif., Sept. 29, 2020.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said flatly that Iranian andRussian threatsto election security were "designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump."
Ratcliffe and FBI Director Christopher Wraydidn't explainwhy they believeTrump to have been a target.
Reports that have emerged out of Florida so far were of foreign actors posing as part of the far-right "Proud Boys" group -- to makethreats against Democrats.
Those emails aside, the very knowledge that Russian and Iranian entities are using American voter files to try to influence American voters should settle, finally, the question of whetherforeign meddling is a threat.
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Sept. 29, 2020.
Federal authorities say they are on the case. But it all tees up a potentially awkward debate topic fora presidentwho hasn't always trusted the word ofhis agencies.
The RUNDOWN withMaryAlice Parks
At hisevent in Philadelphia Wednesday night,President Barack Obama said there was a double standard with President Donald Trump.
Referring to reports fromThe New York Timesthat Trump owes millions of dollars in debt and allegedly has a bank account in China, Obama said, "They would have called me Beijing Barry. It is not a great idea to have a president who owes a bunch of money to people overseas."
Former US President Barack Obama addresses Biden-Harris supporters during a drive-in rally in Philadelphia, Oct. 21, 2020.
ABC News has not independently confirmedThe New York Timesreporting on the president's taxes.
The former president blasted his predecessor overhis handlingof thecoronavirus pandemictoo.
"The rest of us have had to live with the consequences of him proving himself incapable of taking the job seriously. At least 220,000 Americans have died," he said. "The only people truly better off than they were four years ago are the billionaires who got his tax cuts."
Trump's campaign spokesperson reacted to Obama's presence on the campaign trail before he even took the stage, saying earlier in the day that former Vice President Biden was "not up to the rigors of campaigning" and was calling in "a reinforcement."Biden, of course, will not have reinforcements on the debate stage, but Trump too will not be able to brush asidequestions about the pandemic, which continues tokill hundreds of Americans every day.
During a press briefing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Jay Butler, the agency's deputy director for infectious diseases, said Wednesday, "I recognize that we are all getting tired, the impact thatCOVID-19has had on our lives, we'd get tired of wearing masks, but it continues to be as important as it's ever been."
The TIP withKelsey Walsh
With12 daysuntil Election Day, some version ofearly votinghas begun in all 50 states plus, Washington, D.C. In the states reporting data, more than44 million voteshave been cast in the 2020 generalelection. The early voting data continues tohit record numbers across the nation. If the early voting numbers continue to increase at the current rate, the United States will surpass total voter turnout in the 2016 election where 138 million votes were cast.
In abreakdown of the numbers, early voting hasincreased10 times compared to 2016. On Oct. 21, 2016, Pew Research Center reported4.3 million early votes.Voters have cast 30% of the total votes counted in the 2016 general election. Texas leads the nation with the most early votes with at least 5,215,655 ballots returned.
Voters line up at the Supervisor of Elections Office polling station as early voting begins in Pinellas County ahead of the election in Largo, Fla., Oct. 21, 2020.
Across the nation this week, there were several impressive single-day increases in early votes. For example, on the first day of in-person voting in Wisconsin, just under 100,000 voters headed to the polls with 79,774 votes cast. On the second day of in-person early voting,Floridahad a million-vote increase. In comparison,North Carolinasaw an 500,000 in-person early vote increase from day to day. Furthermore, Montana saw 80,000 votes increase in one day. On Tuesday, Montana had 160,000 votes and reported over 240,000 early votes on Wednesday.
According to theU.S. Election project,19 states provided early voting data by party registration. In these states, 52% of early votes were cast by registered Democrats and 26% of early votes wereregistered Republicans.
