距离选举日还有三天，唐纳德·特朗普总统和前副总统乔·拜登将于11月3日竞选，9000多万美国人已经已经投票了-提前投票记录。
周六，拜登的最高代理人，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马，将第一次与他一起在弗林特和底特律举行汽车集会。
特朗普在宾夕法尼亚州有四场集会，两位候选人都计划在选举前的最后几天“席卷”他们认为至关重要的州，这场竞争被冠状病毒病例上升几乎在每一个战场上。
副总统迈克·彭斯在北卡罗来纳州举行了两次集会，特朗普在2016年以4个百分点的优势赢得了该州。加州参议员卡马拉·哈里斯(Kamala Harris)正在佛罗里达州竞选，民主党人争夺该州的29张选票，这是特朗普入主白宫的关键。
奥巴马和拜登在底特律集会上大打出手
周六，乔·拜登(Joe Biden)和巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)第二次在密歇根州举行了免下车集会，这次是在底特律，并为热切的人群举办了一场自由活动，他们肩并肩站在舞台附近，无视竞选团队要求社交距离的呼吁。该活动还突出了奥巴马演讲期间的音频问题，但他泰然处之，在修复后与人群开玩笑。
人群中的一名男子向拜登询问了545名儿童的团聚情况在边境与父母分离。拜登第一次在镜头前表示，如果在“第一天”当选，他将成立一个特别委员会，让家庭团聚。
“这位先生说，‘被绑架的545个孩子怎么办?’这就是为什么我在第一天就宣布，我将成立一个特别委员会我们会找到那些孩子，我们会让他们和父母团聚，我们会确保他们的父母在一起。真是太尴尬了。"
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奥巴马再次将2020年的竞选视为“我们一生中”最重要的选举，包括他之前两次成功的白宫竞选。
“三天，底特律。三天。离我们一生中最重要的选举还有三天，包括我的选举，这非常重要，”奥巴马说。“这个星期二，一切都岌岌可危。我们的工作岌岌可危。医疗保健岌岌可危。无论我们能否控制住这场流行病，好消息是在星期二，你都可以选择改变。你可以选乔·拜登，你可以选卡玛拉·哈里斯，你可以选择一个更好的美国。”
该活动的特点是社交距离很小，与大多数拜登集会直接相反，大部分人群站在舞台附近。
这场运动至少发布了六条公告，要求人们回到自己的车里，但很少有人遵守，没有人站在6英尺以外，挤满了没有被封锁的媒体。
特朗普在去宾夕法尼亚州第三次集会的路上签署压裂备忘录
就在周六第三次集会之前，唐纳德·特朗普总统发布了一份关于水力压裂和石油天然气行业的备忘录，他在前往巴特勒县活动的途中，向宾夕法尼亚州西部的人群讲述了他在海洋一号上签署的备忘录。
特朗普表示，备忘录的意图是“阻止任何破坏该州能源生产的努力”。
“所以，换句话说，如果这些疯子中的一个出现了，他们说，我们要结束水力压裂，我们要摧毁宾夕法尼亚联邦，你可以为此道歉，”他说。
曼德尔·颜/法新社通过盖蒂图像
特朗普利用这份备忘录攻击前副总统乔·拜登，而不是民主党总统候选人辩论评论他将“从石油行业转型”
特朗普说:“如果乔·拜登当选，他将取消我们的，你知道，坦率地说，他将终止——更好的说法是，终止你的能源行业和每一份工作，因为他们想去风能。”。“他们甚至不想要风。老实说，我不认为他们想要能量。句号。”
拜登呼吁零排放到2050年，在他的气候政策中，通过远离化石燃料而不是完全禁止它们来实现。相反，拜登的政策将侧重于开发碳捕获技术，以减少污染和碳排放。拜登有呼吁不要进行新的水力压裂在联邦土地上，但这不会影响已经发生的水力压裂或私人土地。
总统也夸大了备忘录的作用。特朗普政府的备忘录只指示政府官员在70天内对“禁止或限制使用”水力压裂和其他创新技术来利用国内自然资源(包括能源资源)的“潜在影响”进行评估。
北卡罗莱纳州迄今最昂贵的参议院竞选
响应政治中心(Center for Responsive Politics)的数据显示，随着近3亿美元的总支出涌入，北卡罗来纳参议院竞选已成为2020年迄今为止最昂贵的国会竞选，其次是爱荷华州和南卡罗来纳州。
在今年最昂贵的10场参议院竞选中，民主党人的表现远远超过共和党人，尤其是在民主党挑战者与共和党现任者(中间派)竞争的情况下分析竞选支出记录显示。与竞选无关的外部政治团体也一直在推高支出。
在参议院的战场上，北卡罗来纳州可能是控制众议院的州，这反映在竞选活动和外部资金涌入该州的2.8亿美元上。两位候选人在竞选中花费了6400多万美元，民主党挑战者卡尔·坎宁安(Cal Cunningham)筹集的资金和支出是共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯(Thom Tillis)的两倍多。外部团体也花费了超过2.15亿美元来支持这两个项目。
迈克尔·雷诺兹/美联社，档案
共和党参议员乔尼·恩斯特(Joni Ernst)和民主党挑战者特里萨·格林菲尔德(Theresa Greenfield)在爱荷华州的竞选也吸引了政治利益集团比候选人多得多的支出。外部团体为竞选投入了至少1.7亿美元，其中超过9400万美元用于推翻现任参议员，超过7400万美元用于抵御挑战者。到目前为止，候选人的竞选活动总共花费了大约6400万美元。
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南卡罗来纳州在这个周期的竞争异常激烈的比赛中花费了超过2.09亿美元。在这场竞选中，候选人的支出远远超过外部团体，民主党人杰米·哈里森(Jaime Harrison)和共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆(Lindsey Graham)支出了1.64亿美元，而外部团体支出了4500万美元。哈里森的竞选活动已经筹集了1.07亿美元，到10月中旬已经花费了1.04亿美元，而格雷厄姆已经筹集了7200万美元，花费了6000万美元。
特朗普抨击SCOTUS缺席投票决定
周六，在宾夕法尼亚州举行的四场集会中的第二场，唐纳德·特朗普总统抱怨说最高法院最近的裁决允许在宾夕法尼亚州和北卡罗莱纳州选举日之后统计该州的缺席选票。
特朗普在雷丁的集会上说:“我告诉你，最高法院给了我很多令人失望的意见。”。“那是一个糟糕的决定。”
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唐纳德·特朗普总统在宾夕法尼亚州雷丁的一次集会上发表讲话。，2020年10月31日。
他还把选举结果可能推迟由于邮寄选票的历史增长和选民欺诈，其中几乎没有证据毫无根据地声称选举日之后计票的时间是“作弊发生的时间”
“你知道作弊什么时候会发生吗?从第三天到他们给出的日期，”他说，称最后期限的延长“令人失望”。
“我不得不说，这是一个非常政治化的决定，”他说。
Election 2020 live updates: Obama, Biden hold 2nd rally of day in Detroit
With three days until Election Day, and President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden racing toward Nov. 3, more than 90 million Americans havealready cast their ballots-- an early voting record.
On Saturday, Biden's top surrogate, former President Barack Obama, is joining him for the first time on the trail with drive-in rallies in Flint and Detroit.
Trump has four rallies in Pennsylvania as both candidates plan to "barnstorm" the state they deem critical in the final days before the election with the contest overshadowed bycoronavirus cases risingthere and in nearly every battleground territory.
Vice President Mike Pence has a pair of rallies in North Carolina -- a state Trump won by four points in 2016. California Sen. Kamala Harris is campaigning in Florida as Democrats vie for the state's 29 electoral votes key to Trump's pathway to the White House.
Obama, Biden get punchy at Detroit rally
For the second time Saturday, Joe Biden and Barack Obama held a drive-in rally in Michigan -- this time in Detroit -- and delivered a freewheeling event for an eager crowd that defied the campaign's calls for social distancing as they stood shoulder to shoulder near the stage. The event also featured audio problems during Obama's speech, but he took it in stride, joking with the crowd as it was fixed.
Biden was asked by a man in the crowd about the reunification of the 545 kids who wereseparated from their parents at the border. For the first time on camera, Biden said he'd set up a special commission to reunify the families if elected on "day one."
"The gentleman says, 'What about the 545 kids who were kidnapped?' That’s why I announced, immediately on day one, I’m setting up a special commission," he said. "We're gonna find those kids, we’re gonna unite them with their parents, we're gonna make sure their parents are together. What a total -- what a total embarrassment."
Obama again cast the 2020 race as the most important election "of our lifetimes," including his two previous successful runs for the White House.
"Three days, Detroit. Three days. Three days until the most important election of our lifetimes and that includes mine, which was pretty important," Obama said. "This Tuesday, everything is on the line. Our jobs are on the line. Health care is on the line. Whether we get this pandemic under control is on the line and the good news is on Tuesday, you can choose change. You can elect Joe Biden, you can elect Kamala Harris, you can choose a better America."
The event featured very little social distancing, the direct opposite of most Biden rallies, with a good portion of the crowd standing near the stage.
The campaign made at least a half dozen announcements asking people to return to their cars, but few obeyed, and no one stood 6 feet apart, crowding the press who were not penned off.
Trump signs fracking memo on way to 3rd Pennsylvania rally
Timed just before his third rally Saturday, President Donald Trump released a memorandum on fracking and the oil and gas industry, which he told the western Pennsylvania crowd he signed on Marine One en route to the Butler County event.
Trump said the memo's intent is to "block any efforts to undermine energy production" in the state.
"So, in other words, if one of these maniacs come along and they say, we're going to end fracking, we're going to destroy the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, you can say sorryabout that," he said.
Trump used the memo to attack former Vice President Joe Biden over the Democratic presidential candidate'sdebate commentthat he would "transition from the oil industry."
"If Joe Biden is elected, he will cancel our, and you know that, he's going to terminate, frankly -- a better word, terminate your energy industry and every job because they want to go to wind," Trump said. "They don't even want wind. Honestly, I don't think they want energy. Period."
Bidencalls for net-zero emissionsby the year 2050 in his climate policy, achieved by shifting away from fossil fuels but not completely banning them. Instead, Biden's policy would focus on developing carbon capture technology to reduce pollution and carbon outputs. Biden hascalled for no new frackingon federal lands, but that would not affect fracking already taking place or on private land.
The president also overstated what the memorandum would do. The Trump administration's memo only directed that government officials conduct an assessment of the "potential effects of efforts to ban or restrict" the use of "hydraulic fracturing and other innovative technologies for the use of domestic natural resources, including energy resources" within 70 days.
North Carolina most expensiveSenate raceso far
With nearly $300 million in total spending pouring in, the North Carolina Senate race has been the most expensive congressional race so far in 2020, followed by Iowa and South Carolina, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
In the 10 most expensive Senate races this year, Democrats have been vastly outraising and outspending Republicans, especially where Democratic challengers are competing against Republican incumbents, the center'sanalysisof campaign spending records shows. Outside political groups not affiliated with the campaigns have also been driving up the spending.
Across the Senate battleground, North Carolina could possibly be the state that tilts control of the chamber -- reflected in $280 million in both campaign and outside money being poured into the state. The candidates have spent more than $64 million in the contest, with Democrat challenger Cal Cunningham raising and spending more than twice the amount of Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. Outside groups have also spent upward of $215 million supporting the two.
The contest between Republican Sen. Joni Ernst and Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield in Iowa has also attracted far more spending from political interest groups than the candidates.Outside groups have funneled at least $170 million into the race, with more than $94 million going into unseating the incumbent senator and more than $74 million spent to fend off the challenger.The candidates' campaigns have spent about $64 million combined so far.
South Carolina has spent more than $209 million in a surprisingly competitive race for this cycle. The candidates have spent far more than outside groups in this race, with $164 million being spent by Democrat Jaime Harrison and GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, compared to $45 million by outside groups.Harrison's campaign had raised $107 million and spent $104 million of that by mid-October, while Graham has raised $72 million and spent $60 million.
Trump slams SCOTUS absentee ballot decision
At the second of his four Pennsylvania rallies on Saturday, President Donald Trumprailed over arecent Supreme Court rulingallowing absentee ballots in the state to be counted after Election Day in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
“I've had many disappointing opinions from the Supreme Court, I will tell you,” Trump said at the rally in Reading. "That was a terrible decision."
He also conflated thelikely delay in election resultsdue to the historic increase in mail-in ballots with voter fraud, of which there isvery little evidence, and baselessly claimed votes counted after Election Day would be “when the cheating’s gonna take place."
"Do you know when the cheating’s gonna take place? From the third to whatever the date it is that they gave," he said, calling the deadline extension "disappointing."
"That was a very political decision, I have to say," he said.
