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Capital Journal
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Good morning from the WSJ Washington bureau. Today marks 50 days until the election. Here's the news:
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Trump's Day: President Trump visits California to be briefed on the wildfires. At least 33 people have died from wildfires raging in the West. Later, he participates in a Latinos for Trump Coalition Roundtable in Phoenix, Ariz. Vice President Pence campaigns in Wisconsin.
Biden's Day: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers an address in Delaware about the wildfires, job creation and infrastructure. Sen. Kamala Harris campaigns in California.
L.A. Manhunt: A $100,000 reward has been authorized for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a gunman who shot two Los Angeles County sheriff deputies several times Saturday night. Both deputies suffered critical injuries, officials said.
Hurricane Season: Tropical Storm Sally is bearing down on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and is expected to make landfall late Monday or early Tuesday, possibly as a Category 2 hurricane.
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WSJ News Exclusive
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Joe Biden is proposing the most ambitious federal spending program of any major party’s presidential nominee in decades, according to an analysis to be published today by the nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model. If enacted, the Biden budget would elevate federal spending to 24% of gross domestic product by 2030, according to the Wharton study, report Jacob M. Schlesinger and Eliza Collins.
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Mr. Biden has pledged, if elected president, to transform U.S. policing, using the Justice Department’s power to hold cities accountable for misconduct. That would be an about-face from Trump administration philosophy, report Sabrina Siddiqui and Sadie Gurman.
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President Trump signed an executive order on Sunday to reduce drug prices for seniors, report Andrew Restuccia and Thomas M. Burton. Drug-pricing experts say that the best way to lower prices under Medicare is to grant the agency the legal authority to directly negotiate prices with drug companies. This measure wouldn’t do that.
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"It’s the economy, stupid" carries less weight in 2020. Polling data show that views about the economy are driven by party affiliation rather than its actual performance. At the same time, issues including the Covid-19 pandemic, leadership style, race and social concerns are factoring heavily in the election choices of voters, diminishing the weight people say they place on the economy, report Jon Hilsenrath and Aaron Zitner.
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Mr. Trump held his first indoor rally in nearly three months on Sunday, ignoring Nevada’s social-distancing rules and drawing the governor's ire.
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Colorado won a temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Postal Service from sending the state’s households a postcard about voting by mail, after its top election official said the information was misleading.
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Trump and Biden Both Want to Reduce the Number of U.S. Troops Abroad
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Photo: Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire
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Bloomberg Assists Biden in Battle for Florida's Latino Voters
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will spend at least $100 million in Florida to help Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Mr. Bloomberg, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination this cycle, made the announcement following a series of polls showing a tight race between Mr. Biden and President Trump in Florida, a key swing state in the November election.
“Mike Bloomberg is committed to helping defeat Trump, and that is going to happen in the battleground states,” Kevin Sheekey, a senior Bloomberg adviser, said in a statement Sunday. “Mike's substantial investment in Florida, in addition to his contributions to the DNC and to voter protection and restoration efforts this cycle, will mean Democrats and the Biden campaign can invest even more heavily in other key states like Pennsylvania, which will be critical to a Biden victory.”
Mr. Trump narrowly carried the state of Florida in 2016. Although polls show Mr. Biden leading Mr. Trump nationally and in some battlegrounds, the two candidates are locked in a dead heat in the Sunshine State, where some surveys have shown Mr. Biden underperforming among Latino voters compared with Hillary Clinton four years ago.
Mr. Bloomberg’s spending, which will primarily go toward digital and television ads in both Spanish and English, will focus in part on communicating with Hispanic voters, according to a press release.
Through this week, the Biden campaign has outspent the Trump campaign on TV advertising in Florida, $42 million to $30 million, according to political ad tracker Kantar/CMAG. But the Trump campaign has more television ad time reserved through Election Day. Starting this week through Nov. 3, the Trump campaign has reserved $36 million worth of TV advertising in Florida, about $16 million more than the Biden campaign, Kantar/CMAG data shows.
Mr. Biden is poised to make his first trip to Florida as the Democratic nominee on Tuesday. His running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, traveled to Miami on Thursday.
Write to Sabrina Siddiqui at sabrina.siddiqui@wsj.com.
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Latest Numbers
29,030,058 cases world-wide and 924,814 deaths.
6,520,606 cases in the U.S. and 194,084 deaths.
Source: Johns Hopkins University, as of 7:30 a.m. ET.
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The pandemic has put a spotlight on the vast differences in affordability of health care across the country. Across America, bills for Covid-19 treatment are coming due, and some patients are paying large out-of-pocket fees despite a federal safety net set up to help them avoid such financial surprises, reports Robbie Whelan.
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New coronavirus infections in the U.S. fell Sunday from a day earlier, but the world has seen high daily increases in recent days.
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Video-sharing app TikTok has come to rival some of the world’s most popular social-media platforms in just a few years. WSJ looks at how Chinese startup ByteDance took TikTok to the masses and why it attracted regulatory scrutiny. Video/illustration: Jaden Urbi/WSJ
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Oracle won the bidding for the U.S. operations of the video-sharing app TikTok, a person familiar with the matter said, in a deal to salvage a social-media service that has been caught in the middle of a geopolitical standoff, report Georgia Wells and Aaron Tilley.
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China’s arrest of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists is fueling a new war of words between Washington and Beijing, report Wenxin Fan and Jing Yang. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that China had yet to say what charges they face or to provide information about their welfare.
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Terry Branstad, U.S. ambassador to China and the former governor of Iowa, is stepping down after more than three years.
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A split among Senate Democrats threatens to derail a U.S.-brokered deal with Sudan, reports Jess Bravin. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) say the deal to help Sudan establish a stable civilian government and resolve terror victims’ claims against the former Bashir regime is inadequate.
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A high-level meeting between officials from the U.S. and Qatar this week offers a chance for the Middle Eastern country to work toward healing a rift with its neighbors, as well as helping Washington solidify a key relationship in the volatile region, reports William Mauldin.
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Bahrain and Israel will normalize ties in a U.S.-brokered deal, President Trump said Friday, advancing a broader realignment in the Middle East as Israel and Gulf Arab states find common cause against Iran, report Felicia Schwartz and Stephen Kalin.
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The Afghanistan government and the Taliban began on Sunday their first direct talks to end nearly two decades of fighting, a negotiation brokered by the U.S.
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Iran is considering an assassination attempt against the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, intelligence reports say. (Politico)
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Joe Biden is pushing the most aggressive plan to combat climate change in presidential election history. (Axios)
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Voters in five states will decide whether to adopt either new medical or recreational cannabis laws, or both. (CNN)
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