Joe Biden is heading to Georgia on Tuesday, marking one week before Election Day as some form of voting is already underway in all 50 states. Biden will speak in Warm Springs before heading to Atlanta for a drive-in rally early in the evening.
Former President Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail to stump for his former vice president and criticize his successor at an event in Orlando, Florida.
The current president, Mr. Obama said, “hasn’t shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends or treating the presidency as anything more than a reality show that can give him the attention that he craves.”
“The presidency doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are,” Mr. Obama said. “And Joe time and time again has shown himself to be a man of principle and character, and he’s going to be a great president.”
Meanwhile, President Trump is focusing on the Midwest, with rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska on Tuesday before heading to Las Vegas for the night. The Trump campaign had initially billed Wednesday as Mr. Trump’s return to southern Nevada, but the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported his plans were stymied by local COVID-19 restrictions. Mr. Trump will instead hold a rally Wednesday over the border in Bullhead City, Arizona.
Tuesday’s events come after Amy Coney Barrett was sworn into the Supreme Court on Monday night, following the Senate’s 52-48 vote to confirm her, with Senator Susan Collins being the only Republican to vote against her. Her addition to the Supreme Court solidifies the conservative majority to 6-3.
At the same time, the Supreme Court ruled against reinstating an order by a Wisconsin federal court judge that said absentee ballots could be counted if received within six days after the election as long as they were postmarked by Election Day. The final vote was 5-3.
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