US election 2020: Trump campaigning in five states as Biden heads to Philadelphia – live updates

President visits Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and FloridaBiden targets Pennsylvania, Harris will be in Georgia and North CarolinaObama lends hand as Biden and Trump launch final campaign blitzJoe Biden: campaign that came close to folding now on verge of victorySign up for Fight to Vote – our weekly US election newsletter 3.51pm GMT In an appearance on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller refuses to be pinned down when asked to answer for the US president’s assertion that doctors are inflating Covid-19 deaths for personal enrichment. “I’m not going to get into the – the billing aspects, of which there have been many reports on. There have been all sorts of independent things pointing to that,” Miller said. “But the fact of the matter is people want to get their life back to normal. They’re tired of the lockdowns. You look at these Democrat-run states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. We’re seeing this on the campaign trail with the rallies. People are tired of these lockdowns. They want to safely re-open.” 3.26pm GMT Donald Trump is plotting a second-term purge of his cabinet if he prevails in Tuesday’s election, according to a very normal story on Politico this morning. Administration officials are already vetting names of health care experts for the top jobs at the Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and National Institutes of Health, according to two Republicans close to the White House.The shift would amount to a purge of any Cabinet member who has crossed the president, refused to mount investigations he has demanded, or urged him to take a different, more strict tack on the coronavirus response.The evictions could run the gamut from senior health officials to much of the national security leadership. Already, the White House and administration officials have started to vet names of health care experts who could take over the agencies running many elements of the government’s pandemic response and overseeing the country’s health insurance system, according to two Republicans close to the White House. And the president is eying a remake of leadership at the FBI, CIA and Pentagon, exasperated with what he perceives as unwillingness to investigate his preferred subjects or take on the government’s “deep state.” Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/nov/01/us-election-2020-donald-trump-joe-biden-mike-pence-kamala-harris-coronavirus-covid-19-live-updates #us_news #world_news #us_elections_2020 #donald_trump #joe_biden #coronavirus