The meeting, which was far more civil than last week’s chaotic faceoff between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, unfolded against an outbreak of coronavirus now hitting the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 51% of respondents planned to vote for the former vice president, while 41% said they would vote. Another 4% said they favored a third-party candidate and another 4% said they were undecided.
American president admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and "is in exceptionally good spirits." White House sources tell reporters the next 48 hours will be critical for the 74-year-old leader. First lady said to be doing well.
"Although the specific basis of my exclusion from the US under hasn’t been revealed to me, I suspect it may be my acquaintance with senior PKK officials, and that Turkish influence may be behind it," says Jonathan Spyer.
The first US presidential debate started out civilly enough, but within 15 minutes, it devolved into a series of endless interruptions and near-chaos, as Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden traded one barb after the other.
Biden has held a consistent lead over Trump in national opinion polls, although surveys in the battleground states that will decide the election show a much closer contest.
Tuesday night's debate will offer a massive platform for Trump and Biden to outline their starkly different visions for a country facing multiple crises, including racial justice protests and a pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs.
With battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan decided in 2016 by fewer than a combined 200,000 votes, any loss of the Jewish support by Democratic nominee Joe Biden could be pivotal.
New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says an Oct. 20 virtual event to mark the 25th anniversary of Rabin's assassination "was presented to my team differently from how it's now being promoted."
Thousands pay their respects and bid farewell to iconic justice in nationwide services. US dignitaries attend small, solemn ceremony in the US Capitol.
