This week, President Trump renewed his commitment to questioning the integrity of our election system and the Senate left town on Thursday without reaching an agreement on a new stimulus bill, leaving millions of unemployed Americans in economic limbo. At the same time, the U.S. surpassed 150,000 deaths caused by the coronavirus as confirmed cases in many states continue to climb.
With less than 100 days until the general election, Jane Coaston,a senior politics reporter at Vox, andTim Alberta,Chief Political Correspondent for Politico, share how voters are processing this moment and their options for November.
Joni Ernstis a Republican Senator from Iowa whose seat was considered relatively safe until recently. Today, she’s fighting off a challenge from Democrat Theresa Greenfield, an Iowan who like Ernst has farm-girl roots. Ernst describes howcampaigning has shifted as a result of COVID-19 and what she thinks of the president’s response to the pandemic.
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