Tuesday's Debate Made Clear the Gravest Threat to the Election: The President Himself
Thursday, October 1, 2020 | |
| By Alexander Burns, Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman For the second time in two weeks, Republicans distanced themselves from the president, expressing unease about his failure to disavow a right-wing organization linked with white supremacy and acts of violence. | | | News Analysis By David E. Sanger President Trump's unwillingness to say he would abide by the result and his disinformation campaign about election fraud went beyond anything President Vladimir V. Putin could have imagined. | | | Behind the Curve By Selam Gebrekidan, Katrin Bennhold, Matt Apuzzo and David D. Kirkpatrick The World Health Organization said open borders would help fight disease. Experts, and a global treaty, emphatically agreed. But the scientific evidence was never behind them. | | |
| Magazine | Feature By Sam Anderson Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in. | | | Opinion By The Editorial Board Americans need to face the man who is their president. | | |
| By Reuters During the first presidential debate on Tuesday, President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. sparred over the integrity of the election and mail-in ballots. | | | By The New York Times Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York reported a slight uptick in the city's seven-day coronavirus positivity rate, to 1.46 percent, and said nearly 1,000 city employees would be deployed to curb outbreaks in nine target ZIP codes. | | | By The Associated Press President Trump's refusal to explicitly condemn white supremacy during the first presidential debate drew muted concern from some Republicans on Capitol Hill, while others defended his remarks. | | |
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