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Nicquel Terry Ellis
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For many Americans,
the
high in the 2020 election. stakes are
The coronavirus pandemic
cial tensions have divided and ra-
and galvanized millions the nation
of people to
cast their votes weeks
before the Tues-
day election.
But the historic turnout
challenged by a wide range has been
of tactics to
People walk out of a suppress voters, particularly
Vote Center located communities of color. voters in
25, 2020 in Compton, at Compton College
California. Voters in on the first weekend
Los Angeles County of early in-person voting Voters have faced hourslong
are now able to vote on October intimidation and rejection lines,
in person at any Vote

Millions of older peop

Center located at the polls,
and received false information
sought to discourage that
them from vot-

voting for the first timle

ing.
Here is a roundup of
some of the
most striking examples
of
pression during the electionvoter sup-
season:

2.1M people over 40 have

voted for first time, so
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far
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At age 99, Barbara Duvall

COVID-19, pneumonia survived
and five days in
the hospital.
Voters say armed guards
Last week, the Indiana stood near
resident vot- an early voting site in
ed for the first time. St. Petersburg,
Fla., on Oct. 21. TREVOR
“I guess I didn’t have MALLORY
time before be-
cause of my kids, my
husband and our
family. I stayed with Armed people show
them,” said Duvall, who up to polls
raised three children In St. Petersburg, Florida,

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with her husband of ple dressed as armed two peo-
63 security guards
years. “I decided were reported outside
this an early voting
time that I wanted site on Oct. 21.
the
right man in there.” The man and woman
Duvall told
With five days until they were hired by President police
Election Day, more than For some, such as newly naturalized citizens, Trump’s campaign, according Donald
80 million people had others are newly motivated this is their first election.
already voted by today’s pressing But media reports. Trump’s to local
Wednesday – more than issues. COLLEEN MCGRATH
votes counted in the
half of the total VIA AP however, told WFLA that campaign,
2016 general elec- it did not em-
ploy the two people.
McDonald, a Verify your voter
tion, according to Michael
professor at the University even though they did Trevor Mallory, a Democratic
not cast a ballot. can-
who runs the U.S. Elections of Florida registration This year, they’re
seizing the
didate for Pinellas County
property
Project. chance. appraiser, said he was
“The numbers are stunning,” Don’t wait until the last campaigning
Donald said in an update Mc- minute to make Amid the coronavirus near the voting site when
on his website sure your able to vote on Election Day pandemic, an he
this week. “The pace economic recession and nationwide the armed people standing noticed
of some states’ and go to the right polling place. protest movement, Trump campaign tent. near a
early voting is such voters say that
that with almost USA TODAY stakes are high and Mallory said it made
certainty states will offers
begin surpassing your registration, an easy way to check policy issues are driving
that hot-button
fortable and called it
him uncom-
their total 2016 total vote along with other “voter
Turnout among younger
this week.” helpful links, explanations polls. Some are motivated
them to the tion.” He said he was thankfulintimida-
voters ac- and where the major of key issues by Presi- ers, including those with that vot-
counts for much of the candidates stand. dent Donald Trump’s children, did
surge this elec- impeachment, not allow the presence
tion cycle. But older his handling of the coronavirus of armed peo-
voters are turning Go to vote.usatoday.com for more demic and the conservative pan- ple to stop them from
out, too. Of the nearly lean of Su- walking into the
5.5 million first- preme Court. building to vote.
time voters who have Others have fears about
cast their ballots, ers the future of law and “To me, that’s a little alarming,
more than 2.1 million had cast ballots, including order in the U.S. it’s a
are voters over 40, 1.9 million But little unsettling,” Mallory
according to data from people over 40. many said it’s simply much told USA TO-
TargetSmart, a ier to vote this year: eas- DAY. “No one should have
Democratic political data Some of those voters States have ex- to encounter
firm. – such as newly panded an armed guard that
It’s likely that 2020 naturalized citizens – have never early and mail-in voting is not with the
will op-
crease in first-time voters. see an in- the opportunity to vote had tions, and voting
is all people are talk-
sheriff ’s department
or an official po-
At this time many, before. But ing about. lice department employee.”
in 2016, about 3.8 million like Duvall, have been
first-time vot- vote eligible to According to WFLA,
in previous presidential law enforce-
elections See NEW
VOTERS, Page 2D
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ELECTION 2020 INVESTIGATION

Law for
victims
shields
police
Accusations
of violence hidden
by Marsy’s Law
Kenny Jacoby
USA TODAY
Ryan Gabrielson
ProPublica

In January 2019, a Dollar Tree em-

ployee in Masaryktown, Florida, called
911 after a homeless man stole $70 of
beer, wine, candy and cookies. A sher-
iff ’s deputy had little trouble finding
him – the man had passed out drunk in
a nearby ditch with an open box of
JANET LOEHRKE ILLUSTRATION/USA TODAY Reese’s Pieces.

Trump made big promises Marsy’s Law was created

to offer crime victims a

after elected. Did he deliver? slate of rights, including

Taxes, judges, deregulation, climate: A closer look
Ledyard King
USA TODAY
President Donald Trump says he’s
not a politician. As proof, the real estate
developer points to the promises he
made both on the 2016 campaign and
early in his term – and, he says, deliv-
ered.
“Unlike so many who came before
me, I keep my promises,” he said during
his State of the Union speech this year.
So what were his major promises?
The appointment of conservative
justices to federal courts. Broad tax
cuts. Building a border wall on the
southern border and making Mexico
pay for it. Massive deregulation. Replac-
ing Obamacare with a health coverage
plan that’s “far less expensive and far
better.” Bringing back manufacturing.
Reinvigorating fading industries, such
as coal and steel. Renegotiating trade
deals in a way that helps the U.S. Mov-
ing the Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem.
Curbing immigration. Reducing the na-
tional debt. Withdrawing from the Paris
climate accord.
The USA TODAY Network looked at
promises large and small, national and
exceedingly local, that Trump made on
the trail and early in his term.
He has delivered on a number of
them, including tax cuts, conservative
judges, deregulation, the climate accord
and the Israeli Embassy. Some have
been partly accomplished, such as trade
deals, the border wall and defeating
ISIS. Other pledges have yet to be real-
ized, such as bringing back coal and
steel. And some have gone in the wrong
direction, such as reducing the national
debt and bringing back manufacturing.
Larry Sabato, director of Center for
See PROMISES, Page 3A
Poll: Biden and
Latino voters
Joe Biden holds a
slight lead over
President Donald
Trump in this key
demographic in Florida, though he is
foundering with Cuban voters. 4A
THE BACKSTORY
Here’s what
our reporters
are watching
Editor-in-chief Nicole
Carroll talks to USA TODAY Network
journalists who are covering swing
states, and explains how our
newsrooms will be reporting on
voting, correcting misinformation
and providing accurate results. 3A
protecting them and their
families from harassment
by their attackers.
The deputy took the man to the hos-
pital, where he became irate. With his
left wrist handcuffed to the bed, he
started swinging his right arm wildly.
To get the suspect “under control,” the
deputy pepper-sprayed him.
The Hernando County Sheriff ’s Of-
fice provided a copy of the use-of-
force report to USA TODAY and ProPu-
blica in response to a public records re-
quest. Blacked out was one crucial de-
tail: the deputy’s name.
Under a law passed to protect crime
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knife, according to police. Wallace was
hit in the shoulder and chest. One of the
officers put him in a police vehicle and
drove him to a hospital, where he was
pronounced dead a short time later.
His death is the most recent incident
of police fatally shooting someone with
a mental illness.
Daniel Prude was experiencing a
mental health crisis in March when
Rochester, New York, police officers re-
sponding to a 911 call pinned him to the
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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
CORONAVIRUS BRIEFS
Ex-FDA head
predicts 100K
new cases in
just a week
Daily U.S. hospitalizations sur-
passed 45,000 for the first time since
mid-August this week as the autumn
surge continues. Wisconsin is on track
to run out of ICU beds, and nurses to
staff them, in as little as two weeks as
the state reported 5,200 positive cases
Tuesday with only 187 beds available.
The U.S. has reported more than 8.8
million cases and more than 227,600
deaths, according to Johns Hopkins
University data. The global totals: 44.4
million cases and 1.17 million deaths. A
USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hop-
kins data through late Tuesday shows
20 states set records for new cases in a
week, while three states (Nebraska,
Tennessee and Wyoming) had a record
number of deaths in a week.
100,000 new cases this week?
The former commissioner of the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
says it’s possible we’ll see 100,000 new
cases this week. Dr. Scott Gottlieb told
CNBC the U.S. appears to be about
three weeks behind the steep rise in
Europe. He predicted the nation is un-
likely to see widespread new lockdown
orders because the public is unwilling
to accept them.
CVS to add more rapid test sites
CVS Health will add nearly 1,000
COVD-19 test sites throughout the U.S.
by the end of the year, with about 100
running this week in 22 states, includ-
ing California, Arizona, Florida and
New Jersey. The tests will be free for
people who meet the CDC’s criteria;
those with insurance can get tested at
no cost.
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Black Americans are the most
hesitant to get virus vaccine
Karen Weintraub
USA TODAY
Black Americans distrust the gov-
ernment so much they’re not partici-
pating in large numbers in COVID-19
clinical trials, and many say they won’t
get a COVID-19 vaccine – at least not
until many others get it.
Although the first two large clinical
trials of candidate vaccines have man-
aged to include about 3,000 Black par-
ticipants each, it hasn’t been easy. Lat-
er trials might have even more trouble.
Polls show that among racial and
ethnic groups, Black Americans are
the most hesitant to get a vaccine once
one becomes available, and their skep-
ticism is rising fast. In one September
survey, only 32% of Black adults said
they would get a vaccine, down from
54% in May.
In a recent focus group run by a
foundation that supports the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration, Black par-
ticipants brought up systemic racism
for their hesitancy and cited the gov-
ernment-backed Tuskegee Syphilis
Study, in which Black men were told
they were getting free medical care but
instead were denied therapy for their
syphilis for decades.
“I firmly believe that this is another
Tuskegee Experiment,” one focus
group member said.
“We are the ones who are the guinea
pigs for the rich,” another said.
Without adequate Black and His-
panic participation in clinical trials, it
won’t be clear whether the vaccine will
be safe and effective for them. Al-
though there are no significant genetic
distinctions by race or ethnicity, peo-
ple of color may react differently to a
vaccine because of their different lived
experiences, experts say.
And if people don’t get vaccinated,
they will remain vulnerable to the vi-
rus, which has ravaged communities
of color in particular. Black Americans
are 21⁄2 times more likely to contract
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administers the shot. UC HEALTH
COVID-19, nearly five times as likely to
be hospitalized with it and twice as like-
ly to die from it, according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
A vaccine, which is likely to be ready
early next year, is considered the best
hope for ending the pandemic, but if not
enough Americans will get it, then
months of effort and $10 billion in tax-
payer funding may be wasted.
To prevent that from happening, the
government needs to make a concerted
effort to address the concerns of people
of color, said Dr. Michelle Williams,
dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health in an interview with Dr.
Howard Bauchner, editor-in-chief of
JAMA, the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
“We have to really get to a place
where we can reckon with past wrongs
and we effectively communicate to this
community,” she said.
Alexandre White, a historian of
medicine at the Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine, said mistrust needs to be
addressed urgently. “We’re seeing a
deeply uncoordinated strategy. We’re
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not seeing a nationally coordinated
strategy,” he said.
America has a terrible history of
medical experimentation on Black
Americans, including but not limited to
Tuskegee, White said. “The legacies of
experimentation and racism date back
to the origins of this country and are still
quite fresh,” he said.
The country’s first medical colleges
purchased enslaved men to dig up
freshly buried bodies from Black ceme-
teries to use for experiments and autop-
sies, he said.
Dr. James Marion Sims, often consid-
ered the “father of American gynecolo-
gy,” used enslaved women as patients to
test new gynecological methods with-
out providing them any anesthesia. And
risk of tuberculosis and other infectious
diseases was used historically to justify
segregation, White said.
Black Americans often learn this his-
tory at an early age, he said, while white
people aren’t usually taught about it at
all. “At his moment, we’re seeing the hor-
rors of the past and even more recent ex-
periences come home to roost,” he said.
The National Medical Association,
which represents African American
physicians and patients, has estab-
lished a task force to review the findings
of vaccine trials “to help provide a
bridge of communications to the Black
community,” said Dr. Leon McDougle,
the association’s president. “Once a safe
and effective vaccine is approved, we’d
like to be in agreement with that.”
Clear communication and “collabo-
rative engagement” can help overcome
vaccine hesitancy, said White, the
Johns Hopkins medical historian.
“But these steps need to be taken ur-
gently,” he said. “I don’t think it’s too late,
but I think we’re running out of time.”
Health and patient safety coverage
at USA TODAY is made possible in part
by a grant from the Masimo Foundation
for Ethics, Innovation and Competition
in Healthcare. The Masimo Foundation
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ELECTION 2020
THE BACKSTORY
Swing-state journalists on what to watch
We shouldn’t expect
quick results Tuesday
Nicole Carroll
Editor-in-chief
USA TODAY
As we near Election Day, six
competitive states are likely to
decide the presidency. Florida,
Michigan, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, Arizona and North
Carolina offer 101 of the 270
electoral votes needed to win.
The USA TODAY Network has veteran
political reporters in each of these key
states. So if you want to know what to
watch for Tuesday, you’ll want to know
what they are watching for Tuesday.
h Florida: Capitol bureau reporter
Zachary Anderson said that unlike oth-
er swing states, most of Florida’s mail-
in ballots will have already been count-
ed, so it could have results Tuesday
night. And the results are critical.
“If President Trump loses Florida,
the election is pretty much over,” Ander-
son said. “He likely doesn’t have a path
to Electoral College victory. If he wins,
the race could go into extra innings, and
legal challenges elsewhere become
more likely.”
Within Florida, he said, keep your eye
on bellwether Pinellas County in the
Tampa Bay region. “The county went for
Obama twice but flipped to Trump and
then flipped back to Democrats in the
2018 governor’s race,” he said. But be
careful: While results from Democrat-
heavy mail-in ballots will be released
right after the polls close, “it will take
some time to see how strong of a turn-
out Republicans have on Election Day.”
h Michigan: Trump beat Hillary
Clinton in Michigan by just 10,704 votes,
or about two-tenths of 1%, in 2016. It
was key to his victory then and will be
again this year. Todd Spangler, the
Washington correspondent for the De-
troit Free Press, will be watching three
Michigan counties in particular.
“I’m going to be looking for results
from Oakland and Macomb counties in
the Detroit suburbs,” he said, “since if
Biden is doing particularly well in Oak-
land and/or Trump isn’t scoring as bigly
as he did in Macomb four years ago, it
strongly suggests the president is in
Promises
Continued from Page 1A
Politics at the University of Virginia,
said Trump “has certainly fulfilled some
promises,” especially the appointment
of conservative judges that have won
him the continued admiration of white
evangelicals who are expected to again
support him in overwhelming numbers.
But the president also tends to exag-
gerate his record of delivering, he said.
“If you listen to Trump, he’s fulfilled
all promises and has done so perfectly,”
Sabato wrote in an email to USA TODAY.
“In other words, he can’t be relied on to
tell the truth and only people who
haven’t paid attention over the past four
years or are members of his worshipful
base would believe otherwise.”
But, “how’s that border wall paid for
by Mexico coming?” he asked, a refer-
ence to one campaign pledge Trump has
not yet made good on.
Conservative justices
Trump delivered resoundingly on the
pledge to nominate conservative judges
to the nation’s Supreme Court.
With the confirmation of Amy Coney
Barrett, Trump has become the first
president since Richard Nixon to name
three judges to the court in a first term.
Barrett joins Neil Gorsuch, who was
confirmed in 2017, and Brett Kavanaugh,
confirmed in 2018.
In addition to the Supreme Court,
Trump has named more than 200
judges to district and appellate courts,
helping the GOP’s efforts to remake the
federal bench.
– Ledyard King, USA TODAY
Border and immigration issues
Trump partially accomplished his
signature campaign promise of building
a wall along the entire 2,000-mile-long
U.S.-Mexico border to stop drugs and
Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page said a smooth election would underscore
U.S. fundamentals such as a right to vote safely. NIKOS FRAZIER/USA TODAY NETWORK
deep trouble in Michigan.” The other
county is Kent, where Grand Rapids is
located. “Kent is traditionally Republi-
can but voted for Gov. Whitmer (a Dem-
ocrat) two years ago,” Spangler said. “If
that flips from R to D, and if Trump is
struggling here, it probably says some-
thing.”
He also warned that Detroit is his-
torically late reporting results and could
be counting ballots for days.
h Wisconsin: Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel Washington correspondent
Craig Gilbert will be watching to see
whether Trump replicates the big mar-
gins he won in many small rural coun-
ties in Wisconsin in 2016. “Some of
these counties should report their vote
fairly quickly on election night,” he said.
“If Trump is going to win Wisconsin
again, he will probably need to match or
exceed his 2016 numbers in the rural
west and north (which were exception-
al), because he’s in danger of losing
ground in the populous Milwaukee and
Madison metro areas.”
h Pennsylvania: J.D. Prose is a re-
porter in our Pennsylvania state capitol
bureau. “In southeast Pennsylvania,
you have Philly, solid blue, and its collar
counties, which are trending blue more
and more, and in southwest Penn-
sylvania you have Pittsburgh and Alle-
gheny County, both solidly blue, but
surrounded by a sea of red,” Prose said.
“Biden needs to cut into Trump’s mar-
people from entering illegally. But it
looks different than what he envi-
sioned, and Mexico is not paying for it –
U.S. taxpayers are.
After he won the 2016 election,
Trump abandoned the promise of a sol-
id, concrete wall spanning the entire
border, in favor of 30-foot steel slats
known as bollards at strategic sections
of the U.S.-Mexico border.
As of Oct. 19, construction crews have
completed installation of 371 miles of
new fencing, according to U.S. Customs
and Border Protection. Most of the fenc-
ing is replacing older lower fencing or
vehicle barriers that were easier to
climb over or under.
Trump has not accomplished his
promise of reforming the legal immigra-
tion system. In May 2019, he unveiled
legislation that would significantly re-
vamp the system into a merit-based one
that would mostly award green cards to
immigrants based on education and
skills rather than being closely related
to legal permanent residents or U.S. citi-
zens. But Trump’s proposed legislation
never gained traction in Congress.
Trump has used his executive pow-
ers to find other ways to restrict legal
immigration without the help of Con-
gress, experts say. His administration
has implemented a new “public charge
rule” that makes it more difficult for
some immigrants who have used public
benefits in the past to receive green
cards. The administration also has in-
creased vetting for H-1B visas, which
companies use to bring in high-skilled
workers from other countries.
– Rafael Carranza and Daniel Gon-
zalez, Arizona Republic
Health care
In 2016, Trump promised “great
health care” for any American who is
sick, and at affordable prices. Nonparti-
san experts say health care costs have
continued to rise during his term.
Trump repeatedly cited premium in-
creases among Affordable Care Act
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gins from 2016.
“Remember, Trump only won Penn-
syvlania by 44,300 votes and didn’t
reach 50%, so if Biden can flip voters in
red counties from 2016 and benefit from
the blue wave, then he’s got a very good
chance of winning Pennsylvania.”
h Arizona: Arizona Republic political
reporter Yvonne Wingett Sanchez will
be closely watching the suburbs of both
Phoenix (Maricopa County) and Tucson
(Pima County), “which we expect to
break for Biden,” she said. “We’ll be
watching how LDS (Mormon) voters
swing; lots of them are for Biden on the
basis of character. We’ll also be watch-
ing how our seniors break – given our
high population of retirees, they are a
critical voting bloc.”
h North Carolina: Senior North Car-
olina reporter Paul Woolverton said
Thursday afternoon that more than
3.9 million votes had already been cast
via early voting and mail-in ballot, more
than half of the state’s 7.3 million
registered voters. “The polls say the
presidential race is tight,” he said.
“Trump has made repeated stops in the
state to rally his base.” And he reminds:
“Ballot counting won’t start until after
polls close at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. If any
race is tight, the results may not be
known until all the mail-in ballots are
received. So long as they are post-
marked by Nov. 3, they can arrive as late
as Nov. 12.”
plans and limited competition among
insurers to describe the system as fail-
ing, and to argue it should be replaced.
But his administration never proposed
an alternative, and experts say the pro-
posals put forward by GOP leaders in
Congress did not live up to Trump’s
promise that he would provide great
health care at a fraction of the cost.
Trump’s push to repeal the ACA ulti-
mately failed in 2017, when three Repub-
lican senators broke ranks and voted
with Democrats to preserve the law.
– Zac Anderson, Sarasota Herald-
Tribune
Michigan manufacturing
Trump ran in 2016 on a promise to re-
store and protect manufacturing jobs,
and nowhere did he make that guaran-
tee more fervently than in Michigan.
Four years later, however, neither
Michigan nor the U.S. has seen any
economy-changing resurgence in man-
ufacturing, despite gains in other parts
of the country prior to the pandemic.
But Trump did have some victories.
As promised, his administration rene-
gotiated NAFTA. Also, two new major
assembly facilities have been an-
nounced since he took office: a Jeep
plant in Detroit and a $700 million plant
at Ford’s Rouge complex. General Mo-
tors has announced it’s investing $150
million in its existing Michigan plants.
– Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press
Pennsylvania coal and steel
Trump’s promises of rejuvenating
coal and steel industries in Pennsylva-
nia have not exactly come to fruition.
There are fewer coal-mining jobs
since he took office in 2017. He followed
through on promises to cut environ-
mental regulations to benefit coal, but
experts say it has not been enough to
offset other issues, such as falling de-
mand, a shift to more environmentally
friendly renewable energy sources and
competition from cheaper natural gas.
And here is what you can expect
from us. We’ll be monitoring
polling places nationwide,
correcting misinformation
and providing accurate results.
That could take awhile.
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Biden
leading
among
Latinos
Poll: A slight edge in
Fla., stronger in Texas
Rebecca Morin
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Joe Biden holds a slight lead over
President Donald Trump among La-
tino voters in the battleground state of
Florida, according to a poll published
Thursday.
Almost half (48%) of Latino likely
voters in Florida said they support Bi-
den, with 43% saying they back
Trump, according to a state poll from
Telemundo. Less than 10% of Latino
voters said they’re undecided (7%) or
voting for another candidate (2%).
Latinos will be the largest ethnic or
racial minority group in the 2020 elec-
tion, with 32 million eligible to vote.
Florida, which has 29 electoral votes,
is considered vital to Trump’s reelec-
tion bid.
But Biden is foundering with Cuban
voters, a key bloc in the state. Accord-
ing to the poll, Trump holds a substan-
tial lead over Biden, 71% to 23% among
Cuban voters. Biden is leading among
Puerto Rican voters, 66% to 23%.
Latinos won’t just be a crucial vot-
ing bloc in Florida, they will also hold
key shares of the vote in Texas, Arizo-
na and Nevada.
The Telemundo poll surveyed 500
registered Hispanic voters statewide
by telephone in those four states, and
all indicated they were likely to vote in
the general election. There is a margin
of error of plus or minus 4.5 percent-
age points for each state poll.
In Texas, Biden holds a large lead
among Latino voters, 58% to 34%. The
poll shows that 7% are still undecided
and 1% say they are choosing another
candidate. In recent days, pundits
have showed the race is tightening
overall in the Lone Star State. The
Cook Political Report recently changed
its rating of the state to a toss up,
meaning the race could go for either
candidate.
But Biden is trailing 2016 Democrat-
ic nominee Hillary Clinton among La-
tinos. According to 2016 exit polls,
Clinton won 61% of the Hispanic vote
in Texas, while Trump won 34%.
Latinos make up roughly 30% of the
Texas electorate, according to the Pew
Research Center.
In Arizona, 64% of Latino voters say
they support Biden, while 28% said
they support Trump. A combined 8%
said they are undecided or supporting
a different candidate.
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Marsy’s Law
Continued from Page 1A
victims, the deputy was entitled to pri-
vacy, officials said. He’d suffered a bat-
tery: The flailing suspect had been at-
tached to a pulse monitor, and the wire
hit near the deputy’s shoulder.
Introduced in memory of a woman
murdered by her ex-boyfriend, Mar-
sy’s Law was created to offer crime vic-
tims a slate of rights, including pro-
tecting them and their families from
harassment by their attackers.
Now, as police across the U.S. face
cries for accountability amid mount-
ing evidence of brutality and systemic
racism, law enforcement agencies in
Florida are using the law to shield offi-
cers after they use force, sometimes
under questionable circumstances.
Florida agencies have used it to hide
the names of officers who sent a 15-
year-old boy to the hospital, officers
who fired bullets into moving cars and
officers who released their K-9 dogs on
drunk and mentally ill people.
Marsy’s Law passed first in Califor-
nia in 2008 and is now law in 11 other
states. It happened each time by ballot
initiative, allowing voters to adopt all
of its implications with a single yes.
Now, it is on the ballot in Kentucky,
a state still reeling from the raid that
killed Breonna Taylor, a Black medical
worker in Louisville. Had it been in
place this March, the public may not
have learned the identities of the three
white officers who opened fire.
“This constitutional amendment is
so ambiguous and has lent itself to so
much misinterpretation, misapplica-
tion, inconsistency,” said Amye Ben-
senhaver, director of the Kentucky
Open Government Coalition and a for-
mer assistant state attorney general.
“We will have those problems emerge,
just as they have emerged in Florida.”
The law increasingly has been co-
opted by police. It got on Florida’s ballot
in 2018 after being introduced by a sher-
iff and revised with the help of two
statewide law enforcement associa-
tions. Officers say it allows them to
claim victim status in use-of-force
cases where they say the suspect was
the aggressor.
At least half of Florida’s 30 largest
police agencies said they apply it to
shield the names of on-duty officers, a
USA TODAY and ProPublica investiga-
tion found. For the agencies that do,
reporters requested and reviewed po-
lice reports from use-of-force inci-
dents since January 2019.
The sheriff ’s offices in Collier and
Charlotte counties have withheld depu-
ties’ names in roughly 1 in 6 incidents in
which an officer used force that resulted
in a civilian’s injury. For the Hernando
County sheriff ’s office, it’s nearly 1 in 3.
Officers sustained no injuries in at
least half of the incidents for which
they claimed victims’ rights, records
show. Even minor movements that of-
ficers perceived as threatening, such
as walking aggressively or reaching
into a pocket, qualified as batteries on
officers – triggering the law’s protec-
tion, according to the agencies.
At least seven agencies have with-
held the names of officers who’ve
killed civilians: sheriff ’s offices in Bro-
ward, Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte
and Hernando counties, and police de-
partments in Tampa and Tallahassee.
Five of the deceased were white, two
were Black and one was Hispanic.
A Tallahassee officer brought the
problems with the law to light in May
when he claimed victimhood status
after fatally shooting Tony McDade, a
Black transgender man who allegedly
stabbed a neighbor’s son to death be-
fore pointing a gun at an officer.
Tallahassee police Chief Lawrence
Revell didn’t release the names of the
deputies involved, fueling protests out-
side the police station. Days later, the
Florida Police Benevolent Association
sued the city to make sure it wouldn’t
change course. The police union’s law-
suit cited the growing anger over police
violence as a reason to hide their names.
“His fear for his safety is reason-
able, especially given the current un-
rest that has followed in the wake of
George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis,”
the union said in court filings.
The identities of officers who have
used violence against civilians is vital
information the public has a right to
know, said Barbara Petersen, former
head of Florida’s First Amendment
Foundation. Had the Minneapolis Po-
lice Department withheld the identity
of Derek Chauvin, the officer charged
with killing Floyd, the public may not
have learned of his extensive history of
using excessive force, Petersen said.
The notion that a law enforcement
Protesters march through Tallahassee, Fla., in June, demanding the removal of
the city’s police chief after a series of fatal shootings by officers. The chief cited
Marsy’s Law in refusing to name the officers. TORI LYNN SCHNEIDER/USA TODAY NETWORK
officer responding to a call could be con-
sidered a crime victim, she said, is
“mind-boggling. … How do we know
they haven’t done this before?”
Matt Puckett, executive director of the
Florida Police Benevolent Association,
acknowledged there should be limits on
when officers can invoke Marsy’s Law.
“We need to have the (state) Supreme
Court issue a ruling on it, because it’s al-
ways going to be very subjective ... as to
what would be worthy of a shield from
victim’s information,” he said.
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco in-
troduced Marsy’s Law in Florida. Now,
he is a vocal advocates for using it to
automatically shield deputies’ names.
“The provision exists for victims
across the spectrum, regardless of their
profession,” said Nocco’s spokesman,
Chase Daniels. “We believe there is the
capability to both protect the victim and
provide transparency under Marsy’s
Law, which we have done.”
Nocco and three other county sher-
iffs who routinely use Marsy’s Law –
Brevard’s Wayne Ivey, Collier’s Kevin
Rambosk and Charlotte’s Bill Prummell
– declined to comment. In an emailed
statement, Hernando County Sheriff Al
Nienhuis said that Florida voters, “in-
tentionally or unintentionally, did not
provide exceptions based on the vic-
tim’s positions or actions.”
“We need to have the (state)
Supreme Court issue a ruling
on it, because it’s always
going to be very subjective.”
Matt Puckett
Executive director, Florida Police Benevolent
Association
The controversial crime victims’
rights law was born of a tragedy.
In 1983, Marsalee Ann Nicholas, a 21-
year-old student at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, who went by
Marsy, was stalked and shot to death by
her ex-boyfriend, Kerry Michael Conley,
when she came home for Thanksgiving.
Conley was arrested but remained
free on bail for two years until he was
convicted of second-degree murder. At
a grocery store a week after her death,
Conley allegedly accosted Nicholas’
mother, who was on her way home from
the funeral. The family said it had not
been notified Conley was out on bond.
Nicholas’ mother and stepfather,
Marcella and Bob Leach, became promi-
nent advocates for victims’ rights. Along
with Marsy’s brother, Henry Nicholas,
the Leaches co-founded a nonprofit
support organization for families of
homicide victims.
Nicholas, the billionaire co-founder
of Broadcom Corp., in 2007 spearhead-
ed a campaign to pass a comprehensive
bill of rights for California crime victims.
In 2008, California passed it as a bal-
lot measure with nearly 54% of the vote.
The following year, Nicholas launched
a national organization, Marsy’s Law for
All, which has spent more than $100 mil-
lion working to pass similar amendments
in other states. So far, 11 more have active
laws on the books: Florida, Georgia, Illi-
nois, Nevada, North Carolina, North Da-
kota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota and Wisconsin.
While none of the states explicitly ex-
empts on-duty police officers from the
benefits of any part of the law, only in
Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota
can police officers use the law to shield
their names from the public. That’s be-
cause those states’ amendments elimi-
nate a key phrase from an original provi-
sion of the law that prohibits the release
of information that could be used to “lo-
cate or harass” a victim.
NEWS
Whereas California and others states’
provisions prohibit “the disclosure of
confidential information to the defen-
dant,” North Dakota’s version passed in
2016 deleted the words “confidential” and
“to the defendant” – leaving a provision
that simply prohibits the disclosure of
victim “information” to anyone. Florida
and South Dakota followed suit in 2018.
North Dakota Attorney General
Wayne Stenehjem tried to clarify that
the law does not protect the names of
victims, unless they are children or vic-
tims of sex crimes or domestic violence.
Cops disregarded that guidance. In
2017, a Bismarck officer invoked Marsy’s
Law after shooting and wounding a man
who he said punched him and gouged
his eyes. The agency declined to identify
the officer, but The Bismarck Tribune
uncovered his name and published it –
prompting protesters to gather outside
the newsroom in support of police.
In the months after, more North Da-
kota officers invoked the law, with sup-
port from Marsy’s Law for All: “Police
officers can be victims just like anyone
else,” spokesman Henry Goodwin told
the Grand Forks Herald in July 2018.
Meanwhile, the law was working its
way onto Florida’s ballot.
It had been introduced to Florida’s
Constitutional Revision Commission,
which gathers every 20 years to exam-
ine the state constitution and debate
potential revisions. In this unusual
process, politicians appoint 37 commis-
sion members to propose amendments
and, if approved by at least 22 members,
refer them directly to the ballot.
The 2017 commission was made up
almost entirely of Republicans, many
with direct ties to then-Gov. Rick Scott.
Two members proposed similar ver-
sions of Marsy’s Law: Nocco, the Pasco
sheriff, and Timothy Cerio, Scott’s for-
mer chief legal adviser.
Both versions contained the same
“locate or harass” provision that was
making news in North Dakota. Yet ac-
cording to transcripts and videos from
the commission proceedings, the issue
never came up.
During a commission meeting in
March 2018, Cerio thanked the Florida
Sheriffs Association, the Florida Police
Chiefs Association and several top state
prosecutors for their support and their
revisions to the initiative.
In November 2018, Florida voters
passed it by a 23-point margin.
Cerio did not respond to multiple
calls and emails.
As police agencies across Florida ad-
justed to the new victims’ rights amend-
ment in early 2019, the Jacksonville
Sheriff ’s Office put together a Power-
Point presentation to tell deputies how
to follow Marsy’s Law. The last slide
spelled out those who are not consid-
ered victims under the amendment, in-
cluding suspects, the deceased and wit-
nesses to a crime. A final note read, “Po-
lice Officers cannot invoke Marsy’s Law
in the course of their official duty.”
Jacksonville deputies begged to dif-
fer. In January 2020, their union sued in
state court, arguing they, too, had a right
to confidentiality under the amend-
ment. The case is awaiting trial.
Five months later, after two fatal
shootings by Tallahassee police, the
Florida Police Benevolent Association
sued the city to block the release of the
officers’ names.
Judge Charles Dodson was not con-
vinced. In July, he cited the public’s
right to access government records and
ruled the court “cannot interpret Mar-
sy’s Law to shield police officers from
public scrutiny of their official actions.”
The police union is appealing the
case, and the officers’ names are still
sealed. In the meantime, Dodson’s rul-
ing has not stopped police agencies in
other parts of the state from using the
law to their advantage.
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you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." (1*23:4*1. **27:24.26. »*15:25. jm9:28.3o. Mt28:i8. mkisms. Ep3:e. Mt28:i9*o. aci:8-h. Gaii:4. is53:5.6)

In this way Jesus Christ gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, he was
pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we
are healed.

For God so loved the world ( people ) that he gave his one and only Son ( Jesus )

that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Therefore to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God - and since you are

children, God has made you also an heir. Therefore the LORD forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit
and

This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

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their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." ... and
the angel showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious
jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass. Then he showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as
crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb ( Jesus ) down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing
twelve crops of fruit, yielding

ut God will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They win be punished with everlasting
destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power. ... Each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death
and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire ( Hell) is the second death. ... where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And the devil, who deceived
them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

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Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.

(Jn3:i6.i:i2. Gal4:7. Ps103:3-5. Mt24M4. 1Th4:i6,17. 2Pe3M2.13. Rev21:1.3.4

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6 dead,
millions
powerless
from Zeta
Southern US suffers as
storm heads out to sea
Doyle Rice
USA TODAY
Zeta, now downgraded to a post-
tropical cyclone, continued to lash
portions of the eastern U.S. Thursday
with heavy rain and high winds as the
potent system made its way out to sea.
The storm, which made landfall as a
Category 2 hurricane Wednesday af-
ternoon, knocked out power to more
than 2.6 million homes and businesses
and has been blamed for at least six
deaths in the South.
One man was electrocuted in New
Orleans, a man drowned in Biloxi, Mis-
sissippi, and a man in Acworth, Geor-
gia, was killed when an oak tree fell on
the mobile home in which he was stay-
ing. Two people were killed near At-
lanta when a tree fell on their house,
pinning them to the bed. In Alabama,
one person died when a tree fell on a
mobile home in rural Clarke County.
Zeta ripped off roofs, knocked down
power lines and trees and flooded
streets as it roared through Mississip-
pi, Alabama and Georgia early Thurs-
day, the Weather Channel said. Heavy
rain and winds also pounded eastern
Tennessee and the Carolinas.
Power outages from the storm also
affected polling places in some areas,
including northern Georgia. State offi-
cials weren’t sure how many of the 336
early voting locations statewide were
Greenville, S.C., firefighters work
Thursday to remove a tree that fell
on vehicles. USA TODAY NETWORK
closed or delayed in opening. In Doug-
las County, in Atlanta’s western sub-
urbs, all six polling locations were
without power, as were county offices.
Voting also was affected by the
storm in portions of Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Florida.
Zeta made landfall Wednesday
afternoon near Cocodrie, Louisiana,
with estimated wind speeds of 110 mph,
the National Hurricane Center said.
The storm was a ferocious hit for
some along the Gulf Coast. In Wave-
land, Mississippi, on the state’s coast,
the town’s mayor, Mike Smith, told
WLOX-TV that the town may have suf-
fered its worst storm damage since Ka-
trina blasted the city in 2005.
Zeta is the 27th named storm of a his-
torically busy Atlantic hurricane sea-
son, which still has more than a month
left. It was the 11th tropical storm or hur-
ricane to hit the United States this year.
Contributing: The Associated Press
Philadelphia
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pavement while he was handcuffed and
naked; he died of asphyxiation. In April,
Nicolas Chavez, 27, was “having a men-
tal breakdown” in Houston when he was
shot 21 times. Twenty-eight officers re-
sponded to the scene. And last month,
13-year-old Linden Cameron, who has
autism, was having an episode when of-
ficers shot him, leaving him with inju-
ries to his shoulder, ankles, intestines
and bladder.
“When you come to a scene where
somebody is in a mental crisis, and the
only tool you have to deal with it is a gun
... where are the proper tools for the
job?” said Johnson, Wallace’s family at-
torney.
Police Commissioner Danielle Out-
law said Tuesday that the two officers
had not been given Tasers, “as is with
many officers in the department.” The
department has about 2,300 Tasers but
would need 4,400 for every operational
officer to have one, Outlaw said
Wednesday. “It’s common for officers to
respond to domestic disturbance, or any
type of call, with a gun because it’s one
of the tools that we carry on our tool-
Joseph Fons celebrates at the Supreme Court after the ruling in June that
LGBTQ people cannot be fired based on sexual orientation. GETTY IMAGES
Survey: Americans
mistaken about
LGBTQ protections
Yet most are in favor of
anti-discrimination laws
Joshua Bote
USA TODAY
As protections for LGBTQ people en-
ter the domain of the United States’
highest court, the vast majority of non-
LGBTQ Americans believe discrimina-
tion against LGBTQ should be illegal.
The catch, according to GLAAD’s
2020 edition of its annual Accelerating
Acceptance survey: An overwhelming
number of Americans, regardless of
sexuality or gender identity, believe
LGBTQ people have federal protec-
tions against discrimination that are,
in reality, not available to them. That
includes discrimination in housing,
public spaces, employment benefits
and the military.
Part of this dissonance, GLAAD
CEO Sarah Kate Ellis tells USA TODAY,
is that LGBTQ rights are largely being
left out of the conversation.
“It wasn’t in any of the debates and
it isn’t being covered,” she said, point-
ing out that the only time it was men-
tioned among the two presidential
candidates was during a town hall by
Democrat Joe Biden.
“There is also this false narrative
that marriage equality was the finish
line – that marriage gave us all the
(same rights as) everybody else,” she
said. “There’s a whole host of other
rights that were overshadowed by
marriage equality.”
Among GLAAD’s findings:
h 89% of non-LGBTQ respondents
and 78% of LGBTQ respondents be-
lieve it is illegal to evict someone from
housing because they are LGBTQ; 91%
of non-LGBTQ respondents believe it
should be illegal.
h 80% of non-LGBTQ respondents
and 65% of LGBTQ respondents be-
lieve it is illegal to turn people away
from a restaurant or other place of
business because they are LGBTQ;
90% of non-LGBTQ respondents be-
lieve it should be illegal.
h 78% of non-LGBTQ respondents
and 70% of LGBTQ respondents be-
belt,” she said.
The shooting has sparked peaceful
protests and two nights of looting in
Philadelphia. More than 1,000 people
have looted businesses, dozens of offi-
cers have been injured and more than
170 people have been arrested, police
said. On Wednesday, police reportedly
found explosives inside a van.
Mayor Jim Kenney issued a curfew
Wednesday night and called in the
Pennsylvania National Guard to help
protect property and assist the police.
The Philadelphia Police Department
was investigating the shooting and
could not confirm that the initial call
was a mental health call, Outlaw said.
“We’re still backtracking to find out
what the officers knew and what was
dispatched to the officers,” she said.
The city of Philadelphia declined a
USA TODAY request to confirm that the
family had called for an ambulance, cit-
ing the ongoing investigation. Outlaw
said Wednesday that she plans to re-
lease 911 tapes and police body camera
footage of the shooting once the depart-
ment shares it with Wallace’s family.
Nearly 15% of men and 30% of wom-
en booked into jails have a serious men-
tal health condition, the National Alli-
ance on Mental Illness estimates. And
more than 1 in 4 people shot and killed
lieve it is illegal to deny employment
benefits – pension or health insurance
– to an employee’s same-sex partner;
86% of non-LGBTQ respondents be-
lieve it should be illegal.
h 59% of non-LGBTQ respondents
and 50% of LGBTQ respondents be-
lieve it is illegal to deny transgender
people the right to use the restroom
that aligns with their gender identity;
61% of non-LGBTQ respondents be-
lieve it should be illegal.
The study, which surveyed a na-
tionally representative sample of
2,506 American adults, was conduct-
ed before the groundbreaking Su-
preme Court decision in June to pro-
hibit discrimination in the workplace
for LGBTQ people.
Still, in many spheres of life, LGBTQ
people are not afforded the same privi-
leges as their counterparts. Ellis and
many other LGBTQ advocates also fear
that the appointment of Amy Coney
Barrett to the Supreme Court may fur-
ther impede queer and trans people
from obtaining legal protections.
A vast majority of federal protec-
tions, contrary to public belief, are un-
available to LGBTQ people. That in-
cludes prohibiting transgender people
to serve in the military, trans students
accessing the bathroom that corre-
sponds to their gender identity, and
equal access to housing.
And crucially, the Department of
Justice, The 19th reported earlier this
year, has yet to enforce the June work-
place discrimination ruling within fed-
eral agencies.
But even as lower courts use the rul-
ing to extend benefits to the LGBTQ
community, a patchwork of policies
can never measure up to comprehen-
sive protections on a national level.
A day after the election, Fulton v.
the City of Philadelphia will be one of
the first cases heard by the full court as
Barrett fills the seat Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg vacated upon her death. The
case, which focuses on LGBTQ couples
fostering and adopting children from a
Catholic agency, will be a key case in
determining whether organizations
can object to working with LGBTQ
people on moral or religious grounds.
“When you come to a scene where
somebody is in a mental crisis,
and the only tool you have to deal
with it is a gun ... where are the
proper tools for the job?”
Shaka Johnson
Wallace family attorney
by police have a mental illness, accord-
ing to a Washington Post database of fa-
tal shootings by on-duty police officers.
Police have fatally shot more than
1,300 people with mental illnesses since
2015, according to the database. The
majority were white, but a dispropor-
tionate percentage were Black. Of the
more than 800 people shot and killed by
police this year, 155 had a mental illness,
and, of those, 17% were Black.
In police training academies, officers
may receive anywhere between four
and 12 hours of training in mental
health, and it varies by state, according
to Peter Scharf, a criminologist at the
Louisiana State University School of
Public Health and Justice. New recruits
spend about 58 hours in firearms train-
ing and eight hours in crisis interven-
tion training, according to a 2015 survey
by the Police Executive Research Forum,
an independent research organization
NEWS
3 killed in
French church
by ‘terrorist’
knife attack
Joshua Bote
USA TODAY
Three people were killed at a church
in Nice, France, an attack that the
city’s mayor says is an act of terrorism.
It is the third such incident in the
nation in two months. It comes weeks
after a French teacher was decapitated
after showing caricatures of Islam’s
prophet Muhammad in class.
Separate attacks took place in the
same day near the southern French
city of Avignon, where a man was shot
after threatening police, and in the
Saudi city of Jiddah’s French Embassy,
where a guard was attacked.
On Wednesday, Islamic State ex-
tremists issued a video calling for re-
newed attacks on France.
The attacks appear to be linked to
an ongoing trial for the 2015 killings at
Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical
newspaper that published the contro-
versial caricatures.
Christian Estrosi, Nice’s mayor, said
the church killings were a “terrorist”
attack, adding: “The meaning of his
gesture left no doubt.”
One victim, according to a report by
the BBC, was said by the mayor to be
“virtually beheaded,” and another had
his throat slit. The third victim, who
was wounded inside the church, was
able to flee to a local cafe, where she
died to her injuries.
French President Emmanuel Ma-
cron said he will increase soldiers’ de-
ployments from about 3,000 now to
7,000 to guard schools and religious
sites.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex
said the country’s alert level has been
elevated to “emergency” after the at-
tack.
The nation’s anti-terrorist prosecu-
tor’s office also has launched an inves-
tigation into the killings.
At the same time, tourist attractions
in France, including the Louvre, Dis-
neyland Paris and the Musée d’Orsay,
were shutting down ahead of CO-
VID-19 lockdowns imposed until De-
cember.
The attacker was wounded by po-
lice and detained, the BBC reported.
Two police officials told The Associat-
ed Press that he acted independently
and that no other suspects were being
sought. Leaders across the world of-
fered support to France.
British Prime Minister Boris John-
son wrote in a tweet that he was “ap-
palled” to hear of the attacks in mes-
sages in English and French. “Our
thoughts are with the victims and their
families, and the UK stands steadfast-
ly with France against terror and intol-
erance,” he said. The Turkish Foreign
Ministry, despite political tensions
with France, condemned the attack.
“We stand in solidarity with the people
of France against terror and violence,”
the statement said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Er-
dogan had accused Macron of anti-
Muslim sentiment and posed ques-
tions about his mental fitness after a
Charlie Hebdo illustration of Erdogan.
Contributing: The Associated Press
that focuses on law enforcement.
“A lot of people are asking – how can
we train police to do a better job? But
that’s the wrong paradigm. It doesn’t
make a lot of sense to send a police offi-
cer,” said Charlie Ransford, senior direc-
tor of science and policy at Cure Vio-
lence, a Chicago-based nonprofit that
treats violence with disease control and
behavioral change methods. “We can’t
just put in an eight-hour training and
expect them to be up to speed with
things people get degrees in.”
Some departments, such as in Los
Angeles and San Antonio, have part-
nered with mental health professionals
to work as “co-responders,” assisting
street cops responding to a mental
health crisis. Other cities rely on re-
sponse models that do not involve po-
lice. In Eugene, Oregon, teams consist-
ing of a medic and a crisis worker re-
spond to calls of mental health crises.
Philadelphia’s department recently
began a pilot program that has a behav-
ioral health specialist in the radio room
during limited daytime hours, Outlaw
said Tuesday. The specialist was not
working when Wallace’s call came
through, she said.
Contributing: Jordan Culver, N’dea
Yancey-Bragg, Anthony V. Coppola and
Jeff Neiburg, USA TODAY
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OPINION
TODAY'S TOPIC: PANDEMIC
Our View: The coronavirus
didn’t have to be this bad
Early in his fight against a novel cor-
onavirus, Donald Trump proclaimed
himself in a call-to-arms moment a
“wartime president.” But as a third
surge of COVID-19 infections sweeps
across the country, White House chief
of staff Mark Meadows capitulated on
Trump’s behalf.
“We are not going to control the pan-
demic,” he told CNN on Sunday.
Beyond consigning Americans to a
wretched winter of sickness before a
vaccine becomes widely available, sur-
rendering in the face of a viral enemy is
a tragically fitting capstone to one of
the worst crisis-management perfor-
mances for a president in U.S. history.
The United States has faced plenty
of dark moments. The Civil War. The
Great Depression. Pearl Harbor. The at-
tacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Throughout it
all, there was never contemplation of
just giving up, or tossing the problem to
states and localities, or trying to wish
the problem away. Not until now.
With Election Day fast approaching,
voters have a right to ask why the virus
hasn’t been better controlled. The pan-
demic was always going to be bad, re-
gardless of who occupied the White
House, but it didn’t have to be this bad.
All but four of the world’s countries
have lower COVID-19 death rates (mea-
sured in fatalities per 100,000 resi-
dents) than the United States.
South Korea, which saw its first in-
fection almost the same day as America
did, has had more than 26,000 con-
firmed infections; the United States has
had nearly 9 million cases.
“Unfortunately for us,” said Dr. An-
thony Fauci, America’s leading infec-
tious disease expert, “the United States
is clearly the worst hit country.”
With 4% of the global population,
the United States accounts for 20% of
COVID-19 deaths – nearly 230,000.
Projections are that by Feb. 6, anni-
versary of the first reported U.S. death
from coronavirus, the toll could exceed
400,000 and match the number of
Americans lost in World War II.
Mistakes and mishandling unfolded
by seasons:
Winter
From the beginning, Trump de-
ceived Americans about the coronavi-
rus. In late January, a top adviser
warned him that it would be “the big-
gest national security threat you face in
your presidency.” In early February, the
president told journalist Bob Wood-
ward in a taped interview that he un-
derstood the fierce lethality and conta-
giousness of the virus (“more deadly
than your strenuous flus”). Yet the
president lied to the public about the
potential severity, claiming he didn’t
want to spark a panic, when that infor-
mation could have helped people pre-
pare. More likely, Trump didn’t want to
upset a stock market he relies upon as
an economic barometer.
Trump issued restrictions on travel
from China on Jan. 31, after 45 other
countries did the same. The partial ban
might have helped contain the spread,
but it became lost in a cascade of other
incompetent decisions.
For weeks, he resisted advice to ban
travel from Europe, from where strains
of the virus generated a deadly New
York outbreak. Federal agencies
botched the creation of a coronavirus
test and then severely restricted its use,
leaving health experts flying blind
through a mushrooming crisis.
February was largely squandered as
the president played golf, attended a
Super Bowl party and held rallies while
the virus silently infected thousands in
the United States.
Through it all, he ignored a playbook
left by previous administrations with
step-by-step guidance on how to act
urgently, with a unified voice and
sweeping powers to quell a pandemic.
Spring
Even as the pandemic spread, the
president refused to wear a mask; ped-
dled phony cures (a Cornell study
found Trump the leading disseminator
of false information about COVID-19);
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and lost patience with slow-the-spread
restrictions, agitating against states
(“LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”) that fol-
lowed his own administration’s health
guidelines.
Trump proclaimed ultimate power
for directing pandemic relief and then
quickly abandoned that responsibility
to the states. He was too timid about
implementing the Defense Production
Act to ensure a steady stream of neces-
sary supplies, a deficit that still haunts
hospitals to this day. And he rejected a
federal role in tracing and isolating in-
fections, a respected and time-honored
health mitigation tool that other na-
tions used to stem the virus.
Summer
Trump’s prediction that the virus
would go away in the warm weather
proved false, as new surges hit the
South and West. His administration
undermined public health agencies
such as the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, sidelined CDC’s scien-
tists, and blocked top government ex-
perts from communicating with the
American people through the national
news media.
Autumn
As Trump has barnstormed across
battleground states in recent weeks —
leaving clusters of new infections in his
wake from rallies where social distanc-
ing and mask wearing were frequently
ignored — dueling storylines have
emerged. One is the president’s relent-
less assertion that the nation is “round-
ing the turn” on defeating COVID-19.
The other is the direct opposite: that an
America beset by what are now record
high daily infections and rising num-
bers of hospitalizations and deaths is
entering a third viral surge.
One of Trump’s greatest mistakes
throughout the crisis was failing to
grasp that the economy could not be
saved without first saving Americans
from the risk of serious illness. The
president presented it as a binary
choice. By contrast, Democratic presi-
dential nominee Joe Biden recognizes
that “to fix the economy, we have to get
control over the virus.”
So far, the best part of the federal re-
sponse has been Operation Warp
Speed, which appears to be on track to
start delivering millions of doses of a
vaccine early next year, if ongoing trials
show one or more to be safe and effec-
tive. Yet, even here, Trump’s meddling
and pressure on regulators have under-
mined public confidence in vaccines.
The coronavirus presented Trump
with a historic leadership test. To give
him a second term, after hundreds of
thousands of Americans lost their
lives, would be to reward a failure.
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presidential election. Previous editori-
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Faith voters should
stick with Trump
Christian leaders of
character surround him
Bob Vander Plaats
When he visited my state of Iowa
this month, Vice President Mike Pence
reminded me why, despite misgivings
about Donald Trump’s character and
conduct, I will vote for President Trump
in this election.
When voting for a president, we vote
for so much more than just the candi-
date. We vote for a vision for America,
for policy positions, for the kinds of
judges who will be appointed and —
more than we realize — we vote for the
people who will fill out the administra-
tion and make many of the decisions
that impact our lives.
This year, Vice President Pence, Sec-
retary of State Michael Pompeo and
Housing and Urban Development Sec-
retary Ben Carson all came to events in
Des Moines hosted by The FAMiLY
Leader. They expressed their Christian
faith and their confidence in the Amer-
ican people to solve many of our na-
tion’s woes by turning to our neighbors
to help them, instead of turning to gov-
ernment mandates to control us.
Among other examples, I would
point to Secretary Carson’s Mustard
Seed Series — in which the government
is working with churches to create af-
fordable housing and reduce homeless-
ness — as an example of the positive
impact the people around President
Trump have on America.
“We cannot alleviate poverty
through the efforts of the federal gov-
ernment alone,” Carson explained.
“There are so many faith-based organi-
zations serving vulnerable communi-
ties successfully, and we want to share
these successes with other faith-based
organizations who are already so ded-
icated to a posture of service.”
Key positions of impact
These leaders of high character and
conviction, now including Supreme
Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, are in
key positions of impact today because
President Trump placed them there
and because Americans voted for
Trump the first time.
By contrast, both former Vice Presi-
dent Joe Biden and his running mate,
Sen. Kamala Harris of California, sep-
arately refused invitations to make
their case to The FAMiLY Leader’s audi-
ence when campaigning in Iowa before
the caucuses. Their silence and refusal
to engage this faith community, repre-
sentative of millions of Americans,
spoke and continues to speak volumes.
So who would Biden place in posi-
tions of power in his administration?
As pointed out in the vice presiden-
tial debate, a Biden administration
would replace Vice President Pence’s
principled leadership with Vice Presi-
dent Harris, rated by GovTrack.us as
the “most politically left” and most par-
tisan member of the U.S. Senate.
At the debate, Harris pledged she
would “always fight” for legal abortion,
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Vice President Mike Pence on Oct. 1 in
Des Moines, Iowa. CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP
while Pence declared, “I don’t apolo-
gize” for being pro-life.
Pence also stood firm during the de-
bate for Israel and for religious liberty,
while noting that Harris had “attacked”
a Trump judicial nominee during his
confirmation hearing for being a mem-
ber of the Catholic Knights of Colum-
bus, which holds to its church’s posi-
tions on life and marriage.
I look at the people around former
Vice President Biden — Harris, Sens.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Al-
exandria Ocasio-Cortez — and I just see
a very different vision for America, one
laden with taxes, government regula-
tion, restricted freedoms, extremist
abortion positions and radical environ-
mental policies.
Actual chaos
In contrast, recently I had the oppor-
tunity to listen to Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, President Trump’s former
press secretary, at a joint speaking en-
gagement. She reminded us of the dif-
ference between the reports of “chaos
in the White House” and actual chaos.
Chaos is when terrorists threaten our
lives. Chaos is when businesses close
and jobs are lost due to burdensome
taxes and regulations. Chaos is when
unborn children are prevented from
breathing their first breath. Chaos is
when protesters burn up our cities.
Chaos is when rioters shout slurs at the
police and soldiers who protect us.
Chaos is when politicians threaten to
pack the Supreme Court.
It’s true, President Trump seldom
reflects the desired fruits of the Spirit.
However, he listened and made his case
to the faith community, kept his prom-
ises to the faith community, and sur-
rounded himself with key leaders of the
faith community. Voting for president
is more than a vote for the man; it’s a
vote for people like Carson, Pence and
Pompeo. That really does make a differ-
ence, and for me, it’s more than enough
to vote Trump in 2020.
Bob Vander Plaats is president and
CEO of The FAMiLY Leader, a nonprofit
organization that encourages Chris-
tians to engage with government.
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MONEY+LIFE
Fox News’ Bret Baier has more
than the election on his mind
As interest in politics drives cable news ratings,
USA TODAY | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020 | SECTION B the journalist still juggles job and family. Page 5B

Economy grew 33.1%

MONEYLINE

JOBLESS CLAIMS FALL TO

but slowdown emerges

LOWEST MARK SINCE MARCH
The number of Americans seeking
unemployment benefits fell last week
to 751,000, the lowest since March,
but it’s still historically high and in-
dicates the pandemic is forcing many
employers to cut jobs. Applications for
unemployment aid fell 40,000 from
the week before, the Labor Depart-
ment said Thursday. They fell in 30
states, including California, Florida
and Texas. Claims rose significantly in
Arizona, Illinois, and Michigan.

CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS SUE

OVER TRUMP ORDER
Three civil rights groups filed a lawsuit
Thursday challenging President Don-
ald Trump’s executive order that re-
stricts federal agencies, as well as
contractors and grant recipients, from
offering certain diversity training that
the president deems “anti-American.”
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed
the complaint in federal court in
Washington, D.C., along with the Na-
tional Urban League and the National
Fair Housing Alliance. The lawsuit
argued that Trump’s order violates Consumer spending has risen sharply and underpinned economic growth in recent months.
free speech rights and strangles work- CHRISTIAN PETERSEN/GETTY IMAGES
place attempts to address systemic
race and sex discrimination. Trump’s
executive order, signed last month,
called out workplace training that
Consumer spending has rebounded but surges in COVID-19
explore deep-seated racism and privi-
lege that could make white workers
cases, political deadlock prove to be stumbling blocks
feel “discomfort” or guilt.
Paul Davidson a vigorous rebound, it doesn’t offset the
USA TODAY previous loss because the economy was
“We anticipate a much smaller after the big drop. The nation’s
The U.S. economy grew at a record third-quarter GDP was still about 3.5%
pace in the third quarter, bouncing slower second phase of the (non-annualized) below its pre-virus
back from an unprecedented CO- recovery.” level in late 2019. GDP isn’t expected to
VID-19-induced nosedive early in the return to its pre-pandemic level until
year, but activity has slowed recently Gregory Daco Oxford Economics late next year, according to economist
as the pandemic surges and Congress Gus Faucher of PNC Financial Services
remains deadlocked over new relief. ald Trump has attempted to frame as a Group.
The nation’s gross domestic prod- referendum on his stewardship of the “We anticipate a much slower second
uct, the value of all goods and services economy rather than his handling of the phase of the recovery,” says economist
MICHAEL CONROY/AP produced in the U.S., increased at a health crisis. Gregory Daco of Oxford Economics,
seasonally adjusted annual rate of The historic leap in output marks the adding that the economy has recouped
MORTGAGE RATES EDGE UP 33.1% in the July-September period as economy’s best quarterly performance about two-thirds of its lost output.
AFTER RECORD LOW consumer and business spending since a 16.7% rise in early 1950 and And the numbers are skewed by
soared, the Commerce Department seemingly offers a mirror image of the strong gains in May and June, when
U.S. long-term mortgage rates were said Thursday. Economists surveyed 31.4% annualized decline in the second states began allowing many businesses
little changed this week after marking by Bloomberg had forecast a 32% jump quarter – when activity at restaurants, to restart in phases. That lifted econom-
a new all-time low last week. Mort- in GDP. malls, movie theaters and other outlets ic output to a level that pushed up the
gage buyer Freddie Mac reported The report comes amid this week’s ground to a near-halt amid state busi- average increase for the third quarter
Thursday that the average rate on the big market sell-off and just five days ness shutdowns.
30-year benchmark loan edged up before an election that President Don- But while business reopenings fueled See ECONOMY, Page 2B
2.81% from 2.80% last week. By con-
trast, the rate averaged 3.78% a year
ago.

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Investors don’t like uncertainty in uncertain year
Jessica Menton
USA TODAY
For those Americans wondering
whether their 401(k)s will see a bigger
boost under Donald Trump or Joe Bi-
den as president, it turns out that the
stock market cares more about which
party controls Congress than it does
about which one wins the White
House.
Stocks typically have thrived under
legislative gridlock in Washington,
and a split Congress has historically
been the best scenario for investors.
Since 1950, the average annual
stock return for the broad S&P 500
stock index was 17.2% under a split
Congress, according to LPL Financial.
It falls to 13.4% when Republicans con-
trol both the House of Representatives
and the Senate, and drops to 10.7%
when Democrats control both cham-
bers.
That suggests that markets may
prefer divided power come November
because it would make it harder for
lawmakers to undo policy measures
already in place, experts say. The Re-
publicans currently control the Senate
and Democrats the House.
“Markets tend to like checks and
balances to make sure one party
doesn’t have too much sway,” accord-
ing to Ryan Detrick, senior market
strategist at LPL Financial.
When broadening the scenario to
include the presidency, the best situa-
tion for stocks since 1950 has histori-
cally been a Democratic president and
Republican Congress, while a Repub-
lican president and Democratic
See STOCK MARKET, Page 2B
Now Jeremy Welt, a marketing con-
sultant, takes his meetings on bike
rides or canyon hikes.
“It just got to the point where it was
time to meet with people again and go
beyond the phone, beyond the Zoom
call,” Welt says. “And being outside
just seemed safer.”
Living in L.A., where it can be per-
petually 72 degrees, helps. There are
bike trails up and down the state,
many car free and by the beach, and
canyon trails that attract lovers of the
outdoors year round.
Interviews with several people who
have ditched the lunch for the 2020
version of the business golf outing say
they don’t want to go back to the old
way in post-COVID-19 times. They feel
healthier being outside and less dis-
tracted.
Natalie Barrad, who runs a market-
ing company in Aliso Viejo, California,
near Los Angeles, has been hiking, bik-
ing and even swimming with clients.
See MEETINGS, Page 2B
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Stock market
Continued from Page 1B
Congress has been the weakest, ac-
cording to Detrick.
A possible explanation is that a ma-
jority of recent economic expansions
have ended under GOP administra-
tions. For instance, 10 of the past 11 re-
cessions started while a Republican
was in the White House. The one ex-
ception was President Jimmy Carter.
The stock market typically per-
forms its best when the incumbent
party wins an election. One reason
why is because the status quo is main-
tained, which signals to investors that
the U.S. economy is holding up well
enough that the incumbent isn’t voted
out of office, according to Keith Lerner,
chief market strategist at SunTrust
Private Wealth Management.
The market, however, has tended to
do worse when the incumbent party
loses, he added.
And the odds of Biden defeating
Trump are rising, and Democrats may
sweep Congress. Raymond James
boosted its estimates for a Democratic
sweep to 55%, up from 50%, with a
65% chance of a Biden victory. The in-
vestment firm lowered its estimates of
a “status quo” Trump victory and split
Congress to 30%, down from 35%.
Markets don’t like uncertainty.
Among investor concerns are what
happens not only if Biden wins, but if
Democrats regain the Senate, too. A
Democratic sweep could raise the risk
for more regulations and potential tax
increases, some experts argue. Demo-
crats already control the House.
There is a greater than 55% chance
of a Democratic Senate majority, ac-
cording to Raymond James.
Higher business taxes directly af-
fect the earnings of publicly traded
companies, which may flow through to
stock prices. The Trump administra-
tion lowered the corporate tax rate
from 35% to 21%, which boosted cor-
porate profits and helped lift markets.
A Biden administration may raise the
statutory rate back to 28%, but it
would likely take a Democratic sweep
of Congress to enact, experts say.
Conventional wisdom would sug-
gest that a Democratic sweep would be
negative for markets, especially for
heavily regulated industries, but fur-
ther economic pain could demand
more fiscal support from Washington,
Raymond James said. That could help
boost economic growth.
Lerner is advising clients to be cau-
tious on selling stocks based on next
week’s election outcome alone be-
cause they could miss out on future
gains.
In fact, excluding the 2008 financial
crisis outlier, the average path of the
S&P 500 during years that the party in
power loses is roughly in line with the
average for all election years.
Investors selling just before Presi-
dent Barack Obama took office would
have missed out on a 26% total return
year in 2009 and the kickoff to the sec-
ond strongest bull market in history,
according to data from SunTrust Pri-
vate Wealth Management. And inves-
tors selling just before President
Trump took office would have missed
out on a 22% return in 2017, the figures
showed.
Although financial markets could
remain bumpy near term, especially if
the election results are dragged out,
Lerner remains optimistic that the
U.S. economy is in the early stage of a
recovery, helped in part by unprece-
dented measures this year from the
Federal Reserve and Congress.
In theory, there are industries that
stand to benefit from one side or an-
other winning. Under a Biden presi-
dency, renewable energy, infrastruc-
ture and stocks affected by trade pol-
icy stand to benefit. Alternatively, un-
der Trump, defense and aerospace,
energy and financials could perform
well.
In a blue wave sweep, the U.S. can
expect corporate tax increases, con-
tinued fiscal relief and spending, along
with health care and technology regu-
lation, Raymond James analysts said.
In this scenario, cyclical stocks tied to
the economy’s possible expansion
would outperform, helped by fiscal
stimulus, according to Raymond
James.
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Alex Kruglov and Jeremy Welt take a bike meeting in Venice, California as an alternative to the Hollywood lunch.
JEFFERSON GRAHAM
Meetings
Continued from Page 1B
“The traditional ways we used to
meet are no longer, so now we’ve be-
come creative in the ways we get to-
gether with clients or peers,” she says.
Barrad has scheduled swim workouts
at a local pool, to “talk strategy” in be-
tween laps.
“The intensity of the workout isn’t
the same, but you’re not checking your
phone and you can stay on topic,” she
says. And by putting in some laps in
between the conversation, “it gives
you an opportunity to digest what was
just said, and come back with another
thought.”
As she noted, “No more coffee shops
anymore.”
Starbucks, Peet’s Coffee, Coffee
Bean and Tea Leaf, and other chains
were the types of places business peo-
ple gathered to meet up for years. But
in COVID-19 times, they are either
closed for inside seating or have lim-
ited outside seating. For people wor-
ried about being closer than 6 feet from
one another, that could be a problem.
But on a bike, wearing a mask and
cruising on the paved beach bike or
open mountain trail, there are no such
issues to worry about.
After years of business lunches, on
the bike, “we’re getting exercise at the
same time, our blood is flowing and the
Economy
Continued from Page 1B
compared with the previous three-
month period.
Growth, though, has slowed the
past few months amid COVID-19
spikes. Twenty states recently set rec-
ords for new cases in a week and, ac-
cording to Pantheon Macroeconomics,
the share of Americans testing posi-
tive for the virus has climbed steadily
the past month. About a dozen states
have reinstated business restrictions
or suspended plans to ease them.
The numbers of open small busi-
nesses, employees working and hours
logged all have been roughly flat since
July, according to Homebase, which
makes employee scheduling software.
Some firms, especially in hard-hit
industries such as business travel and
event planning, have closed for good or
downsized amid dim prospects. The
nation has recovered slightly more
than half the 22.2 million jobs shed in
April and May as businesses reopened
and brought back furloughed workers.
But job growth has slowed steadily
since June and recouping the rest of
the lost jobs is likely to be a tougher
slog, economists say.
Barclays estimates economic
growth will slow to 2.5% in the fourth
quarter, says Jonathan Millar, director
of U.S. economic research at the firm.
Congress was supposed to step in
with another big stimulus measure to
fund small businesses in the mean-
time; send another round of $1,200
checks to most households; and renew
much of a $600 weekly supplement to
state unemployment benefits. But the
chance of a relief package before the
election are close to nil.
The deadlock and virus flare-ups
have spooked Wall Street, with the
Standard & Poor’s 500 index down
5.6% so far this week.
Sergio’s Family Restaurants, with
six Cuban eateries in Miami-Dade and
Broward counties, saw sales plunge
75% when the chain could provide
only takeout and delivery in early
spring, President Carlos Gazitua says.
overall quality of the conversation is
much higher,” Welt says.
He started biking after getting an in-
vite from an associate, and had to
scramble to play along. Since March,
new bikes have been back-ordered and
are harder to come by. The only model
available to Welt was one missing the
horizontal crossbars.
Welt hasn’t picked up new business
on the business rides, “but I’ve learned a
lot. Way more than in an email or Zoom
call. There’s just something about look-
ing someone in the eye, and a conversa-
tion that has some way to breathe that is
just more real.”
And Welt is enjoying the new normal
so much that he drives to the beach to
meet associates, and takes along a
beach chair and umbrella to work with
his iPad afterward.
“There’s just something about being
out in nature,” he says. “It’s just good for
the brain.”
It’s happening all over. In Nashville,
Mimi Bliss, who teaches companies
how to be Zoom savvy, has been meet-
ing clients on walks as a way to get away
from the video screen.
“You’re moving, you’re not sitting,
and this an opportunity to connect to
people,” she says. “We’re at a nice time
of the year where the weather is nice (60
degrees) and it’s great to get out of the
house and be outside.”
Her hope: “Let’s walk” replaces “let’s
have lunch,” or meet for coffee post-CO-
VID-19.
Without another relief
package, cash reserves are
set to run dry, dimming
prospects for consumption,
says economist Bob
Schwartz of Oxford
Economics.
After outdoor dining was allowed, reve-
nue climbed to half of pre-pandemic
levels by August, but the company was
still losing money, even with a $1 million
forgivable federal loan, Gazitua says.
Without another federal Payment
Protection Program loan, he says the
family-owned business will weigh clos-
ing restaurants and laying off workers.
Consumer spending skyrockets
Consumer spending jumped 40.7%,
the largest increase on record, after
tumbling 33.2% in the second quarter.
Consumption has been recovering since
restaurants, malls, movie theaters and
other businesses began reopening.
Although the $600 bonus in jobless
checks expired in late July, household
spending likely has been sustained by
the huge savings Americans built in the
spring, TD Economics says. Give some
credit to extra unemployment benefits
and $1,200 stimulus checks.
But without another relief package,
that cash reserve is set to run dry, dim-
ming prospects for consumption in the
months ahead, says economist Bob
Schwartz of Oxford Economics.
Consumer spending makes up about
70% of economic activity.
Business investment rises surges
Business investment jumped 20.3%,
the largest quarterly uptick since 1983,
after a 27.2% drop in the first quarter.
Spending on equipment such as
computers and factory equipment
climbed an eye-popping 70.1%, while
outlays on buildings, oil rigs and other
structures declined 14.6%.
MONEY
And beyond the hiking and cycling, in
Beaverton, Oregon, Andrew Funderburg
has come up with a novel way to meet
his clients. Funderburg, the owner of
Fundy Design photography software
studio, had seen clients at the many
trade shows he attended yearly.
With trade shows canceled, he’s driv-
ing to them, in a self-converted cargo
van stocked with coffee and beer. So far
this year, he’s been to Boise, Idaho, and
Salt Lake City, and is planning a trip lat-
er this year to Southern California.
“We sit outside and chat one on one,”
he says of the van outdoor meetings,
where he adds that he can go “deeper,”
than on a trade show floor.
Meanwhile, back in Southern Cali-
fornia, Barrad notes that in the corpo-
rate world, what she’s doing now on
bike and hiking trails was always ac-
complished on the golf course.
“You would build a relationship in a
very unique way that you couldn’t do
over a business lunch,” she says. “This
just seems more authentic, because
you’re constantly moving.”
And Alex Kruglov, founder of the po-
p.in social games website, who has ac-
companied Welt on beach bike rides,
has transitioned to bike-and-talk or
walk-and-talk meetings, so much so
that he now finds himself uncomfort-
able at a coffee or conference-room
meeting.
“I get fidgety,” he says. “I didn’t know
what to do with my hands. I’m so used to
the motion-based meeting now.”
Many businesses are buying technol-
ogy for employees to work remotely,
among other equipment, Millar says.
Residential investment higher
Housing construction and renova-
tion rose 59.3% after a 64.4% plunge in
the second quarter. The outbreak tem-
porarily halted construction, but home
sales are booming as many Americans
move to less crowded suburban areas
amid the pandemic and take advantage
of historically low mortgage rates.
Companies add to inventories
Businesses replenished their stock-
piles as sales bounced back after draw-
ing them down the prior quarter amid
sharply reduced demand, contributing
nearly 7 percentage points to the in-
crease in GDP.
Trade hurts growth
Exports and imports both shot high-
er, rebounding from sharp second-
quarter declines, as both the U.S. and
other countries allowed businesses to
reopen. But imports nearly doubled
while exports rose 59.7%, widening the
nation’s trade deficit and subtracting
about 3 percentage points from growth.
Government spending
Government spending fell 4.5% on
drops in federal, state and local outlays.
Nondefense federal spending tumbled
18.1% after stimulus-related outlays
juiced second-quarter expenditures.
Bottom line
The economy’s record-shattering re-
bound last quarter met expectations,
but output remains below pre-pandem-
ic levels and the recovery is expected to
slow significantly amid COVID-19
spikes and government restraints.
The comeback now hinges on the un-
certain course of the virus, develop-
ment of a vaccine and lawmakers’ abil-
ity to provide further aid to struggling
households and businesses, says econ-
omist Leslie Preston of TD Economics.
MONEY
TECH
Tech has
answer
to weak
WiFi
Immersive Home
quiets the noise
Mike Feibus
Special to USA TODAY
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. –
When your children’s online
schooling starts bogging
down your Zoom presenta-
tion, wouldn’t it be great if you
could just send their electron-
ics to their room?
That won’t work, of course.
At least not today. Because
the laptops and tablets the
kids are using make just as
much conversation-snuffing
chatter on the network when
they’re out of sight. If their
rooms are farther away from
your router, it could even
make things worse.
But a new mesh Wi-Fi
technology Qualcomm an-
nounced Tuesday could soon
change that. The technology,
called Qualcomm Immersive
Home, is designed to conquer
the battle of the bits by cover-
ing the house with network
zones, each with its own wire-
less satellite. So when you
send a child into another
room for virtual class, it not
only would quiet the room,
but also improve performance
for your virtual meeting.
Router systems with Im-
mersive Home built-in are ex-
pected to start coming avail-
able early next year.
Videoconferencing
wouldn’t be so hard on our
home Wi-Fi networks were it
not for one simple fact: two-
way meeting apps like Cisco’s
Webex, Microsoft Teams and
Zoom depend as much on the
pace of information leaving
the house – that is, upload in-
ternet speeds – as what’s
coming in, or download data
rates.
For most broadband con-
nections, upload speeds are
typically a fraction of down-
load rates. The national aver-
age last month, according to
Ookla, was 161Mbps down-
load and 60.26Mbps upload.
videoconferencing de-
mands upload performance
in order to transmit our part of
the conversation. Upstream
traffic is now three times pre-
pandemic levels, according to
Open Fiber, an internet
wholesaler.
Qualcomm’s Immersive
Home technology takes mesh
Wi-Fi to the next level. If
you’re not familiar, mesh
USA TODAY ❚ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020 ❚ 3B
Thermal cameras could
help cars see well at night
Eric D. Lawrence
Detroit Free Press
USA TODAY NETWORK
vanced driver assistance sys-
tems and someday actual self-
driving systems “see” pedestri-
No one was crossing Ker-
ans and even deer on the roads.
But it’s the focus on nighttime
cheval Avenue on The Hill in applications, which is what Flir
Grosse Pointe Farms, Michi- and Adasky, a competitor from
gan, as a minivan made its Israel, are discussing. With
way through the shopping three-quarters of fatal pedes-
district one evening this fall, trian deaths happening in
but people were clearly near- nighttime crashes, systems
by. that work well only during day-
They could be seen there light hours would appear to
on the laptop screen from in- have limited appeal.
side the vehicle, their pres- The recent nighttime drive
ence confirmed by glowing around Detroit’s east side and
images captured by a thermal Automatic emergency braking systems with pedestrian the Grosse Pointes in a minivan
camera. detection has had mixed results. At night, these systems have equipped with Adasky’s ther-
But the pedestrians been deemed ineffective in many cases. FLIR SYSTEMS mal camera showed the tech-
weren’t on the street, and it nology at work. The setup was
took a moment to realize that not designed to brake for any-
they were actually on the automatic emergency braking one crossing the road but in-
sidewalk, obscured by deco- system at the American Center stead to show via a laptop dis-
rative plantings and the dark- “It’s going to fill the for Mobility in Ypsilanti Town- play what the camera can pick
ness that coated everything ship. The tests “fused” data up. A reporter, who had been on
not illuminated. gap in the edge cases from thermal sensing with ra- a previous drive in daylight,
It wasn’t a great night for that all these other dar, a nonthermal camera and a could see clearly on the screen
spotting pedestrians on this computer network. The test ve- when people, even in dark
particular weeknight on a sensors can’t hit.” hicle, a Ford Fusion equipped clothing on a dark street, were
drive through a couple of the Bill Grabowski
with Flir’s system, managed to nearby. In several cases, pedes-
Grosse Pointes and the east Adasky, North America avoid heated targets designed trians and cyclists were very
side of Detroit. Maybe the to appear as a child or an adult difficult to see with the naked
pandemic was keeping people eral statistics – has become in all but two tries out of more eye, but their heat signature
inside. Those who were out, more urgent. The National than two dozen. In the two was visible on the screen. A
however, were not hard to see, Highway Traffic Safety Ad- cases where the car touched couple of instances showed a
at least on the screen. ministration even designated the targets, it did not knock slight delay in the image ap-
The eyeball view through October as the first national Pe- them down. pearing, but the man behind
the windshield was a different destrian Safety Month, an ac- In contrast, four other test the wheel, Bill Grabowski, head
story, with darkness provid- knowledgment of the dangers vehicles not equipped with of Adasky, North America, said
ing an effective camouflage. faced by vulnerable road users. Flir’s technology – a BMW X7, the system can be adjusted to
And darkness can be deadly A 2018 Detroit Free Press/USA Subaru Forrester, Toyota Corol- account for that as well.
for pedestrians. TODAY investigation highlight- la and Tesla Model 3 – all failed Most experts promote the
Most pedestrians who die ed the role the increase in large in night testing by hitting the idea of using several different
in crashes are killed at night, vehicles, such as SUVs, has targets. They performed much types of sensors for automatic
but nighttime has been when played in the rising number of better during daylight testing emergency braking systems.
the technology designed to deaths. although only the X7 managed Thermal cameras can detect
prevent pedestrian crashes Vehicle technology is one to get through each of those people and animals in condi-
struggles most. way to improve protection for tests without hitting the target, tions, such as at night and in
Last year, AAA revealed pedestrians at night, and a cou- according to Flir. the rain, that might be a chal-
some startling deficiencies in ple of thermal imaging compa- “We were able to stop really lenge for other types of sensors.
driver assistance systems de- nies are promoting their sys- successfully at night,” ex- “It’s going to fill the gap in
signed to protect pedestrians. tems as the answer. Thermal plained Mike Walters, a Flir the edge cases that all these
At night, several test vehi- imaging already is having a bit vice president. other sensors can’t hit,” Gra-
cles equipped with automatic of a moment this year in light of He described the instances bowski said of cameras.
emergency braking systems the COVID-19 pandemic. Ther- where the Flir-equipped Fusion David Zuby, chief research
and pedestrian detection mal cameras can be used to de- made contact with the targets officer at the Insurance Insti-
were found to be “completely tect elevated body temper- as a minor touch rather than a tute for Highway Safety, said
ineffective.” Rather than bash atures at a distance. That al- full hit, something that can be thermal technology appears to
the automakers’ efforts, AAA lows them to function as an ini- fixed with adjustments to the offer promise, but his Virginia-
encouraged continued devel- tial screening in such places as system in future testing. based group has not yet been
opment of systems because of auto plants to monitor for peo- That would be a far cry from able to do a comparison.
the scope of the pedestrian ple who could be feverish, a po- what was seen in videos shown However, Zuby said auto-
death crisis in this country. tential symptom of the virus. as part of AAA’s testing, with a makers will need to address
But finding a solution as Results of thermal testing in 2019 Chevrolet Malibu, Honda nighttime driving conditions.
the deaths of so many Amer- Michigan appear to show Accord, Tesla Model 3 and “The infrared technology
icans on and along our roads promise in the realm of pedes- Toyota Camry plowing into tar- might be a good technology for
has continued to rise – 6,283 trian detection at night, too. gets in many cases. achieving that,” he said, noting
men, women and children in U.S.-based Flir Systems, Thermal cameras have been that other combinations and
2018 alone, according to fed- along with VSI Labs, tested an pitched as a way to help ad- better headlights could work.
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Closing: 26,659.11 Closing: 3,310.11 Closing: 11,185.59 Closing: 1,561.58
+139.16 Change: +.5%
YTD % Chg: -6.6% +39.08 Change: +1.2%
YTD % Chg: +2.5% +180.73 Change: +1.6%
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MARKET PERFORMANCE BY SECTOR MARKET NOTEBOOK TOP 10 EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS COMMODITIES
Sector Close Chg. 4wk 1 YTD 1 Issues NYSE NASDAQ ETF, ranked by volume Ticker Close Chg. % Chg %YTD Commodities Close Prev. Chg. % Chg. % YTD
Technology 113.37 +1.86 -3.9% +23.7% Advancing 1,722 2,032 SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr SPY 329.98 +3.32 +1.0% +2.5% Cattle (lb.) 1.06 1.06 unch. +0.4% -14.8%
Declining 820 1,040 ProShs UltPro ShtQQQ SQQQ 23.36 -1.29 -5.2% -79.1% Corn (bushel) 3.99 4.01 -0.02 -0.8% +2.8%
Consumer discret. 146.16 +0.92 -1.8% +16.5%
Unchanged 70 185 SPDR Financial XLF 23.79 +0.18 +0.8% -22.7% Gold (troy oz.) 1,865.60 1,876.20 -10.60 -0.6% +22.8%
Telecom 68.03 +1.62 +1.8% +10.8%
Total 2,612 3,257 Direx S&P500Bear 3x SPXS 5.89 -0.19 -3.1% -55.5% Hogs, lean (lb.) .66 .66 unch. -1.1% -8.1%
Materials 63.22 +1.28 +0.8% +2.9% 31 Natural Gas (Btu.) 3.30 3.04 +0.26 +0.3% +50.8%
Issues at iPath Sh Term Fut VXX 25.75 -1.98 -7.1% +70.3%
Health care 101.69 -0.84 -3.3% -0.2% 76 iShs Emerg Mkts EEM 45.22 +0.45 +1.0% +0.8% Oil, heating (gal.) 1.09 1.11 -0.02 -2.3% -46.3%
New 52 Week High 19
Consumer staples 62.48 -0.02 -3.1% -0.8% Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ 276.39 +4.75 +1.7% +30.0% Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.) 36.17 37.39 -1.22 -3.3% -40.8%
New 52 Week Low 66
Utilities 62.97 +0.17 +5.0% -2.6% SPDR Energy XLE 28.56 +0.85 +3.1% -52.4% Silver (troy oz.) 23.34 23.32 +0.02 +0.0% +30.9%
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Industrials 75.96 +1.09 -1.0% -6.8% Total 4,489,823,857 3,047,098,535 iShs iBoxx HY CpBd HYG 83.70 +0.24 +0.3% -4.8% Soybeans (bushel) 10.52 10.57 -0.05 -0.5% +11.5%
2,025,402,721 ProShs UltraPro QQQ TQQQ 126.23 +6.11 +5.1% +45.8% Wheat (bushel) 6.04 6.09 -0.05 -0.8% +8.1%
Financials 23.79 +0.18 -1.3% -22.7% Advancing 3,107,047,521
Declining 1,320,445,070 988,676,540
Energy 28.56 +0.85 -1.6% -52.4%
Unchanged 62,331,266 33,019,274
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S&P 500’S BIGGEST GAINERS S&P 500’S BIGGEST LOSERS Currency per dollar
British pound
Close
.7735
Prev.
.7697
6 mo. ago
.8033
Yr. ago
.7775
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Frankfurt 11,598.07 11,560.51 +37.56 +0.3% -12.5%
Company (ticker) Price $ Chg . % Chg. YTD Company (ticker) Price $ Chg . % Chg. YTD Canadian dollar 1.3325 1.3299 1.3901 1.3090 Hong Kong 24,586.60 24,708.80 -122.20 -0.5% -12.8%
CBRE Group (CBRE) 51.30 +7.38 +16.8 -16.3 Abiomed Inc (ABMD) 254.61 -28.39 -10.0 +49.3 Japan (Nikkei) 23,331.94 23,418.51 -86.57 -0.4% -1.4%
Chinese yuan 6.7150 6.7290 7.0768 7.0658
Twitter Inc (TWTR) 52.43 +3.90 +8.0 +63.6 eBay Inc (EBAY) 49.28 -3.97 -7.5 +36.5 London 5,581.75 5,582.80 -1.05 -0.0% -26.0%
Fidelity Nat Info (FIS) 125.02 -7.49 -5.7 -10.1 Euro .8568 .8509 .9201 .9001
Tapestry Inc (TPR) 22.73 +1.42 +6.7 -15.7 Mexico City 36,801.37 37,393.71 -592.34 -1.6% -15.5%
Martin Mar Matl (MLM) 263.60 +16.15 +6.5 -5.7 Etsy Inc (ETSY) 132.42 -7.22 -5.2 +198.9 Japanese yen 104.67 104.34 106.58 108.81
LKQ Corporation (LKQ) 31.68 +1.91 +6.4 -11.3 Ralph Lauren Corp (RL) 70.58 -3.72 -5.0 -39.8 Mexican peso 21.3504 21.1867 23.8064 19.1307 SOURCE Morningstar, Dow Jones Indexes, The Associated Press

Make the most of Open Enrollment

In COVID-19 era, take
your time, do homework
Aimee Picchi
Special to USA TODAY
Would you spend more time choos-
ing a health plan or debating whether
“Tiger King” or “Schitt’s Creek” is a bet-
ter choice for binge-watching?
If you put more thought into picking a
show, you’re not alone.
Open enrollment for 2021 benefits
will kick off in November when compa-
nies ask their workers to pick every-
thing from medical and dental plans to
long-term disability insurance. While
those are big decisions, it turns out
workers typically spend just 17 minutes
on their choices, less time than they
spend picking a Netflix show, according
to Voya Financial, citing research from
Businessolver and Reelgood/Learndip-
ity.
This year, workers need to buckle
down given the backdrop of the corona-
virus pandemic, experts say. People are
creatures of habit, meaning that more
than 9 of 10 workers usually select the
same choices as in the previous year,
says Matthew Owenby, chief human re-
sources officer at insurance company
Aflac.
“Having been in HR for my entire ca-
reer, I wish I could tell you why they are
on autopilot,” Owenby says. “Our main
takeaway is that workers need to stop
assuming that what worked in the past
will work for them moving forward.”
Is COVID-19 covered?
Those issues are thrown into stark
relief given the ongoing pandemic, with
more than 8 million people infected in
the U.S. and more than 225,000 deaths.
About 1 in 3 workers told Aflac in a re-
cent survey that they don’t feel confi-
dent or aren’t sure whether their bene-
fits will protect them or their family if
they are affected by COVID-19.
“People are worried about getting
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sick, or know someone who has gotten
sick, and they are thinking, ‘Would I be
covered for the medical bills if I have to
go into the hospital or get a test?’ ” says
Mona Zielke, senior vice president of
employee benefits operations and
claims at financial-services firm Voya
Financial.
There are signs that workers are get-
ting the message, with Voya finding in a
recent survey that slightly more than
half of employees intend to make
changes to their benefits this year. Open
enrollment typically is the only chance
to make changes to your benefits unless
you have a significant life change, like
getting married or having a baby.
Here’s advice from the experts about
how to navigate open enrollment this
November:
Be alert for open enrollment dates
Your employer will typically alert you
to its open enrollment period ahead of
time. While there is no required length
of time that companies must offer open
enrollment, the sign-up period typically
lasts three to four weeks, Zielke notes.
By comparison, open enrollment for
the Affordable Care Act – which offers
medical insurance plans to people with-
out employer-sponsored coverage – is
open from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15.
But employers typically offer a small-
er window for open enrollment. Because
of that, it’s important to be aware of the
deadlines so you don’t miss that win-
dow.
Start by reviewing your
employer’s options for 2021
“You don’t want to procrastinate,”
Zielke says. “I would start to look at the
material as soon as open enrollment
opens so you can understand what your
employer is offering.”
An early start will give you time to
understand the financial impact of dif-
ferent plans and options. If your em-
ployer offers calculators or other cost
tools, take advantage of them to exam-
ine different scenarios.
For instance, picking a high-deduct-
ible insurance plan might help lower
monthly costs, but it could deliver a fi-
nancial hit if a worker or a family mem-
ber is hospitalized because of COVID-19
or another health setback.
In that case, opening a health savings
account could be an option, since HSAs
are tax-advantaged vehicles for people
with high-deductible plans that allows
them to sock away money for medical
expenses.
Examine your medical spending in
2020
Go through your spending in the past
year to understand your patterns and
whether another plan might better fit
your needs, experts say.
“Do your homework and look at how
much money you spent last year. Did
you choose a less expensive plan that
only offered coverage for in-network
doctors, but were you paying more to
visit a doctor that was out of network?”
Owenby says. “If so, opting for a slightly
higher-cost plan that allows you to visit
out-of-network doctors may make more
sense financially.”
Don’t overlook supplemental
benefits
Even with health and dental insur-
ance, there can be gaps in coverage, ex-
perts say.
That’s why more employers are offer-
ing supplemental benefits – such as dis-
ability and life insurance. About 1 in 3
employers currently offer supplemental
insurance, according to Aflac.
“If you’re worried about gaps in in-
surance coverage, consider supplemen-
tal insurance, which covers expenses
health insurance doesn’t,” Owenby
says. “Supplemental plans like critical
illness, hospital indemnity, accident
and short-term disability insurance pay
cash benefits that can be used however
you want.”

FCA is looking toward electric Ram pickup

CEO confirms that
company will join fray
Eric D. Lawrence
Detroit Free Press
USA TODAY NETWORK
Get ready for an electric Ram pickup.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Mike
Manley confirmed on Wednesday that
Ram will join the rush to produce an
electric truck, an area that promises ro-
bust competition, with Ford, General
Motors, Tesla, Rivian and Lordstown
Motors already planning to launch their
own models.
Manley didn’t provide any details,
but his announcement during the com-
pany’s third-quarter earnings confer-
ence call provided clarity to an area of
intense speculation.
“I do see that there will be an electri-
fied Ram pickup in the marketplace, and
I would ask you just to stay tuned for a
little while, and we’ll tell you exactly
when that will be,” Manley said in an-
swering an analyst’s question on the
topic.
That statement highlights the pres-
sure FCA is under to get an electric of-
fering into the highly profitable pickup
segment, an area that is crucial to the
fortunes of the Detroit Three.
Just three months ago, Manley was
Despite its announcement on electrics, FCA is still solidly behind traditional
internal conbustion engine vehicles, such as the 2020 Ram 1500 Limited. FCA US LLC
less specific.
“Obviously, pickup trucks is a key
franchise for us, and we’re not going to
sit on the sideline if there is a danger
that our position gets diluted going for-
ward,” he said during the second-quar-
ter earnings call.
The news from Manley came in the
same week General Motors announced
a more than $100,000 price tag for its
GMC Hummer electric pickup.
Ford recently said it would build a
new plant to produce an electric F-150.
FCA, which long resisted an electrifi-
cation push, has started to aggressively
tout its plans.
Those include a Jeep Wrangler 4xe
plug-in electric hybrid.
But the company is still solidly pro-
moting its internal combustion engine
offerings, as exemplified most recently
by the 2021 Ram 1500 TRX.
It’s certainly a beast, promising 702
horsepower, but it also can be a fuel
glutton, with a combined city and high-
way fuel economy estimate of 12 miles
per gallon.
Industry expert Rebecca Lindland
said planning to make an electric truck
is understandable for FCA.
“Given the improvement we’re seeing
in battery capacity and charging ability,
combined with ongoing regulatory
mandates from large markets such as
California, this is both a potentially very
necessary and very strategic move by
Ram.
“There’s a good possibility the first it-
erations will be PHEVs (plug-in hybrid
electric vehicles), and an on-board bat-
tery in a pickup could be used for all
sorts of good things like running power
tools, serving as a generator, even re-
verse powering some home appliances
in a blackout,” said Lindland, who
writes about vehicles at rebeccadrives-
.com.
She noted that even though electric
vehicle demand “wallows in the single
digits, we could start to see pull-de-
mand from millennial buyers as EV
models penetrate into larger segments
like pickup trucks and crossovers, so an
electrified Ram pickup makes a lot of
sense.”
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USA TODAY | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020 | SECTION B
LIFELINE
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ROYALS REPORT
DUCHESS MEGHAN
A British judge on Thursday granted a
request by the Duchess of Sussex to
postpone the trial of her invasion of
privacy lawsuit against the publisher
of a British newspaper that published
portions of a private letter she wrote
to her father. During a hearing in
London, judge Mark Warby granted
the application to delay the trial for
about nine months, from a scheduled
Jan. 11 start date to the fall of 2021.
Warby said the reason for the delay
request should remain confidential.
The former Meghan Markle, 39, is
suing Associated Newspapers over
five February 2019 articles in the Mail
on Sunday and on the MailOnline
website that published portions of a
handwritten letter she wrote to her
estranged father, Thomas Markle.
LARRY MCCORMACK/USA TODAY NETWORK
HOW WAS YOUR DAY?
CMA AWARDS SHOW
Country music hitmakers Luke
Combs, Eric Church, Maren Mor-
ris, Miranda Lambert and more take
the stage next month at the 54th
CMA Awards in Nashville. Additional
performers include Gabby Barrett
with Charlie Puth, Florida Georgia
Line, Ashley McBryde (”One Night
Standards”), Rascal Flatts and Thom-
as Rhett with co-host Reba McEntire,
Hillary Scott and Chris Tomlin. . McEn-
tire joins co-host Darius Rucker for a
tribute performance. The show, billed
as “the first time the biggest names
in country music will come together
— safely, all in one room” relocates
this year to Music City Center due to
COVID-19 precautions. The program
airs Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT on ABC.
IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY
WHO’S CELEBRATING TODAY
Henry Winkler is 75. Nia Long is 50.
Ashley Graham is 33.
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Halloween streaming is full of Pope Francis’ message elicits
scary treats for all tastes praise as well as controversy
A sequel to “The Craft,” creepy “Spell,” Wolfman In the documentary “Francesco,” the pontiff
and Wolfboy, make the list. Page 6B expresses support for civil unions. Page 7B
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U2’s ‘Can’t
Leave
Behind’
turns 20
Gary Dinges
USA TODAY
It seems like a blink of an eye, but it
was 20 years ago that U2 dropped its
10th studio album, “All That You Can’t
Leave Behind.”
It was “kind of an innocent time,”
lead guitarist The Edge says. “You
know, it was pre-9/11. It was free of this
sort of strange shift into political trib-
alism that we have seen happening
since so, yeah, it does seem, in some
ways, like it was yesterday, but so
much has changed.”
To mark the anniversary, members
of the iconic Irish rock group – Bono,
Adam Clayton, The Edge and Larry
Mullen Jr. – are re-releasing the album
on Friday, 20 years to the day since its
debut. All 11 original tracks have been
remastered, and fans will find a bonus
track, “The Ground Beneath Her Feet.”
“It’s the most complete U2 record,”
The Edge (real name David Evans) tells
USA TODAY. “From beginning to end,
you feel like there’s not one moment
Fox News anchor Bret Baier. ALEXANDER DRAGO where you’re like, ‘This is filler.’ ”
The special release includes a new,
51-track deluxe box set that comes
For Fox News’ with a 32-page hardback book.
Baier, family
comes first
Erin Jensen USA TODAY
The 2020 presidential election season poses new challenges for
U2 guitarist The Edge performs
Fox News host Bret Baier. h Amid a crippling pandemic and cov- during the Experience + Innocence
ering a divisive, high-stakes face-off, the journalist’s teenage son tour in 2018. CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION/AP
Paul will undergo his fourth open-heart surgery in a matter of
weeks.h “For me, personally, there’s nothing that’s been like it,” “All That You Can’t Leave Behind,”
which featured megahit “Beautiful
Baier tells USA TODAY of the presidential race. “I thought 2016 Day,” served as a course correction of
was as intense as we as a country could get about an election, but sorts for U2. The release followed
“Pop,” an experimental album that saw
I think that this one has both sides really engaged and a lot of the group walk away from the sound
eyeballs looking now, not only because they’re home, but because they’d become known for and pivot to
the dance and alt-rock genres. Re-
there’s interest in this race.” views were mixed and sales were dis-
appointing, at least by U2 standards.
And those eyes are tuning into about all of that” when making a call Yet, it was “a very important moment
Baier and friends. Amid an election- for a state.” for us,” says The Edge. “We tried con-
fueled spike in cable news ratings, The host says that in a world sciously to get out of our comfort zone
“Special Report With Bret Baier” without COVID-19, his show would and experiment with forms that were
(weekdays, 6 EDT/3 PDT) is averag- have gone on the road, talking to res- really at the forefront of music culture
ing 3.2 million viewers this year, up idents of battleground states. These at that time that weren’t really natural-
50% from the same period in 2019, conversations have mostly moved ly part of what we did.”
beating the combined audience of online, to Zoom and social media. Three years later, at the tail end of
time-period rivals on CNN and “Usually, I had a better sense of the millennium, U2 returned to its rock
MSNBC. (As a whole, Fox News is swing states just by bouncing roots. “All That You Can’t Leave Be-
averaging 2.1 million, up 38%.) around to different cities, and I think hind” received rave reviews and spent
Baier, 50, remembers spending that’s better to have than just polls, 94 weeks – nearly two years – on the
40 days in Tallahassee for the 2000 as we saw in 2016,” he says, referring Billboard 200 list, peaking at No. 3. In
recount, when “hanging chads” to Donald Trump’s unexpected tri- all, it earned U2 seven Grammys, in-
were scrutinized and George W. umph over Hillary Clinton. “We’re cluding record of the year and best
Bush eventually won the state, and gonna try to get out and about with rock album.
the election over Al Gore. reporters and get people’s view. It’s Rolling Stone called it a “master-
“This time, it may be signatures just been a challenge because of the piece,” awarding four out of five stars:
on envelopes or absentee accep- lack of travel.” “The album represents the most unin-
tance, or something else,” Baier Even limited excursions have terrupted collection of strong melodies
says. “But there could be four, five, posed a risk. Baier is one of several U2 have ever mounted, a record where
six Tallahassees this time around, tunefulness plays as central a role as
potentially. So, we need to be careful See BAIER, Page 8B on any Backstreet Boys hit.”
The Edge calls the album’s release
“a portentious moment,” a moment
that resulted from members of the
band spending time “thinking about
the future and assessing the past.”
“There was a lot of reflection going
on in the band,” he says. “That was the
album where we got serious about
songwriting. We got tough on our
songwriting. We worked very, very
hard.”
Enduring hits from the album in-
clude “Stuck In a Moment You Can’t
Get Out Of,” “Elevation” and “Walk
On.” But none can top “Beautiful Day,”
which lives on today, 20 years later, in
a variety of TV shows and advertise-
ments.
The Los Angeles Times said “Beau-
tiful Day” had been “embraced by
The Baiers: Bret, Daniel, Paul and Amy root on their home team at a
Washington Capitals hockey game. BRET BAIER See U2, Page 8B
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Fill your goodie bag for Halloween

Brian Truitt stein’s monster, Gill-man and the Mum-
USA TODAY my, and how a box-office bomb found
new life via VHS rentals and HBO view-
New streaming movies are coming to ings. Most interesting is seeing Gower
entertain you and your family during so- interact with hardcore fans and talk
cially distanced times. about the creative influence of a movie
This Halloween weekend, producer that’s carved out its own niche and yet
Jason Blum and writer/director Zoe remains underrated in the ’80s film
Lister-Jones unveil another crew of canon.
witchy teens to expand the world of the h Where to watch: Apple TV, Vudu,
1996 cult hit “The Craft,” Omari Hard- FandangoNOW
wick runs afoul of a Hoodoo woman,
and Netflix debuts a horror flick featur- If you dig modern-day fairy tales:
ing a pair of Sudanese refugees trying to ‘The True Adventures of Wolfboy’
start anew in England.
If that’s not enough to get you online Featuring a young teenager (Jaeden
and watching scary stuff, the horror- Andre Gower, right front, poses with “Monster Squad"“ fans in his documentary Martell) whose body is covered with
centric service Shudder is streaming “A “Wolfman's Got Nards.” GRAVITAS VENTURES hair because of a rare genetic condition,
Creepshow Animated Special” featuring director Martin Krejcí’s coming-of-age
a pair of frightful tales: “Survivor Type,” film is a charming, powerful and slightly
based on the Stephen King short story, If you’re not too squeamish when insane journey about embracing who
stars Kiefer Sutherland as a man who it comes to the gory stuff: ‘Spell’ you are and not what you look like. On
goes to extremes to survive on a desert- his 13th birthday, Martell’s bullied main
ed island, and “Twittering from the Cir- Director Mark Tonderai conjures a character is gifted a map to find the
cus of the Dead,” based on a Joe Hill truly unnerving, surprisingly satisfying mom he never knew, and his quest in-
short story, offers Joey King playing a thriller about a wealthy man (Hardwick) volves an overprotective dad (Chris
teen whose family visits “the gravest with deep-seated childhood issues who Messina), an antagonistic carnival
show on earth.” flies his family in a private jet to rural owner (John Turturro), a trans mermaid
Here’s a rundown of new movies hit- Appalachia for his father’s funeral. The (scene-stealing newcomer Sophie Gian-
ting streaming and on-demand plat- plane crashes in a storm, he wakes up Sope Dìrísù, left, and Wunmi Mosaku namore) and an enigmatic pirate queen
forms this week, for every cinematic alone with a serious injury, and he dis- star in “His House.” (Eve Hewson, aka Bono’s daughter).
taste: covers that the woman (Loretta Devine) AIDAN MONAGHAN/NETFLIX h Where to watch: Apple TV, Vudu,
taking care of him has created a Boogity FandangoNOW
If you’re a 1990s pop-culture doll from his own skin and blood to con-
junkie: ‘The Craft: Legacy’ trol him before he’s ready for a black ingly quaint neighborhood. But it quick- If you just can’t wait for the
magic ritual. Many scenes will leave you ly becomes clear that there are some yuletide cheer: ‘Holidate’
Fans of the original “Craft” will find a squirming, but it’s worth sticking them strange goings-on, especially within the
lot familiar in the sequel, which centers out for a refreshing “Misery”-like take walls. He wants to move on, she’s still It’s true, we’re not even to Halloween
on another youngster, Lily (Cailee Spae- on a survival movie. dealing with the past and a wicked evil yet. and here come the Christmas
ny), moving to a new town with her h Where to watch: Apple TV, Vudu, has designs on both of them. movies, though there’s a broader all-
mom (Michelle Monaghan) and becom- FandangoNOW h Where to watch: Netflix holiday view to this forgettable, foul-
ing the fourth in a coven of fellow high mouthed romantic comedy. (No joke,
schoolers (including Gideon Adlon, Lo- If you want something to chew on If you need a large dose of ’80s one sequence has the f-word uttered
vie Simone and Zoey Luna) who get up while hiding in the fetal position: nostalgia: ‘Wolfman’s Got Nards’ about 20 times in less than a minute.)
to magical shenanigans. There’s a fleet- ‘His House’ Tired of being interrogated about her
ing connection to the first film, though “The Monster Squad” star Andre love life by her family one Christmas,
the follow-up actually works best when Politically timely and nightmare-in- Gower directs this documentary that Sloane (Emma Roberts) finds someone
charting its own path, such as putting a ducing, writer/director Remi Weekes’ lovingly looks back at the creation and else who hates the holidays, Jackson
“woke” spell on a toxic jock and digging masterfully crafted chiller does some cultural impact of the 1987 cult hit. Film- (Luke Bracey), and they embark on be-
into what’s up with Lily’s mom’s boy- wondrously spooky things to the haunt- makers Fred Dekker and Shane Black as ing each other’s no-pressure “holidates”
friend (David Duchovny). ed-house film. Sope Dírísù and Wunmi well as original cast members discuss for the next year. Shocker: They start
h Where to watch: Apple TV, Vudu, Mosaku star as a couple who escape key scenes from the horror comedy, developing feelings for each other in
FandangoNOW war-torn South Sudan, arrive in Britain which pitted spunky kids vs. classic highly predictable fashion.
and are afforded decent digs in a seem- monsters Dracula, Wolfman, Franken- h Where to watch: Netflix

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Pope’s LGBTQ message draws praise and pushback

Bryan Alexander “That’s the most important lesson: It pope’s comments were devoid of any protections and happiness,” John wrote
USA TODAY doesn’t matter what sexuality you have, “magisterial weight.” But Burke ex- to Francis in the post. “God bless you.”
what nationality you have, what religion pressed concern that such personal In further controversy around the
“Francesco,” a documentary in which you have. The most important aspect is opinions coming from the pope “gener- “Francesco” documentary, AP reported
Pope Francis made landmark com- to be a good human being.” ate great bewilderment and cause con- that Francis’ media advisers confirmed
ments in support of The “Francesco” attention has la- fusion and error among Catholic faith- the filmed comments in fact came from
LGBTQ civil unions, sered in on one Francis comment during ful.” a 2019 interview with Mexican broad-
prompted international the two-hour documentary. Afineev- Christopher Lamb of Britain’s The caster Televisa.
headlines with its Rome sky’s film follows the globe-trotting Tablet magazine noted Friday that in Televisa confirmed the origin of the
Film Festival debut last pope before COVID-19 and discusses the some countries, the rights of gays are a quotes, but said the comments never
week. issues close to his heart: climate life and death matter, and that Francis aired. AP quoted a source who said the
Director Evgeny Afi- change, refugees and social inequality. was merely positioning the church to Vatican, which used its own cameras to
Francis neevsky spoke about the At the one-hour, six-minute mark, defend LGBTQ Catholics. shoot the Francis interview and provid-
pope’s overall message of Francis dropps the bombshell quote “The pope is willing to ‘break a few ed raw footage to Televisa afterward,
love in an interview that aired following that he supports same-sex civil unions. plates’ to ensure he communicates this had deleted the civil union quote in
the documentary’s U.S. debut Sunday at “What we have to create is a civil Gospel-based message of compassion,” question.
the Savannah Film Festival. union law,” Francis says of same-sex he tweeted. Afineevsky did not address the con-
“Pope Francis teaches us, ‘Stop put- couples. “That way they are legally cov- Singer Elton John thanked Francis on troversy around Francis’ comments
ting labels over the people. Stop putting ered. I stood up for that.” Instagram, discussing how important when the interview aired Sunday, but
frames over the people. We are all hu- The Associated Press reported that in his “civil union and subsquent mar- seemed to allude it when saying of the
man beings, we are all children of God.’ the “firestorm” following the premiere, riage” to David Furnish has been. documentary, “I guess every person
That’s a big, beautiful lesson we all need the pushback to the comments was “Giving your blessing to same sex finds something that bothers him or
to learn,” said Afineevsky, speaking swift from predictable corners. Cardinal civil unions is a major step towards (that is) close to his heart, something
from Rome in an interview recorded af- Raymond Burke, Francis’ frequent nem- equality, and a foundation for which that can change his life.”
ter the globally discussed premiere. esis on matters of doctrine, said the countless others can enjoy the same Contributing: The Associated Press

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Baier
Continued from Page 5B

Fox News employees who were poten-

tially exposed to COVID-19 following
last week’s final showdown between
Trump and former Vice President Joe
Biden.
“We were coming back from Nash-
ville and somebody that we were in
close proximity with tested positive a
few days later,” Baier says. “So all of us
are now going through the protocol, so
getting tested.”
On Monday, Baier, Fox’s chief politi-
cal anchor, said he’d been tested three
times for COVID-19, each yielding a neg-
ative result, and he says he and his col-
leagues will undergo daily tests until the
election. He is quarantining at home,
where he has a studio, and says the Fox
News team was tested regularly at the
debates.
“I think that we’re doing everything
that we can,” he says, “but it affects ev-
erybody you’re dealing with, so we’re
taking it very seriously.”
Those in Baier’s life who are at risk if
he is infected include his wife, Amy
(whom he marred in 2004 after they
met on a blind date), and their children.
The pair have two sons: Paul, 13, and
Daniel, 10.
The day Paul was born, Baier was
elated. Hours later, Paul was diagnosed
with five congenital heart defects.
A doctor explained, “if (Paul) didn’t
have emergency open-heart surgery in
the next few days, that he would die,”
Baier recalls. “It just takes your breath
away.”
“It was the highest of highs – first-
born child, son,” he says. “I had images
of a Masters champion, Super Bowl
quarterback and we were on Cloud 9,
and then it was literally the lowest of
lows.”
Their journey inspired Baier’s 2014
book, “Special Heart: A Journey of Faith,
Hope, Courage and Love.”
Paul, whom his dad describes as “a
normal kid,” endured his 10th angio-
plasty this month to open his arteries.
The teen’s fourth open-heart surgery is
scheduled for December, and Baier
hopes it will be the last, or at least carry
Paul through his 20s.
Baier says his son is eager to “rip the
Band-Aid off ” and return to his beloved
sports – golf and basketball. But there
U2 performs at the D.Y. Patil stadium in Navi, Mumbai, in 2019. “We’re always
Bret Baier with his sons, Paul, left, working on new material,” the Edge says. PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
and Daniel, on the golf course.
BRET BAIER
U2 might we see something new from the
group? Stay tuned, The Edge says.
are moments he struggles. “We’re always working on new ma-
“There have been times at 2 in the Continued from Page 5B terial and songs,” he said. “Where and
morning, where he’s turned to me in when those are made public, I don’t
the hospital bed and said, ‘Why do the radio stations more than any U2 song know. We’re holding our breath to see
other kids in my class not have to do in years,” adding that the song’s suc- what transpires over the next few weeks
this?’” he says. “I answer, because God cess was due, in part, to the fact it “was and months because it’s such a crazy
has a plan for you, and you’re passing graced by the glorious textures of time, but I remain very optimistic.”
with flying colors.” Edge’s guitar.” One way the group has stayed busy is
Baier, who is Catholic, says his Crafting the song took time, The by focusing energy on their new Siri-
brood leans on their faith, friends and Edge says – more time than most. usXM channel, U2 X-Radio, which
family in the trying times. He also “It’s a piece of music we just started launched in July.
praises his “amazingly supportive” playing together in the studio,” he said. U2, like other musical acts, has been
employer. “From the beginning, we instinctively off the road because of the coronavirus
“It’s just a big big deal – eight-plus felt there was a song in there, but it pandemic, which has shut down venues
hour surgery and probably seven to 10 took quite a while. As often happens worldwide. That halt put an end to a
days in the hospital, six weeks recov- with U2 songs, once it really starts so- five-year cycle of touring. The Edge is
ery. But he’s a warrior, and we feel very lidifying, you sort of have to get out of finding a silver lining, though.
fortunate to be at Children’s National the way and let it be what it is. “I don’t get to hang out at home
(in Washington, D.C.), which is really “The final piece of the puzzle was much,” he says. “It’s something that I
one of the best children’s hospitals in literally me walking into the studio one really enjoy. I’m a bit of a homebody
the world.” (Amy, who Baier describes day and I had this backing vocal idea. I anyway when I’m not on the road. I feel a
as “the one that holds us together,” asked for a microphone, I jumped on a little guilty because I’ve actually dealt
chairs the Children’s Hospital Founda- mic. I just started singing this little with it pretty well. I’ve just been work-
tion.) harmony over the chorus and then (co- ing on new music and other sorts of cre-
Baier predicts that on the morning producer Daniel Lanois) grabbed an- ative projects and making the best use
of the surgery, he’ll feel “scared, wor- other mic. Basically, the two voices of the time.”
ried, but prayerful.” cascaded around the chorus line. And The Edge says watching the pandem-
“It’s not gonna be easy,” he says. “As that sort of really sealed the deal.” ic and resulting quarantine unfold has
I’m getting ready for the election, I’m The remastered version, included been “really fascinating.”
kind of getting ready mentally, physi- on Friday’s album and box set re- “The amount of sudden change peo-
cally to handle the details of our Super leases, will be the “best-sounding ver- ple have had to take onboard ... it’s not
Bowl. It’s people in your ear: ‘We’re sion” of “Beautiful Day,” he promises. something you think you could do, but
gonna call Ohio. We’re gonna call Flori- Since “All That You Can’t Leave Be- we’ve done it,” he says. “It speaks to me
da.’ All these different things happen- hind,” U2 has dropped four albums: about our capabilities to respond quick-
ing. But, in the back of my mind is the 2004’s “How to Dismantle an Atomic ly to a crisis and to adjust our behavior
next big Super Bowl that we have in Bomb,” 2009’s “No Line on the Hori- to suit a new situation, and I’m actually
our family health. And it’ll take some zon,” 2014’s “Songs of Innocence” and taking some kind of comfort in that real-
getting ready for.” 2017’s “Songs of Experience.” When ization. That’s a nice takeaway for me.”

USA TODAY AIRPLAY CHARTS COMPILED BY MEDIABASE Increase in Spins Debut T This week L Last week

TOP 40 COUNTRY
T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG POINTS
1 3 24KGOLDN f/IANN DIOR Mood 17,124 1 3 JAMESON RODGERS Some Girls 26,799
2 1 JAWSH685XJASONDERULOXBTS Savage Love (Laxed-Siren Beat) 16,834 2 1 JASON ALDEAN Got What I Got 25,900
3 5 SURF MESA f/EMILEE ily (i love you baby) 14,873 3 5 RUSSELL DICKERSON Love You Like I Used To 22,067
4 2 HARRY STYLES Watermelon Sugar 14,767 4 4 MATT STELL Everywhere But On 21,825
5 4 LEWIS CAPALDI Before You Go 13,698 5 6 MORGAN WALLEN More Than My Hometown 20,981
6 6 THE WEEKND Blinding Lights 12,884 6 8 BLAKESHELTON f/GWENSTEFANI Happy Anywhere 20,387
7 7 GABBYBARRETT f/CHARLIEPUTH I Hope 12,882 7 7 HARDY f/LAURENALAINA/DEVINDAWSON One Beer 19,730
8 9 AVA MAX Kings & Queens 11,072 8 9 PARKER MCCOLLUM Pretty Heart 16,463
9 8 DABABY f/RODDY RICCH Rockstar 10,407 9 11 CHRIS LANE Big, Big Plans 16,009
10 10 JUICEWRLD f/MARSHMELLO Come And Go 9,739 10 10 JON PARDI Ain’t Always The Cowboy 14,934
11 11 BTS Dynamite 9,662 11 12 KENNY CHESNEY Happy Does 14,534
12 12 JUSTINBIEBER f/CHANCETHERAPPER Holy 9,441 12 13 DAN + SHAY I Should Probably Go To Bed 13,557
13 13 KANEBROWN f/KHALID/SWAELEE Be Like That 8,868 13 15 LADY A Champagne Night 11,975
14 15 SHAWN MENDES Wonder 7,228 14 --- KELSEA BALLERINI Hole In The Bottle 11,611
15 --- AJR Bang! 6,961 15 --- KIP MOORE She’s Mine 10,893

URBAN RHYTHMIC
T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 1 DRAKE f/LIL DURK Laugh Now Cry Later 6,641 1 1 DRAKE f/LIL DURK Laugh Now Cry Later 6,765
2 2 CARDIB f/MEGANTHEESTALLION WAP 5,955 2 3 24KGOLDN f/IANN DIOR Mood 5,859
3 4 POPSMOKE f/50CENT/RODDYRICCH The Woo 5,450 3 2 POPSMOKE f/50CENT/RODDYRICCH The Woo 5,571
4 3 CHRIS BROWN X YOUNG THUG Go Crazy 5,314 4 5 CHRIS BROWN X YOUNG THUG Go Crazy 4,429
5 6 YOUNGDOLPH f/MEGANTHEESTALLION RNB 4,609 5 4 SAWEETIE Tap In 4,345
6 5 CHLOE X HALLE Do It 4,446 6 6 CARDIB f/MEGANTHEESTALLION WAP 4,244
7 8 MONEYBAGGYO&BLACYOUNGSTA Said Sum 3,763 7 7 DABABY f/RODDY RICCH Rockstar 4,034
8 7 RODDYRICCH f/MUSTARD High Fashion 3,714 8 9 DABABY f/YOUNG THUG Blind 3,707
9 9 BEATKING f/QUEENDOMECOME Then Leave 3,400 9 12 INTERNETMONEY f/GUNNA/TOLIVER/NAV Lemonade 3,467
10 10 NE-YO & JEREMIH U 2 Luv 3,241 10 8 JUICE WRLD Wishing Well 3,443
11 11 LIL BABY f/42 DUGG We Paid 3,221 11 11 TRAVISSCOTT f/YOUNGTHUG/M.I.A. FRANCHISE 3,392
12 12 JHENE AIKO f/H.E.R. B.S. 3,148 12 14 DJ KHALED f/DRAKE Greece 2,665
13 13 DABABY f/YOUNG THUG Blind 2,864 13 15 JUSTINBIEBER f/CHANCETHERAPPER Holy 2,465
14 15 MULATTO Muwop 2,574 14 16 CHLOE X HALLE Do It 2,357
15 --- K CAMP f/JACQUEES What’s On Your Mind 2,467 15 --- JHENE AIKO f/H.E.R. B.S. 2,313

HOT ADULT CONTEMPORARY ADULT CONTEMPORARY

T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 1 GABBYBARRETT f/CHARLIEPUTH
I Hope 5,887 1 1 HARRY STYLES Adore You 2,462
2 2 THE WEEKND Blinding Lights 5,801 2 3 THE WEEKND Blinding Lights 2,347
3 4 LEWIS CAPALDI Before You Go 5,406 3 2 POST MALONE Circles 2,305
4 3 HARRY STYLES Watermelon Sugar 5,300 4 4 MAREN MORRIS The Bones 2,184
5 6 JAWSH685XJASONDERULOXBTS Savage Love (Laxed-Siren Beat) 4,999 5 5 MAROON 5 Memories 1,994
6 5 DUA LIPA Break My Heart 4,385 6 6 DUA LIPA Don’t Start Now 1,816
7 8 AJR Bang! 3,996 7 7 LEWIS CAPALDI Before You Go 1,525
8 7 POST MALONE Circles 3,932 8 8 GABBYBARRETT f/CHARLIEPUTH I Hope 1,232
9 9 TAYLOR SWIFT cardigan 3,694 9 9 JUSTIN BIEBER f/QUAVO Intentions 853
10 --- AVA MAX Kings & Queens 3,272 10 10 LADY GAGA & ARIANA GRANDE Rain On Me 414

URBAN ADULT CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN

T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 3 NE-YO & JEREMIH U 2 Luv 2,284 1 1 ZACHWILLIAMS f/DOLLYPARTON There Was Jesus 2,386
2 1 LONR. f/H.E.R. Make The Most 2,173 2 3 CHRIS TOMLIN f/LADY A Who You Are To Me 2,362
3 5 QUEEN NAIJA Butterflies Pt. 2 1,861 3 2 WE THE KINGDOM God So Loved (Live) 2,344
4 6 TREYSONGZ f/SUMMERWALKER Back Home 1,579 4 6 TAUREN WELLS Famous For (I Believe) 2,215
5 2 LEDISI Anything For You 1,565 5 5 CAIN Rise Up (Lazarus) 2,203
6 4 CHARLIE WILSON One I Got 1,558 6 4 DANNY GOKEY Love God Love People 2,166
7 8 SNOH AALEGRA Whoa 1,511 7 --- JOSH WILSON Revolutionary 1,611
8 9 USHER Bad Habits 1,451 8 8 JEREMY CAMP Keep Me In The Moment 1,587
9 7 KEM Lie To Me 1,333 9 10 TASHA LAYTON Into The Sea (It’s Gonna Be Ok) 1,584
10 --- KEM f/TONI BRAXTON Live Out Your Love 1,275 10 7 FORKING&COUNTRY f/FRANKLIN/KELLY TOGETHER 1,583

AD 2 ALTERNATIVE ACTIVE ROCK

T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 1 ALLTIMELOW f/blackbear Monsters 3,251 1 2 COREY TAYLOR Black Eyes Blue 1,905
4.5” x 4” 3
2 2
3
MACHINE GUN KELLY
DAYGLOW
Bloody Valentine
Can I Call You Tonight?
2,885
2,860
2
3
1
3
SEETHER
AC/DC
Dangerous
Shot In The Dark
1,778
1,746
4 4 WALLOWS Are You Bored Yet? 2,720 4 5 BADFLOWER 30 1,546
5 5 MATT MAESON Hallucinogenics 2,037 5 6 DEFTONES Ohms 1,402
6 6 TWENTY ONE PILOTS Level Of Concern 1,830 6 8 I PREVAIL Every Time You Leave 1,276
7 8 PEACH TREE RASCALS Mariposa 1,797 7 4 CHRIS CORNELL Patience 1,244
8 9 IDONTKNOWHOWBUTTHEYFOUNDME Leave Me Alone 1,679 8 7 MARILYN MANSON We Are Chaos 1,208
9 7 JUICEWRLD f/MARSHMELLO Come And Go 1,679 9 9 THREE DAYS GRACE Somebody That I Used To Know 1,021
10 --- ROYAL & THE SERPENT Overwhelmed 1,501 10 10 AYRON JONES Take Me Away 1,017

ADULT ROCK LATIN

T L ARTIST SONG SPINS T L ARTIST SONG SPINS
1 2 TAME IMPALA Is It True 610 1 2 MALUMA Hawai 2,278
2 1 MY MORNING JACKET Feel You 600 2 3 JBALVIN/DUALIPA/BADBUNNY f/TAINY
Un Dia (One Day) 2,053
3 3 MATT MAESON Hallucinogenics 542 3 1 OZUNA Caramelo 2,031
4 4 DERMOT KENNEDY Giants 513 4 4 LAADICTIVABANDASANJOSE... Lo Que Nunca Sera 2,008
5 6 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Letter To You 509 5 6 KAROL G Ay Dios Mio 1,688
6 7 ELLE KING The Let Go 455 6 8 CHRISTIAN NODAL Aqui Abajo 1,673
7 8 PHOENIX Identical 453 7 7 RAUWALEJANDRO f/CAMILO Tattoo (Remix) 1,631
8 --- DAYGLOW Can I Call You Tonight? 427 8 --- BANDA SINALOENSE MS Cerrando Ciclos 1,612
9 5 KILLERS My Own Soul’s Warning 423 9 5 ALEJANDROFERNANDEZ f/CALIBRE50 Decepciones 1,612
10 --- OF MONSTERS AND MEN Visitor 401 10 9 ESLABON ARMADO Con Tus Besos 1,561
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Tony La Russa right man Brennan: Nicklaus’ support of
for White Sox managing job President Trump not surprising
Nightengale column: MLB has changed since he Columnist: Full-throated Twitter endorsement of
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Paul Myerberg
USA TODAY

Frustration
growing
in college
football
In fits and starts, every conference
in the Football Bowl Subdivision has
come to the same conclusion: It’s pos-
sible to conduct an improvised season
with the right health and safety guide-
lines in place to mitigate the risks
posed by COVID-19.
These protocols have postponed or
canceled three games on this week’s
schedule and 37 games overall, with
that number guaranteed to grow in the
coming weeks.
In other words, the guidelines have
worked – put simply, games are played
when the protocols are met and can-
celed when not.
That hasn’t stemmed the frustra-
tion expressed by some programs,
coaches and athletics directors at the
inability to make the most of the slim
chances afforded during this truncat-
ed season.
Efforts to optimize these opportuni-
ties have been met almost universally
with rolled eyes and shrugged shoul-
ders, and even conflated with arro-
gance in the face of the pandemic.
Instead of suggesting an ignorance
of the dangers posed by COVID-19, this
Seahawks defensive back Quandre Diggs said he regretted not voting in 2016 after telling his mom and knew then he push reflects the desire to play as
would vote in the 2020 presidential election. RICHARD MACKSON/USA TODAY SPORTS many games as possible under safe
conditions – the same mindset that led

Four athletes cherish

conferences to try to conduct the sea-
son in the first place.
For example, this week has further
exposed the widening fissure between

their first-time ’20 vote

Tom Schad and Nancy Armour
USA TODAY
In the months leading up to Election
Day, teams and leagues across the world
of sports have rallied around a common
theme – encouraging Americans to reg-
ister to vote.
In many cases, it’s started with their
own athletes.
The National Basketball Players As-
sociation said more than 96% of its eli-
gible players have registered to vote in
this year’s election, after fewer than
25% voted in 2016. In the NFL, the
league and the union announced
Wednesday that more than 900 players
have registered through their joint ini-
tiative, NFL Votes. And at the college
level, the NCAA’s Division I Council vot-
ed last month to prohibit games and
practices on Election Day.
Many athletes are longtime voters,
but there are plenty of others who will
be casting a ballot for the first time.
“I don’t like being a hypocrite if I’m
asking everybody to vote and enact
change,” Basketball Hall of Fame player,
NBA broadcaster and first-time voter
Shaquille O’Neal told USA TODAY
Sports. “I can’t ask people to vote if I
don’t vote.”
Some athletes have been motivated
to vote for the first time by this sum-
mer’s social justice movement or a spe-
cific issue they want to support. Others
say they’ve come to see voting as a civic
duty. And some are only just now eligi-
ble to vote, either due to their age or citi-
zenship status.
USA TODAY Sports spoke with four
athletes who are casting their first bal-
lots in a presidential election – and why
they’re voting.
Quandre Diggs, NFL safety
In 2012, Quandre Diggs said, he was
still a “young kid” – not paying atten-
tion to politics, and not in tune with
what was happening in the world.
In 2016, he was a little bit older and a
little bit wiser, but his decision was the
same. He later felt guilty about not
casting a vote.
“I called my mom and she’s like,
‘You didn’t vote?!?’ ” Diggs recalled.
Now, the Seahawks’ safety is 27,
with a family at home and five-plus
seasons in the NFL under his belt. He
said he’s matured. And from the mo-
ment he had that conversation with
his mom, he knew he would vote in the
2020 presidential election. He wasn’t
going to miss a third opportunity.
See FIRST VOTE, Page 3C
the Big Ten and Nebraska, which was
rebuffed in its efforts to substitute a
non-conference opponent from the
Championship Subdivision, Chatta-
nooga, in place of Saturday’s canceled
matchup against No. 11 Wisconsin.
“We believe the flexibility to play
non-conference games could have
been beneficial not only for Nebraska,
but other Big Ten teams who may be in
a similar position as the season pro-
gresses,” Nebraska chancellor Ronnie
Green and athletics director Bill Moos
said in a joint statement.
“The ability for all Big Ten members
to play a non-conference game if need-
ed could provide another data point for
possible College Football Playoff and
bowl consideration.”
This discord has birthed an asinine
conspiracy theory among fans and on
social media suggesting the Big Ten
has singled out Nebraska for the Corn-
huskers’ vocal opposition to the initial
plan to postpone the season until the
spring, which played a role in the
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SPORTSLINE

FIRST WORD LAST WORDS

I felt the emotion of an event, when in actu-
al fact, from anyone seeing me out on the
street, I was just some guy on his own going for a
run.”
Scott Kishere, a 37-year-old police officer and indie
filmmaker in England, on running the virtual New York
Marathon in his own neighborhood. The annual fall
race typically draws more than 50,000 runners and has
had about 27,000 entries this time. Participants run
their 26.2 miles at any point in a 16-day window, be-
tween Oct. 17 and this coming Sunday.
NOTABLE NUMBER
14,252
Days between kickoff returns for a touchdown by LSU,
according to the athletic department. Trey Palmer did
it from 93 yards in the third quarter last Saturday
against South Carolina. The previous return was Oct.
17, 1981, when Eric Martin went 100 yards against
Kentucky. LSU football coach Ed Orgeron was a 20-
year-old defensive tackle for Northwestern State at
the time.
We have decided to renounce
the rights to Mitchell Miller,
effective immediately.”
Arizona Coyotes president & CEO
Xavier Gutierrez, in a statement
Thursday about their first pick in this
month’s NHL Draft. The selection of
Miller, 18 and now playing at the Uni-
versity of North Dakota, was widely
criticized after an Arizona Republic
report published Monday detailed
Miller’s bullying and racist taunting of
a Black youth, Isaiah Meyer-Crothers,
when the two were 14 years old in
Ohio. The club issued an apology to
the Meyer-Crothers family.
Red, White and Boozed”
Title of a video that golfer John Daly
says he recently completed with Colt
Ford, a former pro golfer-turned-
country music star. They are playing in
the TimberTech Championship in Boca
Raton, Florida.
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Times change but La Russa right for ChiSox

Bob Nightengale
Columnist
USA TODAY
Tony La Russa might be a Hall of
Famer, and one of the greatest man-
agers in baseball history, but his intro-
ductory news conference in his return to
the White Sox on Thursday was conten-
tious, even combative at times, hardly
your typical lovefest.
He repeatedly was questioned, in dif-
ferent ways, how he could handle the
job as a 76-year-old man. Never mind
that Joe Biden will be 78 if he’s elected
president and would be running an en-
tire country, not a baseball club.
He was asked his view about the
new-age players and White Sox star Tim
Anderson’s passion for bat flips, as if
Reggie Jackson and Rickey Henderson
didn’t strut for him managing the Ath-
letics, Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire
didn’t bash, and Dennis Eckersley never
pumped his fist.
They grilled him on his approach to-
ward analytics, as if La Russa last man-
aged before the typewriter, forgetting
that this was the man who virtually in-
vented the bullpen, resurrected Ecker-
sley and has been one of the most cre-
ative thinkers in the game.
He was asked if he’s out of touch with
the game since retiring as manager in
2011, and going into the Hall of Fame in
2014, ignoring the fact he was running
the Diamondbacks’ baseball operations
department for three years, was a vice
president with the Red Sox for another
three, including their World Series
championship year, and the past year as
a special adviser with the Angels.
And it took only two questions into
the news conference to be asked about
his view toward players kneeling during
the national anthem, recalling his criti-
cism of former 49ers quarterback Colin
Kaepernick in 2016.
Certainly, the most sensitive subject
was race, with La Russa answering
three questions about it during his 50-
minute Zoom call at their spring training
headquarters in Arizona.
“When that first occurred,” La Russa
said, “my first instinct was respecting
the flag and what America stands for.
There has been a lot going on since 2016.
I not only respect, but the awareness
that comes into society and into sports.
Tony La Russa has held various roles since leaving the dugout in 2011.
2019 PHOTO BY KIM KLEMENT/USA TODAY SPORTS
I applaud and would support that they
are now addressing, identifying the in-
justices, especially on the racial side.
And as long as it’s peacefully protested
and sincere, like The Players Alliance,
when your protests have action-orient-
ed results, the way you impact and
make things better, I’m all for it.”
La Russa then reeled off several of the
Black players who played for him in Chi-
cago, Oakland and St. Louis and dared
anyone to say they were treated differ-
ently than anyone else.
“There is not a racist bone in my
body,” La Russa said. “I do not like in-
justice. Anything that is peacefully done
and sincerely thought of, and especially
the action at the end of it, there will not
be a problem.”
Please, La Russa says, don’t be naïve
enough to believe he’s opposed to ana-
lytics, welcoming the information but
not letting it control his managerial de-
cisions. “The wealth of information that
helps you prepare, I embrace it. We were
always information seekers. You take
the value of that information, and it
gives you a better chance for success.
But once the game starts, it’s a very vol-
atile experience, they are players, not
machines. You watch the game and how
to put people in there to win.”
Oh, and about those bat flips by An-
derson and young players?
Bring ’em on.
“I do believe that sportsmanship is
important and having respect for your
opponents,” he said. “(But) I always rea-
soned that if it’s sincere, I don’t have a
problem with it. For players who are
more exuberant, people are showing,
‘Hey, they’re coming through.’ MLB is
encouraging them to do so. I always rea-
soned that if it’s sincere, and directed
towards the game, I don’t have a prob-
lem with it. The only thing I say is if your
team celebrates, and their team cele-
brates, neither team can be upset, as
long as everybody is doing it sincerely.”
Certainly, times have changed since
La Russa last managed in 2011, leading
the Cardinals to the World Series.
La Russa had no plans to return to
managing when he was inducted into
the Hall of Fame in 2014, but being up-
stairs and watching games from the ex-
ecutive suites was torturous.
“My heart,” La Russa said, “was al-
ways in the dugout.”
He greatly missed the competition,
and after the White Sox approached
him, it took him three weeks to decide
he wanted to do it, before making it offi-
cial on Monday.
So, can he actually pull this off, tak-
ing one of the most talented young
teams in baseball and bring home the
White Sox’s first World Series title since
2005?
“I think this is going to be really good
for the White Sox,” said Dave Stewart,
the former 20-game winner under La
Russa in Oakland and later his GM with
Arizona. “You have managers in this
game that are good to a certain point,
and then you need a guy that pushes you
over the top. I think Tony will be the fin-
ishing touches for the White Sox.”
Yes, just like when the Cubs fired Rick
Renteria for Joe Maddon, resulting in a
World Series championship two years
later, the White Sox believe they are do-
ing the sequel, firing Renteria for La
Russa.
And, yes, besides being the third-
oldest manager in baseball history, and
joining Jack McKeon as the only man-
agers to take over a team at 75 or older,
Stewart believes there’s no doubt he can
relate to players young enough to be his
grandkids. Why, not a single active play-
er was born when La Russa first was
hired to manage the White Sox in 1979,
and 15 of the players on that team will be
in their 70s next season with five de-
ceased.
“Modern players are modern play-
ers,” Stewart said, “but the game is still
played the same. I think the moment
Tony walks into the room he has a total-
ly different respect than anyone else
managing the game today.
“I don’t know why people don’t think
he can relate with today’s modern play-
ers. Even today’s players respect the
game and respect how it is played. One
thing Tony is good at is that he’s good at
how the game should be played. I think
the adjustment will be from both sides,
some give from Tony and some give
from the players, and there will be a
happy medium.“
Now, here he is, a three-time World
Series champion who has won the third-
most games in baseball history (2,728),
back in the dugout where he first start-
ed, rejoining one of his closest friends,
White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf.

Turner test put Dodgers, Rays in self-quarantine

Josh Peter and Bob Nightengale
USA TODAY
The Los Angeles Dodgers and the
Tampa Bay Rays are under self-quaran-
tine at their respective homes after
Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner
was notified Tuesday he had tested pos-
itive for COVID-19, according to two
people with direct knowledge of the sit-
uation.
The people spoke to USA TODAY
Sports on the condition of anonymity
because of the sensitivity of the situa-
tion.
The Dodgers, who are under a 14-day
quarantine, flew back to Los Angeles on
Wednesday from Arlington, Texas,
where the World Series was played.
Turner and his wife were scheduled
to fly back on a private charter, accord-
ing to one of the people.
Turner was pulled from Game 6 on
Tuesday night before the eighth inning
once his positive test was confirmed.
After the Dodgers clinched the team’s
first World Series championship in 32
years, Turner returned and joined the
team’s on-field celebration and posed
for the team photo without wearing a
protective face covering.
“While a desire to celebrate is under-
standable, Turner’s decision to leave
isolation and enter the field was wrong
and put everyone he came in contact
with at risk,” Major League Baseball
said Wednesday in a statement. “When
MLB security raised the matter of being
on the field with Turner, he emphatical-
ly refused to comply.”
The Los Angeles County Department
of Public Health said Thursday that it
was working with the Dodgers on addi-
tional measures.
“While we cannot provide details on
an active investigation, Public Health is
working closely with the Dodgers to en-
sure that appropriate actions are taken
to prevent additional exposures and
provided direction on the required quar-
antine of players and staff that are close
contacts,” the agency said in a state-
ment provided to USA TODAY Sports.
A day earlier, the agency had issued a
statement that in part referred to Tur-
ner: “… We join everyone in wishing the
Dodger player who tested positive for
COVID-19 a fast and complete recovery.
As with all other cases of COVID-19, iso-
lation and quarantine are essential for
reducing further spread.
“Public Health protocols state that a
person who tests positive for COVID-19,
even if they do not display symptoms,
must isolate for 10 days and must be
symptom and fever free for 24 hours be-
fore they can resume contact with any
other people.
“Additionally, anyone who has been a
close contact of a person who has tested
positive for the virus for 15 minutes or
more over a 24 hour period must quar-
antine for 14 days.”
Florida officials did not immediately
return a message seeking comment
about the Rays’ situation.

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First vote
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“I think just the older I’ve gotten, the

more I’ve understood the history and
the fight that people before me took for
us just to have the opportunity to vote,”
Diggs said. “Just being able to have time
to research and reflect on those things, I
think that’s really the main difference
between 2012 and 2016.”
Diggs acknowledged that this sum-
mer’s protests gave him additional mo-
tivation. He said there’s been a welcome
shift in athlete activism in recent years,
which has made it easier for NFL players
like himself to be more socially and po-
litically conscious – and also know that
their employers will support them.
“We all know our voice now,” Diggs
said. “I think we’re in the age of every-
body knowing their voices.”
A sixth-round draft pick out of Texas
in 2015, Diggs is among the 90% of NFL
players who are registered to vote this
year, according to the NFL and NFLPA.
He stressed that while the presidential
election between incumbent Republi-
can Donald Trump and Democrat Joe
Biden might be drawing the most buzz,
down-ballot races are just as important
and worthy of research.
“It’s the people in our community
that make the change. It’s the people at
the state level that make the change,”
Diggs said. “Don’t just think it’s an all
presidential election. Know who you’re
voting for and what you’re voting for.”
Laurie Hernandez,
Olympic gymnast
When Laurie Hernandez voted in her
first presidential election, she did it as
much for the women who came before
her as she did it for herself.
This is the 100th anniversary of the
passage of the 19th Amendment, which
gave U.S. women the right to vote. But it
would take another 65 years, when the
Voting Rights Act struck down Jim Crow
laws that blocked Black access to the
polls, until all Black women were free to
vote. And 10 more years until discrimi-
nation against “language minorities” –
largely Latinos – was prohibited.
“For women, and especially women
of color, we didn’t have the right (to
vote) in the first place. We had to fight
for it,” said Hernandez, who won gold as
part of the Final Five at the Rio Olympics
as well as silver on balance beam. “We
have to make sure we’re telling people
that. It’s not something that has always
been.
“That was practically like last week!”
Hernandez added. “The ’60s is not that
long ago. That’s my parents’ (time) right
there. This is a time that’s not that far
away.”
Hernandez said she grew up watch-
ing her parents vote, and they im-
pressed upon her and her siblings why it
was so important. So sitting out the Nov.
3 election, the first in which the 20-
year-old is eligible to vote for president,
was never an option – even if it did take
her three tries to find an official drop box
in Orange County, California.
The Republican Party installed some
drop boxes of their own in Southern
California. But there were questions
about their legality, and Hernandez
wasn’t taking any chances of her ballot
getting tossed.
“That’s even more of an incentive to
vote,” she said. “If it’s that difficult,
clearly something is wrong.”
But mighty as it felt to make her voice
heard by casting her ballot, Hernandez
Laurie Hernandez said of ensuring a drop box, “If it’s that difficult, clearly something is wrong.” ANDREW P. SCOTT/USA TODAY
wanted to do more. She checked with
her friends to make sure they were reg-
istered and encouraged them to vote.
She has leveraged her considerable fol-
lowing on social media to make sure her
fans, the Gen Zers in particular, know
why voting is so important and passed
along useful information.
“It’s like a huge group project,” Her-
nandez said. “If you don’t butt in, if
you’re not joining in, you’re not doing
the work.”
Stefan Frei, MLS goalkeeper
The 2016 presidential election was a
turning point for Seattle Sounders goal-
keeper Stefan Frei.
In fact, it’s what helped drive the
Swiss native to apply for U.S. citizen-
ship – albeit, after a bit of hesitation.
“At first, it was deterring me a little
bit,” Frei said of the 2016 election. “Be-
cause I thought – this is obviously my
political views coming into play a little
bit – but I thought I didn’t identify with
the majority of this country, in terms of
the government that was in power, the
people that were getting elected.”
Born and raised in Switzerland, Frei
moved to the United States at 15 when
his father got a job in California. He
went on to play at California and has
since spent the entirety of his profes-
sional career in MLS.
After Trump was elected, Frei said he
saw the raw divisiveness in American
politics and, at first, wanted no part of it.
But he also didn’t feel that, as a Swiss
citizen, he could take a strong public
stance on American political issues,
even ones that involved what he consid-
ered to be “basic human rights.”
“I bit my lip quite a few times when
things were going on that I didn’t like,”
the 34-year-old said. “When I wasn’t a
citizen at the time, I just felt like it
wasn’t my place to speak.”
Conversations with family and close
friends helped him realize that, after
2016, he wanted to join those discus-
sions – about what the United States
could and should be.
So in the summer of 2017, roughly six
months after winning MVP honors at
the 2016 MLS Cup, Frei became a U.S.
citizen. He cast his first vote for presi-
dent at a drop box last week.
The 2016 election was a turning point
for Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei,
driving him to apply for citizenship.
KELVIN KUO/USA TODAY SPORTS
“I became a U.S. citizen because I
wanted to lead by example. Part of that
is voting,” Frei said. “It is a privilege, a
right as a citizen of a democratic state.
But I also think it should be a duty. I
think too many people in this country
don’t vote, and they don’t realize what a
huge opportunity and privilege it is to
do so. There are so many countries
where that’s not even an option.”
Angel Reese,
college basketball forward
Angel Reese arrived at Maryland this
summer as the No. 2 recruit in college
women’s basketball, a McDonald’s All-
American who averaged 18 points, 20
rebounds and five assists per game dur-
ing her high school career at St. Frances
Academy in Baltimore.
She’s voting for the first time simply
because this is her first opportunity;
Reese turned 18 in May.
“Not being able to vote and have a
voice,” she said, “I feel like now, my vote
really counts.”
The Maryland freshman said she
planned to vote early Thursday morning
in Baltimore with her mom, who had a
standout career of her own at UMBC
and shares her daughter’s first name.
Reese wanted to cast her ballot in-per-
“Not being able to vote and have a
voice,” said Angel Reese, who turned
18 in May, “I feel like now, my vote
really counts.” BRAD MILLS/USA TODAY
son, at a polling place, for both the full
experience of voting and to ensure that
her vote is counted. (“And I can get my
sticker!” she added.)
Amid years of protests and civil un-
rest, Reese said it’s been “tough” not be-
ing able to express her opinions at the
ballot box. She said she attended the
Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore in
2015, which put the importance of her
voice in perspective.
“Just seeing the protests and every-
thing, experiencing it, coming from a
city – Baltimore – that is a rougher area,”
Reese said, “I just feel like my vote is
really important.”
Maryland, like dozens of other Divi-
sion I schools, has adopted a voting ini-
tiative within its athletics department
to ensure its athletes are registered and
encouraged to vote. Reese said the ma-
jority of her teammates have already
sent in their absentee ballots, while she
and a handful of others from the area
made plans to visit local polling places.
There’s no doubt in her mind that her
age group will be pivotal; Only 43% of
eligible voters between 18 and 24 cast a
ballot in 2016.
“Everybody wants change,” Reese
said. “It starts with us. And it starts
now.”
Contributing: Mark Medina

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league’s subsequent reversal.

If anything, the Big Ten’s de-
cision to start the season in late
October dealt a blow to the en-
tire conference by eliminating
the ability to reschedule can-
celed games and ensure that
Ohio State and others re-
mained in the mix for the na-
tional championship.
What the friction does re-
veal is a genuine disconnect on
a profound level between the
conference and one of its mem-
bers. The Big Ten will survive
regardless.
But Nebraska is right on this
point:
Teams have worked to stay
clear of major outbreaks, with
varying degrees of success.
They have dealt with protocols,
quarantines and testing. By
and large, they have worn
masks and socially distanced.
They have taken all the steps
Nebraska is frustrated about not being able to play this
weekend. JOSEPH MAIORANA/USA TODAY SPORTS
mandated by conference
guidelines. They have accepted
that playing in a pandemic
comes with a long list of non-
negotiable requirements.
And they want to play.
If or when unable to do so,
the frustration should be as un-
derstandable as it is obvious.
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the sacrifices that have been
made, and they don’t have a
game this week, and they
didn’t do anything wrong,
that’s really hard.”
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Orlando City 4, Atlanta 1 Shakhtar Donetsk 0, Inter Milan 0
Ferencvaros 2, Dynamo Kyiv 2 DETROIT LIONS — Released DT Albert Higgins. 256 points and teammate
Philadelphia 2, Chicago 1 Borussia Monchengladbach 2, Real Madrid 2 Juventus 0 Barcelona 2 Released LB Elijah Lee. Valterri Bottas (2 wins) Houston, his NHRA-rec-
New York City FC 1, Toronto FC 0
Tuesday, Nov. 3 Wednesday, Nov. 4 LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Placed TE Virgil
D.C. United 1, Columbus 0
Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Mnchngldbch, 12:55
Barcelona vs. Dynamo Kyiv, 3 p.m. Green on injured reserve. Placed G Ryan Groy next with 179. ord 85th victory and first
Minnesota 2, Colorado 1 Ferencvaros vs. Juventus, 3 p.m. on reserve/COVID-19 list.
since 2018.

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CLEMSON 31 61 Boston Coll Matchup Time/TV Surface BetMGM.com line Sagarin difference
DUKE 9 56 Charlotte
Boise St 14 49 AIR FORCE Minnesota (0-1) at Maryland (0-1) 7:30/ESPN Artificial Minnesota by 19 ½ Minnesota by 15.28
STHRN MISS 1 59 Rice East Carolina (1-3) at Tulsa (2-1) 9/ESPN2 Artificial Tulsa by 17 Tulsa by 18.03
TULANE 4 59 Temple Hawaii (1-0) at Wyoming (0-1) 9:45/FS1 Artificial Hawaii by 1 ½ Wyoming by 1.99
ARKANSAS ST 2 72 Troy Saturday on TV
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No. 5 Georgia (3-1) at Kentucky (2-3) Noon/SEC Grass Georgia by 14 ½ Georgia by 14.39
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betting services. Newsrooms are No. 22 Iowa State (3-2) at Kansas (0-5) Noon/FS1 Artificial ISU by 28 ½ ISU by 26.68
independent of this relationship Wake Forest (3-2) at Syracuse (1-5) Noon/ACC Artificial Wake by 10 ½ Wake by 18.37
and there is no influence on news Purdue (1-0) at Illinois (0-1) Noon/BTN Artificial Purdue by 7 Purdue by 13.38
coverage. No. 4 Notre Dame (5-0) at Georgia Tech (2-4) 3:30/ABC Grass Notre Dame by 19 ½ Notre Dame by 26.92
No. 19 Indiana (1-0) at Rutgers (1-0) 3:30/BTN Artificial Indiana by 10 Indiana by 14.86
LSU (2-2) at Auburn (3-2) 3:30/CBS Grass LSU by 3 LSU by 0.59
Northwestern (1-0) at Iowa (0-1) 3:30/ESPN Artificial Iowa by 2 ½ Iowa by 3.00
GOLF PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS TCU (1-3) at Baylor (1-2) 3:30/ESPN2 Artificial TCU by 2 ½ Baylor by 0.61
Texas (3-2) at No. 6 Oklahoma State (4-0) 4/Fox Artificial Ok. State by 3 ½ Ok. State by 7.58
Virginia Tech (3-2) at Louisville (2-4) 4/ACC Artificial VT by 3 ½ VT by 5.58
TimberTech Notes: Bernhard Langer has won the Appalachian State (3-1) at UL-Monroe (0-6) 4/ESPNU Artificial App. State by 31 ½ App. State by 35.35
tournament twice, in 2010 and 2019, Mississippi (1-4) at Vanderbilt (0-3) 4/SEC Artificial Ole Miss by 15 ½ Ole Miss by 11.36
Championship and he was runner-up twice in be- Boise State (1-0) at Air Force (1-1) 6/CBSSN Artificial Boise by 13 ½ Boise by 3.16
Mississippi State (1-3) at No. 2 Alabama (5-0) 7/ESPN Grass Alabama by 31 ½ Alabama by 32.25
Course: The Old Course at Broken tween. … Jim Furyk is playing in his San Jose State (1-0) at New Mexico (0-0) 7/FS1 Artificial SJSU by 9 ½ SJSU by 15.63
Sound, in Boca Raton, Fla. fifth PGA Tour Champions event and No. 3 Ohio State (1-0) at No. 17 Penn State (0-1) 7:30/ABC Grass Ohio State by 11 ½ Ohio State by 14.28
Arkansas (2-2) at No. 8 Texas A&M (3-1) 7:30/SEC Grass TAMU by 12 ½ TAMU by 9.38
has won twice. He is No. 9 on the
Yardage: 6,807. Par: 72. Navy (3-3) at No. 23 SMU (5-1) 7:30/ESPN2 Artificial SMU by 13 ½ SMU by 9.64
money list with $725,700. That’s No. 13 North Carolina (4-1) at Virginia (1-4) 8/ACC Grass UNC by 6 ½ UNC by 7.34
Purse: $2M. Winner’s share: $300,000 more than he made in three of his No. 24 Oklahoma (3-2) at Texas Tech (2-3) 8/Fox Artificial Oklahoma by 14 ½ Oklahoma by 13.91
UL-Lafayette (4-1) at Texas State (1-6) 8/ESPNU Artificial ULL by 16 ½ ULL by 16.57
TV (ET): Friday-Saturday, 3-5:30 p.m. last four years on the PGA Tour. … San Diego State (1-0) at Utah State (0-1) 9:30/CBSSN Artificial SDSU by 7 ½ SDSU by 6.31
(Golf); Sunday, 2-4:30 p.m. (Golf) Country rap artist Colt Ford is playing Western Kentucky (2-4) at No. 10 BYU (6-0) 10:15/ESPN Grass BYU by 28 ½ BYU by 33.39

Defending champ: Bernhard Langer. on a sponsor exemption, as is Gary Nevada (1-0) at UNLV (0-1) 10:30/FS1 Artificial Nevada by 13 ½ Nevada by 13.07
Other ranked team in action (check local listings)
Nicklaus. … Mark Calcavecchia is in Matchup Time Surface BetMGM.com line Sagarin difference
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Ernie Els.
the field after a bout with COVID-19. Missouri (2-2) at No. 9 Florida (2-1) 7:30 Grass Florida by 13 ½ Florida by 9.52
Last tournament: Phil Mickelson won He won the tournament two years Rest of the top 25
No. 11 Wisconsin’s game at Nebraska is canceled. No. 18 Marshall’s game at Florida International scheduled for Friday is postponed. No. 12 Miami,
the Dominion Energy Charity Classic. ago. No. 15 Oregon, No. 20 Southern California and No. 25 Army are idle.
Jeff Sagarin’s power ratings show the relative strength of teams. 1.73 points are added to the home team’s rating to calculate the difference.

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After a storm with cold rain Albany, N.Y. 37/21sn 42/31s
Albuquerque 59/39s 64/39s
and accumulating snow Amarillo, Texas 59/40s 67/34s
Seattle
moves out to sea in the Olympia
57 Bangor
Anchorage, Alaska 27/15pc 24/16s
Atlantic City, N.J. 54/38r 52/46s
Northeast on Friday, much of 56 Spokane
39 Augusta, Ga. 74/47s 69/53s
Portland 55 Miles City
Bismarck Duluth Marquette
the balance of the nation will Salem 60
Helena
60 44 37 34 Austin, Texas 69/39s 74/47s

59 57 Burlington Augusta Baton Rouge, La. 67/44s 71/52s

be free from major storms Boise Fargo Mpls-St. Paul 41 Montpelier
38 Billings, Mont. 57/40s 49/31pc

and large areas of precipita-

Bend
68 Billings 38 41 Boston Birmingham, Ala. 61/45s 70/54s
62 57
Rapid City Grand Buffalo 37 38 Bismarck, N.D. 44/39s 46/24w
tion through the weekend.
Burns
56 Milwaukee Rapids 40 Albany
Boise, Idaho 68/35s 58/35s
68 Pierre Sioux Falls
42 42 43
Detroit
37
Hartford

A storm over British

Eureka Idaho Falls Jackson
46 44 Cleveland 39 Buffalo, N.Y. 40/28pc 48/39s
56 61 Hole Casper
Des Moines Madison
Lansing 44 Pittsburgh New York Burlington, Vt. 41/24pc 44/34s
Columbia on Friday will Sacramento
Reno
Elko 52 59 North Platte
50 43 41 46 43 Cedar Rapids, Iowa 46/33s 57/31w

79 74 69 62 Chicago Charleston, S.C. 75/52s 70/57pc

produce some rain and Salt Lake City
Cheyenne Omaha
45 Columbus Harrisburg Philadelphia
Charleston, W.Va. 51/31c 61/45s
Carson City 67 55 49 46 50 48 Cheyenne, Wyo. 55/39s 48/26s
mountain snow showers in San Francisco 74
Kansas City Washington Annapolis
57 51 Indianapolis Cincinnati
54 53
Cincinnati 49/33pc 57/46pc
the Northwest at the end of 69 St. George Aspen
Denver
Topeka 49 49 Cleveland 44/32r 51/44pc
Las Vegas
75 54 62 Charleston Richmond Columbia, S.C. 73/45s 66/51pc
the week. During the week- Fresno
79 63 Jefferson City St. Louis Louisville 51 59
80 Wichita 57 54 52
Knoxville Columbus, Ohio 46/29c 51/45s
end, this storm will help to Dodge City
60 56 Raleigh Corpus Christi, Texas 72/50s 78/57pc

usher in cold air from the Los Angeles Santa Fe 59 Memphis

Charlotte 66 Daytona Beach, Fla. 75/66pc 82/69pc

83
Palm Springs Flagstaff
56 Oklahoma 55 Nashville
66 Columbia
Des Moines, Iowa 50/37s 57/33s
northern Plains to the Great 91 64 City
Tulsa
55 Duluth, Minn. 37/30pc 42/25c
Albuquerque 60 73
San Diego
59 60 Atlanta
Durham, N.C. 65/41s 59/40s
Lakes areas. 76
Phoenix
Little Rock Birmingham
64
Charleston El Paso, Texas 71/46s 77/49pc
Alaska 87
Lubbock Dallas/Ft. Worth 57 61 75 Fairbanks, Alaska 14/7pc 16/0sf
Flurries and lake-effect 67 62 Montgomery Savannah EXTREMES Flagstaff, Ariz. 64/26s 66/31s
snow will sweep southeast- El Paso Midland- Shreveport Jackson 67 76 Note: For contiguous Fargo, N.D. 38/33pc 46/23w

ward across the Great Lakes 71 Odessa Austin

63 62 Jacksonville 48 states through Fort Myers, Fla. 84/67pc 86/70pc
Fairbanks Hawaii 68 69 Mobile
Tallahassee
74 3 p.m. Thursday Fort Wayne, Ind. 46/31s 55/41s
region on Sunday as the 14 Juneau
Honolulu San Antonio
Baton Rouge 66 72 HOTTEST:
Fresno, Calif. 80/50s 80/51s
Anchorage 42 85 71 67 New Green Bay, Wis. 40/28s 53/31w
colder air arrives. 27
Houston Orleans 93° Harrisburg, Pa. 50/35r 50/38s
67 66 Tampa Titusville, Fla. Hartford, Conn. 39/25r 46/32s
Most other parts of the 79 Indianapolis 49/34s 56/42pc
Puerto Rico
nation will be dry, including San Juan
Miami COLDEST: -4° Jackson, Miss. 62/41pc 70/47s

South Florida, after showers Brownsville 88 87 Antero Jacksonville, Fla. 74/59s 74/63pc
Reservoir, Colo. Jefferson City, Mo. 57/39s 66/40s
from Friday move away. 73 Kansas City 57/43s 64/38s
Key West, Fla. 85/77pc 84/78t
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Knoxville, Tenn. 56/38c 62/46pc
Lincoln, Neb. 53/40s 60/34s
southern Atlantic coast. Little Rock, Ark. 57/37s 60/43pc
Below 10 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ Louisville, Ky. 52/37s 61/49pc
Manchester, N.H. 39/24sn 47/30s
Memphis, Tenn. 55/40s 65/46pc
PRECIPITATION FORECAST SATURDAY’S HIGH TEMPERATURES Milwaukee 42/34pc 55/34s
Mobile, Ala. 66/46s 72/55s
T-storms Rain Snow Ice/mix Montgomery, Ala. 67/46s 73/56s
Myrtle Beach, S.C. 72/51s 66/55pc
Seattle Nags Head, N.C. 66/52r 60/57c
Olympia Nashville, Tenn. 55/39pc 66/49pc
55 Bangor
55 Spokane
43
Newark, N.J. 43/32r 48/42s
Portland 48 Helena Miles City
Bismarck Duluth Marquette Norfolk, Va. 62/50w 57/51c
Salem 59 47 46 42 44 Oakland, Calif. 72/50s 75/53s
58 48 Burlington Augusta
Oklahoma City 60/39s 65/40s
Boise Fargo Mpls-St. Paul 44 Montpelier
44 Omaha, Neb. 49/40s 59/34s
Bend
58 Billings 46 50 Boston
60 49
Rapid City Grand Buffalo 41 44
Palm Springs, Calif. 91/63s 93/64s
Burns
50 Milwaukee Rapids 48 Albany Pittsburgh 46/32sh 51/41pc
59 Pierre Sioux Falls
55 52 51
Detroit
42
Hartford Portland, Maine 41/23sn 45/33s
FRIDAY
Eureka Idaho Falls Jackson
51 54 Cleveland 46 Portland, Ore. 60/40sh 59/40pc
56 52 Hole Casper
Des Moines Madison
Lansing 51 Pittsburgh New York Providence, R.I. 40/26sn 48/36s
Sacramento
Reno
Elko 45 50 North Platte
57 54 50 51 47 Raleigh, N.C. 66/43s 60/43pc
80 73 66 Salt Lake City 60 Chicago
Harrisburg Philadelphia Rapid City, S.D. 56/42s 50/25w
Carson City 62
Cheyenne Omaha
57 Columbus
50 50 Reno, Nev. 74/35s 73/35s
70 48 59 Kansas City 51 Washington Annapolis
Richmond, Va. 59/40pc 56/41s
San Francisco
64 61 Indianapolis Cincinnati
53 50 Rochester, N.Y. 39/26c 46/36s
73 St. George Aspen
Denver
Topeka 56 57 Sacramento, Calif. 79/43s 80/44s
Las Vegas
74 53 56 Charleston Richmond
Fresno
79 65 Jefferson City St. Louis Louisville 61 56
San Antonio 71/44s 74/52s
80 Wichita 66 62 61
Knoxville San Jose, Calif. 76/50s 81/49s
Dodge City
61 62 Raleigh Savannah, Ga. 76/54s 72/59pc
Los Angeles Santa Fe 64 Memphis
Charlotte 60 Shreveport, La. 63/40s 66/45s
84
Palm Springs Flagstaff
59 Oklahoma 65 Nashville
62 Columbia Sioux Falls, S.D. 44/38s 54/27w
SATURDAY 93 66 City
Tulsa
66
Albuquerque 66 66 South Bend, Ind. 44/30pc 55/39s
San Diego
Phoenix 64 65 Little Rock Birmingham Atlanta Charleston
Spokane, Wash. 55/31w 48/31pc
76 Lubbock Dallas/Ft. Worth 60 70 65 70
59/38s 64/38s
Alaska 88 77 68 Montgomery
51/36s 61/39s
Savannah St. Louis 54/40s 62/43pc
El Paso Midland- Shreveport Jackson 73 72 Syracuse, N.Y. 41/29c 46/35s
77 Odessa Austin
66 70 Jacksonville Tallahassee, Fla. 72/53s 77/61s
Fairbanks Hawaii 76 74 Mobile
Tallahassee
74 Tampa, Fla. 79/64pc 86/69s
16 Juneau
Honolulu San Antonio
Baton Rouge 72 77 Topeka, Kan. 63/43s 65/38s
Anchorage 45 85 74 Houston 71 New
Tucson, Ariz. 85/55s 86/59s
24 72
Orleans
Tulsa, Okla. 60/43s 66/43s
71 Tampa
Wichita, Kan. 60/41s 61/39s
Puerto Rico
86 Wilmington, Del. 48/32r 49/37s
SUNDAY San Juan
Miami Winston-Salem, N.C. 62/40pc 58/41s
Brownsville 88 85 pc Partly cloudy s Sunny sh Showers c Cloudy

78 t Thunderstorms w Windy dr Drizzle h Haze

f Fog i Ice r Rain sf Snowflurries sn Snow
SPORTS
AUTO RACING
NASCAR
Speed Freaks
Q: Does Martin Truex Jr. three-peat
at Martinsville, or does someone else
grab the fourth playoff spot?
GODSPEAK (Godwin Kelly): That’s a
mighty tall order
on a very short track, but I think it will
happen.
KEN’S CALL (Ken Willis): Hate to be
non-dramatic, but I think the top four
remains there. Logano, Harvick, Ham-
lin and Kez.
Q: Did Kyle Busch’s Texas win re-
establish him as a championship fa-
vorite for 2021?
GODSPEAK: Considering his age, tal-
ent and resources, I’d say 2020 was a
bump in the road for Busch. Let’s hope
all things go back to normal in 2021.
KEN’S CALL: It appears that Kyle’s
2021 chances will be helped if NASCAR
returns to its pre-COVID-19 norms in
terms of allowing practice time. He
was apparently affected by the new
procedures forced upon everyone.
Godwin’s picks for Martinsville
Winner: Martin Truex Jr.
Rest of top 5: Denny Hamlin, Brad
Keselowski, Chase Elliott, Kyle Busch
First one out: Joey Logano
Dark horse: Jimmie Johnson
Don’t be surprised if: Truex? Three in a
row at Martinsville? What the heck.
Willis’ Top 10 NASCAR drivers
1. Kevin Harvick: Feet in Martinsville,
head is in Phoenix
2. Joey Logano: Also allowed to look
ahead
3. Martin Truex Jr.: Win and in, lose
and cruise
4. Alex Bowman: Look who has a
chance!
5. Denny Hamlin: Bad time for a mini-
slump
6. Chase Elliott: The Peoples’ Choice
needs a good run
7. Brad Keselowski: Won Martinsville
last spring
8. Kyle Busch: Whew!
9. Ryan Blaney: Too late with recent
good runs
10. Kurt Busch: 2-for-40 at Martins-
ville, needs a 3rd
NFL WEEK 8 GAME PREVIEWS
Patriots (2-4) at Bills (5-2)
TV: 1 p.m. ET Sunday, CBS
BetMGM.com line: Bills by 31⁄2
Patriots’ keys: Putting pressure in Buf-
falo QB Josh Allen’s face is one way of
slowing him up, but opposing second-
aries in recent weeks have started to
run more zone coverage, causing him to
struggle to move the ball consistently.
Patriots figure to be missing WR Julian
Edelman (knee).
Bills’ keys: Buffalo RB Devin Singletary
has to find success on the ground.
Stopping Patriots running backs will be
of massive importance on defense.
Who wins? Bills 27-24
– Nick Wojton, Bills Wire
Titans (5-1) at Bengals (1-5-1)
TV: 1 p.m. ET Sunday, CBS
BetMGM.com line: Titans by 5
Titans’ keys: Tennessee won its first
five games by leaning on a heavy dose
of RB Derrick Henry.
Bengals’ keys: Find ways to stretch the
field with QB Joe Burrow, especially
against a team that put up 31 or more
points in four of the first five games.
Who wins? Titans 30-20
– Chris Roling, Bengals Wire
Raiders (3-3) at Browns (5-2)
TV: 1 p.m. ET Sunday, Fox
BetMGM.com line: Browns by 3
Raiders’ keys: The offense needs to
click early against a pass defense that
relies heavily on sacks and takeaways.
QB Derek Carr has been incredibly ac-
curate and should find big TE Darren
Waller and nifty slot WR Hunter Renfrow
over the middle of the field.
Browns’ keys: Cleveland’s hit-and-miss
passing game needs to exploit a Raid-
ers pass defense that is prone to giving
up big plays. This would be a good
game for rookie return man Donovan
Peoples-Jones to flip the field position.
Who wins? Browns 33-28
– Jeff Risdon, Browns Wire
Colts (4-2) at Lions (3-3)
TV: 1 p.m. ET Sunday, CBS
BetMGM.com line: Colts by 2 1⁄2
Colts’ keys: Coming off their bye, the
Colts are hoping for the return of sever-
al injured players. Stopping the Lions’
Kyle Busch saved enough fuel in the final laps Wednesday at Texas Motor
Speedway to celebrate a streak-continuing victory. RICHARD W. RODRIGUEZ/AP
MARTINSVILLE
Through the gears
The NASCAR Cup Series race at
Texas Motor Speedway was a weird,
strange and time-agonizing event,
starting Sunday afternoon and ending
Wednesday night because of varying
degrees of precipitation.
When the checkered flag was mer-
cifully displayed, NASCAR had anoth-
er first-time 2020 winner. Kyle Busch
kept his season-to-season winning
streak alive by using every molecule of
fuel in his No.18 Toyota. Busch has won
at least one Cup race each year since
2005. After being thrust from the stock
car playoffs after Round 2, winning be-
came his primary priority.
“We finally got it,” Busch said after
his 57th career victory. “I was so ner-
vous – I was nervous the whole last
run. I’ve been in this position so many
times. The last three laps though,
that’s like winning the championship
– that’s how nervous I was.”
For the record, Busch has two titles
and is the defending Cup champion.
First gear: On to the penultimate
Cup race of the season at Martinsville
Speedway. Hendrick Motorsports
teammates Alex Bowman and Chase
Elliott find themselves 25 points be-
hind fourth-place Brad Keselowski
and 27 behind third-place Denny
passing attack is a focus for defenses,
and DT DeForest Buckner’s pass-rush-
ing dominance will be a huge factor.
Lions’ keys: Control the pace. With the
Colts strong up the middle on defense,
Detroit is going to want to test the
edges. Lean on rookie RB D’Andre Swift
to establish the run game.
Who wins? Colts, 24-20
– Erik Schlitt, Lions Wire
Vikings (1-5) at Packers (5-1)
TV: 1 p.m. ET Sunday, Fox
BetMGM.com line: Packers by 7
Vikings’ keys: Control the ball and win
the important situational downs and
the turnover battle. If RB Dalvin Cook
can produce, that will Green Bay QB
Aaron Rodgers on the sideline.
Packers’ keys: Contain Cook, keep QB
Kirk Cousins under pressure. On of-
fense, if Rodgers is protected, the Pack-
ers will like the matchups.
Who wins? Packers 30-20
– Zach Kruse, Packers Wire
Jets (0-7) at Chiefs (6-1)
TV: 1 p.m. ET Sunday, CBS
BetMGM.com line: Chiefs by 19 1⁄2
Chiefs’ keys: It’s easy to forget about
the running game when you have Pat-
rick Mahomes and a bevy of receiving
weapons around. This team is at its
best this season when it is balanced.
Jets’ keys: Head coach Adam Gase
finally gave up play-calling duties in
Week 7 to offensive coordinator Dowell
Loggains, and the offense found some
immediate success.
Who wins? Chiefs, 40-7
– Charles Goldman, Chiefs Wire
Rams (5-2) at Dolphins (3-3)
TV: 1 p.m. ET Sunday, Fox
BetMGM.com line: Rams by 3 1⁄2
Rams’ keys: Prevent Miami’s aggressive
defense from teeing off on QB Jared
Goff on third downs. On defense, blitz
to create confusion in the protections
and create mental errors.
Dolphins’ keys: The quarterback
change from Ryan Fitzpatrick to rookie
Tua Tagovailoa is going to provide a
chance to implement more run-pass
option concepts into the game plan.
Who wins? Dolphins, 30-27
– Kyle Crabbs, Dolphins Wire
USA TODAY ❚ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020 ❚ 5C
Hamlin. Bowman and Elliott represent
Chevrolet’s interests in the playoffs.
Second gear: Silly Season is about
over, or is it? Erik Jones finally landed
a 2021 seat when he signed with Rich-
ard Petty Motorsports to replace Bub-
ba Wallace, who will drive for a new
team. Xfinity Series star Chase Briscoe
is moving up to replace retiring Clint
Bowyer in the No.14 Stewart-Haas
Ford. During the Texas rain delay, Kyle
Larson was signed by Rick Hendrick to
drive the No. 5 Chevy.
Third gear: Did you know that Ja-
mie McMurray holds the qualifying
record at Martinsville Speedway? In
2014, driving for Ganassi Racing,
McMurray was clocked at 99.905 mph
over the cramped 0.526-mile track.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. won that race, his
only victory at Martinsville in 35
starts.
Fourth gear: Martinsville Speed-
way tested Daytona Motor Mouths’
mental acuity with the name of its Cup
Series race this weekend. The Xfinity
500 will be the name of Sunday’s race,
not to be confused with the Xfinity Se-
ries, which stages a race at Martins-
ville on Saturday. Almost got us. Al-
most.
– Godwin Kelly
Steelers (6-0) at Ravens (5-1)
TV: 1 p.m. ET Sunday, CBS
BetMGM.com line: Ravens by 4
Steelers’ keys: Apply pressure on Balti-
more’s offense early, physically and
mentally. Send quick pressure against
QB Lamar Jackson to force him into
quick throws, where he tends to re-
gress. Dropping linebackers back seems
to throw him off.
Ravens’ keys: One of the most physical
teams last year needs to remind itself
of that by bullying the Steelers at the
line. Defensively, the Ravens need to
protect against the big play and put QB
Ben Roethlisberger on his back.
Who wins? Steelers, 20-17
– Matthew Stevens, Ravens Wire
Chargers (2-4) at Broncos (2-4)
TV: 4:05 p.m. ET Sunday, CBS
BetMGM.com line: Chargers by 3
Broncos’ keys: Denver QB Drew Lock
won his first career start against the
Chargers last season, but a lot has
changed for both teams. With WR Cour-
tland Sutton, who had two TD passes,
sidelined for the season (knee), Tim
Patrick and Jerry Jeudy have stepped
up. OLBs Bradley Chubb and Malik Reed
need to generate pressure to rattle Los
Angeles rookie QB Justin Herbert.
Chargers’ keys: Denver has contained
most of the running backs it’s faced, so
Herbert needs to move the ball through
the air with WR Keenan Allen and TE
Hunter Henry featured on offense.
Who wins? Broncos, 28-20
– Jon Heath, Broncos Wire
Saints (4-2) at Bears (5-2)
TV: 4:25 p.m. ET Sunday, Fox
BetMGM.com line: Saints by 4
Saints’ keys: Versatile playmaker RB
Alvin Kamara can break off big plays. An
area of weakness on Chicago’s defense
has been the play against the run. The
New Orleans defense needs to bring
the pressure on QB Nick Foles.
Bears’ keys: Bring the pressure on
Saints QB Drew Brees, something OLBs
Khalil Mack and Robert Quinn and DT
Akiem Hicks do well. On offense, the
Bears need to establish a rhythm.
Who wins? Saints, 24-20
– Alyssa Barbieri, Bears Wire
RACE WEEKEND
What’s on tap
at Martinsville Speedway
(0.526-mile oval)
Cup Series: Xfinity 500
TV: 2 p.m. ET Sunday, NBC
XFINITY Series: Draft Top 250
TV: 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday, NBC
Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series:
NASCAR Hall of Fame 200
TV: 8 p.m. ET Friday, FS1
By the numbers
7
Years since Martinsville pole-sitter
won the race
14
Drivers who have won a Cup Series
Martinsville race in last 10 seasons
99.905
All-time-record qualifying speed in
mph by Jamie McMurray (2014)
Cup Series Round of 8 standings
1. Kevin Harvick ............................... 4,137
2. Denny Hamlin .............................. 4,122
3. Brad Keselowski ......................... 4,120
4. Alex Bowman .............................. 4,095
5. Chase Elliott ................................ 4,095
6. Joey Logano* .............................. 4,094
7. Martin Truex Jr. .......................... 4,084
8. Kurt Busch ................................... 4,039
* Clinched Championship 4 berth win
victory at Kansas Speedway
Playoff race results
Sept. 6: Darlington (Kevin Harvick)
Sept. 12: Richmond (Brad Keselowski)
Sept. 19: Bristol (Kevin Harvick)
Sept. 27: Las Vegas (Kurt Busch)
Oct. 4: Talladega (Denny Hamlin)
Oct. 11: Charlotte Roval (Chase Elliott)
Oct. 18: Kansas (Joey Logano)
Oct. 25: Texas (Kyle Busch)
Nov. 1: Martinsville
Nov. 8: Phoenix
Daytona Motor Mouths
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the playoffs. The Daytona Beach
News-Journal’s Godwin Kelly & Ken
Willis have covered NASCAR for more
than 70 years combined.
godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com and
ken.willis@news-jrnl.com
49ers (4-3) at Seahawks (5-1)
TV: 4:25 p.m. ET Sunday, Fox
BetMGM.com line: Seahawks by 3
49ers’ keys: Riddled by injuries early,
the 49ers have been mounting an hon-
orable campaign. San Francisco signal-
caller Jimmy Garoppolo needs to do a
little “cooking” of his own.
Seahawks’ keys: Expectations are high
that Jamal Adams can recover from his
lingering groin injury in time. QB Russell
Wilson and Co. have been able to cover
for what Seattle’s defense has not, but
it’s doubtful the momentum can carry
throughout the whole season.
Who wins? Seahawks, 34-28
– Liz Mathews, Seahawks Wire
Cowboys (2-5) at Eagles (2-4-1)
TV: 8:20 p.m. ET Sunday, NBC
BetMGM.com line: Eagles by 9
Cowboys’ keys: If QB Andy Dalton (con-
cussion) can’t go, rookie Ben DiNucci
will make his first NFL start. Dallas will
need to lean on the running game,
feeding Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard,
while taking shots downfield to WRs
Amari Cooper and Michael Gallop.
Eagles’ keys: With the Cowboys just as
banged up as Philadelphia, the Eagles
will need to establish a physical running
game led by Miles Sanders, who should
return (knee), and Boston Scott.
Who wins? Eagles, 31-10
– Glenn Erby, Eagles Wire
Bucs (5-2) at Giants (1-6)
TV: 8:15 p.m. ET Monday, ESPN
BetMGM.com line: NL
Giants’ keys: Defensive coordinator
Patrick Graham must devise a game
plan that results in relentless pressure
on Bucs QB Tom Brady. New York must
find some combination along its O-line
to keep QB Daniel Jones upright.
Buccaneers’ keys: With a heavy focus
on pressuring Brady, it will provide
Tampa Bay an opportunity to ride RB
Ronald Jones. If a ground game can be
established, it will pull S Jabrill Peppers
into the box, leaving WRs Mike Evans
and Antonio Brown in one-on-ones.
Who wins? Buccaneers, 31-17
–Dan Benton, Giants Wire
Byes: Arizona, Houston, Jacksonville,
Washington
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Nicklaus’ support of Trump
disappointing but not surprising
Christine Brennan
Columnist
USA TODAY
At first blush, Jack Nicklaus’ full-
throated Twitter endorsement of Don-
ald Trump Wednesday night was not
the least bit surprising. The headlines
write themselves: Golf course developer
endorses another golf course developer.
Rich old white man from a rich old white
guy sport endorses another rich old
white man from the sport.
The reaction wasn’t surprising either.
While plenty of Twitter accounts sup-
ported Nicklaus’ fawning treatise on
Trump, many others did not. There was
outrage. There was anger. And, worst of
all for Nicklaus, there was genuine
shock that a beloved role model could
let down so many who had rooted for
him for decades.
To see the replies, not from trolls and
bots, but from real people expressing
their dismay that Nicklaus would be
such an over-the-top Trump supporter,
leads one to wonder if Nicklaus perhaps
never heard the words of Michael Jor-
dan, who famously explained why he
stayed out of politics by saying, “Repub-
licans buy sneakers, too.”
Don’t Democrats play golf, too? And
never-Trump Republicans? And inde-
pendents? And women and girls?
Nicklaus is known in golf as its great-
est player, a wonderful ambassador and
perhaps its savviest businessperson. So
for him to let his adoration for the con-
troversial and unpopular Trump flow
from one hefty paragraph to the next is a
news item worthy of scrutiny just a few
days before the completion of the 2020
presidential election.
“In my opinion,” Nicklaus said,
COLLEGE FOOTBALL IMPACT GAMES
More surprises possible in Week 9
Eddie Timanus
USA TODAY
Halloween week usually provides
some treats for college football fans. The
lineup this year isn’t bad, but the bigger
games appear to be still to come.
Having said that, of course, there is
always the possibility of this wild and
wacky sport delivering a few tricks.
Here are the five games with the most
potential impact on the College Football
Playoff hunt.
No. 3 Ohio State
at No. 17 Penn State
Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET, ABC
The lone clash of ranked teams on
this week’s slate isn’t the top-10 show-
down most anticipated, but it remains a
key contest in the Big Ten East. The Nit-
tany Lions are already in a hole after last
week’s stunning setback at Indiana.
That is of little import to the Buckeyes,
whose bigger goals are well in reach.
Ohio State QB Justin Fields didn’t
disappoint in his 2020 debut against
Nebraska, throwing just one incomple-
tion while accounting for three touch-
downs. Penn State DE Shaka Toney will
try to get him out of rhythm, but the PSU
defense must also keep RBs Master
Teague III and Trey Sermon in check.
Nittany Lions QB Sean Clifford was
quite productive by land and air, but he
and his teammates made just enough
mistakes to allow the Hoosiers to stick
around to make the overtime upset pos-
sible. He’ll need TE Pat Freiermuth to
help occupy Pete Werner and the rest of
Ohio State’s active LB corps.
Boston College at No. 1 Clemson
Saturday, noon ET, ABC
As dominant as the Tigers have been
in the Atlantic Coast Conference of late,
they seem to have at least one game
each season in which they struggle to
put away an overmatched opponent.
Clemson might have gotten that game
out of its system last week against Syra-
cuse. But if the Tigers are peeking ahead
to next week’s showdown with Notre
Dame, BC could be troublesome.
Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence over-
came the first pick-six of his career to
stifle the Orange, with the help of RB
Travis Etienne and a score by his de-
fense. He’ll undoubtedly be motivated
to turn in a cleaner performance, poten-
tially bad news for CB Josh DeBerry and
the Eagles’ secondary. BC QB Phil Jurko-
E3
Jack Nicklaus and Donald Trump at the
unveiling of the Jack Nicklaus Villa at
Trump National Doral on Feb. 20, 2015.
MANNY HERNANDEZ/GETTY IMAGES
“(Trump) has been more diverse than
any President I have seen and has tried
to help people from all walks of life –
equally.”
One could write a half dozen columns
refuting that sentence alone, but let’s
try to figure out why Nicklaus would say
such a thing. The best way to put it prob-
ably is this: He’s a white male golfer who
was born in 1940. He has lived his entire
life in a sport that spent decades trying
to keep women and Black people and
other minorities out of the game, to its
great detriment.
Golf ’s leaders are admirably scram-
bling to find new participants and new
consumers in a race against time with
their aging white male demographics.
That’s why Augusta National Golf Club
– the home of the Masters, whose mem-
bership discriminated against women
until 2012 – started a skills competition
for boys and girls in 2013 and a women’s
amateur tournament last year.
Those worthwhile efforts took a hit
Wednesday when the game’s most icon-
Coach Mike Gundy and quarterback Spencer Sanders stand for Oklahoma
State’s alma mater after the win last week. SARAH PHIPPS/USA TODAY SPORTS
vec has 12 TD passes, but with only spo-
radic ground support he needs time to
operate. DE Myles Murphy and the Ti-
gers’ front won’t allow him much.
Texas at No. 6 Oklahoma State
Saturday, 4 p.m. ET, Fox
The Cowboys passed a major test by
staving off Iowa State to keep their rec-
ord unblemished. They don’t get much
of a break against the Longhorns, who
can be formidable despite two losses.
Oklahoma State QB Spencer Sanders
had a solid return from an ankle injury,
running for a score in addition to a TD
throw. The Texas defense he’ll be facing,
featuring LBs Joseph Ossai and Juwan
Mitchell, has taken its lumps but is com-
ing off its best performance of the Big 12
campaign, keeping Baylor in neutral for
three quarters while building a comfort-
able lead. Longhorns QB Sam Ehlinger
had a solid outing, but he could use
more ground support. LB Malcolm Rod-
riguez will lead the Cowboys’ efforts to
see that he doesn’t get it.
Arkansas at No. 8 Texas A&M
Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET, SEC
Arkansas might just be the toughest
remaining opponent on the Aggies’
schedule, and Alabama’s as well. That
sentence would have seemed nonsensi-
cal at this time last year, but the Razor-
backs have been the Southeastern Con-
ference’s most surprising team. A&M,
which has a huge win against Florida
and might still harbor playoff hopes,
must be ready.
Both teams should be rested after
scheduled bye weeks. Arkansas was
ic figure (or second-most iconic to Ti-
ger Woods, take your pick) endorsed a
president who has consistently and
reprehensibly denigrated women and
people of color, who has been accused
of sexually assaulting or sexually ha-
rassing at least 26 women, who has
waged war on Black athletes who
speak out about injustice and who has
called white nationalists “very fine
people,” among many other awful
comments.
Why would Nicklaus take such a
stance about such a man? He did allow
women to join his Muirfield Village
Golf Club in Ohio, but he, like almost
every top male golfer for generations,
has lived life in a bubble so different
from the world around it.
In July 1994, while touring one of his
golf courses near Vancouver, Nicklaus
was asked by a Vancouver Province re-
porter about the lack of Black people in
golf. Nicklaus, then 54, responded by
saying, “Blacks have different muscles
that react in different ways,” according
to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on
Aug. 21, 1994. Nicklaus also said he
didn’t “buy” that he and other players
could have taken stronger action in
helping end discrimination in golf, the
Sun-Sentinel reported.
At the time, Nicklaus did not deny
the comments but said they were tak-
en out of context. When asked Thurs-
day about Nicklaus’ 1994 remarks,
Scott Tolley, his manager and execu-
tive vice president of the Nicklaus
family office, declined to comment and
said Nicklaus was unavailable.
The great Jack Nicklaus should find
some time to make himself available
for comment sooner rather than later.
He has endorsed a racist, sexist man to
be re-elected president of the United
States. His sport, and his country, de-
serve to be able to ask him why.
last seen using its vastly improved de-
fense, anchored by LB Grant Morgan,
to shut down the Mississippi team that
put up 48 points against the Crimson
Tide. Aggies QB Kellen Mond has been
making better use of his weapons of
late, and he’ll need to be efficient. QB
Feleipe Franks has increased the com-
petency of the Razorbacks’ offense as
well, though he can still be prone to the
kinds of mistakes that plagued him at
times when he was at Florida. Aggies
DE DeMarvin Leal will look to force a
few more miscues from him.
Memphis at No. 7 Cincinnati
Saturday, noon ET, ESPN
Last season, it was Memphis that
won the American Athletic Conference
title and played in a major bowl. The
Bearcats are hoping to be that team
this year. With a few breaks, that
might also mean a playoff spot. But
Cincinnati must avoid thinking too far
ahead. The Tigers, after all, still have
designs on another AAC crown with
just one league loss to date.
It may be time to recognize Cincin-
nati QB Desmond Ridder as a true star
in the league after his 91-yard run
helped put away unbeaten SMU. He
makes good use of RB Gerrid Doaks,
which could help neutralize DE
O’Bryan Goodson, the Tigers’ best
playmaker in opposing backfields.
Memphis QB Brady White is a more
prolific passer who can easily keep
pace if a track meet develops. His pri-
mary weapons are WR Calvin Austin
and TE Sean Dykes, who will keep LB
Jarell White and the Bearcats’ back
seven busy.
SPORTS
Padraig Harrington shot 4-under 67
Thursday in the Bermuda Champion-
ship. GREGORY SHAMUS/GETTY IMAGES
Harrington
starts early
in search of
22nd victory
Steve DiMeglio
Golfweek | USA TODAY Network
For the first time in a career span-
ning a quarter of a century, three-time
major champion Padraig Harrington
was in the group for the first tee time of
the day.
“It was nice,” the Irishman said of
his 6:45 a.m. ET tee time in the first
round of the Bermuda Championship
at Port Royal Golf Club in Southamp-
ton, Bermuda. “I have no problem get-
ting up and get going. If this was 10
years ago, I would probably be getting
up three and a half hours before my tee
time. I would being doing all the physio
and training and all sorts of stuff. Now
at my age I just get up and I do a few
stretches and I’m off.”
The 49-year-old got going in a hurry
with five birdies in his first 10 holes and
finished with a 4-under-par 67 that
placed him on the first page of the lea-
derboard among early finishers. He
was four shots behind leader Peter
Malnati.
It was one of the better postings of
late for Harrington, who hasn’t won on
the PGA Tour since the 2015 Honda
Classic and on the European Tour
since the 2016 Portugal Masters. While
the winner of 21 titles worldwide was
once ranked as high as No. 3 in the
world, he has fallen to No. 329 but be-
lieves another title on either tour is on
the horizon.
“I came back out of lockdown and
I’ve been hitting the ball off the tee the
best I’ve ever hit it and I’ve been put-
ting well,” Harrington said. “My irons
and my wedges haven’t been good and
again my wedges were poor today. So
I’m in a nice place. I don’t feel in any
shape or form that I outplayed myself
today. So we’ll see how the rest of the
week is.”
This is Harrington’s first start on the
PGA Tour since he missed the cut in
the Arnold Palmer Invitational in
March. It was his ninth consecutive
missed cut on the PGA Tour. But in four
starts on the European Tour before go-
ing to Bermuda, he missed one cut,
tied for 40th in the BMW PGA Champi-
onship, tied for ninth in the Scottish
Open and tied for 14th in the Scottish
Championship.
He’ll keep tinkering with his swing
like he always has, keep working long
hours like he always has. So, no, Har-
rington, who turns 50 next August,
does not have any PGA Tour Champi-
ons’ events circled on his calendar,
though the senior circuit intrigues
him.
“Possibly even before the PGA Tour
scores, I look at the Champions Tour
scores,” he said. “I don’t know what
that tells you. I would play wherever I
think I could win and that’s it. So if I
don’t think I can win out here, I won’t
play here. I’m not here to turn up, I’m
here to try and win, and wherever I’m
playing, in my head I think I can win.”
Harrington, who is playing the
Houston Open next week, might not
join the Champions Tour next year but
2021 is definitely going to be different.
Harrington is the Ryder Cup captain
for Europe, so those duties will come
calling.
“Right now it’s very quiet with Ry-
der Cup duties,” he said. “It’s kind of all
about me now at the moment. Come
first of January and the points start up
again, obviously there will be a bit
more detail.
“How do I balance it? Basically I’m
older and I know I can’t do as much, so
that’s it. I just have to take it a little bit
easier and not, you know, do my old
schedule. I’ll be busy with the Ryder
Cup.”
Until then, he’ll keep going and try-
ing to win No. 22.
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People walk out of a vote center located at Compton College on the first weekend of early in-person voting Sunday in
Compton, California. MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES
Millions of older people
voting for the first time
2.1M people over 40 have
voted for first time, so far
Grace Hauck and Ryan W. Miller
USA TODAY
At age 99, Barbara Duvall survived
COVID-19, pneumonia and five days in
the hospital.
Last week, the Indiana resident vot-
ed for the first time.
“I guess I didn’t have time before be-
cause of my kids, my husband and our
family. I stayed with
them,” said Duvall, who
raised three children
with her husband of 63
years. “I decided this
time that I wanted the
right man in there.”
Duvall With five days until
Election Day, more than
80 million people had already voted
Wednesday – more than half of the total
votes counted in the 2016 general elec-
tion, according to Michael McDonald, a
professor at the University of Florida
who runs the U.S. Elections Project.
“The numbers are stunning,” Mc-
Donald said in an update on his website
this week. “The pace of some states’
early voting is such that with almost
certainty states will begin surpassing
their total 2016 total vote this week.”
Turnout among younger voters ac-
counts for much of the surge this elec-
tion cycle. But older voters are turning
out, too. Of the nearly 5.5 million first-
time voters who have cast their ballots,
more than 2.1 million are voters over 40,
according to data from TargetSmart, a
Democratic political data firm.
It’s likely that 2020 will see an in-
crease in first-time voters. At this time
in 2016, about 3.8 million first-time vot-
Poll worker v. poll watcher: Election terms to know
Joel Shannon
USA TODAY
Voting in the United States is widely
billed as a patriotic duty, but it can be a
confusing one, filled with unfamiliar
rules and terms.
That’s in part because of a patchwork
of election laws set by state and local
leaders. How ballots look, how votes are
counted, how vote-by-mail is adminis-
tered and many other parts of the elec-
tion process are not determined by the
federal government
“It is an archaic system that has cre-
ated confusion and even crisis in the
past and will, no doubt, continue to do
so in the future,” Larry Bartels, a politi-
cal scientist at Vanderbilt University,
said in an emailed statement.
Even so, many election-related terms
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Verify your voter
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Don’t wait until the last minute to make
sure your able to vote on Election Day
and go to the right polling place.
USA TODAY offers an easy way to check
your registration, along with other
helpful links, explanations of key issues
and where the major candidates stand.
Go to vote.usatoday.com for more
ers had cast ballots, including 1.9 million
people over 40.
Some of those voters – such as newly
naturalized citizens – have never had
the opportunity to vote before. But
many, like Duvall, have been eligible to
vote in previous presidential elections
have commonly understood meanings
across the nation that can help you un-
derstand election news, become a bet-
ter-informed voter and make sure your
vote counts on Election Day.
Election fraud
Election-related fraud can be com-
mitted by voters, elections officials,
campaign officials or others, according
to the FBI. Campaign-finance violations
are also a type of federal election of-
fense.
A voter commits fraud when the per-
son lies on voter registration, votes
when not eligible, votes multiple times
or votes under someone else’s name.
How often fraud occurs has become a
charged political topic. While President
Donald Trump has made unsubstanti-
Real-time updates
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Tales
of guns,
ballots
set afire
Voter suppression fuels
violence and falsehoods
Nicquel Terry Ellis
USA TODAY
For many Americans, the stakes are
high in the 2020 election.
The coronavirus pandemic and ra-
cial tensions have divided the nation
and galvanized millions of people to
cast their votes weeks before the Tues-
day election.
But the historic turnout has been
challenged by a wide range of tactics to
suppress voters, particularly voters in
communities of color.
Voters have faced hourslong lines,
intimidation and rejection at the polls,
and received false information that
sought to discourage them from vot-
ing.
Here is a roundup of some of the
most striking examples of voter sup-
pression during the election season:
Voters say armed guards stood near
an early voting site in St. Petersburg,
Fla., on Oct. 21. TREVOR MALLORY
Armed people show up to polls
In St. Petersburg, Florida, two peo-
ple dressed as armed security guards
were reported outside an early voting
site on Oct. 21.
The man and woman told police
they were hired by President Donald
Trump’s campaign, according to local
media reports. Trump’s campaign,
however, told WFLA that it did not em-
ploy the two people.
Trevor Mallory, a Democratic can-
even though they did not cast a ballot. didate for Pinellas County property
This year, they’re seizing the appraiser, said he was campaigning
chance. near the voting site when he noticed
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, an the armed people standing near a
economic recession and nationwide Trump campaign tent.
protest movement, voters say that Mallory said it made him uncom-
stakes are high and that hot-button fortable and called it “voter intimida-
policy issues are driving them to the tion.” He said he was thankful that vot-
polls. Some are motivated by Presi- ers, including those with children, did
dent Donald Trump’s impeachment, not allow the presence of armed peo-
his handling of the coronavirus pan- ple to stop them from walking into the
demic and the conservative lean of Su- building to vote.
preme Court. Others have fears about “To me, that’s a little alarming, it’s a
the future of law and order in the U.S. little unsettling,” Mallory told USA TO-
But many said it’s simply much eas- DAY. “No one should have to encounter
ier to vote this year: States have ex- an armed guard that is not with the
panded early and mail-in voting op- sheriff ’s department or an official po-
tions, and voting is all people are talk- lice department employee.”
ing about. According to WFLA, law enforce-
See NEW VOTERS, Page 2D See SUPPRESSION, Page 2D
ated claims that “millions and millions”
of fraudulent votes cast in the 2016 elec-
tion had cost him the popular vote, a
task force studying the issue disbanded
seven months after its first meeting
with no report substantiating fraud.
Elector
The president is picked by 538 mem-
bers of the Electoral College, called elec-
tors.
Under the Constitution, each state
appoints electors to cast the electoral
ballots, which officially elects the presi-
dent. It takes 270 or more electoral votes
to win a presidential election.
The Electoral College is widely
known as a “winner take all” system, be-
Election Day is Tuesday. MATT SLOCUM/AP
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Terms
Continued from Page 1D
cause the winner of the popular vote in
each state gets all of the state’s elector-
al votes. The exceptions are Maine and
Nebraska, which award electoral votes
more proportionally.
The Electoral College played a major
role in Trump’s 2016 victory. The prac-
tice traces its history to 1787 and was
intended as a compromise between a
direct popular vote and Congress pick-
ing the president. States are allocated
electors based on how many repre-
sentatives it has in the House, plus its
two senators.
Poll worker
Poll workers check in voters, fix vot-
ing machines, answer voters’ ques-
tions, count mail-in votes and do other
election-related tasks, according to
Power the Polls, a poll worker recruit-
ment group that has worked to combat
a shortage of poll workers fueled in
part by health concerns amid the CO-
VID-19 pandemic.
Laws governing poll workers vary
by state, as detailed the 200-page U.S.
Election Assistance Commission
guide. It’s generally a nonpartisan ac-
tivity, and some states have laws to
make sure there’s a balance of Demo-
crats and Republicans working in the
polls, Power the Polls says. Poll work-
ers are often required to be registered
voters.
Poll watcher
Poll watchers are partisan or non-
partisan observers who are usually
trained to monitor polling places and
look for irregularities. Poll watchers
are not allowed to interfere with the
conduct of the election, but they may
challenge the voting process, or in
some cases, an individual’s eligibility
to vote.
Some form of poll watching is al-
lowed in most states, but rules vary.
Those rules are often aimed at ensur-
ing observers won’t harass or intimi-
date voters.
Even so, forms of poll watching
have perpetuated racism and been
used to intimidate voters. There is a
long history of whites intimidating
and preventing Blacks from voting in
the South. The Republican Party had
been prohibited from employing poll
monitors until recently because of its
own history of using them as a strategy
for intimidation.
Generally, the terms poll watchers,
poll monitors and citizen observers are
interchangeable.
Recount
A recount is a retabulation of votes
to verify initial results.
“Especially in local contests, with
lower voter turnout, it is not uncom-
mon for a handful of votes to deter-
mine the outcome of the election,”
guidance from the U.S. Election Assis-
tance Commission reads. “A recount
provides an opportunity for an elec-
tion official to ensure that all the bal-
lots cast are counted accurately and
that the correct candidate or ballot is-
sue wins.”
How close does an election have to
be to trigger a recount? That varies by
state. But the commission says that in
some cases, a recount is triggered by
an election within by 0.5 or 1% of the
vote.
Results
As polls close on election nights,
various news organizations will begin
tabulating and verifying voting data
and publishing results. When the or-
ganization has a high level of confi-
dence in the result of a race, it will
“call” it.
News reports in the hours and days
after an election are typically separate
from the certified results of a race. Be-
cause each network or newspaper has
its own sources and standards, it is
common to see results vary between
different news outlets after the polls
close.
The Associated Press says its proc-
ess was 99.8% accurate in calling U.S.
races in 2016 and 100% accurate in
calling the presidential and congres-
sional races for each state.
In 2020, it could take days or weeks
to count all ballots because of the high
volume of mail-in ballots expected
amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Contributing: Josh Peter, Joey Gar-
rison, Karl Gelles and Jim Sergent, USA
TODAY; The Associated Press
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Suppression
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ment officials said the two people were
licensed security guards employed by
a Florida security company and they
were not violating any laws.
Elsewhere, a Michigan judge on
Tuesday struck down Secretary of
State Jocelyn Benson’s directive that
banned the open carry of firearms at
polling places on Election Day.
Gun rights activists had filed a law-
suit claiming Benson’s order made “an
unsupported correlation between
mere possession of a firearm and voter
intimidation.”
Benson said she planned to appeal
the judge’s ruling.
Voters in Black Lives Matters
shirts rejected at polls
Some polling places are attempting
to reject voters wearing Black Lives
Matter shirts.
A poll worker in Memphis, Tennes-
see, was fired last week for turning
voters away who were wearing masks
and T-shirts that read “Black Lives
Matter.”
In Cummings, Georgia, Zack Arias
recorded a video of a poll worker tell-
ing him he would have to take off his
Black Lives Matter shirt to vote.
Moments later, a polling place man-
ager intervened and said Arias could
vote because Black Lives Matter is “not
on the ballot.”
Electioneering, political campaign-
ing and wearing political apparel is
prohibited at polling places across the
country. “Black lives matter,” the state-
ment, is often confused with the politi-
cal movement.
Arias told USA TODAY that he knew
the election laws and was shocked
when the poll worker tried to suppress
his vote.
Since the incident, Arias said he has
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“I was never registered or nothing.
Until this time. It makes you feel bet-
ter,” said Duvall, who filled out an ab-
sentee ballot at her nursing home for
Trump. “I know that he’s the right man
– all he’s done for the
people.”
Duvall said her hus-
band always voted, but
she stayed home with
the children. Rick Du-
vall, 66, said his mother
Gilmore has followed Trump on
Fox News every day
since his election.
“We almost lost her, but she fought
her way through it,” he said. “And she
couldn’t wait to get her vote in for
Trump.”
Tennessean Jay Gilmore, 41, has sat
out of elections for 20 years. For him,
the importance of voting wasn’t em-
phasized growing up, and he believes
politicians often only want his vote
rather than caring about the issues
that affect his family
and day-to-day life.
“I have always felt
like my vote doesn’t not
matter. My voice does
not count,” Gilmore
said.
Hess What changed was
seeing “so much hate
coming from our Oval Office,” he said.
Gilmore voted early and went to a
polling location at a church with his
wife, who supported him and encour-
aged him to vote. He was on his way
out and forgot to get his “I voted” stick-
er. His wife told him to run back in. He
placed the stick on his mask.
“I did feel some sense of ‘This is
monumental,’” he said. “This might
shape the way my three children view
voting.”
Julie Hess is a bondswoman in Itha-
ca, Michigan, who has a child who is
developmentally delayed. At age 59,
she’s casting her first-ever vote be-
cause it was easier to vote by absentee
ballot.
She had to make the choice between
throwing the “people of my profession
under the bus” and “a bully.” Biden’s
platform includes ending cash bail,
but Trump in 2015 mocked a reporter
with a disability.
Sitting in front of her computer
staring at her absentee ballot, she said
she had an anxiety attack.
In previous years, she has made it to
voting sites but never actually cast a
An official mail-in ballot drop box is
posted outside of a library ahead on
Oct. 5 in Los Angeles. One of these
boxes was set on fire in an incident
officials are investigating as arson.
MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES
received backlash from conservative
neighbors in his Nextdoor group who
said he shouldn’t have been allowed to
vote.
“I don’t take it (Black lives matter) as
a political issue,” Arias said. “It’s a hu-
man rights issue; it’s a human equality
issue. It just goes to show that there is a
systemic problem in this country that
just stating that Black lives matter gets
people in a tizzy.”
False robocalls and mailers go out
to voters
Earlier this month, two conservative
operatives were charged with making
false robocalls to residents in majority-
Black Detroit saying that if they voted
by mail, they could face debt collection
and forced vaccination.
Officials say residents in New York,
Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania received
similar calls.
The two men, identified as Jacob
Wohl, 22, and Jack Burkman, 54, face
felony charges including conspiring to
intimidate voters in violation of election
law and using a computer to commit
crimes.
Some Black voters in Detroit also re-
ceived literature in the mail falsely tell-
Alan Baker, 64, and his brother, Jeffrey
Baker, 63, both voted for Biden in
2020. Alan hadn't voted since the 1984
election while Jeffrey never voted
until the 2020 primaries.
ALAN BAKER
vote. When she was 18, a fight broke out
between a Democrat and a Republican,
she said, and it turned her off to voting.
In 2008, she was prepared to vote for
Barack Obama, but someone directed a
racial slur at her in line, causing her to
leave. So when COVID-19 allowed for ex-
panded voting by absentee ballot across
the country, Hess knew she could cast
her vote without having to face similar
issues.
“I don’t think he’s handled this pan-
demic properly,” Hess said of Trump.
Family members have been hospitalized
with COVID-19, she said, and she has
approved of the response by her gover-
nor, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, to the
virus.
Ultimately, she chose Biden.
Dana Fisher, 39, and his wife drove
more than 1,000 miles from South Caro-
lina to Massachusetts to cast their votes
for Trump at the polls this year. For Fish-
er, a software engineer and the former
director of a nonprofit working with
people experiencing homelessness, it
was his first time voting in 20 years. His
wife, a nurse who works with COVID-19
patients, voted for the first time. She de-
clined to comment.
“I lean right, but I have a lot of social-
justice-type beliefs. And so I didn’t vote
for Trump in 2016. I didn’t vote for any-
one,” Fisher said. “The things President
Trump said he would do, he has done.
And he’s certainly done a lot for minor-
ities, which is important to me.”
Fisher, who is white, referenced pre-
pandemic low unemployment for mi-
norities, Trump’s funding for historical-
ly black colleges and universities and
his executive order prioritizing job skills
over a college degree in government hir-
ing.
Fisher said he voted for the first time
in 2000 but became disillusioned with
politics, which took a backseat to his
school and work life. Fisher also said he
didn’t feel as if his vote in Massachu-
NEWS
ing them they had until Nov. 10 to vote
due to COVID-19 concerns, said Shan-
non Rochon, a local community orga-
nizer. Some of the mailers included a
non-working Google phone number for
voters to call for more information, he
said.
To combat voter suppression, Ro-
chon said he has been leading marches
with groups of voters to drop their ab-
sentee ballots off at drop boxes. Rochon,
who also voted by mail, said the voters
feel more confident that their vote will
count when they complete the process
with a community leader and their
neighbors.
“(Voter suppression) does concern
me but one thing about the people of
Detroit and people of color that I’ve
come across... it almost ignites a new
fire to make sure that their vote is count-
ed,” Rochon said. “The suppression is
somewhat backfiring.”
Ballot drop boxes set on fire
Drop boxes set up across counties to
make it easier for voters to submit their
mail-in ballots have also been a source
of voter suppression in 2020, voting
rights activists and officials say.
Both California and Boston have seen
ballot drop boxes set on fire this month
destroying dozens of ballots.
The first incident was in Baldwin
Park – a majority-Latino Los Angeles
suburb – where someone on Oct. 18 set
fire to a ballot box containing about 100
ballots.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda
Solis called the incident arson and said
it “has all the signs of an attempt to dis-
enfranchise voters.”
The FBI is also investigating a ballot
drop box fire in Boston that election offi-
cials said was a “deliberate attack.”
The fire was set around 4 a.m. Oct. 25
outside the Boston Public Library
downtown. It contained 122 ballots
when it was emptied Sunday morning;
87 of them were still legible and able to
be processed.
setts mattered because of the Electoral
College.
“If your candidate isn’t the one that
your state is going to vote for, your vote
sort of doesn’t count. But I’ve done a 180
since then,” he said. “This just seems
like a really, really important time.”
Some organizations are also breaking
from tradition this year. The New Eng-
land Journal of Medicine published an
editorial condemning Trump and his
administration for their response to the
pandemic and, for the first time in it’s
208-year history, called for current lead-
ership to be voted out of office.
Weeks later, USA TODAY’s Editorial
Board endorsed Biden, the first time it
had endorsed a presidential candidate
since its founding in 1982.
Other groups that hadn’t endorsed a
candidate backed Trump this year. In
New York City, the president of the city’s
largest police union said his group’s
support of Trump was the first time he
can recall in the organization’s history.
“That’s how important this is,” Pat-
rick Lynch, president of the New York
City Police Benevolent Association, said
during an event in August at Trump’s
New Jersey golf course.
Jeffrey Baker, 63, said he “can’t stand
Trump.” He never voted until the prima-
ries in 2020. In 2016, he said, he was cer-
tain Hillary Clinton would win. “I
thought they didn’t need my vote.
What’s one vote? Boy was I wrong.”
His brother, Alan Baker, 64, hadn’t
voted since 1984. “I was young, dumb, I
was more worried about having more
fun than I was worried about the vote,”
the elder Baker said.
Both served in the Marines, and Jef-
frey Baker said he felt apolitical for years
with his military background. “I got in
my head that voting wasn’t important.”
“What he’s done to disparage mili-
tary families and the military in general,
forget it,” Alan Baker said of Trump. Jef-
frey Baker was critical of Trump’s rela-
tionship with foreign leaders like Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin.
Both men cast their ballots for Biden
this year absentee, Alan from Florida
and Jeffrey from Texas.
Celebrities are joining in, too. Former
NBA star Shaquille O’Neal, 48, said he
had never voted until recently complet-
ing an absentee ballot. He also partici-
pated in a virtual rally to support Biden.
“I don’t have any excuses, but I didn’t
have time,” he told USA TODAY. “There’s
a lot of people speaking out and a lot of
people that are fed up. That is good. ...
We’re making a lot of noise, and now we
have to urge people to vote and get peo-
ple in places that understand what
we’re talking about so laws can be
changed.”
NEWS
ELECTION 2020
Black voters are courted in Pa.
Presidential race fierce
in battleground state
Deborah Barfield Berry
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Jacque’ Sci-fi Scott
whipped out her clippers, then spent
four hours one recent Sunday afternoon
cutting voters’ hair steps from a polling
site in Philadelphia. There were fades,
line-ups, partial cuts and even a shave.
“Are you voting?’’ Scott asked folks
sitting on her black bar stool under a
tent. “Do you plan to vote?”
Some getting the free cut, offered to
promote voting, had already cast their
ballot. Others were headed to the polling
site.
“Even if I were to get 10 people to vote,
then I know I’ve done my purpose,” said
Scott, 30, owner of Another Planet Bar-
bershop. In the final days leading up to
Election Day, Scott and other local activ-
ists teamed with national nonpartisan
groups like When We All Vote, Black
Voters Matter and others to promote
get-out-the-vote efforts for Black voters
in the battleground state.
Pennsylvania is a top prize for Presi-
dent Donald Trump and former Vice
President Joe Biden, and some activists
say Black voters could prove crucial to
deciding who wins the presidential race
and earns the state’s 20 electoral votes.
Organizers expect social unrest, the dis-
proportionate impact of the novel coro-
navirus pandemic on communities of
color, and the renewed national focus
on civil rights for Black Americans will
spur more Black voters to show up at the
polls than they did in 2016.
“There’s a lot of energy out there,’’
said Stephanie Young, chief officer for
communications and culture for When
We All Vote, a nonprofit civic engage-
ment group launched in 2018 by Mi-
chelle Obama, Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel
Miranda and others. “All of the circum-
stances that we’ve been faced with this
year have really created a more in-
formed and more passionate and a more
engaged electorate.”
To activate those voters, groups are
hosting socially distant rallies featuring
local artists; conducting phone banks
from home; setting up voter information
booths at outdoor events; and leading
caravans through Black neighborhoods.
Trump and Biden both campaigned
this week in the state. Last week, former
President Barack Obama stumped for
Biden in Philadelphia and Vice Presi-
dent Mike Pence for Trump in central
Pennsylvania.
Trump narrowly beat Democrat Hil-
lary Clinton in Pennsylvania in 2016, but
Biden is now leading Trump by 5.4
points there, according to USA TODAY’s
polling average. The state is 76% white
and 12% Black, and had voted Democrat
since 1992 before it swung right for
Trump.
*People realize the importance of the
election and ... that Donald Trump is
such a polarizing figure,” said Marc Mo-
rial, president of the National Urban
League.
“For many of us, he’s taken the coun-
try in a place that’s very dark, very bad,
very regressive, very hateful. There’s a
lot of energy out there, which is about
FACT CHECK
Workers’ marks do not invalidate ballots
Notes are there to help
enforce election laws
Paul Woolverton
USA TODAY NETWORK
As early voting began across the
country, people spread statements on
social media warning voters to watch to
see whether poll workers write on their
ballots or make any marks on them.
They claimed this would invalidate their
ballots and advised people to request a
replacement.
One of the statements on Facebook
claims to show a text message from a
poll worker who said, “Your ballot could
be DISQUALIFIED if it is WRITTEN ON.
Please be on the lookout for this type of
behavior FROM THE POLL WORKER.”
Comments like this were spreading
so much that on Oct. 15, the North Caro-
lina Board of Elections put out a state-
ment: “In North Carolina, this is false.”
Poll workers in some places, such as
A voter in Philadelphia stops on Oct. 18 to get information at an event hosted by
When We All Vote. AMURRI LAUREN
“Even if I were to get 10
people to vote, then I know
I’ve done my purpose.”
Jacque’ Sci-fi Scott
Owner of Another Planet Barbershop
stopping Donald Trump, stopping
Trumpism.”
‘We’re fighting for our democracy’
Brittany Smalls showed up around 6
a.m., last Saturday to set up metal barri-
cades for the National Early Vote Day
rally. The Black Voters Matter bus was
parked at the Onley Shopping Center –
about three blocks from a polling site in
Philadelphia.
More than 500 people attended the
event, which featured local hip-hop art-
ists, a popular DJ and election officials.
There also was a food truck and a voter
information table.
Since 2016, Black Voters Matter has
traveled through Black communities in
the South urging people to register and
vote. For the first time this year, it ex-
panded its route to include Pennsylva-
nia.
Smalls called 2016 a “missed oppor-
tunity” for candidates and other groups
to engage Black voters there. She voted
but knows many who didn’t. She thinks
that will change this election.
“We’re fighting for our democracy,’’
Smalls said. “People are looking for
some justice. There’s a lot of civil unrest
happening right now. People’s eyes are
open and they want true change.”
Nonpartisan groups have ramped up
their efforts in Pennsylvania in part be-
cause of the close race in 2016, when
Trump won the state 48.2% to 47.5%.
The win was decided by 44,000 votes.
“We knew that we needed to put
more effort, more energy into a place
like Pennsylvania to ensure that those
voters there had the resources to make
their voices heard,’’ said Young, of When
We All Vote.
As part its “Reclaim Your Vote’’ cam-
paign, the National Urban League has
focused on half a dozen states, includ-
North Carolina, put notes on ballots if
there is a chance that the voter isn’t eli-
gible to vote or isn’t eligible to use the
ballot they have in hand.
North Carolina poll workers write an
identifying number on all mail-in ab-
sentee ballots and all early voting bal-
lots, the Board of Election said in its Oct.
15 statement.
“This number allows the ballot to be
retrieved if necessary based on a voter
challenge, such as if the voter dies be-
fore Election Day or double votes,” the
office said.
There was a notable example of this
policy in April 2014.
That is when the father of a U.S. Sen-
ate candidate died shortly after he put
his absentee ballot in the mail for the
May primary.
North Carolina law says voters must
be alive on Election Day to have their
votes counted.
Because the voter was dead on the
May primary’s Election Day, reported
television station WRAL in Raleigh, the
USA TODAY ❚ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020 ❚ 3D
ing Pennsylvania. It targeted voters in
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Farrell, a
small city with a Black population of
about 42%.
According to the nonpartisan Pew
Research Center, 65% of Black voters in
Pennsylvania live in Philadelphia, 14%
in Pittsburgh and 4% in Harrisburg.
Many groups have focused on Phila-
delphia, where Black Americans make
up 43% of the population.
Voter turnout in Philadelphia was
68% in 2008 and 64% in 2016, said Mo-
rial of the National Urban League. Na-
tionwide, Black voter turnout slipped to
59.6% in 2016 after reaching a record-
high 66.6% in 2012, according to Pew. At
the same time, turnout among non-col-
lege-educated white voters in Pennsyl-
vania increased from 53% to 57%.
“That swing accounted for the mar-
gin of victory in Pennsylvania,’’ said
Morial, who recently visited Philadel-
phia and other locations in the state to
help get out the vote. “People know that
turnout makes a difference on both
sides of that equation.”
‘No accident Barack Obama went
to Pennsylvania’
Trump and Biden, who regularly
touts his Pennsylvania roots, have
worked in recent weeks to court Black
voters in the state.
Republicans set up Black Voices for
Trump Community Centers in Philadel-
phia and Pittsburgh, said Paris Den-
nard, senior communications advisor
for Black media affairs for the Republi-
can National Committee.
He said the group has also advertised
in media targeting Black audiences,
canvassed neighborhoods and hosted
rallies, Zoom events and MAGA meet-
ups. Philadelphia was among the 15 cit-
ies where the GOP held events for Na-
tional Black Voter Day and supporters
knocked on doors in west Philadelphia.
“The RNC ground game is serious,
the investments are historic and the re-
sults will be a victory for President
Trump,” Denard said.
Republicans have focused their ef-
forts on courting mostly white rural vot-
ers, said Brigid Callahan Harrison, a po-
litical scientist at Montclair State Uni-
In North Carolina, poll workers are
required to make notations on ballots.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION, PAUL WOOLVERTON/USA
TODAY NETWORK
elections staff removed the voter’s bal-
lot and it was not counted.
Poll workers may make marks on bal-
lots cast by in-person voters on Election
Day, the North Carolina elections board
said.
Sometimes, the board said in its an-
nouncement and on its website, there
are questions as to whether a voter is el-
igible to vote. For example, the voter’s
registration can’t be immediately con-
versity in New Jersey. Trump held a ral-
ly this month in Johnstown, a GOP
stronghold in Pennsylvania that is 76%
white. Pence also recently visited pre-
dominately white counties in the state.
Since Black voters are more likely to
vote for a Democrat, it’s not in Trump’s
best interest to try to turn them out,
Harrison said.
“He’s going to make most of his ap-
peals to his base constituency in rural
areas,’’ she said.
The Biden campaign, however, is
pressed to ensure Black voters turnout
in Pennsylvania, Harrison said. Histori-
cally, she said, voting patterns show
Black voters are the most loyal constitu-
ency for the Democratic Party. Along
with Obama, Biden has sent out U.S.
Sen. Kamala Harris, running to become
the nation’s first Black female vice
president, and her husband to cam-
paign in Pennsylvania in recent weeks.
“It’s no accident that Barack Obama
went to Pennsylvania,” Harrison said.
And with early voting underway, she
said, “we also see organized labor work-
ing very, very diligently to get all union
members out, but in particular union
voters of color.”
‘I know that everybody cares’
Laqueenda Adu and her mother, Kim,
went to a polling site near Philadelphia
City Hall Saturday to cast her first-ever
vote for president. Adu, an 18-year-old
student from Central High School, wait-
ed three hours.
Days before, Adu and others from the
high school program, ‘’My School Vote,”
emailed and called their peers remind-
ing them to vote.
Only 33% of the 18-to-24-year-olds in
Pennsylvania voted in the 2018 mid-
terms, according to When We All Vote.
Adu said it’s important for her and
other young people to vote, especially
with concerns about COVID-19 dispro-
portionately killing Black Americans, as
well as racial tensions in the wake of the
police killings of George Floyd and Bre-
onna Taylor.
In recent days, Philadelphia has been
gripped by protests over the fatal shoot-
ing by police of Walter Wallace Jr. , a 27-
year-old Black man. Police said officers
responded to a report of a person with a
weapon.
“I’ve seen the protests and I think a
lot of people really care about these is-
sues,” Adu said. “It’s just a matter of do-
ing other things besides protesting. If
you care, you should vote.”
Organizers point to long lines at poll-
ing sites in Philadelphia as signs of what
could turn into a historic Black voter
turnout this election cycle. Black voters
could also play a key role in other bat-
tleground states, including Florida and
Wisconsin, according to the Pew Re-
search Center.
Scott, the barber, is excited about the
early turnout so far. “I know we’re going
to stand up and show out,’’ she said.
She’s hoping those who got a haircut
will be among the millions voting in
Pennsylvania.
“I wouldn’t want to do free haircuts in
vain,” she said. “But that is the only pay-
ment. That and a smile.”
Rebecca Morin contributed to this re-
port.
firmed, or the voter went to the wrong
precinct and insisted on voting there in-
stead of going to the correct precinct
and getting the correct ballot for where
their home is.
When this happens, the voter is al-
lowed to provisionally vote. And a “P” is
written on the voter’s ballot.
The Board of Elections says on its
website that it will later review their sit-
uation and decide whether the voter
was eligible and had an appropriate bal-
lot. If so, his ballot would be counted.
Our rating: False
We rate the claim that if poll workers
make notations on ballots it could pre-
vent them from being counted as
FALSE. Poll workers make notes on bal-
lots as required to ensure the integrity of
the election. Those notations do not
automatically cause your ballot to be re-
jected or disqualified.
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4D ❚ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020 ❚ USA TODAY
ELECTION 2020
Electoral College chooses president
Sometimes it’s the
person with fewer votes
Josh Peter
USA TODAY
As the 2020 presidential election
nears, one of the most confusing and
controversial parts of the nation’s politi-
cal system is yet again front-and-cen-
ter: the Electoral College.
It’s the system that, four years ago,
made Donald Trump president even
though Hillary Clinton won the popular
vote handily.
That’s because the Electoral College,
established in Article II, Section 1 of the
U.S. Constitution, determines the win-
ner of the presidential election.
But come Election Day, your vote will
impact what the Electoral College does.
Here’s a quick refresher on the subject:
Why do they call it the Electoral
College?
Merriam-webster.com says “elector-
al” likely makes sense, as the term is
clearly related to the election. But what
about “college?” Historically, “college”
has meant “various groups of people
who are associated by a common pur-
suit or have common interests or du-
ties.” In this case, those groups of people
are the electors.
What are its basics?
The Electoral College is made up of
538 delegates: people who cast the vot-
esthat formally elect the president. The
total number of electors represent the
total number of U.S. senators, 100 (two
per state); the total number of state rep-
resentatives, 435; and three more elec-
tors for the District of Columbia.
“When we vote for president, we are
actually voting for the electors of our
state to go vote for the president,” said
Erin Merrill, a middle school teacher in
Manassas, Virginia, and one of three re-
cipients for the American Civic Educa-
How pandemic has affected voters with disabilities
Elaine S. Povich
Stateline
Penny Shaw, 77, who lives in a long-
term care facility in Braintree, Massa-
chusetts, usually votes at a polling place
she can get to easily in her electric
wheelchair. This year, Shaw had to come
up with a new plan.
Braintree officials changed polling
place locations because of the pandem-
ic, and Shaw worried that her severe
muscle weakness from Guillain-Barre
syndrome would prevent her from get-
ting to the nearest site. She couldn’t get
election officials on the phone to con-
firm the new location, and she has trou-
ble using a computer. So, she requested
an absentee ballot and took it to a post
office six blocks away.
“Better to be safe than sorry,” she
said. “I don’t want to not vote.”
Shaw’s situation is emblematic of the
new difficulties the pandemic has cre-
ated for voters with disabilities – even
as many of them are benefitting from
the relaxation of rules regarding who
can cast an absentee ballot.
Many people with disabilities, esti-
mated to be one-sixth of voters this
year, encounter barriers when they try
to vote in person. In a 2017 study of poll-
ing places used in the 2016 election, the
U.S. Government Accountability Office
found 60% of them had one or more po-
tential impediments. The most common
were steep ramps outside buildings, a
lack of signs indicating accessible paths
and poor parking or path surfaces.
Because of the pandemic, many
states this year are not requiring a spe-
cific excuse for absentee voting – a relief
for some people with disabilities, said
Doug Kruse, a professor at Rutgers Uni-
versity and co-director of the school’s
disability research program. “Anything
that makes it easier to vote is good for
people with disabilities,” he said.
Kruse, 61, uses a wheelchair because
of injuries he suffered when he was hit
by a drunken driver in 1990. He usually
likes to vote in person, with his wife,
Rutgers professor Lisa Schur, co-direc-
tor of the disability research program,
helping him over a couple of curbs in the
way of his usual voting place. But this
year, “I’m relieved New Jersey sent me a
ballot. I really don’t want to expose
tion Teachers Award in 2020. “But most
of us don’t even know who the electors
of our state are unless we’ve done our
research.”
The state parties appoint electors to
cast the electoral ballots on the Monday
after the second Wednesday in De-
cember of the presidential election –
about a month after Americans cast
their ballots.
How are the votes divided?
The Electoral College is widely
known as a “winner take all” system be-
cause the winner of the popular vote in
each state gets all of the state’s electoral
votes. The exceptions are Maine and
Nebraska, which award their electoral
votes more proportionally.
How is a winner selected?
It takes 270 or more electoral votes to
win a presidential election.
In 2016, Trump won with 304 elector-
al votes. It was the fifth time in Amer-
ican history that the winner of the presi-
dential election lost the popular vote.
And it was the second time since 2000 –
when Al Gore won the popular vote but
George W. Bush won the Electoral Col-
lege – that a candidate lost the popular
vote but won the Electoral College.
Why do we keep it?
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law
school at the University of California at
Berkley and a constitutional scholar,
said a key thing to understand about
Electoral College is “it proportionately
favors smaller states over larger states.”
Each state, no matter how big or
small, gets the same number of electors
for its two senators. That means Califor-
nia, the most populous state, gets no
more electors per senator than Wyo-
ming, the least populous state in the
country. Based on population, this
leaves Wyoming and other smaller
states with more electors per resident
than California and other big states.
Poll worker Sheila Thomas helps voters to submit their ballots from the curbside
voting line on Tuesday at Malcolm X Opportunity Center, an early-voting center
in Washington. JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP
myself to COVID.”
Absentee ballots can create chal-
lenges for some people with disabilities
who need assistance to mark their bal-
lots, such as the visually impaired. Most
in-person polling places provide assis-
tants to help visually impaired voters
read the ballot and make the appropri-
ate mark.
The question of helping people vote
is particularly acute in assisted living
facilities. In past election years, visiting
relatives or friends could help residents
fill out ballots. But pandemic-related re-
strictions have limited visitors, and in
some states, such as North Carolina and
Louisiana, state laws prohibit facility
staff from helping residents vote.
A federal court ruled in August that
the North Carolina law put an undue re-
striction on who may help residents
vote, but it did not issue an injunction to
stop the state from enforcing the ban. A
Louisiana judge granted a temporary in-
junction to allow “no excuse” absentee
voting and specifically singled out peo-
ple who assist those with disabilities as
eligible for mail-in voting themselves,
as well as those they assist.
Other states, including Minnesota
and Tennessee, have eased restrictions
on voting in long-term care facilities by
allowing staff to be designated as elec-
tion officials to help residents vote.
The federal Centers on Medicare and
Medicaid Services also issued a direc-
The Electoral College is the
system that in 2016 made
Donald Trump president
even though Hillary Clinton
won the popular vote.
Also at issue: The Electoral College
incentivizes presidents to campaign in
“swing states” – Florida, Michigan and
Pennsylvania to name a few – far more
than in big states such as California and
Texas, where the election outcomes are
more predictable.
And California, Texas and other big
states are forced to live with the system
because there are too many smaller
states that would fight off a constitu-
tional amendment to abolish the Elec-
toral College, Chemerinsky said.
It would take three-quarters of the
states to pass a constitutional amend-
ment. “And you’re not going to get three-
quarters of the states to agree (to the
amendment),” Chemerinsky said.
Can it be trusted?
Occasionally, rogue electors object-
ing to the Electoral College outcome
have cast their ballot for the candidate
who failed to win the popular vote in
their state but won the overall popular
vote. People were clamoring for electors
to do just that after the 2016 election.
It didn’t happen then, and now it’s
even more unlikely. In July, the Supreme
Court restricted the power of these
“faithless electors” by ruling the states
can require them to support the winner
of the popular vote in those states. In 32
states, rogue electors face fines and the
possibility of being replaced.
Why do we have it?
This is what the Founding Fathers
agreed upon at the Constitutional Con-
vention in 1787.
tive on Oct. 5 to Medicare/Medicaid cer-
tified long-term care facilities affirming
that “a resident’s rights, including the
right to vote, must not be impeded in
any way by the nursing home and its fa-
cility staff.”
Nina A. Kohn, law professor at Syra-
cuse University and a distinguished
scholar in elder law at Yale Law School,
said in a phone interview that while
laws like the Voting Rights Act and di-
rectives like the one from CMS may out-
line how voters with disabilities must be
accommodated, there are impediments.
“As a practical matter, how do they
obtain that assistance?” she said. “With
COVID, many individuals don’t have ac-
cess to family members and friends who
would provide that assistance.”
Maurice Miller, a 57-year-old stroke
survivor who lives at an assisted living
facility in Takoma Park, Maryland, said
the staff at his residence took up the
slack when visitors were not allowed in.
“They had members of the manage-
ment team collect our ballots and drop
them off at a box,” he said. “And I’ve got
an ‘I Voted’ sticker on my laptop.”
But that sort of help has sparked con-
troversy in Nevada, where President
Donald Trump and Republicans argue
that a change in state election law that
allows nonfamily members to turn in
ballots on behalf of other voters could
lead to voter fraud.
Under the new rules, collecting a
NEWS
“When the Constitution was written,
most Americans weren’t educated,
weren’t allowed to vote or weren’t able
to know who was running, and that’s
partly why this system was created: be-
cause they couldn’t necessarily trust the
average voter to be informed enough,”
said Merrill, the middle school civics
teacher from Virginia. “I wouldn’t nec-
essarily say that’s true nowadays.”
Slavery also played a role, Chemerin-
sky said. If the Founding Fathers had
decided the popular vote would deter-
mine the presidency, enslaved people
would have had no impact on the elec-
tion because they were not allowed to
vote. But the Electoral College allowed
slaves to be counted as three-fifths of a
person in determining how many elec-
tors each state got. “So Southern states
got a benefit in the allocation of elec-
tors,” Chemerinsky said.
A little Constitutional reading helps
understand how the Founding Fathers
settled on the Electoral College, said
Emma Humphries, chief education offi-
cer and deputy director of an iCivics
program called CivXNow, founded by
retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra
Day O’Connor as a way to make civics
more engaging.
“If you read the Federalist Papers – if
you’re ever having trouble sleeping at
night, I highly recommend them – you
can start to understand why they did it
that way,” she said. “So much of our sys-
tem is built around compromises, so they
can get the thing done, so they can get
enough signatures at the (Constitution-
al) Convention and ultimately enough
states to ratify it to move it forward.
“The strongest argument against the
Electoral College is sort of what we saw
2016, that you have a candidate who
does not receive the popular vote is out-
voted by 3 million votes and still claims
the White House.
“On the flip side, if we didn’t have it,
some of those big states on the coast
would determine the winner and those
mid-Atlantic states and smaller states
would feel like they’re not represented
by the person in the Oval Office.”
bunch of ballots from residents at a
communal facility, so-called ballot har-
vesting, is legal if the collector does not
try to influence how the residents vote.
But detractors say residents of nursing
homes and assisted living centers are
ripe for illegal manipulation.
Nevada Republicans sued to stop the
change, but their lawsuit was rejected
by a federal judge who ruled in Septem-
ber that the dispute was a “policy dis-
agreement,” not a legal issue.
Daniel Stewart, an election lawyer in
Las Vegas and former general counsel to
former Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republi-
can, said the new law makes it easier for
all people with disabilities to vote.
“I think potentially any new voting
practice somebody could devise a way
to abuse it, but I’ve seen no evidence
that this in any way is going to open the
doors to abuse,” Stewart said in a phone
interview.
According to a study by Kruse and
Schur, a projected 38.3 million people
with disabilities will be eligible to vote in
the November elections, representing
close to one-sixth of the total electorate.
Their study showed that’s an increase of
nearly 20% since 2008, compared with
an increase of 12% among eligible voters
without disabilities.
People with disabilities are highly
motivated to vote, Kruse said, in part
because they have a difficult time
engaging in other political activities
such as volunteering at the polls,
door-knocking for candidates or con-
tacting voters.
In the 2018 midterms, voter turnout
surged, the professors found, with near-
ly half of people with disabilities among
the voting eligible population (49.3%)
voting, up from almost 41% in 2014’s
midterms. About half of voters with dis-
abilities lean Democratic and about
42% favor Republicans, according to a
2016 report from the Pew Research Cen-
ter. (The Pew Charitable Trusts funds
the center and Stateline.)
“The fact that people with disabilities
tend to be older and older people are
more susceptible to COVID makes this
election an issue of health care,” Schur
said, which also is likely to boost voting.
This story was originally published
by Stateline, an initiative of The Pew
Charitable Trusts.
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ALABAMA Montgomery: Lt. Gov.
Will Ainsworth said he returned to
work Wednesday after being diag-
nosed with COVID-19 last week. Ains-
worth said he completed a quaran-
tine after a positive test last Wednes-
day for the coronavirus.
ALASKA Anchorage: The city is on a
“dangerous path” as coronavirus
cases rise, its health director said
Wednesday as officials implored peo-
ple to avoid gatherings and follow
orders to wear masks in public.
ARIZONA Phoenix: State health offi-
cials on Thursday reported more than
1,300 additional known COVID-19
cases as seven-day rolling averages
for new cases, new deaths and test-
ing positivity in the state all rose over
the past two weeks.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: A tenth state
lawmaker, Rep. Marcus Richmond,
tested positive for the coronavirus
Wednesday in what has become the
second-largest outbreak of the virus
in a state legislature.
CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: The city is
again considering a proposal to great-
ly restrict where homeless people
may camp in public places around
the city – rules that opponents say
would criminalize homelessness.
COLORADO Denver: The state at-
torney general’s office has issued a
cease-and-desist letter to the co-
owner of a Fort Morgan mobile home
park who distributed a notice to ten-
ants saying their rent could double if
Democrat Joe Biden wins the presi-
dential election.
CONNECTICUT Storrs: The Univer-
sity of Connecticut is suspending a
new free-tuition program for lower-
income students as it struggles to
raise private funds amid a pandemic.
DELAWARE Dover: The state attorney
general’s office has backed away from
a suggestion that anyone handing out
literature at polling places that accu-
rately cites state law on voter fraud
could be charged with voter intimida-
tion and has confirmed that Delawar-
eans are not prohibited by state law
from carrying firearms while voting.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing-
ton: Capital One Arena, Nationals
Park, and the Wizards Sports and
Entertainment Arena are among D.C.
sports venues that have been turned
into voting centers amid efforts to
maintain social distancing during the
pandemic, WUSA-TV reports.
FLORIDA Tallahassee: Gov. Ron De-
Santis couldn’t initially cast his ballot
this week because someone illegally
changed his address online, a compli-
cation that resulted in a suspect’s
arrest on felony charges and raised
questions about the security of the
state’s online registration system.
GEORGIA Rome: The school system
sent all its students home to take
classes virtually for 10 days because
of coronavirus infections and quaran-
tines. The Rome system said Tuesday
that the district of 6,400 students
would switch to all-online instruction
Wednesday through Nov. 6.
HAWAII Honolulu: Oahu’s short-term
vacation rental industry can operate
again after the lifting of coronavirus
restrictions that hammered business.
The island’s vacation rental occu-
pancy for September fell to 14.5%, a
59% decrease from 2019, The Honolu-
lu Star-Advertiser reports.
IDAHO Coeur d’Alene: It is legal to
wear T-shirts or buttons supporting
candidates or issues to the polls, as
long there is no overt politicking done
by that person, an opinion from the
Idaho attorney general’s office states.
ILLINOIS Springfield: Gov. J.B. Pritz-
ker said Wednesday that his admini-
stration is collecting and will make
public the data to justify his CO-
VID-19 restrictions on indoor dining
after Senate Republicans urged him
to release the numbers.
INDIANA Indianapolis: Jonathan
Weinzapfel, the Democratic candi-
date for state attorney general, is
calling on Indiana to legalize marijua-
na, saying doing so would reduce the
state’s prison and jail populations
and generate millions of dollars for
public education.
IOWA Des Moines: The state’s num-
bers of coronavirus cases, deaths and
hospitalizations continued to surge
higher Wednesday as medical profes-
sionals have begun to express con-
cern that hospitals could be over-
whelmed with patients if no action is
taken to slow the virus’s spread.
HIGHLIGHT: OKLAHOMA
David Casey sets up makeshift voting booths Wednesday at ONEOK Field. AP
Oklahoma City: Early in-person voting began Thursday across the state. In Tul-
sa, early voting was taking place at the minor league baseball stadium, ONEOK
Field, to accommodate more voters and allow for better social distancing as the
coronavirus continues to surge. Besides president, Oklahoma voters will cast
ballots for a U.S. Senate race, five U.S. House seats, corporation commissioner
and two state questions, along with legislative and county seats and appellate
judges. Even before early in-person voting began, more than 234,000 Oklaho-
mans had already cast ballots by mail, more than twice as many as in 2016.
KANSAS Wichita: A retired fire-
fighter charged with threatening to
kidnap and kill the mayor because
he was upset about the city’s mask
ordinance had been texting an ac-
quaintance on the City Council for
more than a month before his ar-
rest, newly released court records
show in the case against Meredith
Dowty, who was charged last week
with three counts of criminal threat.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Facing its
worst coronavirus outbreak since
the pandemic began, the state
surged past 100,000 total COVID-19
cases Wednesday as Gov. Andy
Beshear bluntly warned that people
are putting themselves at risk if
they fail to wear masks in public.
LOUISIANA Baton Rouge: The
state’s chief elections officer said he
is assessing how Hurricane Zeta
may affect the ability to cast ballots
Tuesday after the storm caused
widespread power and structure
damage. Secretary of State Kyle
Ardoin said emergency polling sta-
tions will be set up if needed.
MAINE Portland: Absentee ballots
continue to flood into clerk’s offices,
and the processing has started.
Clerks normally cannot begin proc-
essing absentee ballots until the
Friday before Election Day, but an
executive order by Gov. Janet Mills
allowed local election officials to
begin processing them Tuesday.
MARYLAND Annapolis: As health
officials face skepticism about
rushed COVID-19 vaccines, the state
will conduct outreach efforts to
promote trust in a vaccine when a
safe one becomes available, Mary-
land’s deputy health secretary said
Wednesday.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The first
coronavirus testing site at Logan
International Airport opened
Wednesday. The site will be for air-
port and airline employees at first
but will start testing travelers in
mid-November, health and wellness
company XpresSpa Group said.
MICHIGAN Lansing: The Demo-
cratic governor and top state elec-
tions official on Wednesday de-
fended the integrity of the election
amid continued attacks from Presi-
dent Donald Trump, saying that
results may take longer in close
contests because of the surge in
absentee voting but that every valid
ballot would be counted.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: State
health officials warned Wednesday
against traditional Halloween fes-
tivities. Their guidance describes
lower-risk activities as carving
pumpkins and decorating homes,
virtual gatherings, and in-home
activities with household members
like watching a movie.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: Having
enough poll workers, securing bal-
lots, and ensuring election workers
and voters are safe from COVID-19
are challenges local election officials
say they have to face for Tuesday’s
election. Officials say they’re using
plexiglass barriers, recruiting poll
workers online and supplying per-
sonal protection equipment at pre-
cincts, and voters in some counties
will be given disposable pens to sign
poll books and mark ballots.
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MISSOURI Columbia: A federal
judge refused to intervene Wednes-
day to keep open a lab that handled
coronavirus tests for about 2,500
nursing homes in 11 states after the
federal government suspended the
lab for what it alleged were serious
violations that put patients’ health
at risk. U.S. District Judge Douglas
Harpool said Gamma Healthcare
was in effect asking him to step into
a role that belongs to regulators.
MONTANA Helena: A staff member
in Gov. Steve Bullock’s office tested
positive for the coronavirus, a
spokesperson for the governor said
Wednesday, but Bullock and Lt. Gov.
Mike Cooney have tested negative.
NEBRASKA Omaha: A former TV
weatherman and spokesman for a
former mayor has been sentenced to
two years of probation for emailing
death threats to a local health de-
partment director over her handling
of the coronavirus outbreak. Ronald
Penzkowski, 58, was sentenced
Tuesday, the Omaha World-Herald
reports.
NEVADA Carson City: Businesses
may close, and hospitals may need
to adopt “crisis standards” that
include care rationing, if the coro-
navirus continues to spread at cur-
rent rates, state leaders said
Wednesday. “I don’t care who says
it: We are not rounding the corner,”
Gov. Steve Sisolak said.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Penny
Dean, an attorney arguing against
allowing the 400-member state
House to hold remote sessions dur-
ing the coronavirus pandemic,
falsely claimed Thursday that the
flu usually kills more people than
COVID-19.
NEW JERSEY Trenton: The state’s
ballot question on legalizing recre-
ational marijuana has led to more
than $2 million in campaign fund-
raising, mostly by groups in favor of
cannabis, the state’s Election Law
Enforcement Commission said
Thursday. The campaign already
ranks in the top 10 costliest ballot
questions in state history, according
to the commission.
NEW MEXICO Santa Fe: As many as
4 in 5 public school students are
failing at least one class in some of
the state’s school districts, accord-
ing to data made public Wednesday
by legislative analysts. State law-
makers are considering the impact
of school closures, educational chal-
lenges posed by remote learning
and learning losses attributed to far
less in-person schooling because of
the pandemic.
NEW YORK New York: The U.S.
Justice Department vastly expand-
ed an inquiry Wednesday that could
determine whether the state is un-
dercounting coronavirus deaths
among nursing home residents,
demanding detailed data from hun-
dreds of private facilities.
NORTH CAROLINA Durham: Two
restaurant owners in the city have
won a lawsuit they filed accusing
their insurance company of not
honoring its contract when they had
to close their businesses due to the
coronavirus, according to a spokes-
person for a company run by one of
the owners.
News from across the USA
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: The
state’s death toll from COVID-19
neared 500 on Thursday, with health
officials reporting 11 more deaths.
OHIO Columbus: Employers will
receive a record $5 billion in repay-
ments from the state insurance fund
for injured workers to help with the
financial impact of the pandemic,
Gov. Mike DeWine and the fund’s
administrator said Wednesday.
OREGON Salem: With less than a
week to go until Election Day, more
than 57% of registered voters in the
state have already cast their ballots.
At this point during the past three
presidential elections, fewer than
44% of Oregonians had returned
their ballots.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: State
liquor regulators on Wednesday
waived nearly $28 million in 2021
fees for bars, restaurants, hotels and
other retail licensees that have been
hit hard by the pandemic and state-
imposed restrictions.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: The
state attorney general’s office on
Thursday issued a warning to land-
lords to remind them that evicting a
tenant without a court order is illegal
and may result in prosecution.
SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia: More
than 1 million votes have already been
cast in November’s election in the
state. The millionth vote – all by ab-
sentee ballot so far – was recorded
sometime Wednesday, according to
data from the South Carolina Election
Commission.
SOUTH DAKOTA Sioux Falls: The
state reported a record number of
daily COVID-19 deaths Thursday,
with 19. The number of hospitaliza-
tions also inched up to 413 – the fifth
day in a row it has hit a new high.
TENNESSEE Nashville: The state is
considering independently reviewing
the safety and efficacy of a corona-
virus vaccine once it is eventually
approved by the federal government
before distributing it to the public,
Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey
said Wednesday.
TEXAS Austin: The state’s surge in
coronavirus cases has raised CO-
VID-19 hospitalizations by almost
2,500 since Oct. 1. The 5,650 hospi-
talizations reported Wednesday were
also the most since Aug. 19.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Republican
Burgess Owens is refunding and real-
locating illegal campaign donations
that went above contribution limits.
The former football player challeng-
ing U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams collected
about $135,000 in excess contribu-
tions, the New York Times reports.
VERMONT Thetford: Two state law-
makers from districts near the New
Hampshire border are asking Ver-
mont officials for flexibility after new
virus rules restrict nonessential trav-
el between the two states.
VIRGINIA Richmond: Southwest
Virginia is seeing a sustained, trou-
bling increase in cases of COVID-19
driven partly by small family gather-
ings, the governor and top health
officials said Wednesday, as one area
health system warned that its re-
sources were being stretched thin.
WASHINGTON Seattle: State health
officials say a new COVID-19 report
shows an increase in coronavirus
cases and hospitalizations through-
out Washington. If not brought under
control, officials said the spike could
jeopardize progress toward reopening
schools, strain the health care system
and increase risks during the holiday
season.
WEST VIRGINIA Huntington: Mar-
shall University plans to continue a
combination of in-person, virtual and
online classes for the spring semester
due to the coronavirus pandemic.
WISCONSIN Madison: The University
of Wisconsin-Madison will resume
enrolling patients for a coronavirus
vaccine trial next week. Thirty-six
people had received the first of two
shots before the study at the School
of Medicine and Public Health was
paused in September.
WYOMING Laramie: Nearly 80 posi-
tions will be eliminated, the opera-
tions budget will be cut, and the ath-
letic department will cut travel costs
and reduce salaries as the University
of Wyoming addresses a $42 million
budget deficit exacerbated by the
coronavirus pandemic.
From USA TODAY Network and
wire reports
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YOUR VOTING RIGHTS

As you prepare to go to the polls Tuesday,
here’s what you need to know to make sure your vote counts
JOSH PETER, JIM SERGENT, KARINA ZAIETS AND JAVIER ZARRACINA/USA TODAY

As the Nov. 3 election approaches, the fear and cynicism among American voters is undeniable. More than half of the 1,505
registered voters surveyed in a YouGov poll Oct. 1-2 said they expect to see “an increase in violence as a result of the
election.” Another YouGov poll found that almost half of voters disagree with the idea that the election “is likely to be fair
and honest.” Amidst that uneasy climate, voter knowledge is key. Here are rights voters have at the polls.

VOTE FREE OF INTIMIDATION

U.S. code
Title 18, Part I,
Chapter 29,
Section 594:
“Whoever intimidates,
threatens, coerces, or
attempts to intimidate,
threaten, or coerce, any
other person for the
purpose of interfering with
the right of such other
person to vote or to vote as
he may choose….shall be
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imprisoned not more than
one year, or both.’’
The law hasn’t always stopped voter intimidation.
Who you can contact
In 1981, for example, the Republican National Committee
targeted a tight race for New Jersey governor. The RNC Voters who encounter or witness
created the “National Ballot Security Task Force,’’ made intimidation are encouraged to call:
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Election Protection Hotline:
to voting precincts heavily populated by Black and Latino
866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683)
residents.
The stated purpose of the so-called task force was to U.S. Department of Justice
prevent voter fraud. The outcome: discouraging voting rights hotline:
Democrats from going to the polls on a day when the 1-800-253-3931
Republican and the gubernatorial candidate prevailed by
1,797 votes out of 2.3 million cast. If threatened by violence:
911
But Julie Ebenstein, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s
Voting Rights Project, said there’s no recent history of
widespread voter intimidation, which would include
voters being questioned about citizenship, criminal
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VOTE BY PROVISIONAL BALLOT

IF YOUR NAME IS NOT ON THE LIST OF REGISTERED VOTERS

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If you show up to the polls
and your name is not on
the list of registered
voters, you may vote with
a provisional ballot. The
ballot should be counted
š‹ˆ‘’‰¯†Œ„–†’‘¯•œ’˜
are a registered voter in
that county and you did
not vote elsewhere.
on the rolls,’’ said Kristen Clarke, president and executive How to prepare
director of the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil ”™Š!”—Œ¨˜²—˜™Z™Ž’Š›”™Š—ˆŠˆ‘Ž˜™
Rights Under Law. “They may have been unlawfully
purged. Or removed from rolls. Or there may have been
Make sure you’re registered.
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voters’ name on the rolls.’’ n”“²—’ž”š—•”‘‘Ž“Œ˜Ž™Š
It happens. More than you might think. During the 2016 Learn what’s on your ballot.
presidential election, for example, 2.4 million provisional
ballots were cast and 71% were counted either partially Check if you need an ID to vote.
or in full, according to the U.S. Election Assistance
Vote.
Commission.

VOTE WITH ACCOMMODATIONS BY MAIL

IF YOU HAVE A DISABILITY DIFFICULTY WITH ENGLISH? When it can arrive
Any voter unable to reach the polling Voters who struggle with English can Twenty states and Washington, D.C., count
site because of physical limitations or bring a family member or friend — ballots that arrive after Nov. 3. Those deadlines:
architectural barriers may request a but not an employer — to help them
ballot “curbside.’’ A polling site worker ¯’˜—„‘‡†„–—„…„’— 1 day
brings a ballot or a voting device to Texas
the voter and, if necessary, assists Ballots are available in a variety of 3
the voter. languages and, according to the U.S. Kansas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Election Assistance Commissioner,
5
No curbside votes in Alabama federal law requires more than 260
Mississippi, Washington
jurisdictions to provide some type
Alabama challenged curbside voting, of language assistance 6
and on Oct. 21, the U.S. Supreme Court Iowa, West Virginia, Wisconsin
blocked a lower court order allowing
curbside voting in the state. Language assistance 7
Minnesota, New Jersey
There also are toll-free numbers
for assistance in: 10
Complaints, violations Alaska, D.C., Indiana, Maryland, New York, Ohio
Report complaints and possible Spanish: 1-888-839-8682
14
violations of federal voting rights Arabic: 1-844-925-5287
Illinois, Michigan
laws to the Civil Rights Division’s Bengali, Catonese, Hindu, Urdu,
Voting Section:1-800-253-3931 or 17
Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog and
202-307-2767. California
Vietnamese: 888-274-8683

Your ballot’s status

According to an analysis by the National Vote
RE-VOTE at Home Institute, 47 states and the District of
Columbia now have online portals that allow
voters to track the status of their ballots every
WHAT’S THE RULE step of the way.
If you make a mistake, like voting for the unintended candidate or voting or more than
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State portal ballot tracking
Local option ballot tracking
VOTE AFTER THE POLLS CLOSE Statewide ballot tracking with
›”™Š—“”™Ž²ˆ†™Ž”“ ME
WHAT’S THE RULE
AK WI VT NH
If you’re in line when a polling place closes and you still want to vote, stay put.
“It doesn’t matter if that line is stretching for hours or blocks,’’ said Clarke, of the WA ID MT ND MN IL MI NY MA
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “As long as you’re in line when the
polls close, you have a right to vote.’’ OR NV WY SD IA IN OH PA NJ CT RI

CA UT CO NE MO KY WV VA MD DE

AZ NM KS AR TN NC SC

OK LA MS AL GA

HI TX FL

SOURCE The National Vote at Home Institute, vote.org