US election 2020

President Donald Trump will campaign in Maine on Sunday, a campaign source told CNN. The additional stop has not yet been announced. The President is already scheduled to be in New England on Sunday since he has a 1 p.m. rally set for Manchester, New Hampshire.

Why does it matter? Maine is interesting politically. The state is home to one of the most competitive Senate races of the year, with GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who has declined to say whether she's voting for the President this year, fighting to hold onto her seat.

Maine is only one of two states where the winner in the general election of each congressional district receives one electoral vote. The state has two congressional districts (and then the statewide winner gets an additional two). 

The Second Congressional District, which includes Bangor, has become a key focus for both campaigns. Vice President Mike Pence campaigned there earlier this week. 

What happened in 2016? Despite Hillary Clinton carrying the state, Trump won the rural northern district, earning him one of Maine’s four electoral votes. Since then, Democrats flipped the district in the 2018 midterms, unseating the last Republican member of the US House from New England in the country's first use of ranked choice voting for a House race.

What's unique about Maine in the general election? Maine is using ranked choice voting at the presidential level for the first time this year. Voters can rank the various candidates in order of preference while casting their ballot. If no candidate gets at least 50% of the popular vote, the person finishing last is eliminated and then the second choice is considered. The counting continues until a candidate gets a majority of the vote. There are five candidates on the ballot.

Melania Trump will vote on Election Day, the first lady’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham confirmed to CNN.

The first lady was noticeably absent at the voting booth Saturday when President Donald Trump cast his ballot in Palm Beach, Florida, as she remained in Washington, D.C., this weekend.

Melania Trump is set to vote on Election Day in Florida, where she is also registered.

More than 5 million Floridians have cast their ballots in the state with 10 days remaining until Election Day, according to Florida's Division of Elections statistics. A total of 5,288,965 ballots have been cast by mail or in person, state election statistics show.  

Shortly after Ohio State defeated Nebraska on the opening weekend of Big Ten college football, President Donald Trump took credit for the return of the conference’s season. 

“And it’s great to be back in Ohio to celebrate the return of Big Ten football with a big victory today for the Buckeyes,” Trump told the crowd Saturday at a rally in Circleville, Ohio, just outside of Columbus. 

“So then I had an idea, I said I’m gonna get it open if it’s shutdown, that’s what happened,” Trump said. “And I worked hard to bring back Big Ten and I got together with your commissioner, he did a good job, and we got it back, and today you won your football game and you were very happy about it.”

Trump repeatedly pressured the conference to play football this fall, which it ultimately decided to do. However, it’s unclear how much influence the President’s pressure had on that decision despite him taking credit for it. 

CNN's Harry Enten wrote earlier that Trump obviously saw a political opportunity with concern to the Big Ten. There's a reason he focused most of his attention on the Big Ten suspending play, as opposed to the many other conferences that did. Most of those other conferences aren't based in swing states.

And Trump wasn't alone. Biden also made ads showing empty college football stadiums due to the coronavirus with the blame landing at Trump's feet.

In a rebuke of President Trump, former President Barack Obama said his former Vice President Joe Biden would "restore our battered standing in the world" if elected president.

Former President Barack Obama took aim at President Trump and his response to the coronavirus pandemic during a campaign event this afternoon for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Miami, Florida.

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Former President Barack Obama campaigned on behalf of his former Vice President Joe Biden today in Miami, Florida, and called on Americans to vote.

More from Florida: Obama made an unannounced stop in Miami Springs, Florida, this afternoon to thank volunteers and supporters, telling them their work can help deliver Florida and the White House for Biden in November.

“If you bring Florida home, this thing’s over,” Obama said as he visited a 2020 Coordinated Campaign Victory Center in Miami Springs, according to a print pool report of the stop. “And that way I don’t have to stay up too late. I don’t have to wait for the results through the next day. I want to go to sleep knowing that we’re going to have a president fighting on our behalf.”

Obama referred to volunteers as “the lifeblood of any campaign” and urged them to keep up their work, including for Democrats in down ballot races.

“That’s what’s going to make a difference in this election,” he said, later adding, “Keep your masks on, stay safe, be socially distanced — and then go out there and kick some ass.”

More than 5 million Floridians have cast their ballots in the state with 10 days remaining until election day, according to Florida's Division of Elections statistics.  

A total of 5,288,965 ballots have been cast by mail or in person, state election statistics show.  

This is an increase of nearly 3 million ballots cast since last Saturday when 2.4 million ballots had been cast, CNN reported.  

Vote-by-mail ballots total 3,554,082 as of Saturday morning, the state's election division statistics show. For comparison, 2,732,075 residents voted by mail for the 2016 election, Florida voting data shows.   

There have also been 1,734,883 ballots cast at voting sites since early voting began on Monday, data shows.  

As Joe Biden spoke at his drive-in rally in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, dozens of cars and trucks full of what appeared to be Trump supporters were seen waving signs and American flags set up in the parking lot at the local community college where the event was happening.

Throughout the former vice president’s event, the group honked and made a ton of noise — shouting things like “four more years" while playing music and honking.

The noise could be heard by Biden, who noted at one point that he would be president for all Americans – “even those chumps out there with the microphones.”

Democratic Rep. John Garamendi called President Trump's comments on mail-in voting “a horribly dangerous game.”

Earlier today, Trump voted in person in Florida, saying that his chosen method was "much more secure." Experts says cases of mail-in voting fraud are very rare in the US. In March, Trump voted by mail in Florida’s primary election.

“Mail-in ballots are a secure, safe and appropriate way to vote,” he added. 

Garamendi also said that Biden has laid out a plan on tackling the coronavirus pandemic. The US recorded a record number of new Covid-19 cases on Friday. 

“Unfortunately, the President is going exactly the opposite direction, bouncing around the country, spreading the virus. It's unconscionable, but it is his reality, and his reality, unfortunately, is that we're going to live with the virus and all of the deaths,” he said.

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