{"id":160927,"date":"2020-09-17T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T13:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/17\/floods-grip-alabama-and-florida-as-wildfire-smoke-reaches-europe-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T13:41:13","slug":"floods-grip-alabama-and-florida-as-wildfire-smoke-reaches-europe-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=160927","title":{"rendered":"Floods grip Alabama and Florida as wildfire smoke reaches Europe \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Hurricane Sally: devastating floods expectedUS reinfection case raises question: how long does Covid immunity last?US military police \u2018sought use of heat ray\u2019 to disperse protestersSign up for our First Thing newsletter 2.41pm BST This is Joan Greve in Washington, taking over for Martin Belam.The Cook Political Report has moved Arizona from \u201cToss Up\u201d to \u201cLean Democrat,\u201d after a new poll shows Joe Biden leading Trump by 5 points in the state, which the president won in 2016. Arizona is geographically large, but its population is concentrated in Maricopa County (Phoenix). About two-thirds of the vote comes from Maricopa. Voters there, as in other suburban areas in and around big metro areas, have soured on Pres. Trump. Biden leads Trump there by six points, 46 percent to 40 percent. In 2016, Trump carried Maricopa with almost 52 percent of the vote. Another troubling sign for Trump in Arizona is that GOP voters are not as committed to supporting him as they are in the other Sun Belt states. &#8230; 2.00pm BST Secretary of state Mike Pompeo has just tweeted that he is off on his latest trip. He will be touring Suriname, Guyana, Brazil, Colombia and then dropping into Texas on the way back.The state department has billed the trip as highlighting \u201cthe United States\u2019 commitment to defend democracy, combating Covid-19 while revitalizing our economies in the pandemic\u2019s wake, and strengthening security against regional threats.\u201dWheels up and headed to Paramaribo. Looking forward to strengthening our bilateral relationships with Suriname, Guyana, Brazil, and Colombia as we continue our work to realize a hemisphere of freedom. https:\/\/t.co\/ayd1TJscZp pic.twitter.com\/Cvb2XpW1Va Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/sep\/17\/donald-trump-joe-biden-coronavirus-covid-19-\" target=\"_blank\">Floods grip Alabama and Florida as wildfire smoke reaches Europe \u2013 US politics live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Hurricane Sally: devastating floods expectedUS reinfection case raises question: how long does Covid immunity last?US military police \u2018sought use of heat ray\u2019 to disperse protestersSign up for our First Thing newsletter 2.41pm BST This is Joan Greve in Washington, taking over for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}