{"id":165075,"date":"2020-10-18T15:53:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T13:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/18\/trump-trails-biden-as-campaigns-head-for-battleground-states-live\/"},"modified":"2020-10-18T15:53:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T13:53:44","slug":"trump-trails-biden-as-campaigns-head-for-battleground-states-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=165075","title":{"rendered":"Trump trails Biden as campaigns head for battleground states \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whitmer aide: rhetoric against Michigan governor \u2018has to stop\u2019Trump in Nevada, Biden heads for North CarolinaTrump hopes fade in Wisconsin as economy boast unravelsTraitor: American perfidy, from Benedict Arnold to TrumpSign up for Fight to Vote \u2013 our weekly US election newsletter 2.42pm BST Lara Trump was also asked about the president\u2019s actions at a rally on Saturday when he attacked Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. More than a dozen men have been charged over a plot to kidnap Whitmer and Donald Trump told the crowd at his rally that \u201cThey said she was threatened. And she blamed me. Hopefully you\u2019ll be sending her packing pretty soon.\u201d The crowd responded with chants of \u201clock her up\u201d.When asked if the President should tone down his rhetoric against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Trump campaign senior adviser Lara Trump says, &#8220;He wasn&#8217;t doing anything, I don&#8217;t think, to provoke people to threaten this woman at all. He was having fun at a Trump rally&#8221; #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com\/Hm9GIWeH5d Related: &#8216;It has to stop&#8217;: Whitmer aide responds to Trump rally &#8216;lock her up&#8217; chants 2.37pm BST Lara Trump, the president\u2019s daughter-in-law and an advisor to his campaign, is on CNN\u2019s State of the Union. During a testy interview with Jake Tapper she is asked about a moment when she appeared to mock Joe Biden over the stutter he overcame as a child.Trump says she had no idea that Biden had had problems with a stutter when she made the remarks. Instead, she was referring to the fact that \u201cwhat we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That\u2019s what I\u2019m referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/oct\/18\/trump-biden-election-nevade-arizona-north-carolina-michigan-whitmer-coronavirus-latest-news\" target=\"_blank\">Trump trails Biden as campaigns head for battleground states \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitmer aide: rhetoric against Michigan governor \u2018has to stop\u2019Trump in Nevada, Biden heads for North CarolinaTrump hopes fade in Wisconsin as economy boast unravelsTraitor: American perfidy, from Benedict Arnold to TrumpSign up for Fight to Vote \u2013 our weekly US election newsletter 2.42pm BST Lara Trump was also asked about [&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-165075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165075","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=165075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}