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The sitting U.S. president has been named the pollster’s most-admired man in 60 out of 74 years, including all eight years of Obama’s presidency and every year of George W. Bush’s presidency except for 2008. Trump had finished second to Obama in 2017 and 2018.
The 2020 rankings are the 10th time Trump has ranked among the top 10. Before entering the political sphere, he made the list in 1988, 1989, 1990 and 2011. Biden made only his second appearance in the top 10 after making the list in 2018.
Among Republicans surveyed, 48 percent of respondents named Trump as their most admired man. No other public figure got more than 2 percent Republican support, according to Gallup. Among independents, both Obama and Trump received 11 percent support. Fauci was the choice of 5 percent of Democrats but just 1 percent of Republicans.
Trump’s supposedly crack legal team including a former prosecutor who had not seen the inside of a court room in decades, a former prosecutor fired from her old job for performance issues and a conspiracy-spouting attorney who was too much even for the other two spent the weeks after Election Day filing lawsuits that went exactly nowhere.
The damage wrought by Trump’s false claims will linger long after he retreats to his Florida estate. Millions of Americans have had their faith in our election process undermined by both the candidate who lost a free and fair election and the media outlets who spread his deceit for their own gain.
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That s markedly high turnout for a runoff election, which usually sees much lower participation than a general election.
More than 79,000 people who did not vote in this November s general election have cast a ballot in the runoffs.
The runoffs already set an early voting record when 168,000 Georgians went to the polls the day they opened and another 314,000 cast absentee ballots that day. More than 1.1 million people voted either in person or by mail during the first week after early voting opened.
If Warnock and Ossoff win both races, then each party would hold 50 seats in the Senate, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
Trump is under pressure from some corners to extend the order into 2021, which would put pressure on the incoming Biden administration over whether to quickly rescind it. The president s advisers are said to be split over whether Trump should act, according to sources familiar with discussions.
Trump in June signed an executive order suspending the issuance of H-1B visas, H-2B visas, H-4 visas, L-1 visas and certain J-1 visas. The moratorium on new visas is in place through Dec. 31, meaning Trump has until Thursday to extend it or let it lapse.
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Proponents of extending the visa suspensions argue the pandemic is ongoing, and some on Trump s team believe it would create a potential political headache for President-elect Joe Biden