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Choosing not to wear masks while he down plays the virus, soon the president leaves for another rally in pittsburgh where hell likely celebrate Senate Republicans securing the votes needed to move forward on his Supreme Court nominee in the final six weeks of the election. Though their caucus has yet to agree on a new Coronavirus Relief bill, believe it or not, as new polling out of iowa, where trump won by ten points finds him tied with joe biden at 47 . The same in georgia. A state trump won by five points back in 2016, now trump and biden both tied apartment 47 there. Lets turn now to two of the top reporters in washington covering this, Senior Writer at politico, jake sherman on capitol hill. Pbs newshour correspondent yamiche alcindor. The president tweet ....
We started with one person, now we have an auditorium of russians he was speaking to or whatever the hell it was, and its ridiculous. And the senate is expected to vote this week on health care, but as of now, Republican Senators May not even know yet which version of the Health Care Bill that theyll have to vote on. This week the senate will vote to begin the debate to repeal and replace obamacare once and for all. The president and i are calling on every member of the senate to support. But first, to congress. Its put its foot down on the white house, and as soon as this week it will prove new sanctions against russia. President trump would need lawmakers approval to lift them and after it became clear a trump veto would be needed to stop, the white house changed its attitude. Listen. The administration is supportive of being tough on russia, particularly in putt ....
Aren t come onboard. if the senate majority leader is able to whittle down the numbers to get closer and closer to the number he needs, get it down to maybe three republicans, let s say, who are still no on the obamacare vote, no republican senator wants to be the one who stands in the way of repealing obamacare after the party has promised us for so long, so if it s somebody who s not necessarily an ideological hardliner like ted cruz or mike lee, who is the last man standing against a vote, enormous pressure will be brought to bear against whoever he or she is, that s not a position anyone wants to be in, so the closer mitch mcconnell can get, the momentum of support might carry this over the finish line. and there s very little impetus for democrats to work them at the moment. as dan dimon says, odds are against the zombie, right, sara? exactly. thank you. thank you. a controversial bathroom bill is at the center of a big ....
Also echoed by president trump in a tweet yesterday, urging republican senators to step up to the plate, but parts of the senate health care bill could violate budget rules, according to a senate parliamentarian, and senator mccain s recent cancer diagnosis means the gop is down a vote they cannot afford to lose. the latest developments raising questions about where the senate health care bill is headed. let s bring in sarah westwood, washington correspondent, and dan dimon, health care reporter for politico. dan, what are they going to vote on, if they do vote on something this week? richard, they don t know what they are going to vote on, and whatever bill they end up picking doesn t have the votes. the republican health reform effort in the senate is kind of a shambling zombie at this point moving from week to week, but mcconnell, majority leader mcconnell, wants to hold the vote, because he thinks that a failure will be enough to get conservative groups to pressure those holdout ....
The fence. vice president pence has already started doing that. we might see president trump in west virginia, in shelly moore capito s backyard in ohio, trying to put pressure on areas where he s still popular so senators have to reconsider whether they should openly cross president trump. reporting yesterday here coming out of politico, dan, was mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader saying i m going to go for the repeal, just the repeal alone. what is your understanding of that probability, and what are the other options that he might do in the repeal and the replace? well, the straight repeal was something senate republicans voted on two years ago, and nearly every senator, the only republican who held out was susan collins. nearly every other senator voted for that, but times have changed. and many of the holdout senators are ones who can wait out the trump presidency. collins isn t up for re-election ....