Trump claims he no longer has Covid-19 and is ‘immune’ – live updates

Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has said Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett should, if confirmed, step aside from contentious cases.

Reuters reports:

Democratic opposition to Barrett on policy issues has focused on her possible role in deciding a case before the Supreme Court in which Trump and Republican-led states are seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) healthcare law, often called Obamacare.

“She doesn’t come unbiased and that’s why she should recuse herself,” Schumer said on Sunday.

Donald Trump claims he is immune to Covid-19 – video

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Pence-Harris vice-presidential debate: five key takeaways

Coronavirus was the key theme, but Harris also warned of the threat to Obamacare as both candidates dodged questions

The vice-presidential debate on Wednesday was less openly hostile than the Donald Trump-Joe Biden debacle last week – but provided a further insight into the state of both campaigns ahead of November.

Related: Kamala Harris and Mike Pence clash over coronavirus response in vice-presidential debate

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Trump signals he won’t agree to rules changes for debates – live

Frmo Erum Salam in Houston and Sam Levine in New York:

Texas is already one of the hardest places in America to vote, and Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, on Thursday made it even harder.

Related: Outrage as Texas governor orders closure of multiple ballot drop-off sites

A procedural vote on a bill that would stop Trump’s Justice Department from intervening in a lawsuit to strike down the Affordable Care Act has failed.

In a rare move, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer forced a procedural vote to consider the measure, in an attempt to force Republicans – many of whom had said they support protections for people with pre-existing conditions – to prove it with their votes. The bill would “protect the health care of hundreds of millions of people of the United States and prevent efforts of the Department of Justice to advocate courts to strike down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” per Senate Democrats.

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Trump says overturning Roe v Wade ‘certainly possible’ with Amy Coney Barrett – live

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Trump had us thinking mainstream Republicans were moderate. How naive | Emma Brockes

Mitt Romney and his ilk were once critics of the president. But now, when it suits them, they’re backing him again

One unlikely effect of Donald Trump being in office has been a rise in the reputation of more moderate Republicans. In 2012, when Mitt Romney was running for president, he seemed like the incarnation of monied interests – a man who would defend beyond all other principles the right of the American millionaire to be taxed at 13%. He was out of touch, and cynically motivat...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: key Republicans under spotlight as fight to replace justice begins – live

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death adds even more weight to November’s elections, with both Democrats and Republicans saying that voters will not only decide the presidency but the lo...

RNC live: Trump to speak at every night of convention alongside family members and supporters

  • President will appear tonight with six former hostages

While CNN and ABC have been streaming the RNC largely uninterrupted, Fox News is not. And it’s miffed some prominent Republicans. Sean Hannity, on Fox, provided his own commentary on the convention and interviewed Carl Rove about how the RNC has compared to the DNC so far. With a mind-boggling lack of self-awareness, Hannity accused that other media, “won’t be showing large parts of the convention.”

Can’t believe I have to watch the convention on @CNN. Unbelievable. @FoxNews

The Republican convention played a video claiming Trump has kept “every single” promise he had made since becoming president.

As CNN’s chief fact-checker Daniel Dale noted, that is not even close to being true. According to Politifact, Trump has broken about half of the promises he had made to the American people.

This video has Trump saying "I have kept every single" promise. Not even close to true. Mexico hasn't paid for the wall, Obamacare hasn't been repealed, and on and on. PolitiFact's 100-promise tracker says 49% have been broken. https://t.co/U4XZnHARUg

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US politics: virtual Democratic convention to start amid coronavirus crisis – live updates

  • Pelosi recalls House early to fight postal service election ‘sabotage’
  • Sanders says Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting a ‘crisis for democracy’
  • Virtual Democratic convention to kick off with emphasis on unity
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No Covid-19 stimulus package progress as Trump makes more false claims – live

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Healthcare is Trump’s Achilles heel. Republicans don’t get it | Lloyd Green

Five million Americans have lost their health insurance in a pandemic - yet Republicans are still trying to end Obamacare

Like Moloch, the ancient pagan god, Donald Trump is ever ready to demand that Americans sacrifice themselves for his greater good. He commanded that states open up early, and then this happened: Arizona, Florida, and Texas are looking like Wuhan redux. Come this fall, the president also expects that parents will put their children in harm’s way for the sake of his...