Trump, Biden both campaign in Pennsylvania as Supreme Court pick confirmed

With eight days until Election Day …

• Trump insisted that he has not decided to “wave the white flag” on the novel coronavirus, as Biden accused him of doing Sunday after White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said in a TV interview that the administration had effectively given up on trying to slow its spread.
• The Supreme Court rejected a pandemic-related request from Democrats and civil rights groups to extend the deadline for counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
• Pennsylvania Republicans asked the Supreme Court to rule on the merits of their challenge to the state’s extended deadline for mail ballots, an apparent bid to put the issue in front of a friendlier nine-member court once Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed.
• Biden leads Trump by nine percentage points nationally, 52 percent to 43 percent, according to an average of national polls since Oct. 12. Biden’s margin in the battleground state of Michigan is nine points. It’s eight points in Wisconsin, seven in Pennsylvania, five in Arizona and one in Florida.