Despite Trump’s claims, coalition of federal, state and local election officials praised 3 November vote as ‘the most secure in American history’

The number of coronavirus cases continues to surge across the US, with the country setting another single-day record for new cases yesterday.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the US confirmed 153,496 new cases yesterday, and 919 Americans died of coronavirus.

Just. look. at. this. graph.

Did late March feel terrible and apocalyptic? We are FAR past that point right now.

And guess what? We have not yet reached the BUSIEST HOLIDAY TRAVEL WEEK OF THE YEAR

My patients are asking me about travel plans. They have no idea what is coming pic.twitter.com/klskKjmP49

A major law firm withdrew overnight from a Trump campaign case in Pennsylvania seeking to have mail-in ballots thrown out, in the latest blow to the president’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election result in court.

The Ohio-based Porter Wright Morris & Arthur firm, which brought a suit on Monday alleging that the use of mail-in ballots had created “an illegal two-tiered voting system” in the state, abruptly withdrew from that case in a memo to the court.

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