Oct 27: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy claims that “ending the Covid-19 pandemic” has been one of the accomplishments of the Trump presidency. In a memo, the office says that “[e]nding the Covid-19 pandemic”  is one of Trump’s major accomplishments. Hundreds of people protest in Philadelphia for a second night following the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace, a 27-year-old Black man. Early voting has reach half of the total voters in the 2016 election. 

Oct 28:  In their investigation into the $250m PR campaign launched by Health and Human Services in September to “deafeat despair” over COVID, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform concludes that Administration Officials tried to use the campaign to help Trump get re-elected. In a letter addressed to Alex Azar, head of HHS, (see below for the full letter),  they state that the HHS has failed to produce requested documentation on the massive campaign. Based on evidence collected from the contracted marketing firms, they show that Trump staffer, Michael Caputo, inserted, “partisan political interests into the ad campaign.” They also show that Trump staffers created a “PR Celebrity List,” (see the appendix to the file in the ‘Documents’ section below) where they vetted potential celebrities for the campaign based on whether or not they support Donald Trump, as well as their stances on LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage.  This campaign was supposed to have been non-partisan, and about COVID.  U.S. stocks dive as a new one-day COVID case record is hit at 73,200. 

Oct 29: The United States experiences nearly 100,000 coronavirus cases in one day, the highest number of cases ever reported in a single day. 

Oct 30: Fauci warns that we are “in for a whole lot of hurt” this winter. President Trump falsely claims at a rally in Michigan that doctors are overcounting coronavirus deaths in order to make more money. A study of 18 Trump campaign rallies by the Department of Economics at Stanford University finds that the rallies  likely led to an additional 30,000 cases of COVID-19 and likely 700 deaths.  The New York Times reports that United States border officials have expelled migrant children from Central America and other countries into Mexico, even if they have no family connections in Mexico.

Oct 31: The Biden campaign cancels a Texas event after a caravan of President Trump’s supporters surrounded a Biden bus with their vehicles while traveling on Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin. Polls show Biden up in swing states. People who remember 2016 do not trust it.

Nov 1: Trump holds rallies in Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, and Florida. Biden campaigns in Pennsylvania. The truth is, to beat the virus, we’ve first got to beat Donald Trump,” Biden says. During a campaign rally, President Trump suggests that he might try to fire Dr. Fauci. The crown chants, “”Fire Fauci!” Trump responds: “Don’t tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election.” Trump tells supporters that “a great red wave is forming.” He continues to question the integrity of the election. 90 Million ballots have already been cast by mail or in-person early voting. A federal judge orders the U.S. Postal Service to remind senior managers they have to follow “extraordinary measures” to deliver ballots ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election. The Texas Supreme Court rejects a push by conservative activists and Republican candidates to pre-emptively throw out nearly 127,000 votes cast by drive-through voting in the largely Democratic Harris County, the state’s most populous. President Trump has told confidants he’ll declare victory on Tuesday evening if he’s leading the election, Axios report.

Nov 2: Biden holds rallies in Ohio and Pennsylviania. In Pittsburgh, he says, “We’re done with the chaos, we’re done with the tweets, the anger, the hate, the failure, the irresponsibility.” Trump, flouting anti-pandemic guidelines, holds large rallies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, telling supports at one event: “This is not the crowd of a second-place finisher.” Early votes near 100 million. Governors Charlie Baker (R) of Massachusetts and Kate Brown (D) of Oregon on Monday order the National Guard to stand by in case of unrest following Tuesday’s presidential election. Twitter says it will post warning labels on tweets from any candidate that claims victory before the announcement of official results comes out. A federal judge in Chicago rejects a Trump administration rule seeking to deny green cards to immigrants receiving food stamps and other public benefits.  “Deborah Birx circulates an internal alarm to top White House and agency officials warning that the United States is “entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic … leading to increasing mortality.” She strongly criticizes directly condemns the White House for not implementing an “aggressive balanced approach.”  A study from the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that, even with a vaccine, it may be very difficult to vaccinate a majority of the country for SARS-CoV-2 to reach sufficient levels of immunity against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).