The Sunday morning political shows were dominated by the prospect of another round of economic stimulus along with preparations in multiple states ahead of the November election.
New polling also showed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with leads over President Trump nationally and in the key battleground state of Wisconsin.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday that he and President Trump are in favor of further stimulus in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“The president and I believe we should do more stimulus,” Mnuchin said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We have about 7 and a half million jobs we need to get back until we’re back to where we were and we want to help small businesses, we want to help businesses that are particularly impacted by this and we’ll continue to work on proposed new legislation.”
Symone Sanders, a senior campaign adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, said on Sunday that recent economic gains are indicative of a “K-shaped” recovery that benefits the wealthy.
Economist Stephen Moore said Sunday that the past four months have been “the four biggest months of job creation” in U.S. history, growth that comes after widespread shutdowns amid the rise of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris said she would not take President Trump’s word about the efficacy of a potential coronavirus vaccine released before the November election.
“I think that Donald Trump and Bill Barr are spending time in a different reality,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “The reality of America today is what we have seen over generations, and frankly since our inception, which is, we do have two systems of justice in America.”
Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), the Democratic vice presidential candidate, said Sunday that Russian interference in the upcoming election poses a potential threat to her and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s bid to unseat President Trump in November.
“The bottom line is we are not going to have the full results and a counting of all of our ballots on Election Night.” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said.
“The thing that we're thinking about more than anything right now is poll worker recruitment,” Frank LaRose said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It takes 35,000 Ohioans to run in-person Election Day. And so we're doing all we can to recruit those poll workers.”
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) said Sunday that he’s never heard President Trump make disparaging remarks about the military, touting the U.S. economy pre-coronavirus and conservative court picks as reasons he predicts Trump will win the state again.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie defended President Trump amid reports that Trump called U.S. service members buried in France “losers” and his public critical comments about the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
