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Donald Trump’s behaviour will be in focus as he seeks to shake up his race against Joe Biden.
![Barack Obama gave closing arguments for Clinton in Pennsylvania during her 2016 campaign [File: Matt Slocum/The Associated Press]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_16313074546464.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The former president, a valuable asset for the Democratic party, will hold his first in-person event of the campaign.
![Analysts at Goldman Sachs said it is unlikely a new round of coronavirus relief aid will pass Congress before the United States' November 3 election [File: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/wallstreet.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The clock is ticking for Washington to pass a new fiscal aid package before November 3 elections.
![Signs for Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, and President Donald Trump mark properties in a middle-class neighbourhood of Oshkosh, the hub of swing-voting Winnebago County, Wisconsin [File: Thomas Beaumont/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20274774633391.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Amid a pandemic, Trump is trying to reconstruct the voting coalition that propelled him to victory in...
Explaining the US elections
![US voters will cast their ballots in November, but Electoral College electors will not officially decide the winner until December 14 [File: Wilfredo Lee/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20284046919521.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![The estimated 3.45 million Muslims in the US - only about one percent of the total population - but their concentrations in key swing and battleground states, could make their vote especially impactful [File: Jeff Kowalsky/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2018-08-08T033237Z_1672964228_RC1B61BFFB10_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![The US Presidential election will likely come down to the results in just a few states [File: Gene J. Puskar/The Associated Press]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4a38ba03f9014c518115cc12bc281336_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
![President Donald Trump has repeatedly met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but made little progress in denuclearisation [File: Susan Walsh/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/62ed222fd78647e8af14bed17d32d458_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
![President Donald Trump has pushed unfounded claims that mail-in voting increases fraud [File: Ted S Warren/The Associated Press]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/040574e6adc64385b669d0c0be810849_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
American Voter Series
![Rev. Jennifer Butler's top election issue is healthcare and racism. [Courtesy of Jennifer Butler]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/3N7A3675-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Nile Blass's top election issue is racial equity [Courtesy of Nile Blass]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-11-23-26-21-686001.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Dr. Sarita McCoy Gregory's top election issues are reforming the justice system and healthcare [Courtesy of Sarita McCoy Gregory]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-12-at-11.55.10-AM.png?resize=270%2C180)
![Deana Wagner's top election issue is corruption [Courtesy of Deana Wagner]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Picture-6.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Millie Brigaud's top election issue is polarisation [Courtesy of Millie Brigaud]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/American-Voter-Photo-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Jolene Jones's top election issue is sovereignty. [Courtesy of Jolene Jones]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jolene-Jones.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Gold could appreciate and the dollar could dip in the event that Washington agrees on passing a stimulus package [File: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/golddd.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Spot gold rose 0.3 percent to $1,910.56 an ounce at 3:37pm, New York time, after falling as much as 0.5 percent.
![Volunteers canvass the crowd to get people to register to vote prior to an event with Vice President Mike Pence [File: Ross D. Franklin/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20280616882784.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Amid Donald Trump’s polling and fundraising struggles, there is one positive sign for Republicans ahead of US elections.
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The demise of the treaty would lift all remaining restraints on deployments of strategic nuclear warheads.
![President Donald Trump campaigned in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. He won the state in 2016 but trails Biden there now [Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20295013139354.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The president says Joe Biden will cut energy jobs in Pennsylvania by ending ‘fracking’ for oil and gas
![Wall Street's main indexes gained at the opening bell on Tuesday on hopes that lawmakers in Washington will overcome their differences and pass a critical stimulus aid package to address the coronavirus pandemic [File: Carlo Allegri/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/nyny.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The United States Department of Justice filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit in federal court against Alphabet’s Google.
![US President Donald Trump stands among other leaders as he attends a plenary session at the NATO summit in Watford, near London, UK, on December 4, 2019 [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-20T092017Z_784772488_RC29MJ904AOR_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-NATO.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Joe Biden is seen in Europe as offering a shift in US policy away from Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ approach.
![US political concerns have become the main source of concern for stock market investors in Asia, analysts say [File: Akio Kon/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/365042850.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Investors are concerned that a contested US election result could lead to volatile prices in stocks and other assets.
Organisers say move will avoid the chaos of last month’s first encounter, when Trump repeatedly interrupted Biden.
![Time is running out for a US stimulus deal before Election Day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made clear [Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Nancy-Pelosi-091820.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin talked for 53 minutes in the latest stimulus saga.
![Supporters of President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, October 10, 2020, in Erie, Pennsylvania [Carolyn Kaster/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20284851671416.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Donald Trump won a race there in 2016; now Joe Biden hopes to win back disaffected Democratic voters.