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Joe Biden decisively won Michigan’s Democratic pres- idential primary on Tuesday, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Bernie Sanders’ insurgent candidacy four years ago. The former vice president's vic- tory there, as well as in Mis- souri, Mississippi and Idaho, dealt a serious blow to Sanders and substantially widened Biden's path to the nomination.
Biden again showed strength with working-class voters and African Ameri- cans, who are vital to winning the Democratic nomination. Sanders' narrow hopes for good news rested on North Dakota and Washington state. Washington's primary was too early to call, and be- cause all votes there are cast by mail or by dropping them off in a ballot box, many bal- lots were marked for candi- dates who have since dropped out of the race.
The six-state contest marked the first time voters weighed in on the primary since it effectively narrowed to a two-person race between Sanders and Biden. And the first four states on Tues- day went to Biden, a dra- matic reversal for a campaign that appeared on the brink of collapse just two weeks ago. Now it is Sanders, whose candidacy was ascendant so
Trump Suspends All Travel From Europe To United States For 30 Days
Joe Biden Wins Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi Democratic Primaries
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recently, who must contem- plate a path forward.
Addressing supporters in Philadelphia, Biden noted that many had “declared that this candidacy was dead” only days ago, but “now we're very much alive.” He also asked Sanders supporters to back him going forward.
“We need you, we want you, and there’s a place in our campaign for each of you. I want to thank Bernie Sanders and his supporters for their tireless energy and their passion,” Biden said. "We share a common goal, and together we’ll beat Don- ald Trump.”
for legislation in Congress that will provide emergency relief for workers who are sidelined by the coronavirus. The president will also seek an emergency payroll tax cut and tax relief and waivers for businesses “negatively im- pacted” by the crisis. Those
measures together will add “more than $200 billion of additional liquidity to the economy,” a statement that suggested federal officials are bracing for fallout from the stock market meltdown of the past few weeks and the slowdown in business.
The U. S. will suspend all travel from Europe to the United States for 30 days in the latest dramatic response to the growing pandemic caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
President Donald Trump announced the Eu- ropean travel restrictions in a somber address to the nation Wednesday night from the Oval Office. The travel re- strictions, which take effect at midnight on Friday, do not include the U. K., Trump said, adding that the travel shutdown will be “adjusted subject to conditions on the ground.”
“We are in a critical time in the fight against the virus,” he said.
Trump promised to push
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Kansas City Mayor Unable To Vote, His Name ‘Wasn’t In The System’
Kansas City Mayor Quin- ton Lucas was not allowed to cast his vote in the Missouri primary on Tuesday because he reportedly “wasn’t in the system.” The mayor said on Twitter: “I made a video this morning about the importance of voting and then got turned away because I wasn’t in the system even though I’ve voted there for 11 years, including for myself four times!”
Lucas’ name was report- edly not registered in the sys- tem early Tuesday morning
MAYOR QUINTON LUCAS
when he tried to vote, however
the director of the Kansas City Board of Elections, Lauri Ealom, said the poll worker “put his last name in as his first name and his first name in as his last name.”
“A lot of people won’t come back either because they have to go to work or because it has the opportunity to be a slightly embarrassing experience,” Lucas said. “If the mayor can get turned away, that would mean anybody can... So it’s something we all need to try to address.”
CDC Director Condemns Trump’s ‘China Virus’ Tweet
The director of the Cen- ters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tues- day agreed that it was “ab- solutely wrong” for President Trump to label the 2019 novel coronavirus as the “China Virus.” “It’s ab- solutely wrong and inappro- priate to call this the Chinese coronavirus, I assume you would agree with that?”
Rep. Lois Frankel (D- FL) reportedly asked CDC di- rector Robert Redfield,
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who agreed. The novel coro-
navirus outbreak, which is believed to have originated in a large seafood and live ani- mal market in Wuhan, China, has reportedly led to a surge in racist and xenophobic ver- bal and physical attacks around the globe.
The World Health Organi- zation named the disease COVID-19 to deter people from associating the virus with a location or group of people, which can ultimately lead to stigmatization.
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