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Trump’s best path to reelection hinges on FL, PA

President Donald Trump still has a path to the 270 Electoral College votes he needs to win reelection. But it requires everything to break in his direction a second time.

Persuadable voters in battleground states will need to overwhelmingly swing in his favor. He’ll have to win back crucial voting blocs. And his turnout operation will need to dramatically outperform Democrat Joe Biden’s in an extraordinarily turbulent year.

“In 2016, his chances of winning the election were those of drawing an inside straight in poker. ... The question this year is whether he can draw an inside straight two hands in a row,” said Whit Ayres a veteran Republican pollster. “It is theoretically possible but practically difficult.”

Florida officials say Wednesday’s delayed coronavirus report is tied to new death review

Since March, the Florida Department of Health has released updates on coronavirus cases, deaths, hospitalizations and more each day around 11 a.m. But on Wednesday, a report was not released until 5:30 p.m.

It marks the second time in a month that state officials failed to release a daily report in a timely manner.

When asked why the daily report wasn’t released, health department officials pointed to a press release that did not directly address the delay. Instead, the release said that the department will “conduct a more thorough review" of all coronavirus-related fatalities reported to the state. State officials said in an email Wednesday’s daily report was being updated based on these new review policies.

Feds consider plan to transfer Florida wetlands permitting to state

To start the virtual meeting, an Environmental Protection Agency official sought to make one point clear:

“No decision on Florida’s request has been made,” said Jeaneanne Gettle, the water division director for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Southeast region.

But even as the agency deliberates on whether to give the state control over key wetlands permitting, advocates on both sides have long since made up their minds.

Rudy Giuliani caught in hotel bedroom scene in new ‘Borat’ film

Rudy Giuliani is shown with his hand down his pants after flirting with an actress playing a young woman pretending to be a television journalist in a scene in Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary, a sequel to his hit “Borat” film.

The scene shot in a New York hotel room in July — which resulted in Giuliani calling police — includes a moment when Giuliani is seen lying on a bed with his shirt untucked and his hand down his pants with the young woman nearby.

Giuliani went to the hotel room thinking he was being interviewed about the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response. The young woman is flirtatious with him and invites him to the bedroom, which is rigged with hidden cameras.