Trump makes campaign swing through Pennsylvania
Polling shows former Vice President Joe Biden is leading President Trump slightly in the state.
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Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C.
Polling shows former Vice President Joe Biden is leading President Trump slightly in the state.
One of the leading candidates was at the White House Monday.
"President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
The Democratic presidential nominee said the focus for the next few days should be Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy.
She fought for equal rights, both before and after she joined the bench.
The president said the project aimed at exploring how central slavery was to America's founding "warped" American history. He also signed an order creating a "1776 commission."
The president also said he knows better than his own experts in many cases.
The president contradicted CDC Director Robert Redfield's timeline for a vaccine. Redfield said a vaccine would not be widely available until the second or third quarter of 2021.
President Trump made several claims about health care and coronavirus in an ABC News town hall with voters.
A California official disagreed with the president about the root cause of the wildfires.
"The sand was loaded up with blood, and now you will a lot of that sand will be loaded up with peace," the president said.
The president narrowly won Michigan in 2016, and wants to win it again in November.
The president was asked why he lied to the American people about COVID-19 after he admitted in interviews with Bob Woodward that he sought to downplay the virus.
President Trump told journalist Bob Woodward he deliberately downplayed the dangers of the virus to avoid creating a panic.
The president named Senators Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley as potential picks.