The U.S. president has appointed dozens of judges to lower federal courts, which will ensure long-term control over both national and local affairs - and persuade conservative voters to support him.
The pace of events in the 2020 US presidential election campaign does not let up.
President Donald Trump yesterday (Monday) held three rallies in purple Pennsylvania, the state that could decide the election, and immediately returned to Washington to record a tremendous achievement: a third appointment to the Supreme Court, shortly after Judge Amy Connie Barrett received Senate approval in the plenum vote.
Shortly afterwards we awoke to the news of riots in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania following the shooting of a police officer by a young man who apparently threatened police with a gun.
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Apparently the appointment of a judge or an event in Philadelphia has nothing to do with the election, but in our age everything is related.
Democrats will certainly take advantage of the events in Philadelphia to mobilize the base, arguing that in the Trump era the authorities are more racist and have a light hand on the trigger.
Of course, Republicans and Trump himself will appropriate Barrett's appointment to the top as a ballot box to remind voters that even if they do not like the president, he is the only one who will maintain a conservative court.
If those events are not enough, the corona is raging in the U.S. In addition, the early voting rate is insane, having already crossed the 2016 early voting. Over 60 million citizens have already voted. There is a lot of talk about the economy, but one of Trump's biggest and most notable accomplishments. The White House is undoubtedly a judge - and not just a Supreme Court judge - it has appointed dozens of judges to lower federal courts, ensuring long-term control of both national and local affairs. Nearly 200 judges have been appointed so far, and Trump is expected to break records if re-elected.
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Shortly after Barrett's approval in the Senate, at 9 p.m., she arrived at Trump's invitation to the White House to be officially sworn in.
She gets the job at a young age (48), and is guaranteed her for life.
There are only eight more like her, and together they will decide fates and determine the character of America for generations.
Her husband Jesse was invited to take part in the class.
The oldest judge Clarence Thomas swore her.
Trump praised her work and excellence as a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
"All of America now knows your family," the president said, praising her seven children, who watched the event from their home in Indiana.
Barrett is the 115th appointment to the position of Supreme Court Justice, the fifth woman overall.
She was nine years old when the first woman was appointed to the Supreme Court.
What has saddened many commentators here is the fact that America is so divided that not even its election has made one Democrat vote for it, despite its qualities.
Everything is political in America 2020, and it's reminiscent of a particular country.
This is the first time an appointment has not received the support of even one vote from the other party.
Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi severely attacked the appointment, saying - for some reason - that it was unconstitutional. Barrett, by the way, could soon find herself in the midst of the storm if the election results do not lead to a decision and require Supreme Court involvement. Will want to intervene in the political cauldron.
The constitution is very clear - each state determines its electors, whether through elections or not, so even if there is a close count, the court will probably prefer to let the states determine the list of electors they have won.
The effect of the appointment in the Supreme Court
Both parties remember Florida, and Democrats fear Republicans, who control many states at the local level, will try to disrupt the results or the count, leading to the appointment of electors in non-kosher ways, and therefore hope the court will intervene.
Republicans are also expected to petition the various courts claiming that Democrats are falsifying votes or sending invalid ballots or those that were not filled in at all by voters.
It can be assumed that the real elections will only begin on November 3, and will officially end only on December 14 when the electorate will vote (and perhaps only in January, when Congress will count the electorate and may decide to disqualify some of them).
Either way, Democrats are furious both because of Barrett's appointment at this time, and because he promises the right a grip on the Supreme Court for decades, though as stated it is not known how they will rule in specific cases.
Therefore, the appointment can have a direct and very close impact.
Pennsylvania is Ground Zero
Back to Pennsylvania.
Trump held three rallies yesterday in the state where Biden is supposed to be a member of the household, because he grew up there in the town of Scranton until the age of nine.
Today Trump, and even Melania, will come to the country again for another rally.
The president will also continue from Pennsylvania to a series of rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska.
He picks up the pace towards the end because he knows it's the only way to get free communication and excite the masses who really love him.
Wisconsin and Michigan, like Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida, are the most critical states to victory because the two lists of electors, the Republicans and the Democrats, can win over them.
Polls show a close battle, with a slight advantage for Biden in some countries.
From Donald Trump's official YouTube channel
Trump won them all four years ago, but this year it looks like it's going to be very difficult and the big story continues to be Pennsylvania.
It is the ground zero of the election.
The Fox News network mocked Bayden who actually went down to the area, drove a few miles and crossed the border from his state of Delaware - where he stayed in the "basement" to hold a rally in Chester, Pennsylvania.
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By the way, Biden twice called his opponent George during a virtual rally, alongside his wife who looked surprised.
Who did Biden mean?
It is claimed that he meant the moderator of the rally, George Lopez or George W. Bush.
Either way, the media and Trump were quick to celebrate the amusing clip, which reinforces Trump's (unproven) claims that Biden is incompetent and unable to even remember who his opponent is and what position he is running for.
Meanwhile, with the exception of Fox News, most channels continue to support Baiden with very trending coverage, as he is accused of his failed treatment of what they claim is the Corona crisis.
"I can assure you he's a winner," Lancaster resident Ted Halison told me at a Trump rally yesterday at the local airport.
"This story that people do not want to reveal their vote is true, but the very large early vote must excite us. In any case, I am convinced there will be forgeries in this election. They do not want Trump."
Who is "they"?
IM asking.
"'They' is everyone, except the American people who love him," he said.
At the hotel where I stayed in Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, there was a group that had just arrived from Charlotte.
Larry, one of her friends, believes Trump is dividing America: "That's why he loses. Enough, you can't go on like this. America in the Trump era is losing its prestige in the world."
Larry and his wife have already voted, and he believes that even if the Republicans wake up now it will no longer be enough.
Trump himself can be very encouraged by the amount of crowd that comes to his rallies.
They are in love with him.
I attended one of them yesterday and saw how excited they were about him.
The local newspaper The Patriot News reported yesterday in its infancy "Trump is bringing in a large audience in Pennsylvania."
Democrats are celebrating and Republicans are working
Artpush (that's the name), an Amish young man who came with his friends, said he was not sure if he would vote but decided in the end yes, because these elections are very important.
Most members of his community will do, he tells me.
The Amish community has no cars and no television and is not allowed to use electricity, but Artpush knew how to tell me that Trump is much more popular than one thinks, and indeed the feeling among his supporters is that the polls do not express the true sympathy he has in the public.
The Philadelphia Inquirer claims that according to the polls, Biden leads in the early voting - 52 against 44. So it is no wonder that Trump continues to blitz.
The Trump campaign is also concerned about the fact that there is no third candidate who could have helped the president by leaking votes from Democrats.
The struggle for Congress is also gaining momentum.
Democrats are confident they will succeed in winning both the presidential election and the Senate, in addition to keeping the House of Representatives under their control.
In Pennsylvania, for example, Democrats are convinced the Senate seat is already theirs.
Democrats are celebrating and Republicans are working, and everyone is looking at Pennsylvania.
More than 150 years ago Pennsylvania was the scene of the terrible Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War.
At the battle site President Lincoln also delivered his famous speech, which called for the healing of the rifts.
It seems that this year too Pennsylvania is a bloodbath, thank God only of the political kind.
I'm in Harrisburg, an hour's drive from the same important site, and it seems that this year there is a kind of civil war over the nature of America, but in the end America will win, as always.
