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9.16am BST
Here’s some clips of Donald Trump’s rally yesterday. The president said he is ‘crushing’ Covid-19, even as the country surpasses 220,000 deaths from the virus.
Speaking in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump told voters ‘If you want depression, doom and despair. Vote for sleepy Joe Biden. And boredom’. Trump blamed former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton when his microphone cut out during the rally and also claimed that if the virus had not struck he would not have needed to campaign very hard to win re-election.
9.11am BST
NBC News have a couple of quotes about what happened during the interview taping session in their report:
“You have to watch what we do to 60 Minutes,” Trump said early at rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday night. “You’ll get such a kick out of it, you’re going to get a kick out of it. Lesley Stahl is not going to be happy.”
One source told NBC News that the president and Stahl spoke on-camera for more than 40 minutes. The president, during what the source called a “natural breaking point in the conversation,” told Stahl: “I think you have what you need.”
9.09am BST
Here’s what the president was tweeting last night after the drama of the recoding of his pre-election CBS News 60 Minutes interview. First off he criticised host Lesley Stahl for not wearing a mask in the White House.
Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes not wearing a mask in the White House after her interview with me. Much more to come. pic.twitter.com/0plZG6a4fH
…Everyone should compare this terrible Electoral Intrusion with the recent interviews of Sleepy Joe Biden!
9.05am BST
Hello! It’s Wednesday’s edition of our US politics live blog. Here’s a quick catch-up to get us up and running for the day…