Tipsheet: Businesses, wealthy brace for Biden tax hikes

View in your browser     Businesses, wealthy brace for Biden tax hikes By Naomi Jagoda   Businesses and wealthy individuals are preparing for the potential for former Vice President Joe Biden to raise taxes if he wins the presidential election. Biden, the Democratic nominee, has released a number of proposals aimed at raising taxes on high-income people and businesses, though it remains to be seen how quickly and aggressively he would pursue tax increases if he wins. With less than two weeks until Election Day, he is leading in many polls nationally and in key swing states. Read the full story here     Biden's oil stance jars Democrats in tough races By Alexander Bolton   Joe Biden's vow to phase out the oil industry at Thursday's debate creates a problem for Democratic candidates in red-leaning states and swing House districts as it gives Republicans an opening to tie them to their party’s left wing. Read the full story here     Pence's chief of staff tests positive for COVID-19 By Brett Samuels   Vice President Pence's chief of staff tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, but the vice president intends to plow ahead with a busy campaign schedule, his office said. Read the full story here     Trump makes his case in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin By Jordan Williams and Celine Castronuovo   With just 10 days left to go before Nov. 3, President Trump made the case for his reelection bid Saturday during three campaign rallies in the key battleground states of North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin. Read the full story here       Trump mocks Joe Biden's drive-in rallies at North Carolina event By Jordan Williams   President Trump on Saturday mocked Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s drive-in rallies as “small” compared with his. Read the full story here     Trump expressed doubt to donors GOP can hold Senate: report By Celine Castronuovo   President Trump privately told donors at a Nashville, Tenn., fundraiser on Thursday that he thinks it will be “very tough” for Republicans to keep their majority in the Senate, adding that he would not support certain GOP senators, according to The Washington Post. Read the full story here     Trump campaign asks court to block early vote counting in Nevada By Tal Axelrod   The Trump campaign and the Nevada GOP sued the Nevada secretary of state and Clark County registrar on Friday, seeking to stop the count of early mail-in ballots in the Las Vegas area, the latest Republican effort to curtail vote counting heading toward Election Day. Read the full story here     Senators battle over Supreme Court nominee in rare Saturday session By Jordain Carney   Senators battled in a rare Saturday session as the chamber barrels toward a key vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination. Read the full story here     Murkowski says she will vote to confirm Barrett to Supreme Court on Monday By Jordain Carney   Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said on Saturday that she will vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday, despite objections to taking up the nomination before the Nov. 3 election. Read the full story here     How California turned the corner on COVID-19 By Nathaniel Weixel   While COVID-19 infections spike uncontrollably across the country, California has turned the corner. Read the full story here     Jonathan Turley: Here are the worst proposals to reform Supreme Court By Jonathan Turley   OPINION | The vote on Monday to make Judge Amy Coney Barrett the 115th Supreme Court justice will be more than a confirmation. It will be a dispensation, according to former Vice President Joe Biden and various Democratic senators. They have cited the vote as relieving them of any guilt in fundamentally changing the court to manufacture a liberal majority. Like school kids daring others to step over a line as an excuse to fight, Democrats insist that filling this vacancy will invite changes ranging from “packing” the court to stripping it of authority to rule in certain cases. Read the full story here     Will anyone from the left realize why Trump won — again? By Douglas Mackinnon   OPINION | Weeks before the 2016 election, I sent an email to several media and political personalities predicting that Donald Trump would win Pennsylvania and get 306 electoral votes. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: How Trump abandoned his vow to ‘drain the swamp’ By Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman and David A. Fahrenthold   A Washington Post review found that the president has largely failed to fulfill the pledges he made in 2016 to curtail the influence of lobbyists and special interests in Washington. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Virus surge shadows Trump and Biden campaign events after final debate By Shane Goldmacher, Thomas Kaplan and Annie Karni   Candidates made their cases as hundreds of thousands of people jammed long lines to vote in New York, Florida and elsewhere. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Eyes turn to Texas as early voting surge surpasses 2016 By Paul J. Weber   Texas has already cast nearly 7 million votes, more than anywhere in America, and Glen Murdoch couldn’t get his ballot in fast enough after becoming a U.S. citizen this summer. Read the full story here     Reuters: Fired-up New Yorkers stand in line for hours to cast early votes By Jeenah Moon   New Yorkers jammed polling places and stood in line for hours to cast ballots on the state’s first day of early voting on Saturday, rushing to record their choices 10 days ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: China trade war didn’t boost US manufacturing might By Josh Zumbrun and Bob Davis   President Trump’s trade war against China didn’t achieve the central objective of reversing a U.S. decline in manufacturing, economic data show, despite tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods to discourage imports. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? 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