Your Wednesday Evening Briefing
Presidential Debate, Cruise Ships, N.B.A. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story September 30, 2020 Your Wednesday Evening Briefing By Remy Tumin and Karen Cetinkaya Good evening. Here’s the latest. Drew Angerer/Getty Images 1. A debate like no other. The biggest threat to the election is the president himself, our national security correspondent writes in an analysis of last night’s showdown between President Trump and Joe Biden. Mr. Trump’s claim that balloting, already underway, was a “fraud and a shame” and proof of “a rigged election” amounted to a declaration that he would try to throw any outcome into courts, Congress or the streets if he were not re-elected. That assertion is part of an extensive Republican plan to disrupt the election by claiming that voter fraud is a pervasive problem, a five-month Times Magazine investigation found . Despite the rhetoric of administration officials and right-...