Voters wait in a nearly four-hour line to cast their ballots during early voting at a polling site in Edmond, Okla., on Thursday. (Nick Oxford/Reuters)
Nearly 90,000 new coronavirus infections were reported in the United States on Thursday, a record, as cases surge in every swing state that will be crucial to next week’s presidential election.
The total number of infections reported nationwide since February is virtually guaranteed to reach 9 million on Friday, just 15 days after the tally hit 8 million. At least 228,000 deaths have been linked to the coronavirus.
The relationship between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin turned frosty on Thursday as the two disavowed economic relief talks — and each other — days before the election.
Donald Trump Jr. declared Thursday night that coronavirus deaths had dropped to “almost nothing,” questioning the seriousness of the pandemic on a record-breaking day for new cases when more than 1,000 Americans died of the virus.
