Halloween this year will be unrecognizable. Much less trick-or-treating. Far fewer parties. For candy-makers, 2020 presents a major challenge.
Axios Re:Cap digs in with Ferrara Candy CEO Todd Siwak, whose company is the country's largest maker of candy corn, jelly beans and all sorts of other confectionary treats.
Something unexpected is taking place in new polling about President Trump and his standing among elderly Americans. A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed that Joe Biden leads among voters 65 and over. This is a group that Trump won in 2016 by seven points.
Last month, one of America's largest hospital chains was hit by a type of cybercrime known as a ransomware attack. Then, just days later, the same thing happened to a Philadelphia company called eResearch Technology, whose software is used in COVID-19 vaccine trials.
Axios Re:Cap digs into the growing threat with Nicole Perlroth, a New York Times cybersecurity reporter who broke the ERT news.
We're 28 days from the election. President Trump has been released from Walter Reed Medical Center where he was treated for coronavirus complications. Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to travel and campaign.