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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's televised response to President Trump on Tuesday night got higher ratings than Trump's address, The Hill reports.
By the numbers: Schumer and Pelosi's rebuttal got a combined 29.3 rating on NBC, Fox News, CNN, CBS, MSNBC and ABC, according to early numbers from Nielsen. Trump's address had a 28.1 rating on those same networks.
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Some states are seeing dangerous levels of coronavirus hospitalizations, with hospitals warning that they could soon become overwhelmed if no action is taken to slow the spread.
Why it matters: Patients can only receive good care if there's enough care to go around — which is one reason why the death rate was so much higher in the spring, some experts say.
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The Lincoln Project is looking to beef up its media business after the election, sources tell Axios.
Driving the news: The group recently signed with the United Talent Agency (UTA) to help build out Lincoln Media and is weighing offers from different television studios, podcast networks and book publishers.
President Trump is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into Facebook ads on the Supreme Court and conservative judges in the final stretch of his campaign, while Joe Biden is spending over a million on voter mobilization, according to an analysis by Axios using data from Bully Pulpit Interactive.
The big picture: Trump's Facebook ad messaging has fluctuated dramatically in conjunction with the news cycle throughout his campaign, while Biden's messaging has been much more consistent, focusing primarily on health care and the economy.
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