'BradCast' 8/10/2020 (Elections fail in PR; 100k infected kids in two weeks; Trump's phony 'Executive Orders')

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 1:55 a.m.

On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 The Trump Administration is doubling down on multiple attempts to undermine\xa0 the integrity of the 2020 election, including Trump's new US Postmaster General directing the slowdown of mail delivery across the country. Now is the time to double check that you are prepared to vote safely in the critical November 2020 election -- from ensuring you that you know the deadlines for registering to vote and requesting a Vote-By-Mail ballot, to where/how to drop your ballot off in person, to making sure make sure everyone you know is also prepared -- 2020VotersCalendar.org has info for all 50 states. Also today: Puerto Rico forced to suspend part its primary election amid shortages of ballots. A new report finds that nearly 100,000 U.S. children have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last two weeks of July alone, and least 86 children have died from COVID-19 since May, even as the Trump Administration pushes states to reopen schools for in-person classes immediately. The US is approaching 165,000 confirmed deaths from COVID, but a new CDC study finds excess deaths since mid-March are 200,000 above what would normally be expected at this time of year, based on recent trends before the pandemic.\xa0 The Trump White House appears unwilling to compromise with Democrats on a new COVID emergency relief bill despite the end of expanded federal unemployment benefits for the vast majority of Americans to shore up the economy. Instead, Trump signed a handful of executive actions that won't accomplish what he pretends they will, and are likely unconstitutional -- including a payroll tax deferment that cuts funding to Social Security and Medicare -- and he continued lying to the nation about the dangerous spread of the virus. Callers weigh in on all of the above, and more...