May 6, 2020: Donald Trump visited Phoenix, Arizona, where he toured a Honeywell factory that is making N95 respirator masks. The Human Rights Campaign will endorse Joe Biden today, on the eighth anniversary of his support for same-sex marriage.
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Here are the presidential primary updates you need to know:
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New York: Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the New York State Board of Elections to reinstate New York’s June 23 Democratic presidential preference primary, which state officials had canceled on April 27. Torres wrote that the “removal of presidential candidates from the primary ballot not only deprived those candidates of the chance to garner votes for the Democratic Party’s nomination, but also deprived their pledged delegates of the opportunity to run for a position where they could influence the party platform, vote on party governance issues, pressure the eventual nominee on matters of personnel or policy, and react to unexpected developments at the Convention.” The primary was originally scheduled for April 28 but was postponed in response to the coronavirus pandemic before it was canceled.
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