US election 2020 latest news: Former Trump campaign aide Steve Bannon arrested amid ‘border wall fundraising scam’

FORMER Trump campaign aide Steve Bannon was arrested on charges of illegally funneling $1million in donations from a border wall scheme. The president’s 2016 campaign official and three others were charged with allegedly defrauding donors who gave money to the “We Build The Wall” fund in 2018. Trump has denied all involvement and claimed the initiative was set up to “showboat” and make him look bad as the election looms. The news comes after primaries, polling, virtual press conferences and during a deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Although Democrat Joe Biden has dominated recent polls, so did Hillary Clinton before Trump’s 2016 victory. Republicans are hoping their man can pull off another dramatic win, while Democrats are looking to the former VP Biden to make Trump a one-term president and turn Congress blue.The coronavirus crisis and Black Lives Matter protests have added to the uncertainty of a political race that sharply divides the country. We’ll be with you for the next 74 days and beyond, through the daily ups and downs, the debates, and the election day itself to see who will walk into the Oval Office in January 2021 as US president. Follow our US election 2020 blog below for all… Read full this story

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