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PHOENIX — Cindy Bishop is
the sort of voter who has some Re-
publicans bracing for a wipeout
next month.
Standing inside her garage,
shielded from the 102-degree
desert heat, Ms. Bishop, a 61-year-
old medical professional, said she
voted for Mr. Trump four years
ago because “he wasn’t a poli-
tician.” But then, she said, “I got a
taste of him and I’m like, ‘God, he’s
disrespectful’ — there’s so much
about him I don’t like.” She is nowleaning toward Joseph R. Biden
Jr.
The inflammatory behavior
that has alienated voters beyond
his base has long posed the most
significant impediment to Mr.
Trump’s re-election. But one week
after he rampaged through the
first presidential debate and then
was hospitalized with the corona-
virus, only to keep minimizing thedisease as it spread through his
White House, the president’s con-
duct is not only undermining his
own campaign but threatening his
entire party.
New polls show Mr. Trump’s
support is collapsing nationally,
as he alienates women, seniors
and suburbanites. He is trailing
not just in must-win battle-
grounds but according to private
G.O.P. surveys, he is repelling in-
dependents to the point where Mr.
Biden has drawn closer in solidly
red states, including Montana,
Kansas and Missouri, peopleSun Belt Is Suddenly Looking a Little Less Red
By JONATHAN MARTIN
and ALEXANDER BURNSTrump’s Woes Rippling
Across G.O.P. States
Continued on Page AWhitey Ford, the Yankees’ Hall
of Fame left-hander who was cele-
brated as the Chairman of the
Board for his stylish pitching and
big-game brilliance on the ball
clubs that dominated baseball in
the 1950s and early ’60s, died on
Thursday night at his home in
Lake Success, N.Y., on Long Is-
land. He was 91.
Pitching for 11 pennant-winners
and six World Series champions,
Ford won 236 games, the most of
any Yankee, and had a career win-
ning percentage of .690, the best
among pitchers with 200 or more
victories in the 20th century.
At his death, Ford was the sec-
ond-oldest surviving Hall of
Famer, behind the former Dodger
manager Tommy Lasorda, who is- His death came six days after
that of his fellow Hall of Fame
pitcher Bob Gibson of the St. Louis
Cardinals.
He was a scrappy, rambunc-
tious, fair-haired son of New York
City — hence the nickname — and
through the decades a beloved
one, as loyal to Yankee pinstripes
as his most die-hard fans. “I’ve
been a Yankee fan since I was 5
years old,” Ford said at his Hall of
Fame induction at Cooperstown,
N.Y., in 1974.
He was among the biggest
names on Yankee teams featuringSon of the City, and Cornerstone of a Dynasty
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Last Link to an Era of
Yankees’ Dominance
Whitey Ford pitching for the Yankees in 1960, when he and the team were at their peak.
PATRICK BURNS/THE NEW YORK TIMESWHITEY FORD, 1928-Continued on Page AACE OF THE YANKEESTyler Kep-
ner writes on Ford’s career, and
his remarkable records. PAGE BLONDON — What faint hopes
remained that Europe was recov-
ering from the economic catastro-
phe delivered by the pandemic
have disappeared as the lethal vi-
rus has resumed spreading rap-
idly across much of the continent.
After sharply expanding in the
early part of the summer, Britain’s
economy grew far less than antici-
pated in August — just 2.1 percent
compared with July, the govern-
ment reported on Friday, adding
to worries that further weakness
lies ahead.
This week, France, Europe’s
second-largest economy, down-
graded its forecast for the pace of
expansion for the last three
months of the year from an al-
ready minimal 1 percent to zero.
Over all, the national statistics
agency predicted the economy
would contract by 9 percent.
The diminished expectations
are a direct outgrowth of alarm
over the revival of the virus.
France reported nearly 19,
new cases on Wednesday — a one-
day record, and almost double the
number the day before. The surge
prompted President Emmanuel
Macron to announce new restric-
tions, including a two-month shut-
down of cafes and bars in Paris
and surrounding areas.
In Spain, the central bank gov-
ernor warned this week that the
accelerating spread of the virus
could force the government to im-
pose restrictions that wouldproduce an economic contraction
of as much as 12.6 percent this
year.
The European Central Bank’s
chief economist cautioned on
Tuesday that the 19 countries that
share the euro might not recover
from the disaster until 2022, with
those that are dependent on tour-
ism especially vulnerable.
Summer increasingly feels like
a long time ago.
In July, with infection rates
down, lockdowns lifted and many
Europeans indulging in the sacred
ritual of the summer holiday, signs
of revival appeared abundant.
Many European economies ex-
panded strongly as people re-
turned to shops, restaurants andVirus Spread Halts Europe’s Economic Revival
By PETER S. GOODMANClosing a pub in Edinburgh, Scotland. The British government has been subsidizing wages at businesses hurt by the pandemic.
RUSSELL CHEYNE/REUTERSContinued on Page AIn Boston, plans to bring chil-
dren back to school have been
halted as cases of the coronavirus
climbed precariously. New virus
clusters are emerging in Rhode Is-
land, Connecticut, Maryland and
Pennsylvania. In New York City,
the number of new cases each day
now averages more than 500 for
the first time since June.
The Northeast, devastated by
the coronavirus in the spring and
then held up as a model of infec-
tion control by summer, is now
seeing the first inklings of what
might become a second wave of
the virus, an ominous prospect for
the region and a sharp warning to
the rest of the country.
The rise in new cases has
prompted state and local officials
to reverse course, tightening re-
strictions on businesses, schools
and outdoor spaces.
In New Jersey, where hospital-
izations are on the rise and the
rate of infection has almost dou-
bled to nearly eight cases per
100,000 people, towns have closed
public parks and picnic areas to
discourage people from gather-
ing. Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode
Island extended restaurant ca-
pacity limitations for another
month, concerned about the
state’s uptick in confirmed cases.Signs Suggest
Second Wave
For Northeast
By SARAH MERVOSH
and JULIE BOSMANContinued on Page ADonald J. Trump needed money.
His “self-funded” presidential
campaign was short on funds, and
he was struggling to win over
leery Republican donors. His golf
courses and the hotel he would
soon open in the Old Post Office in
Washington were eating away at
what cash he had left on hand, his
tax records show.
And in early 2016, Deutsche
Bank, the last big lender still do-
ing business with him, unexpect-
edly turned down his request for a
loan. The funds, Mr. Trump had
told his bankers, would help shore
up his Turnberry golf resort in
Scotland. Some bankers feared
the money would instead be di-
verted to his campaign.
That January, Mr. Trump sold a
lot of stock — $11.1 million worth.
He sold another $11.8 million
worth in February, and $7.5 mil-
lion in March. In April, he sold $8.
million more.
And the president’s long-hidden
tax records, obtained by The New
York Times, also reveal this: how
he engineered a sudden financial
windfall — more than $21 million
in what experts describe as highly
unusual one-off payments from
the Las Vegas hotel he owns with
his friend the casino mogul Phil
Ruffin.
In previous articles on the tax
records, The Times has reported
that, in all but a few years since
2000, chronic business losses and
aggressive accounting strategies
have allowed Mr. Trump to largely
avoid paying federal income
taxes. And while the hundreds of
millions of dollars earned from
“The Apprentice” and his attend-
ant celebrity rescued his business
career, those riches, together with
the marketing power of the Trump
brand, were ebbing when he an-nounced his 2016 presidential run.
The new findings, part of The
Times’s continuing investigation,
cast light on Mr. Trump’s financial
maneuverings in that time of fis-
cal turmoil and unlikely political
victory. Indeed, they may offer a
hint to one of the enduring mys-
teries of his campaign: In its wan-
ing days, as his own giving had
slowed to a trickle, Mr. Trump con-
tributed $10 million, leaving many
people wondering where the burst
of cash had come from.
The tax records, by their na-
ture, do not specify whether the
more than $21 million in payments
from the Trump-Ruffin hotel
helped prop up Mr. Trump’s cam-
paign, his businesses or both. But
they do show how the cash flowed,
in a chain of transactions, to sev-
eral Trump-controlled companies
and then directly to Mr. Trump
himself.
The bulk of the money went
through a company called Trump
Las Vegas Sales and Marketing
that had little previous income, no
clear business purpose and no
employees. The Trump-Ruffin
joint venture wrote it all off as a
business expense.LOW ON CASH IN ’16,
TRUMP GENERATED
HIS OWN WINDFALL
Tax Records Reveal How Hotel Funneled
$21 Million via His Companies
This article is by Susanne Craig,
Mike McIntireand Russ Buettner.President Trump’s Las Vegas
hotel, owned with Phil Ruffin.JOE BUGLEWICZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMESContinued on Page AIf Rafael Nadal wins the final at Roland
Garros on Sunday, he’ll match Roger
Federer’s 20 singles titles. PAGE BSPORTSSATURDAY B7-Men’s Major Record at Stake
The U.S. government said its earlier
concerns about global warming’s effects
on wolverines were overstated.PAGE A
NATIONAL A12-
No Protection for Wolverines
After halting negotiations with Demo-
crats this week, President Trump pro-
posed a $1.8 trillion rescue package that
his own party may reject. PAGE ATRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-President Raises Stimulus Offer
The platform, seeking to combat politi-
cal misinformation, is temporarily
changing some of its features. Re-
tweeting will be slowed. PAGE BBUSINESS B1-A New Feel to Twitter
The Nobel laureate Louise Glück’s works
have meanings that you can tangle with
for a long time. An appraisal. PAGE CARTS C1-Poetry That Dares to Be Cruel
The director of national intelligence
vowed to be apolitical. Months at his job,
he has become anything but. PAGE A
Spy Chief in Political Role
Game 5 of the finals between the Lak-
ers and the Heat was expected to be the
first game aired since last fall. PAGE BN.B.A. Back on TV in China
Weary of tokenism at art museums, a
group of Black board members is push-
ing for diverse perspectives. PAGE CBlack Trustees Join Forces
A federal judge allowed Gov. Andrew M.
Cuomo of New York to move forward
with new restrictions on synagogues
and other houses of worship. PAGE ACourt Clears Cuomo’s Orders
Lenders and businesses await clarity on
how loans under the Paycheck Protec-
tion Program will be forgiven. PAGE BAgony, Until Congress Acts
Timothy Egan PAGE A
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-The U.N. agency won the Peace Prize for
fighting a surge in global hunger amid
the coronavirus pandemic. PAGE AINTERNATIONAL A9-President Trump called a Covid-19 Nobel for World Food Program
treatment from the company Regen-
eron a “cure,” but he also sowed suspi-
cion about whether it works. PAGE A‘Cure’ Remark Stirs Interest
WASHINGTON — President
Trump forced the State Depart-
ment on Friday to commit to re-
leasing at least some of Hillary
Clinton’s emails before next
month’s election, resurrecting a
four-year-old issue in hopes that it
will prove as helpful to his political
prospects as it was when he de-
feated her in 2016.
Trailing badly in the polls and
eager to change the subject from
the coronavirus, Mr. Trump suc-
ceeded in compelling Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo to announce
that he would make public the
emails even as Attorney General
William P. Barr resisted pressurefrom the president to prosecute
Democrats like former Vice Presi-
dent Joseph R. Biden Jr., this
year’s Democratic nominee.
Still recovering from his own co-
ronavirus infection, Mr. Trump
made plans to host hundreds of
supporters on the South Lawn of
the White House on Saturday for
his first in-person event since he
tested positive last week, accord-
ing to three people familiar with
the schedule. The rally that he had
previously said he wanted to hold
in Florida on Saturday will instead
be held on Monday, his campaign
announced, as the president in-
sisted on getting back on the road
despite his illness.
The burst of activity and machi-President Pressuring Pompeo
And Barr for a Campaign Jolt
This article is by Peter Baker, Mag-
gie Haberman, Katie Benner, Lara
Jakesand Michael S. Schmidt.Continued on Page AMASKSThe White House blocked
the C.D.C. from requiring masks
on public transportation. PAGE ATRACKING AN OUTBREAKPrinted in Chicago $3.
Sunshine and clouds. Cooler north.
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