As our team continues its' on-going assessment of the US Election Scene, we hereby present the following courtesy Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah on the week that was:
In its last meeting before the November elections, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday did as expected and announced that it will maintain a target interest rate at or near zero percent until the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, which could take years to accomplish.
Counting votes cast in Maine's marquee Senate race will be complicated this fall by a likely surge in mail-in ballots and its voting system.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins needs majority support, not just a plurality of the votes, if she wants to win her fifth term after first being elected to Congress in 1996. That's because, for the first time, Maine's Senate race could be decided by ranked-choice voting.
