Even as recently as last week, Trump's advisers used tightening polls to convey momentum in their conversations with the President. But by morning, the President seemed tired, having arrived back to the White House around 3 a.m. There, he conferred with a smaller group of campaign and White House advisers about how to proceed, officials said. Placed on supplemental oxygen at the White House, Trump resisted going to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where his doctors were advising he be transferred. There weren't many supporters present when the President returned to the White House from the golf course on Saturday.

Source: The Nation November 08, 2020 12:56 UTC