The Daily Populous

What he's saying: "If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression," Trump said.

For the record: The U.S. has the highest number of cases and death toll from COVID-19 in the world.

The virus has killed more than 219,600 people and infected over 8.1 million in the U.S., per Johns Hopkins. »

But the commercial is perhaps most notable for the song that kicks in at about the 40-second mark, "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys.

This is, Variety reports, the first time the band has licensed any of its music for an advertisement.

The Beastie Boys agreed to using "Sabotage" in the ad "because of the importance of the election," the Biden campaign tells Variety. »

It is people like Andrade whom a new guaranteed income pilot program is trying to reach, Compton Mayor Aja Brown said.

Later this year, the mayor says, the Compton Pledge will begin giving 800 Compton residents free cash for a two-year period.

Brown said she hopes the impact of the cash transfers will ripple across her Compton community, beyond those who are selected for the pilot program. »

During the rally, peppered with the usual Trump bombast, the president claimed that Biden would cancel Christmas.

“If he comes in, Carson City will become a ghost town and the Christmas season will be canceled,” Trump said, despite the fact that a President Biden would only take office on Jan. 20 - almost a month after Christmas.

Trump also claimed "the Biden family is a criminal enterprise," which elicited chants of "lock him up" from the crowd. »