<p>Every day is a high-stakes battle for Donald Trump and Joe Biden as the United States hurtles towards the November 3 vote, but this week also produced another bountiful array of weird and wonderful election news.</p>.<p>The big question of the 2020 election finally got asked, and answered.</p>.<p>The president emits wafts of "quite expensive aftershave and not overly done, just a light, gentle aroma," Piers Morgan told a <em>Guardian</em> interviewer who said he had always wondered about Trump's cologne.</p>.<p>"You imagine he'd smell like some flamboyant nightclub owner in the 70s, but he doesn't," Morgan added. "You get a whiff of hairspray, because it is permanently coiffured."</p>.<p>The British TV host, a friend of Trump's from their days on Celebrity Apprentice, used to be one of the few people that the president followed on Twitter.</p>.<p>But Trump unfollowed him earlier this year after Morgan wrote a brutally critical article.</p>.<p>The Biden campaign held a virtual rally this week targeting the <em>Star Trek</em> electorate, boldly going to canvas a whole new galaxy of voters.</p>.<p>Hosted by Democrats Pete Buttigieg and self-proclaimed nerd Andrew Yang, the "Trek the vote to victory!" event featured show stars including Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew and George Takei.</p>.<p>Getting into the mood, Buttigieg tweeted a photo of himself as a young boy wearing Star Trek costume.</p>.<p>He then held up a Borg action figure as he chatted with Takei about how the series promoted equality.</p>.<p>The campaign pushed on with the joke, saying "President Biden is the highly logical choice and Vice-President Harris will boldly go where no woman has gone before."</p>.<p>Up-and-coming Democrat Stacey Abrams revealed herself to be a true Trekkie superfan. She said the honor of speaking to the cast meant "no Christmas presents needed this year."</p>.<p>Donald Trump wanted to rip off his shirt to reveal a Superman T-shirt underneath when he left hospital after being treated for Covid-19, The New York Times reported this week.</p>.<p>It said Trump planned to appear frail as he walked out, before tearing off his white business shirt to reveal the Superman logo as a show of strength.</p>.<p>Trump floated the "Clark Kent" idea in several phone calls from the presidential suite at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the newspaper said.</p>.<p>Trump has since said in speeches that he feels like Superman after recovering, and claiming -- without medical evidence -- that he is surrounded by a "protective glow" of immunity.</p>.<p>Masks are often part of Halloween costumes in any year -- but so are crowds, visiting neighbors and reaching into communal bags of candy.</p>.<p>The White House said its annual festivities are going "full-steam ahead" on October 31, with some Covid modifications, according to CNN.</p>.<p>The event draws dozens of families to the White House South Lawn for games and trick-or-treating with the president and first lady.</p>.<p>Guests often include White House staff, military families and local schoolchildren.</p>.<p>Sometimes, even for a prolific tweeter like Trump, there's such a thing as oversharing.</p>.<p>So the president may be wishing he hadn't been so quick to post an article about Biden from the satirical Babylon Bee news website.</p>.<p>Trump found himself the object of ridicule after highlighting the piece, a reasonably obvious joke claiming Twitter had shut down entirely to avoid disseminating news critical of Biden.</p>
<p>Every day is a high-stakes battle for Donald Trump and Joe Biden as the United States hurtles towards the November 3 vote, but this week also produced another bountiful array of weird and wonderful election news.</p>.<p>The big question of the 2020 election finally got asked, and answered.</p>.<p>The president emits wafts of "quite expensive aftershave and not overly done, just a light, gentle aroma," Piers Morgan told a <em>Guardian</em> interviewer who said he had always wondered about Trump's cologne.</p>.<p>"You imagine he'd smell like some flamboyant nightclub owner in the 70s, but he doesn't," Morgan added. "You get a whiff of hairspray, because it is permanently coiffured."</p>.<p>The British TV host, a friend of Trump's from their days on Celebrity Apprentice, used to be one of the few people that the president followed on Twitter.</p>.<p>But Trump unfollowed him earlier this year after Morgan wrote a brutally critical article.</p>.<p>The Biden campaign held a virtual rally this week targeting the <em>Star Trek</em> electorate, boldly going to canvas a whole new galaxy of voters.</p>.<p>Hosted by Democrats Pete Buttigieg and self-proclaimed nerd Andrew Yang, the "Trek the vote to victory!" event featured show stars including Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew and George Takei.</p>.<p>Getting into the mood, Buttigieg tweeted a photo of himself as a young boy wearing Star Trek costume.</p>.<p>He then held up a Borg action figure as he chatted with Takei about how the series promoted equality.</p>.<p>The campaign pushed on with the joke, saying "President Biden is the highly logical choice and Vice-President Harris will boldly go where no woman has gone before."</p>.<p>Up-and-coming Democrat Stacey Abrams revealed herself to be a true Trekkie superfan. She said the honor of speaking to the cast meant "no Christmas presents needed this year."</p>.<p>Donald Trump wanted to rip off his shirt to reveal a Superman T-shirt underneath when he left hospital after being treated for Covid-19, The New York Times reported this week.</p>.<p>It said Trump planned to appear frail as he walked out, before tearing off his white business shirt to reveal the Superman logo as a show of strength.</p>.<p>Trump floated the "Clark Kent" idea in several phone calls from the presidential suite at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the newspaper said.</p>.<p>Trump has since said in speeches that he feels like Superman after recovering, and claiming -- without medical evidence -- that he is surrounded by a "protective glow" of immunity.</p>.<p>Masks are often part of Halloween costumes in any year -- but so are crowds, visiting neighbors and reaching into communal bags of candy.</p>.<p>The White House said its annual festivities are going "full-steam ahead" on October 31, with some Covid modifications, according to CNN.</p>.<p>The event draws dozens of families to the White House South Lawn for games and trick-or-treating with the president and first lady.</p>.<p>Guests often include White House staff, military families and local schoolchildren.</p>.<p>Sometimes, even for a prolific tweeter like Trump, there's such a thing as oversharing.</p>.<p>So the president may be wishing he hadn't been so quick to post an article about Biden from the satirical Babylon Bee news website.</p>.<p>Trump found himself the object of ridicule after highlighting the piece, a reasonably obvious joke claiming Twitter had shut down entirely to avoid disseminating news critical of Biden.</p>