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11:35 PM ET, July 30, 2020

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Steven G. Calabresi / New York Times:
Trump Might Try to Postpone the Election.  That's Unconstitutional.  —  He should be removed unless he relents.  —  Mr. Calabresi is a co-founder of the Federalist Society and a professor at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law.  —  I have voted Republican …
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New York Times:
Trump Defends ‘Delay the Election’ Tweet, Even Though He Can't Do It  —  Trailing badly in the polls, President Trump baselessly suggested that the November election would be fraudulent.  Former President Barack Obama called for sweeping changes to expand voting rights. … Here's what you need to know:
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump Attacks an Election He Is at Risk of Losing  —  Mr. Trump has become a heckler in his own government, failing to marshal leaders in Washington to form a robust response to the health and economic crises.  Instead, he is raising doubts about holding the election on time.
Discussion: The Hill, IJR and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Postal Service backlog sparks worries that ballot delivery could be delayed in November  —  The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing days-long backlogs of mail across the country after a top Trump donor running the agency put in place new procedures described as cost-cutting efforts …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump Is the Election Crisis He Is Warning About  —  When a sitting President threatens to delay a sacrosanct American ritual, you'd better listen.  —  On Thursday morning, minutes after the worst U.S. economic data in seventy years were released and barely two hours before an American hero …
Politico:
Trump revisits his playbook for disastrous news: An explosive spectacle  —  President Donald Trump's go-it-alone presidency crested on Thursday with a suggestion that the country delay the November election.  —  The idea undercut allies and aides who months ago accused Joe Biden of promoting …
Discussion: NBC News
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Federalist Society co-founder calls Trump's tweet about delaying election “fascistic”
New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: Republicans Reject Trump's Suggestion to Delay Election, Something He Cannot Do
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Trump's suggestion to delay the election is the most anti-democratic thing any president ever said
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump's Two-Pronged Strategy to Demonize Voting By Mail
Discussion: WTOP, NBC News and Associated Press
Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”  —  This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control.  So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic 50-state response?
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
DHS compiled ‘intelligence reports’ on journalists who published leaked documents  —  The Department of Homeland Security has compiled “intelligence reports” about the work of American journalists covering protests in Portland, Ore., in what current and former officials called an alarming use …
New York Times:
Republicans and White House at Odds Over Kansas Senate Race  —  Some in the G.O.P. want President Trump to endorse the opponent of Kris Kobach, who they worry could cost them a traditionally safe Senate seat.  So far, the White House has declined to do so.  —  WASHINGTON — As the Kansas …
Discussion: NBC News
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CNN:
Trump tells associates on Air Force One he will not intervene in Kansas' US Senate GOP primary  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump indicated to associates during a flight on Air Force One on Wednesday that he would not intervene in the US Senate Republican primary in Kansas despite …
Ryan Nobles / CNN:
Trump campaign temporarily halts ad spending for review of messaging strategy  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign has canceled a series of advertisement buys over the next few days as they review their messaging strategy, a senior campaign official told CNN.
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NBC News:
Trump campaign hits pause on TV ad spending for ‘review’ of messaging strategy  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's campaign has virtually disappeared from the airwaves as it undertakes “a review and fine-tuning of the campaign's strategy” as an official put it after the replacement of campaign manager Brad Parscale.
Dan Calabrese / Herman Cain:
We're heartbroken, and the world is poorer: Herman Cain has gone to be with the Lord  —  You're never ready for the kind of news we are grappling with this morning.  But we have no choice but to seek and find God's strength and comfort to deal with it.  —  Herman Cain - our boss, our friend …
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Bill Hoffmann / Newsmax:
Herman Cain Dies From Coronavirus at 74
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
‘George Floyd All Over Again’: ICE Guard Drove Knee Into Detainee  —  A guard at an ICE detention center drove his knee into the upper back of a detainee, Carlos Rivas Monsano, eyewitnesses say.  They haven't seen the man in the two weeks since.  —  An Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ann Marimow / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn case to be reheard by full federal appeals court in D.C.  —  A federal appeals court in Washington will take a second look a judge's effort to scrutinize the Justice Department's decision to drop its case against President Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:   Appeals Court Erases Order to End Michael Flynn Case, Sets New Arguments
CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Fearing Trump interference, FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs  —  (CNN)Adapted from “TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: The Investigation of Donald Trump,” by Jeffrey Toobin.  Copyright © 2020.  Available from Doubleday.  —  In the hours after President Donald …
Luke Winkie / On Posting:
On Media-Thirst Guys, and the horrifying knowledge that you can only relate with people just as brain-sick as you.  —  My girlfriend almost ghosted me after our second date.  The reason was simple; we talked too much about the media.  Becca works at Vox, I'm a freelancer …
Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Ilhan Omar Paid Her Husband's Firm $600,000 in Three Weeks  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) funneled an additional $606,000 to her husband's firm in the first three weeks of July alone, according to new campaign filings.  —  Federal Election Commission records released Thursday show …
John Lewis / New York Times:
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation  —  Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.  —  Mr. Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death, to be published upon the day of his funeral.
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
‘If you can talk, you can breathe,’ Arkansas officer tells man who later dies in police custody  —  As he begged police to stop using a Taser on him on a supermarket's floor, Lionel Morris's cries echoed through the produce section of the store in Conway, Ark., for 6½ minutes.
USA Today:
Delay the election?  Take Trump seriously.  Laws and the Constitution haven't stopped him yet.  —  Moments after President Donald Trump tweeted that perhaps this year's election should be delayed, a wave of responses suggested that his public musing should be dismissed.
Discussion: National Review
Anna Palmer / Politico:
The congressional underclass erupts in fury after Gohmert gets Covid-19  —  The revelation Wednesday that Texas Republican Louie Gohmert, a renegade lawmaker known for stalking the halls of Congress without a mask, tested positive for Covid-19 has unleashed a fusillade of anger on Capitol Hill …
Nick Givas / Fox News:
Feinstein: Letting Americans sue China over coronavirus response would be ‘huge mistake’  —  California senator calls China a ‘respectable nation’ that has lifted tens of millions of people out poverty  —  Allowing citizens to sue China for damages caused by the novel coronavirus would backfire …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Barack Obama:
My Eulogy for Congressman John Lewis  —  James wrote to the believers, “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.  Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.”
Discussion: Bloomberg
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Intel Dems press Nunes for details on anti-Biden package from Ukrainian official  —  Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, this week declined to answer a colleague's question about whether he had received derogatory information about Vice President Joe Biden …
Discussion: Raw Story and Breitbart
Mitch McKinley / Law Enforcement Today:
Missouri AG intervenes in case against St. Louis couple who defended their home with guns  —  Editor note: A previous version of this story suggested all charges were dropped against the couple.  Now legal sources in the city say that is not yet formally the case.  The Missouri AG is still seeking to dismiss the case.
Discussion: Twitchy and Power Line
The Daily Beast:
'He's Terrified of Losing'—Trump Goes Into Hyperdrive to Delegitimize The Election  —  Trump has no power to delay the election.  But he has the ability to normalize rejecting its results - something GOP politicians who condemned his tweets talked past.  —  As much of the political world went …
National Review:
Delaying the Election Would Be Grotesque and Un-American  —  President Trump outdid himself this morning with a tweet floating the idea of delaying the election.  —  Obviously, this is an incendiary and absurd idea unworthy of being spoken — or even thought — by a president of the United States.
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Virus Cases Are Rising in N.J., Spurred by Young Partygoers at the Shore  —  Coronavirus cases have jumped by 28 percent.  The governor pleaded “one more time to parents and kids”: Don't gather inside.  —  Coronavirus cases in New Jersey, which just a week ago had plunged to their lowest levels since …
Discussion: CBS New York, The Hill and Daily Kos
 
 
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Undocumented immigrant who worked for Trump's company facing deportation proceedings
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Dems pour record cash into battleground state parties
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Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Senate adjourns without extending expiring unemployment benefits
Discussion: Washington Post and Reuters
New York Times:
The Economy Is in Record Decline, but Not for the Tech Giants
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Trump global media chief probes pro-Biden VOA content
Nicole Narea / Vox:
A federal judge blocked Trump's rule creating a wealth test for immigrants
Discussion: ABC News
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
The Stealthy Play to Make Swing State Republicans Love Tom Cotton
Discussion: Raw Story
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
US government drops effort to silence Trump's ex-lawyer
Discussion: Reuters