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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?
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Mia Jankowicz / Business Insider:
Kushner's axed coronavirus team shied away from a national strategy, believing that the virus …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Co-founder of influential conservative group: Trump's tweet floating election delay is grounds for impeachment  —  (CNN)The co-founder of the conservative Federalist Society said Thursday in a blistering New York Times op-ed that President Donald Trump's tweet musing about a delay …
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
Discussion: CBS News, The Hill, Political Wire and IJR
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 and Politico
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Does Trump Want to Save His Economy?  —  The president is showing little urgency or strategy as the economic recovery stalls ahead of the November election.  —  WASHINGTON — The United States just suffered its worst economic quarter in nearly 75 years.  Its recovery from the depths …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington Post:   White House willing to cut a stimulus deal without ‘liability shield,’ breaking with McConnell
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside the White House-Congress relief talks
Discussion: National Review, CNN and The Hill
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:   $600-a-week unemployment benefits expire, posing fresh danger to Trump's re-election
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson Calls Barack Obama a ‘Greasy Politician’ Who ‘Desecrated’ John Lewis' Funeral  —  ‘CAN YOU IMAGINE?’  —  After Barack Obama eulogized the late Georgia Congressman John Lewis, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the former president was “greasy” for “desecrating a funeral with campaign slogans.”
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and POLITICUSUSA
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Obama warns that Trump's actions threaten US democracy  —  (CNN)In one of the most jolting moments in modern political history, former President Barack Obama reclaimed his political pulpit with a stark warning that his successor is a grave and imminent threat to American democracy and racial justice.
MSNBC:   Morgan Freeman reads Rep. John Lewis' last words
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Barack Obama's Ugly Filibuster Hypocrisy
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
More Than Just a Tweet: Trump's Campaign to Undercut Democracy  —  Floating the idea of delaying the election was the latest step in the president's running effort to discredit the election, risking long-term damage to public trust in the system.  —  Nothing in the Constitution gives President Trump …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Pandemic Is Damaging the GOP Brand Everywhere  —  Although hardly any of the governors grappling with the fiercest coronavirus outbreaks are on the ballot this fall, voters' verdicts about their performance loom heavily over another electoral battle with enormous implications for the balance …
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Politico:
State Democrats mount big comeback in 2020
Discussion: Raw Story and Balloon Juice
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Filibuster Swipe  —  He frames it as racist.  That will end debate among Democrats.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Anticipating a November romp, prominent Democrats have been dropping hints that they'd scrap the filibuster for legislation if they win the Senate.
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ABC News:
The Note: Presidents offer dueling views on country's voting systems
Discussion: Breitbart
Barack Obama:
My Eulogy for Congressman John Lewis
Discussion: The Guardian
Natasha Khan / Wall Street Journal:
Citing Coronavirus, Hong Kong Postpones Legislative Elections for a Year  —  The postponement caps a month of misery for opposition groups since China imposed a national security law on the city  —  HONG KONG—Chief Executive Carrie Lam said she would postpone coming legislative elections for a year …
Discussion: Axios
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Reuters:   Hong Kong leader says key election postponed, blow to pro-democracy camp
Tony Cheung / South China Morning Post:
Hong Kong asks Beijing to resolve legal problems with postponing elections
Discussion: Bloomberg
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Census Door Knocking Cut A Month Short Amid Pressure To Finish Count  —  The Census Bureau is cutting short critical door-knocking efforts for the 2020 census amid growing concerns among Democrats in Congress that the White House is pressuring the bureau to wrap up counting soon for political gain, NPR has learned.
Discussion: The Hill and CBS Boston
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
Trump ordered federal forces to quell Portland protests.  But the chaos ended as soon as they left.  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — After President Trump ordered federal law enforcement officers into Portland, Ore., earlier this month, the protests largely ended the same way for days: with tear gas, rubber bullets and arrests.
Discussion: ABC News and Fox News
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Burn the Republican Party Down?  —  It would damage the country, and those who say yes bear some blame for the president's rise.  —  Where did Donald Trump come from?  Where is the GOP going?  Should the whole thing be burned down?  A lot had to go wrong before we got a President Trump.
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Trump in trouble as nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of his handling of COVID-19, protests, Russia: POLL  —  Trump is underwater on his handling of the coronavirus, protests and Russia.  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling …
Discussion: Power Line
Kathryn Varn / Tampa Bay Times:
Pinellas sheriff to Rays: Breonna Taylor tweet was ‘just wrong’ and ‘reckless’  —  Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said he'll reevaluate whether his agency will work with the baseball team in the future.  —  Pinellas County's top cop condemned the Tampa Bay Rays for posting a tweet calling for the arrests …
Discussion: The Hill
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
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Trump's ICE chief Matt Albence leaving post  —  Matt Albence, the acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will leave his post by Labor Day, the Washington Examiner was first to report Thursday.  —  Albence informed senior ICE officials in a private phone call Thursday evening …
Discussion: Fox News, The Hill and IJR
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
When the press buried Obama for Ebola — and two Americans died  —  Different rules for Democrats … Subscribe to PRESS RUN  —  “The Ebola crisis in the United States has become an anchor threatening to sink the Obama presidency” — The Hill, October 16, 2014.
Roge Karma / Vox:
We train police to be warriors — and then send them out to be social workers  —  The fatal mismatch at the heart of American policing.  —  Richard Nixon called police forces “the real front-line soldiers in the war on crime.”  Bill Clinton, in his signing ceremony for the 1994 crime bill …
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Citing impostors, feds urge lifting of court order protecting journalists amid Portland protests
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
The covid-19 crisis exposes the limits of a reality-TV presidency
Wall Street Journal:
Consumer Spending Rose 5.6% in June
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Karen Bass, a Potential Biden VP Pick, Explains Her History With Cuba
Conrad Black / American Greatness:
Clouds of Summer Obscure the Coming Thunder of November
NBC News:
Diplomats plead with State Department not to rush return to offices
Discussion: The Hill
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Governors who took strict measures on coronavirus are seeing better political outcomes
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump has made Republicans complicit in his revolt against American principles
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