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12:25 PM ET, July 31, 2020

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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Senate leaves without coronavirus deal  —  OVER THE CLIFF — It happened.  The Senate left town knowing that failed negotiations would ensure the expiration of enhanced jobless benefits for millions of Americans laid off and furloughed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion: National Review, The Hill and Raw Story
David Siders / Politico:
‘Rigged election’ goes from Trump complaint to campaign strategy
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just told us how mail delays could help him corrupt the election
Discussion: NPR, IJR and Talking Points Memo
Steven G. Calabresi / New York Times:
Trump Might Try to Postpone the Election. That's Unconstitutional.
New York Times:
Trump Defends ‘Delay the Election’ Tweet, Even Though He Can't Do It
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 was hitting Democratic states hardest and that they could blame governors, report says  —  Foto: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Jared Kushner.  — Some members of Jared Kushner's coronavirus task force believed …
CNN:
Joe Biden narrows down his VP list, with Karen Bass emerging as one of several key contenders  —  Bass on VP talk: ‘willing to serve’ however I can  —  (CNN)Joe Biden heads into the weekend weighing the biggest decision of his presidential campaign so far, and people close to the process tell CNN …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Karen Bass, a Potential Biden VP Pick, Explains Her History With Cuba
Discussion: Breitbart
Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:   Florida's Scott Has One Eye on 2022—and Another on 2024
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Newspaper editorial board run by former Harris aide endorses Bass for VP
Discussion: Fox News
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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Washington Post:
White House willing to cut a stimulus deal without ‘liability shield,’ breaking with McConnell  —  The Senate majority leader had said this week that there would be no deal with Democrats without legal protections for employers against pandemic claims  —  The White House is willing to cut …
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Does Trump Want to Save His Economy?
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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, POLITICUSUSA and Breitbart
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:   Obama warns that Trump's actions threaten US democracy
MSNBC:   Morgan Freeman reads Rep. John Lewis' last words
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Barack Obama's Ugly Filibuster Hypocrisy
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
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 …
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
None dare call it treason, but perhaps one day they will  —  What a tremendous burden it must be for you to still be defending President Trump.  You have called yourself a constitutional conservative for decades, but now you sit silently as the president pushes to move this year's election because he might lose.
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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: Reuters and Power Line
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 …
Discussion: Progress Pond
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Politico:
State Democrats mount big comeback in 2020
Discussion: Raw Story and Balloon Juice
Max Cohen / Politico:
Acting ICE chief announces retirement following clashes with Trump officials  —  The acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Matthew Albence, is leaving the government.  —  A career law enforcement officer who filled a number of positions within the Department of Homeland Security agency …
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Trump's ICE chief Matt Albence leaving post
Discussion: Fox News, The Hill and IJR
Ursula Perano / Axios:
House committee subpoenas Pompeo for records on Biden investigations  —  Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Friday subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for records related to the State Department's involvement in attempts …
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
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House Foreign Affairs Committee:
Engel Subpoenas Records from Pompeo-Senate GOP Smear Campaign against Bidens
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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 …
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
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.
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
John Cleese Sounds Off on ‘Complete Asshole’ Trump and His ‘Very Stupid’ Voters  —  “There is no hope for us that we could ever live in an intelligent, kind, well-run society,” the comedy legend says in this preview from “The Last Laugh podcast.”  —  When John Cleese tells people …
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Hollywood Reporter:
NBC Insiders Say Entertainment Boss Fostered Toxic Culture, Under Investigation  —  Current and former employees allege that NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy engaged in racist, sexist and homophobic behavior: “It was par for the course.”  —  On June 4, former America's Got Talent …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Twenty Things You Probably Didn't Know about Susan Rice  —  Being soft on African dictators, pondering the electoral implications of calling genocide genocide, and giving Richard Holbrooke the finger  —  ne: In April 1994, Susan Rice was a rising star on the U.S. National Security Council who worked under Richard Clarke.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump's Racism Won't Win the Suburbs.  But It May Diversify Them.  —  The United States is full of lily-white, deep-blue suburbs with lawn signs that shout Black Lives Matter — and zoning laws that whisper, But preserving “neighborhood character” matters more.
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.
ABC News:
Fauci, White House COVID-19 task force officials testify on Capitol Hill  —  The hearing comes amid growing tension between the doctor and the president.  —  LIVE NOW  —  As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute …
Discussion: Politico and Reuters
 
 
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Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
Hong Kong Delays Election, Citing Coronavirus. The Opposition Isn't Buying It.
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Mark Skoneki / Orlando Sentinel:
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Discussion: The Hill
Penny Starr / Breitbart:
Ohio Board of Pharmacy Reverses Rule, Okays Hydroxychloroquine After Governor's Request
Discussion: American Greatness
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
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Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
When the press buried Obama for Ebola — and two Americans died
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