Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads, CNBC reports.
However, Zuckerberg did not say when this feature will roll out.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads, CNBC reports.
However, Zuckerberg did not say when this feature will roll out.
President Trump’s presidential campaign is enticing big-spending donors to the Republican Party’s convention in August by offering packages that cost almost $1.2 million dollars per couple, Bloomberg reports.
President Trump was privately briefed on Sunday night about what he could expect from the upcoming book by his niece, Mary Trump, and he’s considering suing her to stop publication, the Daily Beast reports.
“Donald Trump has told people close to him that he’s getting his lawyers to look into the Mary Trump matter, to explore what could be done in the way of legal retribution—or at least a threat—likely in the form of a cease and desist letter. One of the sources with knowledge of the situation said that in the past couple of days, the president appeared irked by news of her book and at one point mentioned that Mary had signed an NDA years ago.”
“Mary Trump signed an NDA following a 2001 settlement after litigation disputing Fred Trump’s estate, according to people familiar with the matter. That NDA states she is not allowed to publish anything regarding the litigation or her relationship with Donald, Maryanne and Robert.”
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A new ad from the Lincoln Project: “Why did Trump have a secretive, midnight run to Walter Reed Medical Center? It’s time we talk about it.”
President Trump falsely suggested that scientists have developed a vaccine for AIDS, the late stage of HIV infection in which the virus badly damages the immune system, CNBC reports.
Said Trump: “They’ve come up with the AIDS vaccine. As you know, there’s various things, and now various companies are involved.”
President Trump’s first internal reelection campaign poll conducted in March, obtained exclusively by ABC News, showed him losing a matchup by wide margins to Joe Biden in key battleground states.
Trump has repeatedly denied that such data exists.
The polling data showed a double-digit lead for Biden in Pennsylvania 55% to 39% and Wisconsin 51% to 41% and had Biden leading by seven points in Florida.
The Trump administration is suing former national security adviser John Bolton for alleged breach of contract over his new book which is due to be published next week, CNN reports.
The New York Times reports the book “has already been printed and bound and has shipped to warehouses, which could make it more difficult for the administration to stop Mr. Bolton’s account from becoming public.”
Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma, and Texas reported record numbers of new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the New York Times reports.
Meanwhile, ABC News reports Vice President Mike Pence “attempted to paint a rosy picture of the pandemic in Oklahoma that contradicted data released by state and local public health departments there.”
President Trump will hold an indoor campaign rally in Tulsa on Saturday.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) told the Des Moines Register that she will sign an executive order restoring voting rights to people with past felony convictions, a move that will address Iowa’s status as the last state in the country with a lifetime ban on felon voting.
Nebraska Democrats are asking their U.S. Senate candidate, Chris Janicek (D), to quit the race after he sent staffers text messages that the state party described as “sexually inappropriate,” the Omaha World-Herald reports.
Janicek’s texts described lining up multiple partners for group sex with a female staffer and suggested the “three guys” could be paid.
Janicek has since apologized but said he’s staying in the race.
Google has banned two far-right websites — ZeroHedge and The Federalist — from its advertising platform after research revealed the tech giant was profiting from articles pushing unsubstantiated claims about the Black Lives Matter protests, NBC News reports.
A new Civiqs poll in Arizona finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race among registered voters, 49% to 45%.
In the U.S. Senate race, Mark Kelly (D) leads Sen. Martha McSally (R), 51% to 42%.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) told The Hill that it is time to discuss renaming military bases named after Confederate figures and signaled that he is open to talking about changing the names.
Said Thune: “I think you reevaluate, given the timing and circumstances and where we are in the country, who we want to revere… by naming military installations and other national monuments. And so I think you have to periodically take a look at that and, in this case, it’s perhaps time to do it.”
In the mail: The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency by John Dickerson.
I’m looking forward to reading this one. Dickerson was on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night.
Washington Post: “Over the past week and through Monday, Fox News’s prime-time shows have repeatedly shown clips of violence from the end of May — often the same clips, over and over — to depict chaos and terror gripping the streets of the country. As protesters in Seattle took control of a few blocks in that city, it was blended with the scenes of violence from last month to continue the same narrative. Cities are collapsing — and the left is to blame.”
“Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are warning that President Trump’s planned campaign rally on Saturday — his first in over three months — is likely to worsen an already troubling spike in coronavirus infections and could become a disastrous ‘super spreader,'” the Washington Post reports.
“They are pleading with the Trump campaign to cancel the event, slated for a 20,000-person indoor arena — or at least move it outdoors.”
However, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum (R) told Tulsa World he won’t attempt to block the rally.
“The Texas Democratic Party on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to expand access of mail-in ballots to all voters in the state, including those afraid of contracting the coronavirus,” the Washington Post reports.
“Texas GOP officials have sought to limit the use of absentee ballots, claiming they are vulnerable to fraud. Currently, Texas allows absentee voting only for voters who are out of state, have a disability or are over age 65.”
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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