The Washington Redskins plan to announce Monday morning that they will change their team name, the Washington Post reports.
The team is not expected to reveal a new name until a later date.
The Washington Redskins plan to announce Monday morning that they will change their team name, the Washington Post reports.
The team is not expected to reveal a new name until a later date.
Playbook: “In Florida, some 15,300 coronavirus cases were reported in the last day. Health experts are warning of a resurgence of the virus. Yet, the White House is spending its time slagging Anthony Fauci, slinging opposition research about his misjudgments or misstatements as he was trying to prepare the nation for the coronavirus.”
“A lot of White House aides shake their heads when they look at the president’s Twitter feed, or complain when he otherwise strays off message. But they’re focusing their energy on trying to railroad the nation’s popular infectious disease doctor in the middle of an active pandemic that has killed more than 130,000 Americans.”
Sean Hannity will interview Roger Stone in his first TV interview since Trump commuted his sentence.
It will air at 9 p.m. ET tonight on Fox News.
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Financial Times: “Hua Chunying, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman, said at a press conference on Monday that Beijing would sanction Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, House Representative Chris Smith and Sam Brownback, Donald Trump’s ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. Ms Hua said the sanctions would take effect on Monday but did not elaborate on what the measures would entail.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) told ABC News that he wouldn’t have commuted President Trump associate Roger Stone.
Said Christie: “Well, I wouldn’t have done it… because I don’t think that the facts that surround the Stone prosecution support the idea of any type of clemency.”
“At least 11 Republican congressional nominees have publicly supported or defended the QAnon conspiracy theory movement or some of its tenets — and more aligned with the movement may still find a way onto ballots this year,” Axios reports.
“As Trump’s reelection effort struggles, Brad Parscale, despite his self-promotion, increasingly finds himself out of favor with his boss and hemmed in by newly hired staffers and recently promoted advisers,” the Washington Post reports.
“President Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has told several White House staffers he’s fed specific nuggets of information to suspected leakers to see if they pass them on to reporters — a trap that would confirm his suspicions,” Axios reports.
Said one former White House official: “Meadows told me he was doing that. I don’t know if it ever worked.”
“This hunt for leakers has put some White House staffers on edge, with multiple officials telling Axios that Meadows has been unusually vocal about his tactics. So far, he’s caught only one person, for a minor leak.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said that it’s unclear whether children can get and transmit COVID-19, the Houston Chronicle reports.
That same day, Texas reported more than 550 COVID infections in children 9 and younger.
Harry Enten: “It’s pretty clear looking at the data that Texas is a swing state in the 2020 election. The 2020 campaign could be the first time Democrats captured the Lone Star State in a presidential election since 1976.”
“After months of insisting that the Republican National Convention go off as scheduled despite the pandemic, President Donald Trump is slowly coming to accept that the late August event will not be the four-night infomercial for his reelection that he had anticipated,” the AP reports.
“After a venue change, spiking coronavirus cases and a sharp recession, Trump aides and allies are increasingly questioning whether it’s worth the trouble, and some are advocating that the convention be scrapped altogether. Conventions are meant to lay out a candidate’s vision for the coming four years, not spark months of intrigue over the health and safety of attendees, they have argued.”
“Ultimately, the decision on whether to move forward will be Trump’s alone.”
The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans that has produced a number of the election cycle’s most effective political attack ads, tells the Washington Post that it has raised $16.8 million this quarter.
Florida reported another record-breaking number of coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, logging 15,300 new positive cases.
The Washington Post reports it’s the most by any state in a single day since the pandemic reached the United States.
Florida is set to hold the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville next month and has ordered schools to reopen five days a week.
President Trump on Twitter:
“I know many in business and politics that work out endlessly, in some cases to a point of exhaustion. It is their number one passion in life, but nobody complains. My ‘exercise’ is playing, almost never during the week, a quick round of golf. Obama played more and much longer rounds, no problem. When I play, Fake News CNN, and others, park themselves anywhere they can to get a picture, then scream ‘President Trump is playing golf.’ Actually, I play VERY fast, get a lot of work done on the golf course, and also get a ‘tiny’ bit of exercise. Not bad!”
CNN shows Trump has played a lot more than Obama. Yesterday was his 276th time playing since taking office.
Associated Press: “A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic. The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months, and even remained down as states like Florida and Texas saw explosions in cases and hospitalizations — and reported daily U.S. infections broke records several times in recent days.”
“Scientists warned it wouldn’t last. A coronavirus death, when it occurs, typically comes several weeks after a person is first infected. And experts predicted states that saw increases in cases and hospitalizations would, at some point, see deaths rise too. Now that’s happening.”
CBS News Poll: “The coronavirus outbreak is reshaping the presidential race in three key Sun Belt states. Joe Biden is now leading President Trump by six points in Florida, and the two are tied in Arizona and competitive in Texas, where Biden is down by just a point to Mr. Trump.”
“Biden has made gains in part because most say their state’s efforts to contain the virus are going badly — and the more concerned voters are about risks from the outbreak, the more likely they are to support Biden.”
A new Dallas Morning News-University of Texas Tyler poll in Texas finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 46% to 41% with 14% undecided.
Politico: “Tammy Duckworth is no longer an afterthought in the Democratic veepstakes.”
“The Illinois senator and Purple Heart recipient has landed squarely in the conversation after a high-profile clash with Tucker Carlson last week and her advocacy against politicization of the military in the weeks prior.”
“The attention hasn’t escaped Biden’s vetting team. It has stepped up information-gathering on Duckworth recently, scrutinizing her legislative record and talking to her colleagues.”
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.
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