“The Republican National Committee is planning site visits over the next 10 days to more than a half-dozen cities — across the South and into Texas and Arizona — as it scrambles for a new convention host,” Axios reports.
“The cities under consideration include Jacksonville, Phoenix, Dallas, Nashville, Atlanta and possibly New Orleans and Savannah.”
A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 49% to 45% with 6% still undecided.
In the U.S. Senate race, Cal Cunningham (D) leads Sen. Thom Tillis (R), 43% to 41% with 16% not sure.
The Lincoln Project is out with another devastating attack ad.
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball says Joe Biden should not be in a rush to name his vice presidential pick. Circumstances may change his list of contenders — and probably already have.
Here are their rankings:
Off the list: Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
“Biden has a team of killers and all I’ve got is a defense.”
— President Trump, quoted by the New York Times, complaining to allies about his campaign.
“President Trump is facing the bleakest outlook for his re-election bid so far, with his polling numbers plunging in both public and private surveys and his campaign beginning to worry about his standing in states like Ohio and Iowa that he carried by wide margins four years ago,” the New York Times reports.
“In private polling conducted by Mr. Trump’s campaign, the president is now well behind Mr. Biden, according to people briefed on the most recent round of results. Several public surveys this week have found Mr. Trump trailing Mr. Biden, the former vice president, by double-digit margins, including a Monmouth University poll published on Wednesday that showed Mr. Biden ahead by 11 percentage points.”
“The Senate Intelligence Committee quietly approved on Wednesday a measure that would require presidential campaigns to report offers of foreign election influence to federal authorities, a move taken in response to Russian election interference in 2016 and one that could draw the attention of President Trump,” CNN reports.
A new Fox News poll in Ohio finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 45% to 43%.
A new Fox News poll in Wisconsin shows Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 49% to 40%.
A new Fox News poll in Arizona finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 46% to 42%.
In the U.S. Senate race, Mark Kelly (D) leads Sen. Martha McSally (R), 50% to 37%.
A new Quinnipiac poll in Texas finds Donald Trump barely ahead of Joe Biden in the presidential race, 44% to 43%.
Joe Biden plans to attend the funeral for George Floyd in Houston next week, the Texas Tribune reports.
“Joe Biden has surged past President Trump in online betting markets tied to the outcome of the 2020 presidential race as the country continues to grapple with a deepening financial crisis, spreading pandemic and historic protests over police brutality,” CNBC reports.
A new Monmouth poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race nationally, 52% to 41%.
Biden’s lead has been slowly widening. It stood at 50% to 41% last month, 48% to 44% in April, and 48% to 45% in March.
Said pollster Patrick Murray: “The race continues to be largely a referendum on the incumbent. The initial reaction to ongoing racial unrest in the country suggests that most voters feel Trump is not handling the situation all that well.”
Earlier for members: What the National Polls Are Telling Trump
Washington Post: “The turmoil across the country, punctuated this week with authorities’ use of force against peaceful protesters near the White House, has caused a rethinking for a candidate who once promised donors that under his administration ‘nothing would fundamentally change’ and who, just 11 weeks ago during his final primary debate, offered himself as a pragmatist, unlike his socialist rival Bernie Sanders, declaring: ‘People are looking for results, not a revolution.'”
“Now, in virtual town hall meetings, media interviews, his own podcast and in a rare formal address Tuesday, Biden has pointed toward a transformational era in which government would play a bigger role in curing the country’s public health, economic and racial woes. Far from the incremental administration he promised on the primary campaign trail, Biden now offers Franklin Delano Roosevelt, architect of the post-Great Depression New Deal, as a role model for tackling the damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 100,000 Americans and put millions out of work as well as the enduring effects of systemic racism being challenged by a newly energized protest movement.”
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Republican Voters Against Trump is running an ad this week on “Fox & Friends” that uses President Trump’s own words against him.
The spot is centered around a line from his inauguration: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”
The Guardian: “Texas Democrats plan to use Zoom to create an army of voter registration volunteers, a novel approach to work around the state’s severe restrictions on voter registration during the Covid-19 pandemic. The effort comes as voter registration efforts, both in Texas and around the US have effectively stalled just months before the presidential election.”
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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