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Associated Press:
Trump's focus on his base complicates path to reelection — WASHINGTON (AP) — During times of war and strife, national leaders often aim to unite a broken country and, in the process, broaden their appeal beyond their most loyal supporters. Not President Donald Trump.
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Raw Story
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Politico:
Trump looks to Hope Hicks as coronavirus crisis spills over — Returning to the West Wing just a month after impeachment, one of President Donald Trump's closest advisers found a presidency in crisis: a deadly disease outbreak, a tumbling stock market and a White House struggling to form …
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Axios
New York Post:
White House officials say Trump works so hard he often misses lunch — President Trump's schedule is so packed amid the coronavirus crisis that he sometimes skips lunch, his aides told The Post — refuting a report that the commander-in-chief spends his days obsessing over TV coverage and eating fries.
Discussion:
CNN, Washington Post and POLITICUSUSA
CNN:
I used to run White House press briefings. Here's how journalists should handle Trump. — Joe Lockhart is a CNN political analyst. He was the White House press secretary from 1998-2000 in President Bill Clinton's administration. He co-hosts the podcast “Words Matter.”
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Vox
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
The daily coronavirus White House press briefings haven't been useful for weeks
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House to shift to economic message on coronavirus
Discussion:
CNN, One America News Network, Associated Press, The Week, Just The News, Mediaite, IJR, Patterico's Pontifications and The Guardian
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Rising support for mail voting amid pandemic — WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans' support for mail-in voting has jumped amid concerns about the safety of polling places during the coronavirus pandemic, but a wide partisan divide suggests President Donald Trump's public campaign …
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The Hill and BuzzFeed News
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Jill J. Karofsky / New York Times:
I'm the Judge Who Won in Wisconsin. This Principle Is More Important Than Winning. — We must get away from a partisan view of the law. — Judge Karofsky is a justice-elect of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. — On April 7, I was on the ballot in an election that should not have happened.
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CNN
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Saying Lockdowns Must Last Until Mass Testing Or A Vaccine Is Absurd — The United States is years away from mass testing or a vaccine from being produced. If leaders wait for these measures to save them, there will not be economy left to open back up. — Oklahoma's Republican …
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Fox News and Washington Post
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NBC News:
The coronavirus has amplified Trump's weaknesses, and muted his strengths
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Axios
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi endorses Joe Biden for president in video remarks calling him the ‘personification of hope and courage’
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Associated Press, New York Times, ABC News, Fox News, Breitbart, Reuters, Forbes, The Hill, CNN, Bloomberg, One America News Network, The Week and New York Post
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Schumer to introduce legislation preventing Trump from signing stimulus checks — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning to push for a provision in the next coronavirus package that would stop President Donald Trump from putting his name on any additional stimulus checks.
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National Review, Fox News, VICE, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and IJR
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New York Times:
260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, everyone. My administration will do everything possible to help those communities get back on their feet. We're speaking with the governors and representatives.
CNN:
Exclusive: She's been falsely accused of starting the coronavirus. Her life has been turned upside down — Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place her at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, saying she brought the disease to China.
Discussion:
Raw Story
New York Times:
Large, Troubled Companies Got Bailout Money in Small-Business Loan Program — Companies with accounting problems or in trouble with the government received millions in federal loans. — A company in Georgia paid $6.5 million to resolve a Justice Department investigation — and …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Anna Wintour Made Condé Nast the Embodiment of Boomer Excess. Can It Change to Meet This Crisis? — The theatrical flourishes and lavish lifestyles of the great media figures of a generation seem ill suited to the moment. — The coronavirus chased the fashion industry across Europe in February …
Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Supreme Court rules government must pay billions to Obamacare insurers — The decision is a big win for health insurers who struggled in the health care law's early years. — The U.S. Supreme Court. Drew Angerer/Getty Images — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled the federal government …
Discussion:
Associated Press and Axios
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Trump's Disinfectant Remark Raises a Question About the ‘Very Stable Genius’ — The president has often said he is exceptionally smart. His recent suggestion about injecting disinfectants was not. — President Trump's self-assessment has been consistent. — “I'm, like, a very smart person,” he assured voters in 2016.
Andy Lack / NBC News:
Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we're winning. — At this dark hour, Americans are scared. They're hungry for accurate information and the unvarnished truth. Now, and in all the days to come, journalists will be there.
Discussion:
Deadline and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
How Las Vegas Became Ground Zero for the American Jobs Crisis — As the U.S. economy shut down, few places in America were hit harder and faster than Las Vegas. — When Valicia Anderson starts to count the people she knows in Las Vegas who have lost their jobs, she runs out of fingers fast.
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Muted and vacant, Las Vegas struggles to survive shutdown
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Robert McCartney / Washington Post:
McConnell's rejection of federal aid for states risks causing a depression, analysts say — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would rather see states declare bankruptcy than give them federal aid to deal with the economic collapse triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion:
The Week, STUMP, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Jacobin
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Big-government conservatives mount takeover of GOP — Crises nearly always create political upheaval. In recent history the catastrophes of 9/11 and the Great Recession both defined American politics for the decade that came after each event. — The Covid-19 crisis …
Politico:
Backlash grows as pandemic relief stumbles — This article was reported in collaboration with Zachary Warmbrodt, Susannah Luthi, John Hendel, Ryan McCrimmon, Michael Stratford, Brian Faler and Brianna Gurciullo. — Congress' mad dash to shovel nearly $3 trillion into the economy …
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
We Still Don't Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us — We're committed to keeping our readers informed. … Over the last few weeks, the country has managed to stabilize the spread of the coronavirus sufficiently enough to begin debating when and in what ways to “reopen,” and to normalize …
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