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Miami Herald:
Biden, Warren: There's no oversight of coronavirus relief — because that's what Trump wants — Sixty-four thousand dead. Thirty million people out of work. Small businesses collapsing. Communities of color hit exceptionally hard. — Even the most ideological conservatives …
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CNN and Balloon Juice
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CBS News:
CBS News poll: Elizabeth Warren tops Democrats' wish list for Biden's vice president — Economic expertise and crisis management skills are top qualities Democratic voters want to see in a vice-presidential pick for their party — even more so than executive or legislative experience …
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Axios, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, Daily Kos and Political Wire
New York Times:
Why Biden's Choice of Running Mate Has Momentous Implications — Joe Biden has hinted that he might serve only one term if he wins. That would set up a woman as the front-runner for 2024 and perhaps define the Democratic agenda for the next decade. — WASHINGTON — For decades …
Kelly Mena / CNN:
Biden says vice presidential committee ‘looking at more than a dozen women’
Biden says vice presidential committee ‘looking at more than a dozen women’
Discussion:
The Hill
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Pompeo says there's “enormous evidence” coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on ABC's “This Week” Sunday that there's “enormous evidence” to support the theory that the coronavirus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, not a nearby wildlife market.
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Fox News and One America News Network
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Cuomo announces 7-state consortium for buying PPE
Cuomo announces 7-state consortium for buying PPE
Discussion:
Politico and The Mahablog
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Dinner organizer says Biden was not at 2008 event where he was accused of sexual harassment — A past organizer for Delaware's First State Gridiron Dinner now says Joe Biden did not attend the event in 2008, after a woman recently claimed the former vice president and senator sexually harassed her there, Fox News has learned.
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Law & Crime and Althouse
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
DHS report: China hid virus' severity to hoard supplies — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show.
Discussion:
Politico, The Daily Caller and KTLA
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump — To understand the President's path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country's executive class. — Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of future Presidents, was the eight-time club champion on the golf course …
Discussion:
Lawyers, Guns & Money
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The Rest of the World Is Laughing at Trump — It looks, at first, like one of a zillion unfunny video clips that now circulate on the internet: “Once Upon a Virus” features cheap animation, cheesy music, and sarcastic dialogue between China—represented by a Lego terra-cotta warrior with a low …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Got Dow 36,000 Author to Model the Coronavirus. It Didn't Go Well. — President Trump's habit of promising unrealistically low casualty counts is one of the more inexplicable unforced errors in the administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion:
Digby's Hullabaloo, Mother Jones, Daily Kos and CNN
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David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
What the Coronavirus Models Can't See — We're committed to keeping our readers informed.
What the Coronavirus Models Can't See — We're committed to keeping our readers informed.
Discussion:
abc7NY, Vox and Digby's Hullabaloo
John Hanna / Associated Press:
Biden wins Kansas primary conducted with all-mail balloting — TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Joe Biden has overwhelmingly won a Democratic presidential primary in Kansas that the state party conducted exclusively by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic. — The former vice president had been expected …
Discussion:
The Hill
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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
DNC chairman on committee's decline to form investigative panel: ‘I trust Joe Biden’
DNC chairman on committee's decline to form investigative panel: ‘I trust Joe Biden’
Discussion:
New York Times, Balloon Juice, The Guardian and NBC News
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
DNC Chair Tom Perez compares Biden sexual assault allegation to ‘Hillary emails’
DNC Chair Tom Perez compares Biden sexual assault allegation to ‘Hillary emails’
Discussion:
Fox News, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, IJR, New York Post and Breitbart
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump wants to replace FBI director Wray but may restrain himself during election year — President Trump is not happy with FBI director Christopher Wray and would love to replace him, according to three sources who've discussed the matter with the president.
Alex Thompson / Politico:
The Biden campaign faces a mind-boggling challenge: How to make Joe go viral — How does a campaign take a 77-year-old man — who admits he needs his granddaughter's help with his cellphone and pitches himself as sober and reasonable — and make him go viral?
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Sarah Cammarata / Politico:
Birx decries Michigan protests: It's ‘devastatingly worrisome’ — “They will feel guilty for the rest of our lives.” — White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx. Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said on Sunday she found it …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Birx says protesters not practicing social distancing are ‘devastatingly worrisome’
Birx says protesters not practicing social distancing are ‘devastatingly worrisome’
Discussion:
New York Post, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and Breitbart
Harry Enten / CNN:
How Trump has broken the polls — (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Ipsos/Reuters poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by a 45% to 39% margin. — The Ipsos poll is just the latest to find Biden ahead. He's never not been ahead in the polling average.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
As Washington stumbled, governors stepped to the forefront — The history of the United States has generally been written with the states in a subordinate role or cast in a negative light — but no longer. The story of America's confrontation with the coronavirus pandemic is one in which states and their governors have been dominant.
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Florida county's medical examiner begged officials to close beaches, internal emails reveal — Beaches in Florida's St. Johns County remained open to record crowds through most of March, despite mounting concerns raised by the county's medical examiner and residents.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Ohio governor says face mask requirement in stores was “a bridge too far” — Ohio Gov. Mark DeWine (R) explained his decision to rescind an order requiring people to wear face masks in retail stores, stating on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday that it “became clear to me that that was just a bridge too far.
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
The Coronavirus Becomes a Battle Cry for U.S. Extremists — White supremacists seek to stoke the fear and disruption caused by the pandemic to push their agenda and to recruit. — America's extremists are attempting to turn the coronavirus pandemic into a potent recruiting tool …
Discussion:
Raw Story