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Thursday, September 3
HOUSE SUBPOENAS USPS CHIEF OVER MAIL DELAYS The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for records about the widespread mail delivery delays that have pulled the Postal Service into the political spotlight as it prepares to handle an onslaught of ballots in the November election. The subpoena comes after committee chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney said DeJoy has not sufficiently answered the panel’s requests for more information. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump urged supporters in North Carolina to illegally vote twice to test the mail-in system. [AP]
BIDEN WILL VISIT KENOSHA AND MEET JACOB BLAKE'S FAMILY Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, today and meet with the family of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer last month. Biden’s campaign said he would meet with Blake’s father and other family members “to heal and address the challenges we face” — the former vice president's latest effort to cast himself as the political opposite of Donald Trump. Yesterday, Biden accused Trump of ignoring COVID-19, and stoking unrest. [HuffPost]
WILLIAM BARR SAYS POLICE BEING RACIST TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE ISN'T RACISM During an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer yesterday, Attorney General William Barr said that it’s not necessarily racism when police repeatedly treat Black people differently than white people. When Blitzer pressed Barr to back up his statement that Black people aren’t disproportionately targeted by law enforcement, Barr said: “I think there are some situations where statistics would suggest that they are treated differently, but I don’t think that that’s necessarily racism." The attorney general also disputed the idea that the criminal justice system treats Black people more harshly — which research broadly shows it does. [HuffPost] | | | | | |
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| FAUCI REFUTES COVID-19 DEATH TOLL CLAIM Dr. Anthony Fauci stated on “Good Morning America” Tuesday that over 180,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. “A certain percentage of them had nothing else, just COVID,” he said. “That does not mean that someone who has hypertension, diabetes who dies of COVID didn’t die of COVID-19." Fauci’s comments came in response to an Aug. 26 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which found that for 6% of the deaths included in its statistics, “COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned” on the person’s death certificate. Over the weekend, a QAnon supporter misinterpreted those statistics in a since-deleted tweet, which was retweeted by President Donald Trump. [HuffPost]
VIDEO SHOWS POLICE PUT HOOD ON BLACK MAN BEFORE HE DIED OF SUFFOCATION A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by the man’s family. Daniel Prude died March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. His death received no public attention until Wednesday, when his family held a news conference and released police body camera video and written reports they obtained through a public records request. [AP]
TRUMP INVITES ALL TO REMOVE MASKS, INTERRUPTS BLACK ATTENDEES AT ROUNDTABLE At a Tuesday roundtable with local officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, President Donald Trump invited all present to remove their face masks and repeatedly answered questions that reporters asked of the Black attendees. “If you feel more comfortable, if you’ll say a couple of words, you might want to take the masks off, otherwise you can leave them on,” the president said at the start of the event. “Either way you want.” The president also dismissed concerns about police brutality, arguing that law enforcement needed to be supported. [HuffPost] | | | | | |
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THESE ARE THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE MODERATORS The Commission on Presidential Debates announced its lineup of moderators on Wednesday for the upcoming debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump and their running mates. Fox News’ Chris Wallace will moderate the first Biden-Trump matchup in Cleveland on Sept. 29, followed by C-SPAN’s Steve Scully in Miami on Oct. 15. NBC News’ Kristen Welker will moderate the final one on Oct. 22 in Nashville. Susan Page, the Washington bureau chief of USA Today, will moderate the vice presidential debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence on Oct. 7 in Salt Lake City. [HuffPost]
STATES ASKED TO PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE COVID-19 VACCINE BY MID-FALL Public health officials across the country have been advised to prepare for the potential distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as late October or early November, The New York Times reported Wednesday. A vaccine for the coronavirus has yet to be developed. However, should that happen, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that limited amounts would first be distributed to health care workers and members of other high-risk groups. The supply would “increase substantially” over the next year, according to CDC guidance, which was reportedly sent to health officials in all 50 states as well as those in several major cities on Aug. 27. [HuffPost]
'SICKENED': EX-TRUMP VOTERS REVEAL THE MOMENT THEY GAVE UP ON HIM Former supporters of President Donald Trump say they’re not going to be voting for him again and they were pretty blunt about why they’re now backing Joe Biden. “I think it’s one of if not the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life,” Ann Kupitz told CNN of her 2016 vote as she slammed the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “I feel like voting for him helped kill over 100,000 Americans.” Kupitz was part of a CNN panel of six suburban white women who voted for Trump in 2016, a demographic he has recently tried to win over with overtly racist appeals. [HuffPost]
BIDEN TAKES THE AIR OUT OF TRUMP'S LEGAL VICTORY Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday had a simple question for President Donald Trump: “What are you hiding?” Biden shared a link to a story about Trump winning a legal ruling in his ongoing battle over the disclosure of his tax returns. New York prosecutors had been seeking those documents via subpoena and had won a previous decision. However, a federal appeals court ruled that the president would not have to turn those documents over while the previous decision is under appeal. [HuffPost]
BARR SPREADS MAIL-IN VOTING CONSPIRACY THEORY Attorney General William Barr continued to spread the unfounded conspiracy theory that November’s presidential election could be tainted by widespread mail-in voting fraud. “Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion,” Barr told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. President Donald Trump has routinely called mail-in voting corrupt. There is no evidence to suggest that there has been widespread fraud, and Barr provided none in his interview. [HuffPost]
GOP REP. THREATENED TO SHOOT ARMED PROTESTERS Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) said he’d be more than willing to shoot any armed demonstrators in Louisiana in a Facebook post on Tuesday that was accompanied by a picture of Black men with guns. “One way ticket fellas,” Higgins, a former police officer, wrote on his campaign account. “Have your affairs in order. Me?... I wouldn’t even spill my beer. I’d drop any 10 of you where you stand. ... We don’t care what color you are. We don’t care if you’re left or right. If you show up like this, if We recognize threat ... you won’t walk away." [HuffPost] | | | | | |
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