Tipsheet: Trump steps up attacks on Biden over economy

View in your browser     Trump steps up attacks on Biden over economy By Naomi Jagoda   President Trump is stepping up his economic attacks on Joe Biden, seeking to regain strength on an issue once seen as his golden ticket to reelection. A number of polls still show that voters on net approve of Trump's performance on the economy, but some surveys now show his presumptive Democratic opponent with an edge on the issue over him as the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on the economy. Read the full story here     Nation mourns the death of John Lewis: 'One of the greatest heroes of American history' By Tal Axelrod The nation flooded the internet and airwaves with mourning over the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), honoring the civil rights titan’s legacy of fighting for equal rights for all. Read the full story here     Trump says he is 'saddened' to hear about the passing of John Lewis By Tal Axelrod   President Trump said he is “saddened” to hear of the death of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon who at times clashed with the president. Read the full story here     Trump orders flags to fly at half-staff after Lewis's death By Morgan Gstalter   President Trump on Saturday ordered flags to fly at half-staff following the death of civil rights icon and longtime congressman Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga). Read the full story here     Obama remembers John Lewis: 'I stood on his shoulders' By Morgan Gstalter   Former President Obama on Saturday morning mourned the death of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), saying he “stood on his shoulders” about the civil rights icon and longstanding member of Congress. Read the full story here       Biden honors civil rights icon: 'We are made in the image of God, and then there is John Lewis' By Morgan Gstalter   Former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday mourned the death of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), saying the civil rights leader was “truly a one-of-a-kind, a moral compass who always knew where to point us and which direction to march.” Read the full story here     Young people are increasingly driving COVID-19's spread By Reid Wilson   Younger Americans eager to get back to their social lives are increasingly responsible for the spread of the coronavirus, risking their own health and that of their family and friends under what health experts say is the misguided impression that the virus cannot cause them harm. Read the full story here     Trump administration seeking to block funding for CDC, contact tracing and testing in new relief bill: report By Marty Johnson   The Trump administration is attempting to block billions of dollars for contact tracing, additional testing and other coronavirus mitigation efforts that would potentially be included in Congress's next coronavirus relief package, officials involved in the negotiations told The Washington Post. Read the full story here     Texas exempts religious private schools from reopening guidelines By Tal Axelrod   Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said Friday that private schools are exempt from having to follow local health restrictions regarding school openings. Read the full story here     Trump turns White House into backdrop for political events By Morgan Chalfant and Brett Samuels   President Trump walked onto the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday to applause from supporters as he prepared to tout his efforts to roll back regulations. Read the full story here     When great trees fall: Remembering John Lewis By Antjuan Seawright   OPINION | Maybe it’s because John Lewis grew up a sharecropper’s son in rural Alabama and I was the grandson of sharecroppers in rural South Carolina that I marveled at the difficulties and successes of his life and felt so strongly his passing on Friday. Read the full story here     My battle with coronavirus shows why people must take it seriously By Stephan Russo   Back in April, I wrote a piece for a community newspaper in New York about my bout with the coronavirus. I had first denied that I would get sick since I was in excellent health until I passed out on my kitchen floor and ended in the emergency room at Mount Sinai hospital. It was right before the numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths skyrocketed to the dangerous highs of early April. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: From ‘Sleepy Joe’ to a destroyer of the ‘American way of life,’ Trump’s attacks on Biden make a dystopian shift By Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey   President Trump has launched a slash-and-burn campaign against an exaggerated caricature of his Democratic opponent, casting former vice president Joe Biden as a destroyer of basic freedoms and a threat to voters’ safety who would “let terrorists roam free” and “abolish the American way of life.” Read the full story here     The New York Times: Inside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus By Michael D. Shear, Noah Weiland, Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman and David E. Sanger   Mr. Trump had missed or dismissed mounting signals of the impending crisis in the early months of the year. Now, interviews with more than two dozen officials inside the administration and in the states, and a review of emails and documents, reveal previously unreported details about how the White House put the nation on its current course during a fateful period this spring. Read the full story here     CNN: The US broke its single-day record of new cases at least 9 times in a month. Here's how we got here By Christina Maxouris   It's been a month of harrowing milestones set across the country, with the US beating its own daily record of total new coronavirus cases at least nine times. Read the full story here     AP: Cost, hassle of stamps questioned as mail-in voting surges By Julie Carr Smyth    As more states embrace mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic, the often overlooked detail of postage has emerged as a partisan dividing line. Read the full story here     Reuters: ‘Ugly face’: U.S. and China trade barbs in Myanmar as South China Sea rift deepens By Reuters staff   China’s embassy in Myanmar on Sunday accused the United States of “outrageously smearing” the country and driving a wedge with its Southeast Asian neighbors over the contested South China Sea and Hong Kong, as tensions mount between the superpowers. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up for The Hill Tipsheet       Forward this Tipsheet   You Might Like       Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  |  Email to a friend  |  Sign Up for Other Newsletters   The Hill 1625 K Street, NW 9th Floor, Washington DC 20006 ©2020 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

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