Tipsheet: Biden faces calls to be more active with media

View in your browser     Biden faces calls to be more active with media By Jonathan Easley and Amie Parnes   Democrats are criticizing Joe Biden for doing the bare minimum of media interviews, worried that the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee is repeating a mistake made by 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Read the full story here     Trump urges Biden to hit campaign trail: 'Get out there today, Joe!' By Marty Johnson   President Trump antagonized Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday, mockingly telling the former vice president to "get out of his basement" and return to the campaign trail. Read the full story here     Intelligence chief shifts election security briefings to written updates By Olivia Beavers   Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe notified Congress that the intelligence community will be scaling back in-person congressional briefings on election security and replacing them with written updates ahead of November. Read the full story here     Pelosi, Schiff pan director of national intelligence for canceling election security briefings By Tal Axelrod   Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, panned the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Saturday for canceling all election security briefings for Congress. Read the full story here       Rubio says congressional oversight of intelligence faces 'historic crisis' following DNI announcement By J. Edward Moreno   Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), acting chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said congressional oversight is facing a “historic crisis” after the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, notified Congress on Saturday that the intelligence community will be scaling back in-person congressional briefings on election security. Read the full story here     Democrats seek balance in backing protests, condemning violence By Jonathan Easley and Amie Parnes   Democrats are trying to find the right balance between their support for the racial justice protests and their opposition to the destructive elements of the demonstrations that President Trump has used to portray them as the party of rioters and looters. Read the full story here     Trump touts online viewership for GOP convention after trailing in TV ratings By Joe Concha   President Trump on Saturday touted online viewership for the Republican National Convention after his speech drew a smaller TV audience than Joe Biden's address, with the GOP saying total viewership across TV and online for its event surpassed that of the Democratic convention. Read the full story here     GOP lobbyists pleasantly surprised by Republican convention By Alex Gangitano   The 2020 Republican National Convention was generally well-received by GOP lobbyists on K Street who hope the appeals to suburban women, minorities and swing states will pay off in November and translate into wins for their clients. Read the full story here     Susan Collins faces battle of lifetime in Maine By Rebecca Beitsch   ORONO, Maine — Maine lawns may not yet be overwhelmed by campaign signs, but their airwaves have been taken over by the heated rhetoric of the hottest Senate race in the country. Read the full story here     Once a COVID-19 epicenter, Arizona emerges from lockdown By Reid Wilson   For months, Arizona stood out as one of the world’s worst coronavirus hot spots, suffering through an outbreak that sickened hundreds of thousands of people. Hospitals were so overwhelmed that the state Department of Health enacted crisis standards of care, in preparation for surging capacity. Read the full story here     How 'silence is violence' threatens true free speech and public civility By Jonathan Turley   OPINION | “Silence is violence” has everything that you want in a slogan from brevity to simplicity. But it can also be chilling for some in the academic and free speech communities. On one level, it conveys the powerful message that people of good faith should not remain silent about great injustices. But it can at the same time have a much more menacing meaning to “prove the negative” by demanding that people show that they are not racist. Read the full story here     Will Joe Biden play politics when it comes to Supreme Court choices? By Scott Douglas Gerber   OPINION | The president of the United States has the authority to fashion the federal judiciary and notably the Supreme Court. The Constitution empowers the president to nominate and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint federal officials, including Supreme Court justices. The Senate to date has confirmed more than 200 federal judges appointed by President Trump, including two associate justices of the Supreme Court. Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate this year, holds a record of playing politics with the Supreme Court appointment process. The most famous illustration of this unfortunate fact involves Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: One person shot dead in Portland following clashes between BLM activists, pro-Trump supporters By Faiz Siddiqui   The groups had earlier faced off along a highway on-ramp and on downtown city streets. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: ‘7 bullets, 7 days’: Protesters march for Blake in Kenosha By Stephen Groves and Amy Forliti   With chants of “One person, one vote!” and “No justice, no peace!” a crowd of about 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside a Wisconsin courthouse Saturday to denounce police violence and share messages of change, a week after an officer shot Jacob Blake in the back and left the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed. Read the full story here     CNN: Trump to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday By Jeremy Diamond and Kate Sullivan   President Donald Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to meet with law enforcement and to survey some of the damage from the recent protests, the White House announced Saturday evening. Read the full story here     The New York Times: Biden, speaking to National Guard group, takes aim at Republican criticism on crime By Katie Glueck and Sydney Ember   The Democratic presidential nominee hit back at attacks delivered at the Republican National Convention. Read the full story here     Reuters: China's new tech export controls could give Beijing a say in TikTok sale By Tom Daly and Zoey Zhang   China’s new rules around tech exports mean ByteDance’s sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations could need Beijing’s approval, a Chinese trade expert told state media, a requirement that would complicate the forced and politically charged divestment. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? 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