如果这不是前副总统乔·拜登说出他的竞选伙伴的名字——看起来不会——这可能是她被定义的一周。
拜登团队在国家忙于继续损害总统的其他事务的情况下，我并不觉得填写这张票有什么特别的紧迫性唐纳德·特朗普她几乎一个人站着。
但是副总统选举厌恶真空。这种等待引发了朋友和敌人的反对研究，增加了公众的不安高风险决策拜登在竞选中不得不做出让步。
凯伦·巴斯议员加州大学洛杉矶分校正在承认古巴政策的“教训”，并解释2010年在山达基教会的演讲。她的加州同胞，参议员卡马拉·哈里斯，忍受着比她更多的盲目引用和非编码的情绪，这些情绪似乎旨在将拜登推向一个不同的方向。
与此同时，一群杰出的黑人神职人员领导人警告拜登，在一系列进步团体放下类似标记后，“黑人女性是无可替代的”。
拜登甚至在广播中受到亲特朗普团体的攻击，因为他的候选人名单上明显缺少拉丁裔。西班牙语广告虚假宣称拜登已承诺选择一名黑人竞选伙伴。
拜登已经习惯了在整个竞选过程中设定自己的节奏。但是离他的大会只剩下两周时间了，即将到来的时间危机可能会在他的竞选团队最需要的时候破坏党派团结。
地方政府不能印钞。因此，当失业率飙升、税收枯竭时，地方预算就会受损。
尽管将重大公共卫生决策搁置在地方管辖范围内，并避免起草或实施重开学校的国家计划财政部长史蒂文·姆努钦告诉美国广播公司记者玛莎·拉德兹，特朗普政府不会“救助”各州。
“民主党人现在坚持要给州和地方政府一万亿美元。这是我们不打算做的事情——救助那些有财政问题的州。”
随着扩大失业福利如今，数百万美国人的法定期限已过，在这个困难时期资助地方政府的问题只是华盛顿共和党和民主党之间正在进行的下一轮冠状病毒立法谈判中的许多症结之一。
共和党人表示，他们不会将联邦纳税人的钱汇给那些在大流行之前预算就已经赤字的州，其中一些州的养老金已经捉襟见肘。
双方周日表示绝望和沮丧，交易仍然遥不可及。
本周，随着新的一个月的开始，许多家庭将面临被驱逐的威胁，老师们将会自己搬桌子和买口罩。
离选举日还有三个月，在一些关键州提前投票开始的前几周，特朗普的连任竞选在7月份的大规模人事变动和不断下降的民意调查数据之后，本周将再次寻求重启其战略。
消息人士告诉美国广播公司，特朗普的团队将推出一系列针对拜登的新广告。此前，在新上任的竞选经理比尔·斯捷潘(Bill Stepien)下令进行的内部战略“审查”中，特朗普采取了大幅措施，连续几天削减所有电视支出。
特朗普的竞选团队开始认识到，拜登是一个比他们2016年的对手希拉里·克林顿更难对付的目标，而未来的竞选团队将会把目光投向那些提前投票的州，并重申特朗普是最有影响力的候选人法律与秩序总统同时将拜登作为极左势力的傀儡。
但是这一举动凸显了总统在政治上的困境;在不到100天的时间里，竞选团队仍在寻找一种有效的方法来锁定拜登。根据《五·三十八》杂志的平均数据，尽管数月来他一直面临着自称的死星级别的攻击性广告攻击，但他在全国范围内保持了8个多点的优势。
尽管如此，截至6月30日，手头仍有近3亿美元现金。总统的团队在11月前说服选民方面有很多钱可以花——即使时间已经开始不多了。
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美国广播公司新闻“从这里开始”播客。周一早上的节目是美国广播公司新闻的安妮·弗莱厄蒂报道疾病控制和预防中心对佐治亚州一个露宿营地的COVID-19病毒爆发的研究，以及它对学校重新开放的意义。然后，《连线》杂志的作家路易斯·马萨基斯谈到了唐纳德·特朗普总统为什么威胁要禁止TikTok。此外，美国广播公司新闻部副政治主任玛丽·爱丽丝·帕克斯打破了关于乔·拜登副总统人选的幕后讨论。http://apple.co/2HPocUL
五点三十八分政治播客。在这一集的“五·三十八政治”播客中，我们采访了德克萨斯州共和党众议员威尔·赫德。正如你将在播客中听到的，在精选的摘录中读到的，我们涵盖了很多方面，包括赫德是否会在11月份投票给唐纳德·特朗普总统。
The Note: Oppo takes toll on Biden’s veepstakes contenders
If this isn't the week that former Vice PresidentJoe Bidennames his running mate -- and it's looking like it won't be -- this may be the week that she gets defined.
Team Bidenhas felt no particular urgency about filling out the ticket, with the nation occupied with other matters that continue to damage PresidentDonald Trump's standing almost by themselves.
But the veepstakes abhors a vacuum. The wait has unleashed opposition research from friend and foe alike, adding uneasiness to thehighest-stakes decisionBiden has had to make in his campaign.
Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., is acknowledging a "lesson learned" on Cuba policy and is explaining a 2010 speech at a Church of Scientology. Her fellow Californian, Sen. Kamala Harris, is enduring more than her share of blind quotes and not-so-coded sentiments that seem to be aimed at nudging Biden in a different direction.
Meanwhile, a group of prominent Black clergy leaders are warning Biden that there's "no substitute for a Black woman" on the ticket, after a range of progressive groups put down similar markers.
Biden is even being attacked on the airwaves by a pro-Trump group over the apparent lack of a Latina on his short list. The Spanish-language ad is making the false claim that Biden has committed to choosing a Black running mate.
Biden has grown used to setting his own pace throughout the campaign. But with just two weeks left before his convention, the coming time crunch could fray party unity at a moment his campaign needs it most.
Local governments cannot print money. So, when unemployment skyrockets and tax dollars dry up, local budgets suffer.
Despite punting major public health decisions to local jurisdictions and abstaining from drafting or implementing anational plan for reopening schools, Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnucnhin told ABC's Martha Raddatz the Trump administration was not going to "bail out" states.
"The Democrats, right now, are insisting on over a trillion dollars to state and local governments. That's something that we're not going to do -- to bail out those states that had financial issues," he said.
Withexpanded unemployment benefitsnow officially expired for millions of Americans, the issue of funding local governments during this time of need is just one of many sticking points in the ongoing and slow negotiations for the next wave of coronavirus legislation between Republicans and Democrats in Washington.
Republicans say they will not send federal taxpayer dollars to states whose budgets were in the red long before the pandemic, a number of which have fiscally-strained state pensions.
Both sides Sundayexpressed despair and frustration,and a deal still felt far off.
This week, with the start of the new month, many families will face the threat of eviction and teachers will look to move desks and buy masks themselves.
Three months to go until Election Day, and only weeks before early voting begins in some key states,Trump's re-election campaignwill once again look to reboot its strategy this week following a July filled with big staffing shake-ups and sinking poll numbers.
Trump's team is set to debut a string of new ads targeting Biden after taking the drastic step to pull all TV spending for days amid an internal strategy "review" ordered by newly installed campaign manager Bill Stepien, sources tell ABC News.
The Trump campaign is coming to grips with Biden being a far more difficult target than their 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton, and moving forward it will look to zero-in on early voting states with messaging that reiterates Trump as thelaw and order presidentwhile targeting Biden as a puppet for the far left, sources said.
But the move highlights the dire straights in which the president finds himself politically; less than 100 days out, the campaign is still searching for an effective way to target Biden, who despite facing a self-described Death Star-level onslaught of attack ads for months, has maintained an 8+ point advantage nationally, according to FiveThirtyEight's average.
Still, with nearly $300 million in cash on hand as of June 30,the president's teamhas a lot of money to drop on persuading voters ahead of November -- even with time starting to run out.
THE PLAYLIST
ABC News' "Start Here" podcast.Monday morning's episode features ABC News' Anne Flaherty on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's study of a COVID-19 outbreak at a Georgia sleepaway camp and what it could mean for school reopenings. Then, WIRED writer Louise Matsakis talks about why President Donald Trump is threatening to ban TikTok. And, ABC News Deputy Political Director MaryAlice Parks breaks down the behind-the-scenes discussions over Joe Biden's pick for vice president.http://apple.co/2HPocUL
FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast.In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we interview Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas. And as you'll hear in the podcast and read in selected excerpts, we covered a lot of ground, including whether Hurd will vote for President Donald Trump in November.
