It has started. Outdoor overflow rally canceled. Indoor rally appears less than half full. they could have socially distanced by sitting in the roomy middle and upper decks, but the crowd huddled together on the arena floor to be close to their savior.

Either the Trump magic is fading and/or too many forgot to bring their bleach.

Riverside County reached a settlement with Garcia’s family, paying them almost $1 million. The settlement also prohibited them from talking to the press. You can read our story and watch a short documentary based on these documents and records here: https://t.co/chOMcslWl2

— Thalia Beaty (@tkbeaty) June 18, 2020

analysis by Amber Phillips @ WashingtonPost.com, June 18

Unseating Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) this November has always been a long shot for Democrats.

But if they were going to make it competitive, many national Democrats thought it could be with Amy McGrath, a former Marine Corps fighter pilot who has raised tens of millions of dollars, even outraising McConnell at times. In 2018 she came within three points of winning a conservative congressional seat in Kentucky. The dynamics in this state still heavily favor McConnell, but McGrath is at least more than a token Democratic challenger. Senate Democrats’ campaign arm endorsed her.

“Amy McGrath is our candidate; she’s a strong candidate,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said this week.

But now some members of the Kentucky political establishment and liberal national Democrats are rethinking that strategy in the final days of the campaign. They’ve endorsed one of McGrath’s opponents to her left, first-term state Rep. Charles Booker. The high-profile endorsements are complicating Democrats’ primary on Tuesday and raising questions about what the party thinks is the best path to defeat McConnell in November [....]

I am using this Fox news quote & story just to show how it's being covered there

The pandemic “has significantly disrupted the supply chain and normal circulation patterns for U.S. coin,” including pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, according to the Federal Reserve Banks. In the past few months, coin deposits from depository institutions — such as credit unions, commercial banks and community banks — have dropped. The U.S. Mint’s coin production has also fallen “due to measures put in place to protect its employees,” the Reserve Banks said.

Libertarians would probably like her view:

The Americans who pushed a conspiracy theory the night of the Iowa caucuses have migrated to coronavirus conspiracies on Twitter, with help from a very Russia-friendly account.

By Nicole Perlroth @ NYTimes.com, June 15

The night of the Iowa caucuses in February, Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, logged into Twitter to find the hashtag #RobbyMookCaucusApp trending across the country. Pundits on both sides of the aisle accused him of developing a mobile app to rig the Democratic primary against Senator Bernie Sanders.

Soon his phone was buzzing with calls from reporters demanding to know what role he had played in creating the app, a flawed vote-reporting system that delayed caucus results for days.

But he had never even heard of the app, which was developed by a company called Shadow Inc. This mattered little to the thousands of Twitter users attacking him online. Four months later, Mr. Mook said with a sigh, “There are still people out there who believe I developed that app.”

Mr. Mook was the target of an American-made social media conspiracy theory that was picked up by Americans and quickly amplified by accounts with Russian links. What happened to him in February — though just a sliver of the enormous amounts of misinformation pouring onto social media platforms — offers a manual to understand how false information about the coronavirus and the election is now spreading [....]