Earlier this spring, the campaign arm for Senate Republicans circulated a 57-page memo with striking advice on page 6. 

When it comes to answering questions about President Donald Trump’s response to COVID-19: “Don’t defend Trump, other than the China Travel Ban—attack China.” 

Another talking point: “I wish everyone had acted earlier—that includes our elected officials, the World Health Organization, and the CDC.”

It took a week for Kentucky to sort through mail-in ballots from its Democratic Senate primary on June 23. Media outlets on Tuesday projected that former Marine pilot Amy McGrath squeaked out a victory by less than 3 percentage points over state legislator Charles Booker, who had won the endorsements of notable Democrats like U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

At his first campaign rally since the coronavirus pandemic began, President Donald Trump criticized presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, lambasted the “left-wing mob” for tearing down Confederate monuments, and insisted “the silent majority is stronger than ever before.” A third of the seats in the 19,000-seat arena in Tulsa, Okla., sat empty on Saturday evening. The president’s campaign staff said protesters tried to frighten off his supporters. Small crowds of pre-rally demonstrators remained mostly peaceful.

When President Donald Trump heard the negative reaction to his planned campaign event in Tulsa, Okla., on Juneteenth, the June 19 celebration of the end of slavery in the United States, he changed it. “Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this Holiday,” Trump tweeted on Friday. “I have therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th.”

As Minneapolis and other American cities erupted after the death of George Floyd on May 25, a short list may have grown shorter for Democrat Joe Biden: his slate of potential vice presidential candidates.

It certainly grew more complicated.

A few weeks earlier, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., hosted a Zoom fundraiser with Biden and helped raise $1.5 million for his presidential bid. By the end of May, Klobuchar was watching Minneapolis burn and fielding questions about whether she should drop out of contention for Biden’s running mate. 

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s next political rally is set for Juneteenth—a holiday marking the end of slavery. The president on Wednesday announced he would hold the June 19 event in Tulsa, Okla. His rallies, which were put on hold in March because of the outbreak of the coronavirus, have drawn up to tens of thousands of people in the past. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, eliminated all limits on group gathering sizes earlier this month. The Trump campaign is planning other rallies in Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, and Texas.

Some voters waited up to five hours to vote in Georgia’s primary election on Tuesday. One of the first in-person elections since the coronavirus pandemic took hold encountered technical troubles. All the voting machines in one of Atlanta’s largest precincts stopped working at least temporarily, according to Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, forcing election officials in Fulton County to keep the polls open until 9 p.m. EDT. Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina, and West Virginia also held primaries on Tuesday.