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“Donald Trump’s long-fraught relationship with the Covid vaccine is again becoming a political liability for the former president as he tries to stop his voters from potentially defecting to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr,” Politico reports. “Trump is threatening to ‘not give one penny’ to schools or colleges that mandate the Covid-19 vaccine.

Wall Street Journal: “For many Americans, the race between two universally known but widely disliked candidates has had the low drone of background noise. Many have rushed to their political camps, pretty much sure of how they will vote this fall despite their displeasure with the choice before them.” “But the campaigns are eager to make sure their core supporters are fully engaged and committed to voting—and they want to move sooner rather than later to reach the approximately one-third of voters who remain persuadable and up for grabs.” Said GOP strategist David Winston: “Generally, why does someone turn on the TV and watch someone they have an unfavorable view of?

New York Times: “This was just a typical month in American public life, where a steady undercurrent of violence and physical risk has become a new normal. From City Hall to Congress, public officials increasingly describe threats and harassment as a routine part of their jobs. Often masked by online anonymity and propelled by extreme political views, the barrage of menace has changed how public officials do their work, terrified their families and driven some from public life altogether.” “By almost all measures, the evidence of the trend is striking.

“Georgia Republicans on Saturday elected to the Republican National Committee a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021, pro-Trump rally that led to a mob storming the U. S. Capitol,” the AP reports.

“Manhattan prosecutors have framed their case against Donald Trump as a simple story about the criminal coverup of a sex scandal. But to win a conviction, they would have to convince jurors that Trump orchestrated the coverup with the intent of concealing another crime,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Jury deliberations in the first criminal trial of a former U.

“If you choose the path of zealots, dragging the country into the abyss, we will be forced to leave the government. We will turn to the people and build a government that will earn the people’s trust.” — Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet quoted by the New York Times, giving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an ultimatum