Defense Secretary Esper Defends Firing Of Navy Ship Captain Over Covid-19 Warning

“Ohio House leaders said Tuesday there will probably not be a legislative solution to getting President Joe Biden on the November ballot in Ohio,” the Columbus Dispatch reports. “Current law says Ohio officials must certify the ballot on Aug. 7, 90 days before the election, but Biden won’t be nominated until the Democratic National Convention on Aug.

Donald Trump “is holding a rally on Thursday in South Bronx, a New York neighborhood that’s 64% Hispanic and 31% Black,” Axios reports. “It’ll be a test of how much support (or curiosity) he will be able to gin up in a nonwhite, working-class community.” “It will be his first large-scale campaign rally in New York since 2016.”

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) “filed 11 amendments to his campaign finance reports Wednesday, acknowledging that his claims for the last two years to have loaned $320,000 to his campaign were not true,” WTVF reports. “Ogles says that he actually loaned his campaign $20,000, instead of the $320,000 that he had previously claimed.”

“Plans to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress are being met with fierce pushback from Democrats,” Axios reports. “Some top House Democrats are going so far as to say Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N. Y.) should not sign onto the invitation.”

“Centrist district attorney candidate Nathan Vasquez has ousted the incumbent progressive prosecutor in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, after running a campaign in which he vowed to be tough on crime,” the AP reports.

Donald Trump explained his rationale for not taking the stand in his hush money trial despite saying for months he would be willing to do so, The Hill reports. Said Trump: “Because he made rulings that makes it very difficult to testify. Anything I did, anything I did in the past they can bring everything up.