Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* As part of the rollout of his new book, former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton described Donald Trump as a “danger for the republic” — who would be an even greater threat if rewarded with a second term.
* Late Saturday, when they probably hoped people wouldn’t notice, campaign officials from the RNC and Team Trump disclosed a May fundraising haul of $74 million. That’s not a bad number, but it is short of the $80.8 million raised by the DNC and Joe Biden’s operation. (The Republican ticket still enjoys a sizable cash-on-hand advantage.)
* Ahead of the president’s rally in Tulsa on Saturday night, six members of Trump’s campaign staff — each of whom were in Tulsa to help set up the rally — tested positive for the coronavirus.
* On a related note, the president was reportedly “fuming,” not about the six positive test results, but about the fact that the public learned about the six positive test results.
* The Lincoln Project, a group led by anti-Trump Republicans, acted with great speed over the weekend to put together a new ad mocking the president’s poor attendance at his Oklahoma event. The minute-long clip includes some not-so-subtle sexual innuendo. * As Kentucky gets ready for its Primary Day tomorrow, the Washington Post reports, “Fewer than 200 polling places will be open for voters in Kentucky’s primary Tuesday, down from 3,700 in a typical election year. Amid a huge influx in requests for mail-in ballots, some voters still had not received theirs days before they must be turned in. And turnout is expected to be higher than in past primaries because of a suddenly competitive fight for the Democratic Senate nomination.” * Incidentally, there are also primary elections tomorrow in New York and Virginia. * And Biden’s team has asked Ted Kaufman, a longtime aide to the Delaware Democrat, to help lead a transition team, and NBC News reports that Kaufman has “tapped a half-dozen government veterans to work with him as part of a formal transition operation.”
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
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