Week 187: August 16-22

2020 Election

On Tuesday DeJoy walked back changes to the postal service: To avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail, I am suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded.”

DeJoy testified before the Senate on Friday: He assured that the USPS would process every ballot and changes were only made for budgetary reasons: “if DeJoy managed to assuage concerns about the intent of the changes he has brought to the Postal Service, he was less effective in salving worries about their implementation or consequences. And that’s why Democrats emerged from today’s two-hour hearing with scarcely more confidence in DeJoy’s leadership than when the hearing started.”

Also on Tuesday Biden was officially nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate at the 2020 Democratic Convention.

In Russia News

The Senate Intelligence committee released its final report on the 2016 election interference. It confirmed and in some cases went farther than the Mueller Report on how the Trump campaign colluded with Russian GRU.

Trump’s Job Approval: 41.8%

COVID-19 Cases / Deaths: 5,598,547 / 174,645