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IN MOMENTS OF CRISIS -- either real or self-inflicted -- President DONALD TRUMP has always attempted to paper over his relative political inexperience with unusual behavior that fired the imagination of his supporters and left his opponents so gobsmacked that they struggled to find words to meet the moment.
HE TIPTOED INTO North Korea with its madman leader in search of a nuclear deal. He televised negotiations with congressional leaders. He levied costly tariffs on allies to try to change their behavior. He stepped in to try to broker peace between warring factions.
BUT NOW, with the nation in the middle of the most profound crisis in more than a century, TRUMP finds himself without his typical tools of diversion and showmanship. He’s at the mercy of a virus he can’t control, governors who have their own power, a Constitution that has final say, a public relations campaign that is unusually flat and a public that will ultimately decide whether the stagnant economy will start to regain steam.
FOR A PRESIDENT who likes to assert power and project control, it appears to be an unsettling set of circumstances that has left him knocked back, uneven and searching for his bearings.
HE HAS said it is governors who are in charge of their states, but on Monday asserted that it is he who has final say. “The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful,” TRUMP said. “The president of the United States calls the shots.” Of course, the Constitution indicates otherwise.
EXPERTS SAY A VACCINE may be roughly 11 months away from being widely available, so, in reality, it will ultimately be the public that decides whether it feels safe enough to begin living their lives again.
EVEN THE THINGS THIS PRESIDENT usually can control seem to be spiraling away from him. His news conferences have been panned by Republicans, mocked by cable networks and dismissed by conservative thinkers. He no longer is afforded unencumbered airtime during political rallies. And he has no physical escape from the White House, or psychic escape from the daily maelstrom of this pandemic.
LOOK OUTSIDE WASHINGTON TO BOTH COASTS, where governors are banding together to hatch plans to reopen their states with the help of public-health and economic experts. These state executives are making a substantive calculation: Viruses don’t respect state lines, so bordering states should open in conjunction with each other. But there’s also a political benefit: The governors are not acting alone, so none of them bears individual responsibility if something goes awry.
YET TRUMP is reaching inside his administration for help in reopening the economy, and there’s talk that he might tap friendly chief executives for some kind of outside role. Unlike presidents before him, TRUMP has not sought to enlist the help of former commanders in chief.
TRUMP has run a 46 percent presidency -- catering to the narrow margin he won election with in 2016. BUT BEATING THE VIRUS and revving up America’s economic engine requires enlisting the help of the entire country, not keeping the favor of the slice that brought him here.
NYT, A18 … PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN, with a “News Analysis” bug: “Trump Leaps to Call Shots on Combating Coronavirus, Setting Up Standoff With Governors”: “There once was a time when President Trump made clear that governors were the ones mainly responsible for the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. But that was Sunday. On Monday, he declared that he was really in charge and would make the decision about when and how to reopen the country. …
“The president spent Monday assembling advisory committees with officials like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and a host of other cabinet secretaries, but he later ruled out his eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, despite earlier discussion about including them.
“Outside figures could also be seated, including investors and executives like Stephen A. Schwarzman from Blackstone, according to a person familiar with the discussions. It was unclear whether any public health officials like Dr. Fauci would be part of the new task force, which may be announced as early as Tuesday. …
“The president’s task force, according to people informed about it, will include members of the cabinet, including Mr. Mnuchin; Wilbur L. Ross Jr., the commerce secretary; Sonny Perdue, the agriculture secretary; Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary; Dan Brouillette, the energy secretary; Eugene Scalia, the labor secretary; Ben Carson, the housing secretary; Robert Lighthizer, the trade representative; and Russell T. Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.”
WAPO’S ASHLEY PARKER: “The Me President: Trump uses pandemic briefing to focus on himself”: “Trump has always had a me-me-me ethos, an uncanny ability to insert himself into the center of just about any situation. But Monday’s coronavirus briefing offered a particularly stark portrait of a president seeming unable to grasp the magnitude of the crisis — and saying little to address the suffering across the country he was elected to lead.”
-- 20TH GRAF of WAPO story on former FDA Commissioner SCOTT GOTTLIEB, by Laurie McGinley, Josh Dawsey and Yasmeen Abutaleb: “Several weeks ago, after talking to Kushner and others, Gottlieb agreed to submit paperwork for a temporary job working with the task force on strategy. But the paperwork stalled in Vice President Pence’s office, according to administration officials.”
DESPITE ALL THE DRAMA -- “Global Stocks Gain as U.S. Weighs Reopening Economy,” by WSJ’s Xie Yu and Anna Hirtenstein: “Stock markets around the world rose on optimism that economic activity may improve in the near future. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.5%, suggesting U.S. stocks could gain ground later in the day. The pan-continental Stoxx Europe 600 advanced 1.2%. Asia-Pacific stock indexes also rose Tuesday. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed up 1.6%.” WSJ
WSJ: “The Coronavirus Economic Reopening Will Be Fragile, Partial and Slow,” by Erich Schwartzel, Alison Sider and Heather Haddon: “The re-emergence over the coming weeks and months will be fitful, fragile and partial—and a bit dystopian, with frequent temperature checks, increased monitoring of employees and customers, and, potentially, blood tests to determine whether workers have likely immunity to the virus. Officials and business leaders predict that operations won’t fully return to normal until an effective vaccine hits the market, estimated at least a year away.
“Some firms may bring office workers back in alternating groups to allow for social distancing in open-plan offices. Restaurant chains may operate at half capacity, installing plexiglass shields between booths, while stores may do away with tester cosmetics and sanitize items after customers try them on. Major League Baseball has discussed a season with no spectators, held in a part of the country where it can essentially sequester players for weeks at a time.”
Good Tuesday morning.
SNEAK PEEK … USING MCCONNELL AGAINST COLLINS IN MAINE … THE 16-COUNTIES COALITION is running a $600,000 ad campaign on TV in Bangor and Portland and digital aimed at tying Sen. SUSAN COLLINS (R-Maine) to Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL. The campaign uses testimonials taken through Zoom and FaceTime. 30-second spot
NEW … A SECOND SMALL-BUSINESS LENDING PROGRAM is close to running out of lending authority. The Economic Injury Disaster Loan program -- an SBA program that lends money during disasters of all variety -- needs to be refreshed, as does the Paycheck Protection Program, according to sources in the Capitol. The SBA administers the EIDL directly.
THE PPP, as it’s known, was created for businesses suffering due to the coronavirus. Republicans are asking for $251 billion in additional money before the end of the week. Democrats agree, but want to add hospital money and cash for state and local governments, which they argue will be needed in short order. Republicans want the money to ride alone.
PELOSI’S COUNTERPROGRAMMING -- “Pelosi looks to seize Trump’s bully pulpit,” by Heather Caygle and Sarah Ferris: “As President Donald Trump beams into American homes with his daily coronavirus briefings, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided the best way to counter him is to be everywhere — even if that means doing so from her San Francisco kitchen.
“Almost daily, Pelosi pops up on one network or another -- even cycling through the late-night talk show junket -- dropping in for interviews from a computer propped up on a dining room table that sits just off her West Coast kitchen. ‘He has the bully pulpit and that’s a good thing for a president to have. It’s a bad thing for the health of the country if the president is not speaking truth,’ Pelosi said in an interview. ‘Our purpose is really to say how do we follow the science, the evidence, the data … that will take us down from this.’
“For Pelosi, leading the counterprogramming is the most effective antidote to Trump’s nearly daily briefings. Since first joining the news conferences a month ago, Trump has been repeatedly criticized for peppering his appearances with falsehoods during the briefings, which often stretch beyond two hours. And even as former Vice President Joe Biden becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee, it’s Pelosi who remains the most prominent face of opposition against Trump.” POLITICO
L.A. TIMES: “Navy battles growing coronavirus outbreak on hospital ship Mercy as 7 test positive,” by Andrew Dyer: “Naval health officials are fighting an outbreak of the novel coronavirus among the crew of the hospital ship Mercy, where four more sailors tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, bringing the total cases among the crew to seven, a Navy official said Monday.
“The affected sailors, as well as those with whom they had close contact, have left the ship and are either isolated or quarantined off the ship, according to Cmdr. John Fage, a 3rd Fleet spokesman.”
DAN DIAMOND: “Public health officials prod Trump’s team for minority data”: “The Trump administration has yet to release comprehensive data about racial and ethnic outcomes in Covid-19 cases, despite the growing concerns about racial disparities and some former health officials urging Medicare to resurrect a similar Obama-era analysis. Medicare chief Seema Verma said at the White House daily briefing last week that her office would be providing such data ‘very shortly’ but two officials in her department told POLITICO that no such release is imminent or has been marked as a priority.
“Meanwhile, former Obama-era officials said they had prepared an analytical tool, based on Medicare billing data, to monitor the 2009-10 H1N1 outbreak, which allowed them to drill down into outcomes by race, ethnicity and gender. They expressed surprise that the Trump administration wasn’t adapting the system for coronavirus.
“‘If we saw disparities in vaccine uptake, or in hospitalizations, it gave us an early warning and allowed us to get ahead of them,’ said Nicole Lurie, who led the health department’s emergency preparedness efforts during the Obama administration. ‘It was a very helpful early warning system, and could continue to be one.’” POLITICO
WATCH THIS SPACE -- “South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots,” by WaPo’s Griff Witte: “South Dakota is home to one of the largest single coronavirus clusters anywhere in the United States, with more than 300 workers at a giant pork-processing plant falling ill. With the case numbers continuing to spike, the company was forced to announce the indefinite closure of the facility Sunday, threatening the U.S. food supply.
“Increasingly exasperated local leaders, public health experts and front-line medical workers begged Noem to intervene Monday with a more aggressive state response. ‘A shelter-in-place order is needed now. It is needed today,’ said Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, whose city is at the center of South Dakota’s outbreak and who has had to improvise with voluntary recommendations in the absence of statewide action.
“But the governor continued to resist. Instead, she used a media briefing Monday to announce trials of a drug that President Trump has repeatedly touted as a potential breakthrough in the fight against the coronavirus, despite a lack of scientific evidence.”
THE LATEST ON THE CENSUS -- “Trump admin requests delays in census deadlines,” by Matthew Choi: “The Trump administration is moving to delay some deadlines for the 2020 census due to coronavirus, including delivering data to states for congressional redistricting. The Census Bureau is requesting Congress allow a 120-day delay on some data-reporting deadlines, according to a joint statement Monday by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham. The delay would accommodate social distancing guidelines for workers to prevent the spread of the disease.
“The bureau had already canceled field work in March as numerous states across the country ordered people to stay in their homes. The lag in counting could lead to a delay in data necessary for forming congressional districts, the bureau argued. In response, the Trump administration requested to delay the deadline to deliver apportionment counts to President Donald Trump from December to April of next year.” POLITICO
A TRUMP CHALLENGER? -- “Independent Rep. Justin Amash says he’s looking ‘closely’ at White House run,” by WaPo’s Felicia Sonmez and David Weigel
TRUMP’S TUESDAY -- The president will participate in a meeting with recovered Covid-19 patients at 11:30 a.m. in the Cabinet Room. He will participate in a meeting with health care execs at 3:30 p.m. in the Cabinet Room.
-- THE CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE will hold a briefing at 5 p.m.
PLAYBOOK READS
BEN JACOBS in N.Y. MAG on covering the White House in the age of coronavirus: “Where the Risk of Coronavirus Comes With Unparalleled Access”
BUSINESS BURST -- “Amazon to Expand Shipments of Nonessential Items, Continue Adding Staff,” by WSJ’s Dana Mattioli: “Amazon.com Inc. will begin allowing third-party sellers on its platform to resume shipping so-called nonessential items this week, a signal that the company is ramping up to meet broader consumer needs, according to people familiar with the matter.
“Last month, Amazon made a decision to prioritize at its warehouses those items deemed essential during the coronavirus outbreak, such as cleaning products, health-care items and shelf-stable food. Amazon stopped accepting shipments of items from sellers that didn’t correspond to the shopping needs of consumers hunkering down during the pandemic. The mandate caused unrest for its army of third-party sellers, which account for 58% of Amazon’s sales.” WSJ
IT’S NOT OVER -- “China moves to block new virus flare-up on Russian border,” by AP’s Ken Moritsugu in Beijing: “China is facing a new coronavirus flare-up along its remote northern border with Russia, far from the epicenter of Wuhan, where it has all but declared victory in the battle against the pandemic.
“The frontier has been sealed and emergency medical units rushed to the area to prevent travelers from bringing the virus back from overseas. The virus originated in China, which is now striving to keep it virus out while the U.S. and other countries struggle to bring their own epidemics under control.” AP
BEYOND THE BELTWAY -- “Liberal Jill Karofsky wins Wisconsin Supreme Court election, defeating conservative justice Daniel Kelly,” by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley in Madison: “Dane County Circuit Judge Jill Karofsky won the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court, narrowing the conservative majority after a tumultuous election conducted in the midst of a global pandemic, according to unofficial results released Monday.
“Karofsky’s victory marked the first time in a dozen years that a Supreme Court challenger beat an incumbent -- and just the second time in more than half a century. Her win over Justice Daniel Kelly will shift conservative control of the court from 5-2 to 4-3.’
-- ZACH MONTELLARO: “Karofsky’s victory over Kelly, who was backed by state Republicans and President Donald Trump, comes after Democrats threatened lawsuits over the election, which was marred by last minute chaos, including significant numbers of polling places closed due to coronavirus and disagreement between the Democratic governor and the Republican legislature over whether to postpone the vote.
“It’s an early preview of the raw, intense legal fights over voting rights and ballot access set to multiply across other states this year, as the two parties prepare to contest a presidential election amid the pandemic.” POLITICO
REMEMBER THIS GUY? … JOSH GERSTEIN: “Paul Manafort seeking release from prison due to coronavirus threat”
-- AND THIS GUY? … WSJ: “Anthony Scaramucci’s Firm Hit Hard by Credit Collapse”
PLAYBOOKERS
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MEDIAWATCH -- Janie Boschma is now senior visual editor at CNN Politics. She previously was deputy editor for data visualization and graphics at POLITICO.
FOGGY BOTTOM ARRIVAL LOUNGE -- David Copley is now deputy assistant secretary for Iraq affairs at the State Department. He most recently was a VP at U.S. Silica and is a Boston Consulting Group and Bush White House alum.
TRANSITIONS -- Cal Harris is now director of comms at the Economic Innovation Group. He previously was a regional comms director for Mike Bloomberg’s campaign. … J. Peter Donald is now SVP at strategic comms firm Reevemark. He most recently was managing director at Arena Advisory, and is a John McCain alum and former NYPD assistant police commissioner.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Michael Richards, legislative director for Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas), and Lauren Richards, center director at Sylvan Learning Center, welcomed Jack William Richards on Saturday morning.
BIRTHWEEK (was Monday): Karriem Holman of kPolitics turned 51
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Steve Glickman, founder and CEO of Develop LLC. A fun fact about him: “In my high school days in Los Angeles, I was the citywide Blockbuster video game champion. If I remember correctly, the prize was video rentals for life, which I then outlived a few years later (but really could use these days). Now esports are actually cool, as well as a huge industry, so maybe I’ll dust off my ‘NBA Jam’ skills on the Sega Genesis, if I can find one in an antique store. Boomshakalaka.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: NIH Director Francis Collins is 7-0 … Nick Merrill … David Humphreville (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … HHS’ Laura Keehner Rigas … MSNBC correspondent Garrett Haake is 35 … Joe Rospars, founder and CEO of Blue State Digital and an Elizabeth Warren alum (h/t Jon Haber) … Boeing’s Betsy Stewart … Sasha Issenberg is 4-0 … Mike Duncan, chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors … Rich Killion … WaPo’s Matt Zapotosky … The Information’s Ashley Gold … former Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), who’s running again, is 43 … Megan Swiatkowski … Amy Brundage, SVP of SKDKnickerbocker … Adam Hodge, SVP for external affairs at Ariel Investments, is 38 … Ellie Hockenbury … CNN’s Adam Levine … Ashok Pinto … Brad Schweer ...
… Keith Appell … Kaye Foley, producer for HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” … Micah Fergenson … Carly Zakin, co-founder of theSkimm … Stephanie Ma … David Medina ... Erin Streeter, SVP of communications at NAM … Stephen Groves is 36 (h/t Ali Zaidi) … Blake Androff, EVP at Signal Group … Brenna Williams ... NYT’s Eileen Sullivan … Lina Francis ... Andrew Vecera … Noha Georges ... Neil Sroka … Roberta Jacobson ... Shola Farber ... Shari Redstone is 66 ... Mark Bryant ... Elizabeth Gore … Elisse B. Walter ... Chemi Shalev is 67 ... Jorge Castro ... Bloomberg’s Emma Angerer ... Liz Fossett … Elizabeth A. Terrell … John Gauthier ... Joel Maiola … Anne Eisenhower Turnbull … Dipayan Ghosh is 32 ... Jeff Schogol … Daniel Freedman ... Martin Greive
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