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| Hillary Clinton will deliver a prime-time speech next Wednesday for the Democratic National Convention, part of a preliminary lineup of speakers for the truncated, mostly virtual four-night event, three Democratic officials with knowledge of the schedule said Monday. | Hillary Clinton will deliver a prime-time speech next Wednesday for the Democratic National Convention, part of a preliminary lineup of speakers for the truncated, mostly virtual four-night event, three Democratic officials with knowledge of the schedule said Monday. |
| Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive presidential nominee, has said he will not travel to Milwaukee, where the convention is nominally being held but has been scaled back to just a few hundred attendees. He will speak from Delaware on Thursday, the final night of the convention, in a form and fashion yet to be announced. | Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive presidential nominee, has said he will not travel to Milwaukee, where the convention is nominally being held but has been scaled back to just a few hundred attendees. He will speak from Delaware on Thursday, the final night of the convention, in a form and fashion yet to be announced. |
| Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts will join Mrs. Clinton, the 2016 nominee, on the Wednesday night program if she is not selected as Mr. Biden’s running mate, according to the officials. Former President Bill Clinton will speak as well, one of the officials said. | |
| Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, a Republican who is a harsh critic of President Trump, will deliver addresses Monday night, the officials said. | Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, a Republican who is a harsh critic of President Trump, will deliver addresses Monday night, the officials said. |
| Former President Barack Obama’s time slot has not been announced (or leaked), but he could be included on a crammed Wednesday night program, or possibly introduce Mr. Biden on Thursday — to deliver a nationally televised rendition of the-Joe-I-know speech he has been giving during online Biden fund-raisers and round tables. | Former President Barack Obama’s time slot has not been announced (or leaked), but he could be included on a crammed Wednesday night program, or possibly introduce Mr. Biden on Thursday — to deliver a nationally televised rendition of the-Joe-I-know speech he has been giving during online Biden fund-raisers and round tables. |
| It is not clear when Michelle Obama, who delivered what was widely regarded as the best speech at the 2012 convention in Charlotte, N.C., will speak. But planners have privately said they believe her address could attract the widest viewership outside of Mr. Biden’s. | It is not clear when Michelle Obama, who delivered what was widely regarded as the best speech at the 2012 convention in Charlotte, N.C., will speak. But planners have privately said they believe her address could attract the widest viewership outside of Mr. Biden’s. |
| Mrs. Obama has been spending much of her time in recent days working on her speech at her family’s mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, and has told friends that she views it as her major contribution to the 2020 race, according to two people with knowledge of her planning. | Mrs. Obama has been spending much of her time in recent days working on her speech at her family’s mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, and has told friends that she views it as her major contribution to the 2020 race, according to two people with knowledge of her planning. |
| The big names will be augmented by testimonials from “from voters of all kinds — delegates, parents, teachers, small-business owners, essential workers, activists and elected leaders,” culled from “1,000 crowd-sourced videos,” officials with the convention’s organizing committee announced on Monday. | |
| There are traditionally three hinge-point moments for presidential challengers: the selection of a running mate, the convention and the debates. | There are traditionally three hinge-point moments for presidential challengers: the selection of a running mate, the convention and the debates. |
| Of course, this is no traditional campaign. | Of course, this is no traditional campaign. |
| But with the pandemic transforming the conventions from balloon-and-bunting extravaganzas to online events, and President Trump’s demands for additional debates and specific moderators, Mr. Biden’s announcement this week of his running mate could be as close as the campaign gets to normal. | But with the pandemic transforming the conventions from balloon-and-bunting extravaganzas to online events, and President Trump’s demands for additional debates and specific moderators, Mr. Biden’s announcement this week of his running mate could be as close as the campaign gets to normal. |
| Not that Mr. Biden’s vice-presidential rollout will look much like past unveilings. With him and his campaign strictly adhering to social distancing guidelines, the former vice president is expected to appear publicly with his running mate by the end of the week — just not before the usual crowd of cheering supporters. | Not that Mr. Biden’s vice-presidential rollout will look much like past unveilings. With him and his campaign strictly adhering to social distancing guidelines, the former vice president is expected to appear publicly with his running mate by the end of the week — just not before the usual crowd of cheering supporters. |
| For a candidate who’s leading but not enjoying a groundswell of enthusiasm, that means an event that looks much like his appearances since he claimed the nomination: carefully staged, produced for television and online consumption, and decaffeinated. | For a candidate who’s leading but not enjoying a groundswell of enthusiasm, that means an event that looks much like his appearances since he claimed the nomination: carefully staged, produced for television and online consumption, and decaffeinated. |
| Democrats, of course, will take it, preferring a scripted and front-running Biden in these sober times to the alternative. But the vice-presidential reveal is just a trial run for next week. That’s when the party will have to recreate an entire convention across four nights of prime-time with no live audience — to say nothing of balloons or bunting. | Democrats, of course, will take it, preferring a scripted and front-running Biden in these sober times to the alternative. But the vice-presidential reveal is just a trial run for next week. That’s when the party will have to recreate an entire convention across four nights of prime-time with no live audience — to say nothing of balloons or bunting. |
| Immodest. Ambitious. Unlikable. These are the strangely enduring criticisms that travel with women in politics, no matter how many firsts keep adding up or how numerous their congressional numbers become, The Times’s Jessica Bennett writes in a news analysis. | Immodest. Ambitious. Unlikable. These are the strangely enduring criticisms that travel with women in politics, no matter how many firsts keep adding up or how numerous their congressional numbers become, The Times’s Jessica Bennett writes in a news analysis. |
| And those words have reignited another debate about sexist double standards, as Mr. Biden inches closer to announcing his running mate. | And those words have reignited another debate about sexist double standards, as Mr. Biden inches closer to announcing his running mate. |
| When Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia legislator and the first Black woman in the country to be a major party’s nominee for governor, stated bluntly in April that she “would be an excellent running mate” to Mr. Biden — unapologetically making her case for the No. 2 spot on the ticket — she was criticized as being inadequately self-effacing. | When Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia legislator and the first Black woman in the country to be a major party’s nominee for governor, stated bluntly in April that she “would be an excellent running mate” to Mr. Biden — unapologetically making her case for the No. 2 spot on the ticket — she was criticized as being inadequately self-effacing. |
| Senator Kamala Harris, one of three Black women considered a front-runner for that slot, has not actually said publicly that she wants the position. But she did of course run for president — causing at least one Democratic donor to remark that she has too much “ambition.” | Senator Kamala Harris, one of three Black women considered a front-runner for that slot, has not actually said publicly that she wants the position. But she did of course run for president — causing at least one Democratic donor to remark that she has too much “ambition.” |
| She can also “rub people the wrong way,” according to Ed Rendell, the former Pennsylvania governor who is close with Mr. Biden. And she was seen as being improperly apologetic after she excoriated Mr. Biden on an early debate stage, questioning his policies on busing, with the nerve to later laugh it off as “politics.” | She can also “rub people the wrong way,” according to Ed Rendell, the former Pennsylvania governor who is close with Mr. Biden. And she was seen as being improperly apologetic after she excoriated Mr. Biden on an early debate stage, questioning his policies on busing, with the nerve to later laugh it off as “politics.” |
| “She had no remorse,” Chris Dodd, a longtime friend of Mr. Biden’s who is on his vice-presidential vetting panel, reportedly told donors. | “She had no remorse,” Chris Dodd, a longtime friend of Mr. Biden’s who is on his vice-presidential vetting panel, reportedly told donors. |
| American politics may have moved beyond a time when a female candidate would be asked if she could bake a blueberry muffin (that was Geraldine Ferraro in 1984), but it surely hasn’t moved that far. | American politics may have moved beyond a time when a female candidate would be asked if she could bake a blueberry muffin (that was Geraldine Ferraro in 1984), but it surely hasn’t moved that far. |
| Attorney General William P. Barr, embracing dual roles of partisan combatant and the nation’s top law enforcement official, on Sunday described demonstrators against police brutality as “fascistic” standard-bearers of a Democratic Party veering dangerously to the left. | |
| Mr. Barr, who was present when federal officers tear-gassed peaceful demonstrators near the White House in June, vowed to use the Justice Department to fight what he called “urban guerrilla warfare” waged by protesters in Portland and other cities, during an interview with the right-wing radio personality Mark Levin. | |
| “They are a revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism, communism. They’re essentially Bolsheviks. Their tactics are fascistic,” Mr. Barr said when asked by Mr. Levin about Black Lives Matter protests and demonstrators Mr. Levin described as “antifa.” | |
| Mr. Barr has been a fierce defender of Mr. Trump throughout his tenure. But his comments to Mr. Levin were among his most pointed verbal attacks to date, blurring the distinction between mainstream Democratic leaders — who have expressed support for peaceful protest — and the violent minority of demonstrators in Oregon and elsewhere. | |
| Mr. Barr portrayed the protests, which erupted after the death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis, as part of a long-term strategy to defeat Mr. Trump. | |
| “They were trying to impeach him from Day 1,” he said. “It’s the lust for power. And they weren’t expecting Trump’s victory. And it outrages them.” | |
| Alex Morse, the Democratic mayor of Holyoke, Mass., who is seeking to unseat the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Richard E. Neal, is remaining in the race despite allegations he misused his teaching position at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to have sex with students. | Alex Morse, the Democratic mayor of Holyoke, Mass., who is seeking to unseat the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Richard E. Neal, is remaining in the race despite allegations he misused his teaching position at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to have sex with students. |
| Mr. Morse, 31, admitted in a statement on Sunday that he had engaged in “consensual relationships with other men, including students enrolled at local universities that I’ve met using dating apps,” but denied he had done anything inappropriate or unethical. | Mr. Morse, 31, admitted in a statement on Sunday that he had engaged in “consensual relationships with other men, including students enrolled at local universities that I’ve met using dating apps,” but denied he had done anything inappropriate or unethical. |
| “While I am confident that a full investigation into these matters will clear my name completely of any unethical conduct, I also recognize that some students felt uncomfortable with interactions they had with me,” he wrote. “I am sorry for that. This is unacceptable behavior for anyone with institutional power.” | “While I am confident that a full investigation into these matters will clear my name completely of any unethical conduct, I also recognize that some students felt uncomfortable with interactions they had with me,” he wrote. “I am sorry for that. This is unacceptable behavior for anyone with institutional power.” |
| Mr. Morse, whose candidacy has been supported by progressive groups like Justice Democrats, faces Mr. Neal in a Sept. 1 primary. | Mr. Morse, whose candidacy has been supported by progressive groups like Justice Democrats, faces Mr. Neal in a Sept. 1 primary. |
| His statement came after the school’s student newspaper, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, reported that the university was investigating claims, made in a letter from the College Democrats of Massachusetts, that Mr. Morse had abused “his position of power for romantic or sexual gain.” | His statement came after the school’s student newspaper, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, reported that the university was investigating claims, made in a letter from the College Democrats of Massachusetts, that Mr. Morse had abused “his position of power for romantic or sexual gain.” |
| Mr. Morse was hired as a political science lecturer in 2014 and last taught as an adjunct professor in an urban politics course last fall. He is not currently employed at the school, university officials have said. | Mr. Morse was hired as a political science lecturer in 2014 and last taught as an adjunct professor in an urban politics course last fall. He is not currently employed at the school, university officials have said. |
| The allegations present a major challenge for a man widely seen as a rising star in local Democratic politics. Mr. Morse was elected mayor of Holyoke, a city of 40,000 near Springfield, nine years ago at the age of 22, becoming the city’s first openly gay and youngest mayor. | The allegations present a major challenge for a man widely seen as a rising star in local Democratic politics. Mr. Morse was elected mayor of Holyoke, a city of 40,000 near Springfield, nine years ago at the age of 22, becoming the city’s first openly gay and youngest mayor. |
| Mr. Biden has been critical of Big Tech, admonishing Facebook for mishandling misinformation and saying internet companies should lose a central legal protection. | Mr. Biden has been critical of Big Tech, admonishing Facebook for mishandling misinformation and saying internet companies should lose a central legal protection. |
| But his campaign has quietly welcomed onto its staff and policy groups people who have worked with or for Silicon Valley giants, raising concerns among the industry’s critics that the companies are seeking to co-opt a potential Biden administration. | But his campaign has quietly welcomed onto its staff and policy groups people who have worked with or for Silicon Valley giants, raising concerns among the industry’s critics that the companies are seeking to co-opt a potential Biden administration. |
| One of Mr. Biden’s closest aides joined the campaign from Apple, while others held senior roles at firms that consulted for major tech companies. And a nearly 700-person volunteer group advising the campaign, the Innovation Policy Committee, includes at least eight people who work for Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. Other committee members have close ties to the companies, including economists and lawyers who have advised them, and officials at think tanks funded by them. | One of Mr. Biden’s closest aides joined the campaign from Apple, while others held senior roles at firms that consulted for major tech companies. And a nearly 700-person volunteer group advising the campaign, the Innovation Policy Committee, includes at least eight people who work for Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. Other committee members have close ties to the companies, including economists and lawyers who have advised them, and officials at think tanks funded by them. |
| The group’s members also include some prominent progressives arguing for stiffer regulation of tech. But the presence of the industry’s allies inside Mr. Biden’s policy apparatus and campaign and transition teams — and his campaign’s effort to ensure the confidentiality of its policy process — has alarmed an increasingly influential coalition of liberals who say the tech titans stifle competition, disregard user privacy and fail to adequately police hate speech and disinformation. | The group’s members also include some prominent progressives arguing for stiffer regulation of tech. But the presence of the industry’s allies inside Mr. Biden’s policy apparatus and campaign and transition teams — and his campaign’s effort to ensure the confidentiality of its policy process — has alarmed an increasingly influential coalition of liberals who say the tech titans stifle competition, disregard user privacy and fail to adequately police hate speech and disinformation. |
| They are hoping to dissuade Mr. Biden, who has not made tech issues a major focus of his campaign, from following the example of his former boss, President Barack Obama, whose embrace of tech companies helped turn them into darlings in Washington. | They are hoping to dissuade Mr. Biden, who has not made tech issues a major focus of his campaign, from following the example of his former boss, President Barack Obama, whose embrace of tech companies helped turn them into darlings in Washington. |
| As Mr. Biden survived a turbulent winter to become the presumptive Democratic nominee, the millions of dollars Wall Street denizens donated to his campaign, and to outside groups supporting his candidacy, have helped him build a strong lead in national polls. | As Mr. Biden survived a turbulent winter to become the presumptive Democratic nominee, the millions of dollars Wall Street denizens donated to his campaign, and to outside groups supporting his candidacy, have helped him build a strong lead in national polls. |
| Wall Street has fared extraordinarily well under Mr. Trump: deep cuts to taxes, slashed regulations and, until the pandemic hit, record stock prices. But in recent months, dozens of bankers, traders and investors said in interviews, a sense of outrage and exhaustion over Mr. Trump’s chaotic style of governance — accelerated by his poor coronavirus response — has markedly shifted the economic and political calculus in their industry. | Wall Street has fared extraordinarily well under Mr. Trump: deep cuts to taxes, slashed regulations and, until the pandemic hit, record stock prices. But in recent months, dozens of bankers, traders and investors said in interviews, a sense of outrage and exhaustion over Mr. Trump’s chaotic style of governance — accelerated by his poor coronavirus response — has markedly shifted the economic and political calculus in their industry. |
| More and more finance professionals, they say, appear to be sidelining their concerns about Mr. Biden’s age — 77 — and his style. They are surprisingly unperturbed at the likelihood of his raising their taxes and stiffening oversight of their industry. In return, they welcome the more seasoned and methodical presidency they believe he could bring. | More and more finance professionals, they say, appear to be sidelining their concerns about Mr. Biden’s age — 77 — and his style. They are surprisingly unperturbed at the likelihood of his raising their taxes and stiffening oversight of their industry. In return, they welcome the more seasoned and methodical presidency they believe he could bring. |
| They may not exactly be falling in love with Mr. Biden. But they are falling in line. | They may not exactly be falling in love with Mr. Biden. But they are falling in line. |
| “I’ve seen meaningful numbers of people put aside what would appear to be their short-term economic interest because they value being citizens in a democracy,” said Seth Klarman, founder of the hedge fund Baupost. A longtime independent, Mr. Klarman was at one point New England’s biggest giver to the Republican Party. But in this cycle, he has given $3 million to groups supporting Mr. Biden. | “I’ve seen meaningful numbers of people put aside what would appear to be their short-term economic interest because they value being citizens in a democracy,” said Seth Klarman, founder of the hedge fund Baupost. A longtime independent, Mr. Klarman was at one point New England’s biggest giver to the Republican Party. But in this cycle, he has given $3 million to groups supporting Mr. Biden. |
| “Working the refs” — that is, complaining vocally about a referee’s decision in hopes of getting a better call next time — is a tactic the Trump movement has deftly employed against the powerful, befuddled new referees of online public debate, our media columnist Ben Smith writes. | “Working the refs” — that is, complaining vocally about a referee’s decision in hopes of getting a better call next time — is a tactic the Trump movement has deftly employed against the powerful, befuddled new referees of online public debate, our media columnist Ben Smith writes. |
| The referees who really matter nowadays are no longer the big media companies. The new referees are the Silicon Valley giants that control what we see when we search, browse or post online — Google, Facebook and Twitter. But some in the news media have learned lessons about this over the years, ones that Silicon Valley chief executives would be wise to reflect on this election season. | The referees who really matter nowadays are no longer the big media companies. The new referees are the Silicon Valley giants that control what we see when we search, browse or post online — Google, Facebook and Twitter. But some in the news media have learned lessons about this over the years, ones that Silicon Valley chief executives would be wise to reflect on this election season. |
| The biggest one is about false balance, and false symmetry. The American right and left have never been mirror images of each other, Mr. Smith writes. They’re different sorts of coalitions, with different histories and strategies. | The biggest one is about false balance, and false symmetry. The American right and left have never been mirror images of each other, Mr. Smith writes. They’re different sorts of coalitions, with different histories and strategies. |
| And in the Trump era, a specific kind of misinformation on social media is a central tactic of the right. Mr. Trump says false and misleading things at a remarkable rate — more than 20,000 so far in his presidency, according to a Washington Post tracker — and a whole constellation of blogs and websites, like The Gateway Pundit, support and amplify that strategy. | And in the Trump era, a specific kind of misinformation on social media is a central tactic of the right. Mr. Trump says false and misleading things at a remarkable rate — more than 20,000 so far in his presidency, according to a Washington Post tracker — and a whole constellation of blogs and websites, like The Gateway Pundit, support and amplify that strategy. |
| Facebook, Google and Twitter are making the same mistakes the news media made decades ago, Mr. Smith says: looking for balance rather than confronting the plain reality of the moment. | Facebook, Google and Twitter are making the same mistakes the news media made decades ago, Mr. Smith says: looking for balance rather than confronting the plain reality of the moment. |
| The three hosts of a new podcast, “Pod Is a Woman,” said last week that their first choice for a guest on the first episode was Jill Biden. | The three hosts of a new podcast, “Pod Is a Woman,” said last week that their first choice for a guest on the first episode was Jill Biden. |
| “Joe Biden was our backup,” said one of the hosts, Johanna Maska. | “Joe Biden was our backup,” said one of the hosts, Johanna Maska. |
| The podcast, hosted by three women who worked in the Obama White House, debuted on Monday morning with discussions of current events, popular culture — and, of course, the 2020 presidential election. | The podcast, hosted by three women who worked in the Obama White House, debuted on Monday morning with discussions of current events, popular culture — and, of course, the 2020 presidential election. |
| On the episode, Dr. Biden rejected efforts to minimize or demean the decision by Mr. Biden to select a woman as his running mate. | On the episode, Dr. Biden rejected efforts to minimize or demean the decision by Mr. Biden to select a woman as his running mate. |
| “This is a major job,” Jill Biden said. “This woman is going to have to handle all kinds of problems and be a governing partner.” | “This is a major job,” Jill Biden said. “This woman is going to have to handle all kinds of problems and be a governing partner.” |
| (The co-host Alejandra Campoverdi’s effort to persuade Dr. Biden to reveal her husband’s selection — “Dr. Biden, we’re among friends right now, right?” — was unsuccessful.) | (The co-host Alejandra Campoverdi’s effort to persuade Dr. Biden to reveal her husband’s selection — “Dr. Biden, we’re among friends right now, right?” — was unsuccessful.) |
| An English professor at a community college, Dr. Biden said she hoped to teach part time, perhaps virtually, should she become first lady, and pledged that a Biden administration would make community college free. | An English professor at a community college, Dr. Biden said she hoped to teach part time, perhaps virtually, should she become first lady, and pledged that a Biden administration would make community college free. |
| “One thing that will create equity in education is to make sure that we have universal prekindergarten,” she said. “So that every 3- and 4-year-old starts at the same level — exact same level.” | “One thing that will create equity in education is to make sure that we have universal prekindergarten,” she said. “So that every 3- and 4-year-old starts at the same level — exact same level.” |
| Along with Ms. Campoverdi, a former White House deputy director of Hispanic media, and Ms. Maska, who was the White House press advance director, “Pod Is A Woman” is hosted by Darienne Page, President Barack Obama’s director of veterans and military families outreach. | Along with Ms. Campoverdi, a former White House deputy director of Hispanic media, and Ms. Maska, who was the White House press advance director, “Pod Is A Woman” is hosted by Darienne Page, President Barack Obama’s director of veterans and military families outreach. |
| As podcasters who are friends from the Obama administration, they recall Crooked Media’s stable of shows, including “Pod Save America.” Theirs is another instance of the increasingly porous line between political operatives and media personalities. | As podcasters who are friends from the Obama administration, they recall Crooked Media’s stable of shows, including “Pod Save America.” Theirs is another instance of the increasingly porous line between political operatives and media personalities. |
| Not that the three were conceiving their show so deliberatively. “We didn’t say, ‘OK, let’s get a blonde and a brunette,’” Ms. Campoverdi said. “We didn’t Noah’s Ark this podcast.” | Not that the three were conceiving their show so deliberatively. “We didn’t say, ‘OK, let’s get a blonde and a brunette,’” Ms. Campoverdi said. “We didn’t Noah’s Ark this podcast.” |
| Reporting was contributed by Jessica Bennett, Shane Goldmacher, Thomas Kaplan, Kate Kelly, Jonathan Martin, David McCabe, Ben Smith, Glenn Thrush, Marc Tracy and Kenneth P. Vogel. | Reporting was contributed by Jessica Bennett, Shane Goldmacher, Thomas Kaplan, Kate Kelly, Jonathan Martin, David McCabe, Ben Smith, Glenn Thrush, Marc Tracy and Kenneth P. Vogel. |