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More than 800,000 people reportedly signed up for President Trump's campaign rally return.

"Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said Sunday that several hundred thousand people have requested tickets for President Trump’s looming Oklahoma rally [...] 'Just passed 800,000 tickets,' Mr. Parscale tweeted on Sunday morning. 'Biggest data haul and rally signup of all time by 10x. Saturday is going to be amazing!'" (Washington Times)

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After weeks of suspended campaign events due to COVID-19, President Trump is back on the campaign trail ... and his campaign manager said over the weekend that more than 800,000 people want to join him.

 

The event is scheduled for this Saturday, June 20 in Oklahoma, with a second potentially under consideration given the strong interest.

The mainstream media says President Trump is down in the 2020 election. But local and state GOP leaders say different.

"Interviews with more than 50 state, district and county Republican Party chairs depict a version of the electoral landscape that is no worse for Trump than six months ago — and possibly even slightly better. According to this view, the coronavirus is on its way out and the economy is coming back. Polls are unreliable, Joe Biden is too frail to last, and the media still doesn’t get it." (POLITICO)

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This interesting piece from POLITICO is based on interviews with Republican Party officials across America, not just pollsters and pundits in Washington, D.C.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it challenges the story from the mainstream media: that President Trump is sinking fast in the polls and will likely lose in November. Instead, as one county GOP official told POLITICO, "We're thinking landslide" -- as in, a landslide for Trump.

Keep watching this story: rulings about vote-by-mail in the 2020 election continue to roll in.

"Fortunately, the 5th Circuit stopped (at least temporarily) Biery’s regal decree from upending Texas’ election procedures, and in the process took a step toward reminding judges to focus on what the law requires, rather than what their own partisan preferences are when it comes to state policies. Judges need to act like judges, not legislators." (Daily Signal)

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Questions about expanded voting by mail continue to work their way through the court systems, as states like Texas try to rein in the practice and others, like California, try to expand it as much as they can.

 

In the case of Texas, a circuit court overruled the judge who said that Texas must "allow all voters to vote by mail even if they didn’t otherwise meet the state’s eligibility requirement for an absentee ballot."

 

In a sharp rebuke (which the Daily Signal recaps here), the circuit court found that Texas' plan didn't violate the Constitution or state law ... and that the initial ruling will be "remembered more for [its] audacity than legal reasoning."

 

And in related news, the U.S. Postal Service is now asking for a $25 billion bailout -- and that's in addition to the $10 billion they already received through coronavirus relief legislation this year.

President Trump's campaign and the RNC raises more than $14 million in one weekend.

"President Trump's reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) raked in a record $14 million on Trump's birthday on Sunday, marking the groups' best day of online fundraising, according to the committee. Sunday's record surpassed the RNC and Trump campaign's previous daily best of $10 million in October 2016." (The Hill)

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Seems like there's a gap in enthusiasm and campaign fundraising!

 

This beat the previous fundraising record -- set in October 2016 -- by more than $4 million. To date, the Trump campaign and RNC have $255 million cash on hand to Biden and the DNC's $100 million cash on hand.

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