Biden himself retreated from the previous quarterbacking about who was considered and who, well, no.

While he sometimes still offers praise for the most mentioned candidates – and his campaign has held virtual fundraising with politicians like New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham – the former vice president has tended to reject many political obstacles lately.

Which means things are becoming more serious.

4. How does the Democratic Party dance ‘Defund the Police?’:

What Democrats want to spend in Congress this week is about the legislation package they introduced last week aimed at reforming the police – from banning chokehold to building a national database of police violations.

“Nobody will fund the police. We can restructure the police forces. Restructure, re-imagine the police. That’s what we will do. The fact is that the police have a role to play.”

Which is politically the right place. Many people support law enforcement reform. Much less back is shaved completely.

The question before the congressional Democrats was whether Clyburn’s position on Sunday was enough for their party activist wing.

3. Trump and the road:

Twitter became a banana, showing Trump looking old and weak. Of course what Twitter does.

But then Trump decided to drastically strengthen his current profile – and make sure it became a much bigger story.

It’s hard to overstate the miscalculation here by Trump. Without his tweet, the video of him walking down the path is, perhaps, a little Sunday story. With that tweet, it is a BIG story on Sunday, with the potential to leak into the week that the President wants to focus on restarting his re-election campaign.

It was a political instinct that brought disaster.

2. The Trump campaign resumes:

It’s been the last few weeks of disaster for Trump and his party. (See below). The president hopes this is a week where things change, with everything leading to Saturday’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Meanwhile it has been tampered with (The rally was originally scheduled for Friday, June 19, known as Juneteenth, a day celebrating the end of slavery) Trump and his closest allies see the return to the campaign trail as perhaps something that can heal what upsets the political fate of the President.

But with soaring coronaviruses – in the west and southwest in particular – this week’s news coverage tends to focus, at least in part, on Trump’s policy of holding a huge general meeting at all.

However, there are no current plans to establish social distance at public meetings or wear mandate masks.

So yes, Trump is likely to get what he wants – a large crowd celebrating the country’s “transition to greatness”. But how much does it cost?

1. Press the panic button:

Late Saturday night, the Des Moines Register released a poll about the Iowa Senate race. And that was very surprising.

And that is t-r-o-u-b-l-e for the Republican Senate who hopes to maintain their narrow majority this fall.

Why? Because there are many seats that are seen by independent handicapers at least as fragile as Iowa.

Do the math: That’s nine chairs. In contrast, Cook judged that only two Democratic seats – Alabama and Michigan – were competitive. And when you think that Democrats only need to get three seats to win back the majority if Biden wins the presidential election (and four if he doesn’t), you can see why the Republicans have a very bad Saturday night (and Sunday).