带走里克·克莱因
我们是另一方面那个让我们从击败COVID的“复合”中走出来的夏天对新疫情的恐惧那可以创造一切分崩离析。
乔·拜登总统将用更忧郁的语气周四，他比7月4日的时候做得更好，当时他断言这个国家“比以往任何时候都更接近于宣布我们从致命病毒中独立出来。”
这个预测不太靠谱。从这里，白宫是承诺揭开六个步骤-一些熟悉的，一些新的组件帮助保护孩子回到学校——承认这一点，正如白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基周三所说，“我们仍在与病毒作战。”
民主党人相信他们有能力团结起来支持又是那场战争。在加州的最后几天，这种信息是最重要的州长召回，尽管去年秋天一张加文·纽瑟姆政府似乎无视COVID限制的照片在网上疯传，这一举措获得了初步的势头。
美国副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯周三在她的第一封信中说:“在危机时刻，一个叫加文·纽瑟姆的人做出了艰难的决定。”要帮助的活动事件她的家乡州长。
美国前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在一则支持《新闻周刊》的电视广告中说:“你的投票可能是保护我们的孩子和将他们置于危险之中的区别。”开始播出同一天。
这美国广播公司新闻/华盛顿邮报民意调查本周公布的数据显示，拜登对COVID的支持率比之前下降了整整10个百分点国家独立纪念日，为52%。
现在，经历了总统任期中最艰难的一段时间，拜登和民主党指望他们的处理帮助他们反弹。
与...的关系阿维·哈珀
德克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特面临持续的反弹越过…的通道最严格的该国的堕胎立法变得更加凶猛在他最近关于强奸受害者的言论之后。
艾博特被问到这样一个事实没有例外强奸和乱伦受害者的法律。根据法律，上述罪行的受害者也受到禁止堕胎怀孕六周后。
阿博特周二表示:“强奸是一种犯罪，德州将不懈努力，确保我们通过积极出击，逮捕并起诉强奸犯，让他们离开街道，从而将所有强奸犯从德州街头消灭。
消除“街上所有强奸犯”的概念是一种崇高的目标对于任何领导人来说，尤其是对一个国家来说该组织仍在努力消除积压的数千套未经测试的强奸工具。周三，当被问及雅培的评论时，白宫新闻秘书做出了尖刻的回应。
普萨基告诉美国广播公司新闻首席白宫记者塞西莉亚·维加，如果雅培有办法消除“美国的所有强奸犯或所有强奸行为，那么两党都会支持。”她还提供了给德克萨斯州妇女的信息“这项法律侵犯了你的权利，我们将尽一切努力尽快提供援助。”
联邦反应的细节很少。司法部已经承诺保护妇女他们在德克萨斯州寻找堕胎护理和堕胎提供者。其他的潜在的法律挑战《德州心跳法案》的修订仍不清楚，白宫官员称政府正在修订仍在探索选择来对抗法律。
小费亚里沙·维尔塞马
这政治斗争佛罗里达州的过度掩盖仍在继续发展，周三，一名州巡回法官裁定允许学校口罩规定有待实施。这一举动与州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯的努力背道而驰禁止口罩授权学校和州长政府正在对此案进行上诉。
今年夏天早些时候，德桑蒂斯发布了一项行政命令，指示佛罗里达教育部门和州政府部门提出规则防止口罩强制令并允许家长选择孩子们是否应该戴口罩在学校。州长还威胁要停止向学区制定口罩要求。周三的法律发展目前阻止佛罗里达州教育部执行州长的威胁挑衅的学区。
共和党州长的行为一再让他与信息不符来自白宫，创造了一种更广泛的政治竞争力，因为德桑蒂斯强调要与支持特朗普的政策保持一致。但截至2021年9月，德桑蒂斯否认了对2024年总统竞选的猜测。
“所有关于我的猜测都纯属捏造。我只是做我的工作，你知道，我们努力工作。很明显，我们州在很多事情上都领先了。...我听到了所有这些东西，老实说，这是胡说八道，所以我真的不知道该对这些谣言说什么，”德桑蒂斯在周二的新闻发布会上说。
还有一点
美国广播公司新闻频道“9/11/20年后:美国记得”是一个特别的一周，通过网络和流媒体新闻频道美国广播公司新闻直播(ABC News Live)进行报道，以纪念911恐怖袭击20周年，包括四个反思黄金时段特别节目和一个由五部分组成的纪录片系列，“9/11 + 20:最长的阴影。”周四在美国广播公司新闻直播黄金时段，华盛顿高级记者德文·德怀尔报道从密歇根州的迪尔伯恩(Dearborn)到居民和社区领袖直接听取9/11袭击的持久影响，迪尔伯恩是成千上万来自黎巴嫩、伊拉克和也门的美国移民家庭的家园。
Biden, Democrats seek to rally behind COVID efforts: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
We'reon the other sideof the summer that brought us from "coming back together" in defeating COVID tofears of new outbreaksthatcould make everythingfall apart.
President Joe Biden willtake a more somber toneon Thursday than he did back on the Fourth of July, when he asserted that the nation was "closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus."
That prediction didn't age well. From here, the White House ispromising to unveil six steps-- some familiar, and some new components tohelp protect kidsgoing back to school -- in an acknowledgment that, as White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday, "We are still at war with the virus."
Democrats are putting faith in their ability torally in supportof that war again. That messaging is front and center in the closing days of the Californiagubernatorial recall, despite the fact that it gained initial momentum when a photo of Gov. Gavin Newsom seeming to flout COVID restrictions went viral last fall.
"It took one person, who is Gavin Newsom, to make hard decisions in a moment of crisis," Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday, in her firstcampaign event to helpher home-state governor.
"Your vote could be the difference between protecting our kids and putting them at risk," former President Barack Obama said in a pro-Newsom television adthat started airingthe same day.
TheABC News/Washington Post pollout this week showed Biden's approval rating on COVID down a full 10 points from right beforeIndependence Day, at 52%.
Now, coming off the roughest stretch of his presidency, Biden and the Democratic Party arecounting on their handlingof COVID to help them bounce back.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott isfacing continued backlashover the passage ofthe most restrictiveabortion legislation in the country and it hasonly gotten fiercerin the wake of his latest remarks on rape victims.
Abbot was asked about the fact thatthere is no exceptionin the law for victims of rape and incest.Under the law, victims of the aforementioned crimes are also subject to theban on abortionsafter six weeks of pregnancy.
"Rape is a crime and Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets," said Abbott Tuesday.
The notion of eliminating "all rapists from the streets" is alofty goalfor any leader,especially for a statethat is still working to eliminate its backlog of thousands of untested rape kits. The White House press secretary offered a snarky response when asked about Abbott's comments Wednesday.
Psaki told ABC News chief White House correspondent Cecilia Vega that if Abbott has means to eliminate "all rapists or all rape from the United States, then there'd be bipartisan support for that." She also provided amessage for women in Texas, "This law is a violation of your rights and we are going to do everything we can to provide assistance as quickly as we can."
Details of a federal response have been scant. The Department of Justice haspledged to protect womenwho seek out abortion care and abortion providers in Texas. Any otherpotential legal challengesto the Texas Heartbeat Act remain unclear, with White House officials saying the administration isstill exploring optionsto combat the law.
The TIP withAlisa Wiersema
Thepolitical battleover masking continues to evolve in Florida, where on Wednesday, a state circuit judge ruled in favor of allowingschool mask mandatesto be implemented. The move goes against Gov. Ron DeSantis' push toban mask mandatesin schools and the governor's administration is appealing the case.
Earlier this summer, DeSantis issued an executive order that directed the Florida education and state departments toput forth rulespreventing mask mandates and allowing parents to choosewhether kids should wear masksin school. The governor also threatened to withhold funding fromschool districtsthat went forward with instituting mask requirements. Wednesday's legal development currently prevents the Florida Department of Education from enforcing the governor's threat againstdefiant school districts.
The Republican governor's actions repeatedly put himat odds with the messagingcoming from the White House, creating a sense of broader, political competitiveness given that DeSantis made it a point to align himself with pro-Trumpian policies. But as of September 2021, DeSantis is denying speculation about eyeing a 2024 presidential run.
"All the speculation about me is purely manufactured. I just do my job and, you know, we work hard. Obviously, our state has led on a lot of things. ... I hear all this stuff and honestly, it's nonsense, so I don't really know what to say to the rumors," DeSantis said during a Tuesday press conference.
ONE MORE THING
ABC News' "9/11/ Twenty Years Later: America Remembers" is a special week of coverage across the network and streaming news channel ABC News Live to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, including four reflective primetime specials and a five-part documentary series, "9/11 + 20: The Longest Shadow." Thursday on ABC News Live Prime,senior Washington reporter Devin Dwyer reportsfrom Dearborn, Michigan, home to thousands of American immigrant families from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen, to hear directly from residents and community leaders about the lasting impact of the 9/11 attacks.
