2020 election
Where Things Stand: The Only Time The Deficit Matters 
This is your TPM afternoon briefing.
For the GOP, clinging to austerity is a task employed only when it’s most convenient. Or most desperate.
Where Things Stand: Choosing Between Covering A Sitting POTUS And Reporters’ Health
This is your TPM afternoon briefing.
The nation’s top news outlets are no strangers to the task of weighing how to cover this unprecedented president. Over the last few years, they’ve wrestled with how to avoid both-siderism, what to do with his distraction techniques, and whether or not to fact-check the blustering, evidence-free speaker.
But now newsroom leaders are facing a new challenge with President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis: How do they justify risking reporters’ lives in order to cover the public health-defying campaign?
