David Rutz is senior writer at the Washington Free Beacon. He was previously a sports reporter for two years in Atlanta and has done freelance sports reporting for the Washington Post. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2010 and lives in Marietta, Ga. His Twitter handle is @DavidRutz. He can be reached at rutz@freebeacon.com.
A favorite media talking point over the past three years: Whatever President Donald Trump is doing on any given day is a distraction. 
In a call for "national policing standards," Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff said he favors cutting federal funds for police departments if they violate his proposed rules on the use of force. 
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said Wednesday that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had not contacted her about joining the 2020 ticket, despite her campaign to be his running mate. 
The Washington Free Beacon presents highlights of liberal CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon during their nightly live toss, where their admiration for one another's views is boundless. 
Calls to "defund the police" are in vogue on the left, but what that means varies from Democrat to Democrat. 
Since Stacey Abrams narrowly lost the 2018 governor's race, Democrats have insisted Georgia is on the verge of turning blue. But with the rare opportunity to flip two Republican-held Senate seats in 2020, their fundraising has been minuscule compared with high-profile races around the country. 
"1619 Project" founder Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose seminal essay was updated to address factual errors, said Sunday that a New York Times-commissioned op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) calling for the United States military to quell riots did not undergo appropriate fact-checking. 
Rep. Val Demings (D., Fla.) called the Minneapolis City Council "very thoughtful" on Monday in its intent to defund and dismantle the police department. 
The New York Times announced on Sunday the resignation of editorial page editor James Bennet in the wake of staff uproar over the paper’s publication of an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) calling for the use of military force against rioters. Georgia Democratic senate candidate Jon Ossoff said Saturday that local law enforcement should not enforce federal immigration law, saying it betrayed the "bonds of trust" police should have with the community. 