One week ago President Donald Trump met with advisers from his 2020 re-election campaign, who greeted him with bad news. … Top aides warned that former Vice President Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, was positioned to defeat the president by a significant number of electoral votes based on the campaign’s analysis, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting. …
This account of the president and his advisers’ struggle to respond to the ongoing crises and the political fallout is based on conversations with 17 sources including White House officials, campaign advisers and sources close to the president. CONT.
John Santucci, Katherine Faulders & Will Steakin, ABC News
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