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Polling for the 2020 Election continues to look bleak for Donald Trump. At one point, the numbers looked so bad that he allegedly threatened to sue his campaign manager, Brad Parscale. Reportedly, Parscale now only shows the President polls that are in his favor.

Thanks to the coronavirus, many states are now talking about expanding their vote by mail program. Some members of the GOP, especially Trump, have railed against the idea of making voting easier, claiming their will be significant fraud. Conservative pundit Ann Coulter hit on that idea today when she claimed that people who died from coronavirus would be voting Democrat.

Trump took to Twitter this morning to issue a warning to the state of Michigan. Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!

Of course, Michigan did not send out absentee ballots to millions of people. Registered voters, Democrats and Republicans both, received applications for absentee ballots in the event they do not want to vote in person.

Coulter made light of the coronavirus pandemic on her Twitter feed. The pundit also made sure to use the racist term Wuhan virus. Its sad, the number of people in California who have died from the Wuhan flu, she wrote. On the bright side, theyll all be voting by mail now.

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Washington may never have seen a marriage quite like the Conways: Kellyanne, the longtime advisor to President Trump. George, the prolific public tormenter of his wifes boss.

After George announced late in 2019 that he would work to defeat the Presidents re-election by launching an anti-Trump super-PAC, we decided to look back on the arrangement and the epic events that have transpired since the Conways landed in Washington. But we also wondered: Whats it like to be in the same room with the couple? And: Could this marriage be working behind closed doors? Observers and marriage therapists weighed in with some surprising answers. Scroll down to read them.

August 1999

George gets his friend Ann Coulter to introduce him to conservative it-girl Kellyanne Fitzpatrick after seeing her on the cover of a society magazine.

April 28, 2001

Wedding day in Philadelphia. The Conways then move into Trump World Tower, one of Donald Trumps Manhattan apartment buildings.

December 13, 2005

George and Kellyanne launch a blog for National Review called Reconcilable Differences. The tagline: Two Conways, Two Takes. His: The Bush administration is the most politically and substantively inept that the nation has had in over a quarter of a century. Hers: When pondering why George, a fairly even-tempered fellow, feels so strongly, I am reminded of a line by Bree Van De Kamp, the fastidious perfectionist widow on ABCs Desperate Housewives. . . . The opposite of love isnt hate, Bree says, its indifference. And if you hate me, that means you still care, and were still connected . . . .

April 2006

George helps Trump with a condo-board issue, arguing against removing Trumps name from the World Tower facade. Impressed, Trump invites George to join the board. He declines but introduces Trump to Kellyanne. She joins the board.

May 2006June 2016

Kellyanne is a go-to pollster/adviser for right-wingers, such as Newt Gingrich and Mike Pence. She runs her first poll for Trump in 2013 when he considers a New York gubernatorial run. . . . George is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz in New York, handling securities and corporate litigation. In 2010, he argues at the Supreme Court for the first time. . . . The Conways retreat to the burbs to raise their four children in Alpine, New Jersey.

July 1, 2016

Candidate Trump hires Kellyanne.

August 17, 2016

Trump promotes Kellyanne to campaign manager.

November 8, 2016

Election Day.

November 29, 2016

George and Kellyanne take a Thanksgiving vacation in Miami.

December 30, 2016

George is said to be in the running for solicitor general. Kellyanne reportedly angles to snag him the job, squaring off with Jeff Sessions.

December 31, 2016

The couple hit the DC social circuit, spending New Years Eve at then British ambassador Kim Darrochs party.

March 17, 2017

So much for solicitor general: Trump reportedly wants George to run DOJs civil division instead.

April 2, 2017

The Conways buy an 11,000-square-foot Massachusetts Avenue Heights mansion with eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, and a pool for nearly $8 million.

May 31, 2017

George declines Trumps job offer, writing him: Kellyanne and I continue to support you and your Administration, and I look forward to doing so in whatever way I can from outside the government.

June 5, 2017

On the same day that Kellyanne, in a Today interview, derides the medias obsession with covering everything [Trump] says on Twitter, George taps out his first negative tweet about the President, saying POTUSs tweets might make people feel better but wont get his travel ban approved by the Supremes.

October 30, 2017

The Conways greet guests on the White Houses South Lawn for a Halloween event.

January 1, 2018

The couple attend their neighbor Adrienne Arshts New Years Day brunch.

JanuaryApril 2018

Trump deluges Twitter with condemnations of the Russia probe . . . tweets that hes a very stable genius . . . says Democrats who didnt applaud his SOTU address are treasonous . . . considers canning special counsel Robert Mueller.

April 28, 2018

The Conways attend the White House Correspondents Dinner, where comedian Michelle Wolf roasts Kellyanne: Man, she has the perfect last name for what she does: Conway.

June 11, 2018

Amid a spate of Trump tweets attacking the special counsels investigation, George defends it in Lawfare, his first op-ed criticizing Trump.

July 9, 2018

George has 74,800 Twitter followers, up from roughly 5,500 at the time of his first anti-Trump tweet.

August 14, 2018

After a Washington Post reporter obliquely compares Trump to a CEO, George retweet-replies: What if a CEO routinely made false and misleading statements about himself, the company, and results, and publicly attacked business partners, company divisions (w/scare quotes!), employees, and analysts, and kowtowed to a dangerous competitor?

August 15, 2018

With half of Washington wondering about the Conways marriage, the Post profiles the couple. Kellyanne says Georges tweets are a violation of basic decency, certainly, if not marital vowsthen retroactively asks for the quote to be attributed to a person familiar with [the Conways relationship].

August 24, 2018

George tweets: What everyone should want . . . is a President capable of comprehending what it means to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed. Art. II 3.

October 30, 2018

George writes his first op-ed for the Post.

November 9, 2018

Reporters ask Trump about George. You mean Mr. Kellyanne Conway? Hes just trying to get publicity for himself.

November 14, 2018

George cofounds Checks and Balances, a group of right-leaning lawyers pledging to speak out for a government of laws, not men.

November 16, 2018

On a podcast, George calls the administration a shitshow in a dumpster fire. Asked how his wife sees his tweeting, George says, I dont think she likes it. But Ive told her I dont like the administration, so its even.

December 3, 2018

After a George tweet, Eric Trump tweets: . . . the utter disrespect George Conway shows toward his wife, her career, place of work, and everything she has fought SO hard to achieve, might top them all.

January 16, 2019

A day after a Trump tweet misspelled hamburger and Burger King responded with a joke, George tweets: Think of how much of a laughingstock a president has to become to have *Burger King* make fun of him. Sad.

March 18, 2019

George tweets a picture of the DSM-5.

Then: pics of the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.

Then: *all* Americans should be thinking seriously *now* about Trumpsmental condition and psychological state, including and especially the media, Congressand the Vice President and Cabinet.

Parscale tweets: We all know that @realDonaldTrump turned down Mr. Kellyanne Conway for a job he desperately wantedNow he hurts his wife because he is jealous of her success. POTUS doesnt even know him!

March 19, 2019

Trump retweet-replies: A total loser!

George retweets Trump: Tell us, @realDonaldTrump which of these diagnostic criteria do you not satisfy?

Parscale tweets: The rumor that Mr Kellyanne Conway introduced @KellyannePolls to @realDonaldTrump is a complete fabrication. . . . POTUS couldnt pick him out of a lineup.

George retweet-replies: LOL.

George gives a lengthy interview to the Post, dishing purported inside dope on Trump personnel decisions. (He says Trump told him hed nixed John Bolton for Secretary of State because of Boltons mustache.)

March 20, 2019

Trump tweets: George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wifes success & angry that I, with her help, didnt give him the job he so desperately wanted. I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!

George retweet-replies: You. Are. Nuts.

Kellyanne tells Politico: [Trump] left it alone for months out of respect for me. But you think he shouldnt respond when somebody, a non-medical professional, accuses him of having a mental disorder?

March 21, 2019

Responding to Fox Businesss Maria Bartiromo, Kellyanne says: I appreciate the President defending what he thinks is unfairness. . . . I was raised, though, in a household of strong Italian Catholic women who taught me that you air grievances like that in private. . . . I know George is quoted recently as saying, I wish she didnt work there. . . . But what message would that send to the feminists everywhere . . . ?

March 31, 2019

Chris Wallace of Fox News asks Kellyanne if George is jealous. She says: What I will tell you is that George was very supportive of President Trump. Cried on election night in his MAGA hat . . . . Wanted to take a job in the Trump administration and changed his mind.

April 18, 2019

Kellyanne addresses the Russia probe, now completed: This has been a political proctology exam, and [Trumps] emerging with a clean bill of health. George makes his own medical metaphor in a Post op-ed. Headline: TRUMP IS A CANCER ON THE PRESIDENCY. CONGRESS SHOULD REMOVE HIM.

April 28, 2019

On the Conways 18th wedding anniversary, George retweets political analyst Matthew DowdI am reminded of what Margaret Thatcher said Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you arent. George adds, Same with stable genius.

June 22, 2019

In the wake of E. Jean Carrolls allegation that Trump raped her, George writes an op-ed arguing that Carrolls claims are more credible than those of Juanita Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton in the 90s.

July 15, 2019

After Trump tweets that the minority congresswomen known as The Squad should go back to where they originally came from, George writes in an op-ed: Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president.

August 30, 2019

George contributes $5,600 to Republican Joe Walshs presidential campaign.

September 14, 2019

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Nothings done until its done, and thats always been true in Trump world and this is yet another of many examples, said a person close to the White House.

The DPC is a little-known but influential office within the White House. During Trumps tenure, various White House power centers have vied over installing allies to lead the council. The latest jockeying came after Joe Grogan, who had worked closely with departed acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, recently announced he would leave his position.

Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law and senior adviser, floated several people for the role, including both Lyons and Rollins. Newly installed chief of staff Mark Meadows floated his own name, Stephen Miller, an influential immigration policy aide. It was expected that the domestic policy chief would play a significant role in the presidents efforts to reopen the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.

From left, White House staff secretary Derek Lyons, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, and White House social media director Dan Scavino, walk on the South Lawn of the White House to join President Donald Trump aboard Marine One in Jan. 2020. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo

After several days of deliberations, it appeared Kushner and Meadows had selected Lyons to serve as acting DPC director for the rest of Trumps term, while continuing in his current role as White House staff secretary, a key official who manages document flow to the president.

POLITICO reported on May 6 that Lyons had been selected, citing four people familiar with the decision, including two White House officials. The next day, another White House official didnt dispute the appointment and provided a comment.

Derek is a loyal and highly respected member of the Trump White House who has worked to implement Donald Trumps policy agenda for three and a half years as staff secretary, the official said May 7.

But the decision apparently wasnt final. And the news of Lyons likely appointment frustrated some conservatives, given his former affiliation with Jeb Bushs 2016 presidential campaign.

Lyons, a lawyer and Harvard Law School grad, started his career as a law clerk to Brett Kavanaugh when the Supreme Court justice was still a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. He later worked on Capitol Hill.

But it was his time with Jeb Bushs campaign that made some conservatives suspicious. His affiliation with Kushner also raised some eyebrows, given that Trumps son-in-law has pushed for some more moderate policies, including business-friendly immigration changes that hardliners say are too lenient.

This is not what #AmericaFirst voters signed up for, tweeted conservative commentator Michelle Malkin May 6 using the hashtag #JaredKushnerIsNotMyPresident. Malkin described Lyons as someone who comes from Jeb Bushs Illegal Immigration Is An Act of Love wing of the GOP.

Trump has picked Derek Lyons as the head of the Domestic Policy Council...- hes a former Jeb! Person, tweeted Ryan Girdusky, a conservative writer and political consultant.

This past Friday, that White House official said Lyons was never officially offered the job. But others in the White House thought Lyons had the gig. They noted that on an internal White House deregulation policy call several days earlier, Rollins even congratulated Lyons on his reported new policy role, according to a White House official familiar with the call.

The first White House official said Meadows received praise internally about Lyons but some in the White House worried that criticism from influential conservative pundits, such as Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson of Fox News, would soon follow.

A senior White House official pushed back on conservative complaints about Lyons ideology, noting he has been directly involved in crafting, finalizing and executing the staunchest border security measures and most rigorous immigration control measures that we have put in place. Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who worked with Lyons in the White House during impeachment, called him "a true conservative" who has "an excellent relationship with the president."

In a statement Friday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany praised Lyons.

"Derek Lyons is an invaluable member of the White House and a highly impressive and respected colleague, she said. He has been elevated to one of the highest titles in the White House, and for good reason."

There was another problem that arose during deliberations: Meadows and Kushner had yet to have Trump sign off on Lyons appointment when the news broke, according to two White House officials.

The first White House official said Lyons and Rollins were finalists for the job, but the job ultimately went to Rollins in part because she would be able to appear on television as part of the public facing role of DPC director.

There was talk of [Lyons] doing both roles, but it was decided the roles shouldnt be combined, the official said.

By the end of this week, Rollins had been tapped to head the DPC in an acting capacity. The New York Times first reported Rollins appointment Thursday night. Rollins introduced herself as DPC director on at least two calls with White House staff Friday, according to two people. A formal announcement is expected Monday, according to the White House.

Brooke is really Jareds person. ... I think that played a big part in it, said one person close to the White House.

Rollins didnt respond to a request for comment. Lyons had no comment.

After the White House settled on Rollins to lead the DPC, Lyons was elevated to the title of counselor, making him one of the closest advisers to the president alongside Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway, who have similar titles, although Conway is senior counselor. The move was seen internally by some as a face-saving measure and by others as a Kushner attempt to diminish Conways status. But the White House said Lyons was promoted to give him an expanded role on policy issues.

"Derek does extraordinary work in his role as Staff Secretary," Meadows said in a statement. "Given his large portfolio, elevating him to Counselor to the President made the most sense. This is an expansive role that will put him in an additional advisory role to President Trump on a wide range of legal, policy, and strategic matters."

Rollins also serves as director of the Office of American Innovation, a Kushner-launched office that handles various policy issues. Rollins and two others in that office, JaRon Smith and Theo Wold, were similarly considered for the DPC job. All three worked with Kushner on criminal justice reform and his long-stalled push to overhaul the immigration system.

Rollins, Grogan said, is a committed conservative, shes a team player, shes very smart, not just on policy but also on communications. I dont know that theres a better choice.

Previously, Rollins served as president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a think tank based in Austin partly funded by the Koch Brothers, and as a top aide to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who went on to become Trumps first Energy secretary.

Kushner previously suggested Rollins for the DPC job in late 2018, before the job ultimately went to Grogan.

Rollins has more credibility with some conservatives than Lyons on a number of issues, such as fiscal policy. But not everyone was satisfied.

Picking the former leader of a faux nonpartisan research institute funded by corporations and billionaires like the Koch brothers speaks for itself, a conservative close to the White House said.

Meridith McGraw contributed to this report.

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Chattanooga Design Studio announces its next 2020 installment of CIVIQ: A Speaker Series Honoring Robert Taylor. CIVIQ is a free quarterly speaker series that showcases visionary practitioners in other cities to connect the Chattanooga community with national and international trends in urban design. COVID-19 has changed the way we interact, socialize, and learn from each other and as such, CIVIQ is adapting and moving online, said officials.

The two-part virtual CIVIQ event will be held Thursday. At 4 p.m. there will be a virtual networking Happy (Half) Hour featuring a cocktail class with Kaleena Goldsworthy-Warnock of The Bitter Bottle. This happy hour is followed by the main event, an interactive live webinar from 4:30-5:45 p.m., focusing on the challenges, opportunities, and creative resiliency that the community is faced with during COVID-19. Participants will hear from five members of the community that offer unique perspectives shedding light into how the public, personal, community, and civic health have been affected by this pandemic and how these leaders are finding ways to be creatively resilient during this time and in the future.

Ann Coulter will moderate the panel consisting of Dr. Michele Pickett, Dr. Greg Heath, Jermaine Freeman, and Michael Stone. A native Chattanoogan, Ms. Coulter is principal of A. Coulter Consulting with an extensive and reputable background in the urban planning and downtown redevelopment of Chattanooga. Dr. Michele Pickett is the founding physician and executive director of LifeSpring community Health, a faith-based community health organization that was founded to address the health care needs of uninsured children. Dr. Heath is Guerry Professor in the Public Health Program at UTC and serves on the Hamilton County COVID-19 Task Force. He also serves as an adjunct professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga. Dr. Heath was formerly a lead health scientist with the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mr. Freeman serves as deputy chief of staff for the city of Chattanooga. He was recently an economic development officer, and prior to that the civic engagement coordinator and holds an MBA from UTC and BA from Morehouse College. Mr. Stone currently serves as the director of Innovative Learning for the Public Education Foundation in Chattanooga. He played a central role in the development of the first Fab Lab in the state of Tennessee in 2014, and has since led an effort to open digital fabrication labs, dubbed Volkswagen eLabs, in 16 public schools in Hamilton County.

This event is free and open to the public, please register for the virtual Happy (Half) Hour and the Live Webinar via https://www.chattanoogastudio.com/civiq or Chattanooga Design Studios Facebook Events page.

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United States (US)President Donald Trump ordered the temporary suspension of all immigration to the US to protect American jobs for Americans hit by layoffs that have spiked to levels not seen since the Great Depression of 1929. It is now up to 26.4 million.

But look harder and you will find an unwavering determination of this administration or that of some senior staffers, even if not necessarily backed by Trump to curb, curtail or kill the H-1B short-term non-immigrant visa programme. This was started to enable US firms to hire foreigners, to make up for the shortage of highly-skilled workers locally. Also in the crosshairs is the other non-immigrant work visa, H-2B, for farmworkers.

Both are currently exempt from the 60-day suspension. And the reaction in the echo chamber has been instructive. Tucker Carlson, a Fox News anchor, while mentioning H-1B and H-2Bs, vented on air, Thats an awful lot of exceptions. Ann Coulter, a leading conservative columnist, added it to her list of disappointments with Trump. Breitbart News, which is extremely close to the Trump White House, griped that an earlier draft of the final order was much more expansive. Indeed, it was. Breitbart News later reported that the earlier draft proposed suspending non-immigrant work visas H-1B and H-2B. So, what happened? Who or what stopped the president?

Not clear, yet. No one was named. But there are clear factions in the White House on immigration. Senior adviser Stephen Miller is the leading hawk and is seen as the man behind every extreme order on immigration or action, from the Muslim travel ban and family separation to denying green cards to applicants who took government benefits. He has strong views against H-1B visa programme, and once named Indian companies that he suspected of gaming the H-1B programme. On the other side are the moderates, a small but perhaps the most powerful faction in this White House; the presidents son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump, who are both officially senior advisers to the president. It was not immediately known if this dynamic killed the draft.The US presidents own views on H-1B have been somewhat ambivalent. He has acknowledged using the programme in his businesses before becoming president, but has also contended that the programme has been abused and has ordered its reform to, among other things, conform to his overarching Buy American, Hire American vision. But a nip here and a tuck there will not satisfy critics of the programme, who are now using the coronavirus epidemic to call for expanded action.

The executive order signed by Trump provides for additional measures to deal with worsening unemployment; non-immigrant visas. H-1B, H-2B and other non-immigrant visas could find themselves stripped of their current exemption. There is an additional issue. Temporary suspensions are not always temporary the ban on travellers from certain Muslim-majority countries that was first ordered in January 2017 for 90 days remains in force three years hence, morphing through several iterations.

yashwant.raj@hindustantimes.com

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