Mitch McConnell
    
    
    The Cost To Save Our Democracy Is $4 Billion. McConnell Is Refusing To Pay It.      
  
    This chaos and voter suppression are entirely preventable. Secretaries of States and election officials should be doing everything in their power to expand mail-in voting, guarantee no-excuse absentee ballots, and expand early voting. And Congress should be providing them the resources to do so.  
  
  
    
    
    Where Things Stand: This Alleged ‘Double Standard’          
    This is your TPM early-afternoon briefing.  
  
      Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stood on the Senate floor this morning, nobly calling out the “double standard” he thinks is being applied to protests amid COVID-19.