Situational awareness – July 2, 2020

Good morning from Salt Lake City

Let’s Thursday!


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124 Days to the 2020 election (11/3/2020)

202 days to inauguration day (01/20/2021)

207 days to the start of the 2021 Utah Legislature (1/25/2021)


Here are the stories you need to pay attention to this morning:

  • Spencer Cox maintains his lead over Jon Huntsman, but there are more than 111,000 votes left to be counted.
  • President Trump called reports that Russia was offering bounties for the killing of U.S. soldiers a “hoax.”
  • The U.S. reported more than 50,000 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday.

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