Election 2020, ADVISORY

Here are today’s plans for coverage of Election 2020. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan. Find the AP’s latest coverage in our Election 2020 hub. All times are Eastern.

UPCOMING:

ELECTION 2020 -TRUMP: President Donald Trump tries to move past revelations that he was determined to play down the threat of the coronavirus as he heads for a rally in battleground Michigan. But the president faces growing pushback from state leaders concerned that Trump’s rallies that are growing in size and flouting public health guidelines. UPCOMING: 850 words, photos by 3 p.m. Will be updated with the president's remarks in Michigan at 7 p.m.

ELECTION 2020 -RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE: A whistleblower’s allegation that he was pressured to suppress intelligence about Russian election interference is one in a series of similar accounts from former Trump administration officials, underscoring lingering sensitivity within the White House about the Kremlin’s role in 2016 and raising questions about the willingness to acknowledge the seriousness of the threat this year. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos by 4 p.m.

ELECTION 2020 - WILDFIRES: For President Donald Trump, the historic wildfires ravaging Democratic strongholds on the West Coast are presenting another crisis at a time when he can ill afford one. For Joe Biden, the spreading fires are a reminder that he doesn’t support the Green New Deal, the grand plan tackling climate change, pushed by the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. That’s left both campaigns largely avoiding substantive talk about the unfolding catastrophe. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 6 p.m.

SENT/DEVELOPING:

TRUMP - WOODWARD BOOK: President Donald Trump is acknowledging he played down the projected impact of the coronavrius early this year and says he meant to avoid creating a panic. A new book by journalist Bob Woodward reveals that Trump told Woodward he had been warned in January that the virus had the potential to kill millions. Yet Trump reassured Americans publicly that the virus was “very well under control.” And now, Trump’s own words are redirecting attention to his handling of the pandemic less than two months before Election Day. SENT: 840 words, photos.

TRUMP -WOODWARD BOOK -GLANCE: Bob Woodward’s book also includes new details about the president’s comments on North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, racial unrest and a mysterious new weapon that Trump says other world powers don’t know about. SENT: 900 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020 - UKRAINE LAWMAKER: The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on a Russian-linked Ukrainian lawmaker for interfering in the upcoming U.S. presidential election by releasing edited audio recordings intended to denigrate Democrat Joe Biden. Those recordings have been promoted by President Donald Trump. The Treasury Department is citing Andrii Derkach and three others for election interference. It’s the second time in as many months that the administration has called out Derkach by name for his efforts to interfere in American politics. SENT: 400 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020 -SENATE -OFFSHORE DRILLING: President Donald Trump’s decision to extend a ban on offshore drilling could give a boost to Republican senators in tough reelection races. South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham and Georgia’s Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are all on the ballot in coastal states where drilling is widely opposed. SENT: 865 words, photos.

ELECTION 2020 - WISCONSIN: With less than two months to go until the election, the presidential race is squarely focused on Wisconsin and other battleground states that will likely determine the winner. Wisconsin Democrats are confident the lessons they learned when President Donald Trump won four years ago will ensure he doesn’t do it again. But Republicans say unrest following the police shooting in Kenosha, and Trump’s “law and order” message, will help him win over the crucial white suburban voters he needs to capture a second term. SENT: 820 words, photos. With ELECTION 2020-WISCONSIN ABSENTEES: The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered that no absentee ballots be mailed until it gives the go-ahead or makes any future ruling about who should be on the ballot in the battleground state. SENT; developing.

TRUMP-MAIL VOTING-NEVADA: Less than eight weeks before the Nov. 3 elections, President Donald Trump’s campaign is urging a federal judge in Las Vegas to block a new state law and prevent mail-in ballots from going to all active Nevada voters amid the coronavirus pandemic. SENT; developing.

JFK-FEARS-FOR-CHEERS: Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston have discovered a cache of letters objecting to JFK’s embrace of cocktails at the White House. Archivists say the letters shed new light on an era when sensibilities around drinking were starkly different than they are today. SENT: 530 words, photos.

AP VIDEO:

AP Video is covering the following campaign events today, with both online and broadcast edits planned: President Trump has campaign rally in Michigan at 7 p.m. Vice President Pence speaks at Virginia Military Institute at 2 p.m. Kamala Harris travels to Miami for a conversation with Black leaders in Miami at 3 p.m.

AP Video will also feature analysis by AP reporters on the day's campaign developments, including discussion of the new Bob Woodward book. Broadcast edits are expected by 4 p.m.

AP PHOTOS:

AP Photos is covering President Trump's evening rally in Michigan, Vice President Pence's afternoon speech at Virginia Military Institute and Kamala Harris' trip to Miami.