Coastal calamity Tropical Storm Isaias began

its move along F lorida and the Carolinas

before it charges up the rest of the Eastern

Seaboard from Virginia to Maine. A

Name change A D.C. neighborhood voted to

remove a plaque from a fountain that honors

a senator who was a white supremacist. B

STYLE

2020 e lection ads

The Lincoln Project’s plan

for preserving the Union:

Drive Trump out of office

by driving him nuts. C

Press pressures

With their visas in limbo,

journalists at Voice of

America worry they’ll be

thrown out of the U .S. C

In the News

THE NATION

Two weeks after Presi-

dent Trump vowed t o

deliver a plan to reshape

the nation’s health-care

system, there is no evi-

dence that a replace-

ment for the 2010 l aw

has been designed. A

The RNC said no final

decision has been made

on whether P resident

Trump’s renomination

will be held in private at

the GOP convention,

contradicting previous

reports that restrictions

on crowd size would

prevent the news media

from attending. A

THE WORLD

Mexican authorities

arrested José Antonio

Yépez Ortiz, one of the

country’s most wanted

criminals, who helped

transform one of the

most peaceful states

into the deadliest. A

THE REGION

The twin burdens of

pandemic and recession

are overwhelming the

philanthropic commu-

nity, which is s truggling

to meet demands for

a ssistance as i t faces

f inancial pressures. B

D.C. is scrambling t o

give food stamp recipi-

ents a way to recertify

online after the USDA

rejected extending a

waiver past August. B

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The Washington Post

Year 143, No. 242

BUSINESS NEWS.........................A

COMICS.........................................C

OPINION PAGES..........................A

LOTTERIES....................................B

OBITUARIES..................................B

TELEVISION...................................C

WORLD NEWS.............................A

BY STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN

IN CAIRO, GA.

It was Election Day in Grady

County, and Sheriff Harry Young,

76, had hardly slept three hours

the night before. He was going for

another term, his fifth, and as the

sun rose, he settled into his usual

voting-day spot under a white

tent by the county’s agriculture

center, trying to shake off a sink-

ing feeling that in a changing

country, his victory was no longer

secure.

“Good luck, Harry!” a woman

called out as she headed to vote in

the Republican primary, the win-

ner of which was likely to win the

general election in the GOP-domi-

nated county.

“Thank you, babe!” the sheriff

yelled back.

“Hey, Harry, we want you back

in there!” yelled a man passing by

in a truck.

“Well, this one is stressful!”

Harry shouted.

SEE SHERIFF ON A

The good ol’ sheri≠

A long-serving lawman faces a challenger who wonders, ‘Will they vote for a Black candidate?’

MARK WALLHEISER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Grady County Sheriff Harry Young inspects primary e lection returns posted at the local

newspaper in the southwest Georgia town of Cairo after his campaign for a f ifth term.

BY ANNIE LINSKEY

Presumptive Democratic nom-

inee Joe Biden has extended his

vice-presidential search by as

much as two weeks, intensifying

the jockeying and lobbying be-

tween allies of the women who

hope to join his White House.

Even some longtime Biden allies

worry the process has become

“messier than it should be,” pit-

ting women, especially Black

women, against one another.

The dynamic threatens to un-

dermine Biden’s effort to use the

vice-presidential search to spot-

light some of the party’s brightest

female stars during the highly

public vetting process. And it’s

already providing President

Trump’s campaign an opening to

dig up dirt and launch attacks on

potential rivals.

“It’s been relentless. It’s been

unfortunate. But I must say it’s

been predictable,” said Donna

Brazile, a former interim chair of

the Democratic National Com-

mittee. “It’s extremely disappoint-

SEE BIDEN ON A

Biden’s

delay on

VP stirs

worries

LOBBYING SHARPENS

AS PICK IS AWAITED

Attacks on candidates fuel

fears of party division

BY HEATHER KELLY

AND RACHEL LERMAN

san francisco — The Bay Area
was supposed to be exceptional.
It was one of the first metro
areas in the United States to fully
shut down to slow the spread of
the novel coronavirus. Nearly ev-
eryone wears masks, in stores and
on streets. Its progressive resi-
dents generally h ave been inclined
to follow the rules, and there’s a
high level of tru st in public health
officials, local governments and
the fast-changing science.
But now, more than four
months after the region put some
of the nation’s first shelter-in-
place orders in effect, the Bay Area
is experiencing a s urge in cases
and counties are rolling back re-
opening plans.
The Bay Area, which consists of
nine counties and nearly 8 million
people, is a cautionary tale for
government and health officials.
Even though leaders here tried to
do things carefully and by the
book, cases still eventually spiked
over a month and a half, to an
SEE SAN FRANCISCO ON A

Bay Area’s

virus strategy

worked —

until it didn’t

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER

Outside the Las Vegas Conven-

tion Center, Kayleigh McEnany

raised a microphone to a mega-

fan and asked what it felt like to

be acknowledged by President

Trump at his February rally in Sin

City.

At the time a spokeswoman for

Trump’s reelection campaign,

McEnany nodded as the support-

er said the shout-out was most

meaningful because of the words

on the shirt he was wearing,

which he read aloud: “Where we

go one, we go all,” the motto of

QAnon conspiracy theorists who

believe Trump is battling a cabal

of deep-state saboteurs who wor-

ship Satan and traffic children for

sex.

McEnany, who has since be-

come the White House press sec-

retary, continued, asking the sup-

porter, “If you could say one thing

to the president, what would you

say?”

“Who is Q?” he replied, inquir-

ing about the mysterious online

figure behind the baseless theory.

SEE TRUMP ON A

T rump, aides

lift extreme

QAnon group

from fringes

CORY HUSTON/NASA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

The SpaceX capsule splashes down in the calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of miles from Tropical Storm Isaias in the Atlantic.

BY CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT

AND JACOB BOGAGE

They’re home.

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken

and Doug Hurley completed a

fiery, high-speed journey back

from the International Space Sta-

tion on Sunday, splashing down

in calm Gulf of Mexico waters off

the coast of Pensacola, Fla., hun-

dreds of miles from a churning

Tropical Storm Isaias in the At-

lantic in a triumphal denoue-

ment to a historic mission.

It was the first time in the

59-year history of crewed Ameri-

can space travel that astronauts

had used the gulf as a landing

site, adding to other firsts that

marked a new chapter in NASA’s

human spaceflight program: the

first launch of American astro-

nauts to orbit from U.S. soil since

the space shuttle was retired in

2011 and the first launch into

orbit of humans on vehicles

owned and operated by a private

company.

“Today we really made history.

We are entering a new era of

human spaceflight,” NASA Ad-

ministrator Jim Bridenstine said

at a n ews conference after the two

astronauts emerged from the cap-

sule.

Gwynne Shotwell, president

and chief operating officer of

SpaceX, the private company that

engineered the flight, called it “an

extraordinary mission.”

“This is really just the begin-

ning,” she said. “We are starting

the journey of bringing people

regularly to and from low Earth

orbit, then onto the moon and

then ultimately onto Mars.”

For days, NASA and SpaceX

had kept a close eye on Isaias as it

developed from tropical storm to

hurricane and back again to trop-

ical storm. But they always held

the possibility of a gulf landing in

their pocket should the weather

in the Atlantic prove unfavorable.

SEE LANDING ON A

Triumphant end to a historic mission

In a first, SpaceX crew

uses G ulf of Mexico

a s a landing site

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BY CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON

In the public imagination, the
arrival of a coronavirus vaccine
looms large: It’s the neat Holly-
wood ending to the grim and
agonizing uncertainty of everyday
life in a pandemic.
But public health experts are
discussing among themselves a
new worry: that hopes for a vac-
cine may be soaring too high. The
confident depiction by politicians
and companies that a vaccine is
imminent and inevitable may give
people unrealistic beliefs about
how soon the world can return to
normal — and even spark resis-
tance to simple strategies that can
tamp down transmission and save
lives in the short term.
Two coronavirus vaccines en-
tered the final stages of human
testing last week, a scientific
speed record that prompted top
government health officials to ut-
ter words such as “historic” and
“astounding.” Pharmaceutical ex-
ecutives predicted to Congress in
July that vaccines might be avail-
able as soon as October, or before
the end of the year.
As the plotline advances, so do
expectations: If people can just
SEE VIRUS ON A

High hopes

for instant

vaccine fix

unrealistic

As shots for coronavirus

enter final testing stage,

normalcy may take years

‘New phase’: B irx urges caution as
cases and deaths rise sharply. A

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