| Welcome to The Hill’s Campaign Report, your daily rundown on all the latest news in the 2020 presidential, Senate and House races. Did someone forward this to you? Click here to subscribe. We’re Julia Manchester, Max Greenwood and Jonathan Easley. Here’s what we’re watching today on the campaign trail.  LEADING THE DAY: JUNETEENTH Political candidates and lawmakers marked Juneteenth on Friday with calls to make the day, which commemorates the ending of slavery in the U.S., a national holiday. “Making Juneteenth a national holiday would help force that desperately needed reckoning with our past—a day to confront the legacy of slavery and white supremacy in the United States,” New York congressional candidate Jamaal Bowman wrote in The Nation. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, a Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris (Calf.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Tina Smith (Minn.) and Ed Markey (Mass.) are planning to introduce a measure that would make the day a national holiday. Republican Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) is also slated to introduce legislation making it a national holiday. The holiday, which is recognized in all but three states, marks the day in 1865 when Union Gen. Gordon Granger announced in Galveston, Texas, that all slaves in the state were free. Texas was the last state where the Emancipation Proclamation, signed after the Civil War, was enforced. Juneteenth has received more attention this year amid the nationwide protests and discussions over racial injustices in the U.S. President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden both acknowledged the significance of the day on Friday. “Today, we join America in honoring Juneteenth, the day reserved for recognizing the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1865,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said in a statement. “While even today our nation continues to work towards healing from this legacy of the past, we look ahead with optimism that there is far more that unites us in America than divides us.” Biden marked the holiday with an op-ed on Essence.com, drawing on the protests stemming from the killing of unarmed black Americans including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. “Their deaths call us to come face to face not only with overt acts of violence, but with subtler realities that strike at the dignity of Black Americans every day,” Biden wrote, referencing racial disparities in housing, credit, and health care. “Black Americans carry this weight. But all Americans have the responsibility to act. I believe that the moral obligation of our time is to rebuild America in a way that finally delivers the full share of equality, opportunity, and dignity due to every American,” he continued. Juneteenth comes just one day before Trump is set to hold his first rally since the coronavirus pandemic in Tulsa, Okla. The president changed the date of the rally to fall on June 20 instead of June 19 after he received backlash for holding it on Juneteenth in Tulsa — the site of one of the most deadly incidents of anti-black violence in 1921. Trump warned on Friday that protesters and looters at the event would be treated harshly. “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Trump tweeted Friday. “It will be a much different scene!” --Julia Manchester READ MORE: Christian Cooper, bird watcher who had the police called on him, endorses Biden, by: The Hill's Tal Axelrod Biden leads Trump by 11 points nationally: poll by: The Hill's Marty Johnson Jamaal Bowman calls for Juneteenth to be made a holiday by: Julia Biden says rooting out systemic racism is 'moral obligation of our time' by: Julia
FROM THE TRAIL: Joe Biden hasn’t held a press conference in 77 days, but Democrats aren’t feeling much pressure to put their presumptive presidential nominee front and center at the moment. Biden has, for the most part, kept a low profile throughout the coronavirus pandemic and weeks of demonstrations for racial justice across the country. Over that time, Biden has built up a healthy lead in the polls and has emerged as the heavy favorite for now to be the next president. The Hill's Jonathan Easley and Amie Parnes report. Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) is coming under intense scrutiny from progressives over her record as Orlando police chief a decade ago, posing a potential hurdle to her prospects of becoming Joe Biden's running mate. Julia reports from Orlando, along with The Hill's Scot Wong in Washington. Meanwhile, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has taken herself out of the running to be Biden’s running mate, saying that it is important for him in this moment to pick a woman of color. Looking ahead to the fall debates — the Biden campaign is rejecting the Trump campaign’s sudden push for more presidential debates, saying they will not “ride the roller coaster of the ever-changing Trump campaign position on debates." The Hill's Zach Budryk reports. PERSPECTIVES: Ronald Brownstein: The rage unifying Boomers and Gen Z. Erick Erickson: Break up Google. Matt Taibbi: Why policing is broken. CONGRESS & STATES: Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat seeking to unseat Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R), is hoping his background as a pastor and civil rights activist will appeal to voters in a time of mass uncertainty and unrest over a historic pandemic, systemic racism and police brutality. Tal reports. POLL WATCH: DEMOCRACY FUND + UCLA NATIONSCAPE PROJECT – PRESIDENTIAL Biden: 50% Trump: 39% SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE – NEW HAMPSHIRE PRESIDENTIAL Biden: 49% Trump: 42%
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: June 23: Kentucky primaries New York primaries Virginia primaries Mississippi primary runoffs North Carolina primary runoffs South Carolina primary runoffs June 30: Colorado primaries Oklahoma primaries Utah primaries July 7: New Jersey primaries Delaware primaries July 11: Louisiana primaries July 14: Alabama primary runoffs Texas primary runoffs Maine primaries Aug. 4: Arizona primaries Kansas primaries Michigan primaries Missouri primaries Washington primaries Aug. 11: Connecticut primaries Minnesota primaries Vermont primaries Wisconsin primaries Georgia primary runoffs Aug. 18: Alaska primaries Florida primaries Wyoming primaries Aug. 17-20: Democratic National Convention Aug. 24-27: Republican National Convention Sept. 1: Massachusetts primaries Sept. 8: New Hampshire primaries Rhode Island primaries Sept. 15: Delaware primaries Sept. 29: First presidential debate Oct. 7: Vice presidential debate Oct. 15: Second presidential debate Oct. 22: Third presidential debate | 
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