7. Tuberville has faced higher pressure situations

• U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) spoke to the Madison County Republican Men’s Club and voiced his support for former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville in the U.S. Senate race, saying that “in the United States Senate, it’s not going to be the biggest pressure position he’s been in.”
• Gaetz also said how he thinks Tuberville will remain the same person after being elected. He went on to talk about Alabama having a Democrat senator in U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), saying, “I never thought I would see that after the state went red. So you guys — you’ve got to get that together. I’m counting on it.”

6. Birmingham news anchors accused of racism

• Maxwell Pearce, a member of the Harlem Globetrotters, has released a video where he discusses an appearance he had on WBRC’s “Good Day Alabama” program where anchor Clare Huddleston and weather forecaster Mickey Ferguson threw tangerines and a banana at Pearce while he was performing a trick. 
• In Pearce’s video, he says, “Throwing a banana at a black man and passing it off as entertainment displays an unacceptable lack of awareness, and quite frankly I’m having a very difficult time understanding how someone could work in the media field and not know this is offensive.” He added that even if it was unintentional it still causes damage. 

5. Gun sales spike after Portland protests

• Gun shop owners in Alabama have reported heightened sales since some of the Portland protests and riots. Monte Caylor, who owns an ammunition manufacturing shop, said his shop has been “absolutely overwhelmed,” added, “It’s the social breakdown. It’s the anarchists.”
• In Vestavia Hills, Joe Phillips sells firearms, and he’s said that customers have shared concerns over the images out of Portland. He compared the sales of firearms to that of toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic and added that people believe “if Trump is re-elected that the left will incite riots across Democratic run cities, and if Trump does not win, they are worried about their Second Amendment rights for sure being taken away.”

4. DNC to start Monday — Alabama will be on the stage

• Today, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention, along with 16 other keynote speakers. Woodfin has said that he’s “honored and humbled” to be speaking. 
• Former Georgia House of Representatives Minority Leader Stacy Abrams will also be joining Woodfin. Later in the day, U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) will be speaking.

3. Somehow the post office is now a campaign issue

• Be it ignorance or blatant dishonesty, the media and their Democrats have decided to take a President Donald Trump negotiating ploy and turn it into the next battle for America’s soul for the revered institution known as the United States Postal Service, which according to the Democrat politicians is not only the most important government agency but it is also the most beloved of all time.
• The crux of the issue is pretty clear. Democrats want more money for a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy and a manufactured moral panic over a major change to how voting is done in this country less than 90 days before an election, which the media is prepared to deliver with no clear reason to do so.

2. Alabama sees school close

• Due to concerns over the coronavirus, Elkmont High School will close for all of this week after four students have tested positive and another 40 have been quarantined. This is the first school in the state to close after reopening but a similar scenario is playing out across the nation. 
• Nearly half of the students being quarantined are from the football team. Principal Elizabeth Cantrell said, “We will be re-evaluating the situation at the conclusion of this week and we will be taking extra care to clean and sanitize the school this week as well.”

1. Universities see students but not a lot of social distancing

• Journalists, football players, Alabama’s athletics director and even head coach Nick Saban’s daughter have taken to social media to lament the lack of social distancing that is being seen near and on college campuses around the state, even after the early reports of extremely low positive rates from the early return of students being tested.
• Tuscaloosa’s Mayor Walt Maddox took to Twitter to scold the city’s student-residents and warn that mask enforcement is coming, saying, “@TuscaloosaPD and @T_Town_Fire are coming in early and will be actively enforcing. It’s a damn shame that our officers who are stretched thin across the City and who are working to exhaustion can’t have a few hours of down time.”