Good morning. Protests have grown more volatile. New virus cases are stabilizing, at a high level. And Trump’s support among Black and Latino voters has not fallen. |
 | | A Trump supporter in Tulsa, Okla., last month.Leah Millis/Reuters |
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Since taking office, President Trump has lost support among most major demographic groups: women and men, older and younger voters, college graduates and non-graduates. But there are at least two big exceptions: Black and Latino voters. |
Trump will lose both groups badly in November, polls show. But his support among them has not slipped. If anything, it may have risen slightly. Close to 10 percent of Black voters and roughly 30 percent of Latinos back Trump. |
What explains it? Most political analysts admit they aren’t sure. “I don’t think there are obvious answers,” Shor said. |
But there are some plausible theories. |
Republican support among voters of color (including Asian-Americans) fell in the years before Trump entered politics. Many were turned off by the Republican Party’s racial appeals to white voters — anti-immigrant rhetoric, embrace of the Confederate flag, lies about Barack Obama and attempts to restrict voting access. |
“Latino support for Trump was already at historic lows,” Gary Segura, dean of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at U.C.L.A. and co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions, told me. “There’s just not that much room for them to move down.” |
These Republican voters of color may instead be focused on other issues. Black and Latino voters are somewhat more conservative on abortion than white voters, for instance. Some voters of color also favor a reduction in immigration. Others don’t like political correctness. Shor points out that a big slice of working-class voters in many countries — across races — prefer the right-leaning party. |
Mark Hugo Lopez of the Pew Research Center notes that Latinos are a diverse group. In focus groups in Florida, Lopez has seen Dominican- and Cuban-Americans react to Trump’s harsh comments about Mexican immigrants with lines like, “That’s unfortunate but not necessarily me.” |
Finally, some analysts say that Joe Biden and other Democrats haven’t given voters of color enough reason to support the party. “Dems need to give them something to vote for, not simply against,” Cornell Belcher, a Democratic strategist, told me. |
1. Portland ignites more protests |
Protests across the U.S. grew more volatile over the weekend, spurred by the presence of federal agents in Portland, Ore. In Seattle, protesters smashed windows and set fires, and the police responded with flash grenades and pepper spray. |
“I’m furious that Oakland may have played right into Donald Trump’s twisted campaign strategy,” said Libby Schaaf, the mayor of Oakland, Calif. “Images of a vandalized downtown is exactly what he wants to whip up his base and to potentially justify sending in federal troops that will only incite more unrest.” |
In Austin, Texas: A demonstrator carrying a rifle was shot and killed on Saturday by a motorist who had threatened protesters with his car, the authorities said. |
The number of new U.S. coronavirus cases has stabilized over the past week, after having risen for the previous month. The current level — about 66,000 new cases a day — remains far higher than in virtually any other large, high-income country. |
But the stabilization suggests that more Americans may again be starting to take steps to slow the virus’s spread, including wearing masks and avoiding indoor activities. |
3. Arrest in Russia sparks an uprising |
 | | A rally in Khabarovsk, Russia, on Saturday.Igor Volkov/Associated Press |
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Tens of thousands of people marched in the remote Russian city of Khabarovsk for the third straight weekend, rallying in a rare public display of defiance against President Vladimir Putin. The protests flared after the arrest of the territory’s popular governor this month, which critics viewed as an effort by Moscow to target a political rival. |
Putin remains broadly popular in Russia. But his approval rating has been falling amid public disenchantment with corruption, stifled freedoms and the pandemic’s economic pain. |
Here’s what else is happening |
 | | Timothy Ivy for The New York Times |
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- A horse-drawn carriage carried the body of Representative John Lewis across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on Sunday — the same bridge where state troopers attacked him and other civil rights protesters in 1965. Lewis will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol starting this afternoon.
- Lexington, Va. — the burial place of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and a city awash in Confederate iconography — is now delicately reassessing its identity.
- Times reporters have reconstructed the life of Roy Den Hollander, a man known for his frivolous lawsuits and hatred of women. Officials say he murdered two people recently.
- Lives Lived: Olivia de Havilland was one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s fabled Golden Age, earning an Oscar nomination for her role in “Gone With the Wind.” She and Errol Flynn were such a popular onscreen couple that rumors flew of an on-set romance. She died on Sunday at age 104.
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| IDEA OF THE DAY: MARGARET SANGER |
Abortion-rights advocates have long claimed Margaret Sanger — who opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. — as a hero. Abortion opponents have long argued that Sanger’s advocacy for eugenics — limiting child birth among the poor, disabled and others — was a precursor to abortion. |
Anti-abortion writers argue that Planned Parenthood’s leaders have effectively acknowledged the connection between abortion and racism. “This does not excuse their continued perpetuation of her legacy through their insidious practice of targeting the most vulnerable, especially poor women and women of color (both of whose populations so often intersect), by locating the vast majority of Planned Parenthood clinics within walking distance of nonwhite neighborhoods,” Serrin Foster and Damian Geminder write in America, a Jesuit publication. |
The Times’s Ross Douthat cites the writing of both Ibram X. Kendi and Justice Clarence Thomas to argue that abortion fails the test of anti-racism. |
“You can convince me that structural racism, poverty, lack of opportunity, expensive child care, wage inequality and any number of social ills make abortion more necessary, but the sin lies with our society, not Planned Parenthood. If we want to reduce abortion, and want to argue that racism is an inherent part of abortion, we need to reduce the demand, not the supply.” |
Roxane Gay has previously written in The Times that Sanger “freed women from indenture to their bodies.” |
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It’s an adaptation of asaro, the Yoruba word for starchy root vegetables simmered in a tomato and chile sauce. Regional variations of the dish are staples in southern Nigeria and other parts of West Africa. Though the stew is traditionally made with West African yam, you can use unripe plantains or taro root. |
Taylor Swift, indie rocker? |
On Friday, the pop star Taylor Swift released her surprise new album “Folklore,” made entirely during quarantine. Swift, who has transitioned from country music to pop music with ’80s rock and hip-hop influences, is no stranger to trying on new genres. |
Still, this album, which she recorded in collaboration with a member of the indie rock band the National, marks a notable departure from her usual “high-gloss, style-fluid, emotionally astute big-tent pop,” writes Jon Caramanica, The Times’s pop music critic. He calls it “alternately soothing and soppy.” Read the review here. |
 | | Players from the New York Liberty and the Seattle Storm before the first game of the W.N.B.A. season on Saturday.Phelan M. Ebenhack/Associated Press |
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Two top-tier sports — the W.N.B.A. and Major League Baseball — have started their 2020 regular season, and nearly everything about their surroundings is different, including the television broadcasts. Televised sports during a pandemic typically involve fewer cameras and no on-site announcers. |
And television workers are worried, as The Times’s Kevin Draper explains. They fear that the changes “will become permanent and lead to a loss of jobs.” The next several months will become a test of what a future with fewer announcers and more robotic cameras may look like. |
The N.B.A. returns: The men’s basketball season resumes on Thursday, and The Times’s Marc Stein has taken up residence in Disney World to cover it. Two players have already been ordered to quarantine for violating the rules of the N.B.A. bubble. |
Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David |
Ian Prasad Philbrick and Sanam Yar contributed to The Morning. You can reach the team at themorning@nytimes.com. |
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