⁍ The United States registered its highest number of new COVID-19 cases – about 84,000 on Friday and about 79,900 on Saturday.

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⁍ White House cited Pence’s status as an ‘essential worker’ as justification for his campaign travel.

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⁍ Pence is scheduled to address rallies in Kinston, North Carolina, later on Sunday and in Hibbing, Minnesota, on Monday.

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– White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says President Trump is “not going to control” the deadly coronavirus that has spread through the White House and beyond. “We’re not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics, and other mitigation areas,” Meadows told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, per Reuters. He says Trump will continue to campaign despite the fact that aides including his chief of staff, Marc Short, have tested positive for the virus. “This wasn’t a slip by Meadows, it was a candid acknowledgement of what President Trump’s strategy has clearly been from the beginning of this crisis: to wave the white flag of defeat and hope that by ignoring it, the virus would simply go away,” says Joe Biden, who’s running mate Kamala Harris’ running mate. “It hasn’t, and it won’t.” Trump, meanwhile, told a rally in New Hampshire on Sunday that “we are coming around, we’re rounding the turn, we have the vaccines, we have everything. Even without the vaccines, we’re rounding the turn. It’s going to be over. And you know who got it? I did. Can you believe it?” (The virus has killed 225,000 people in the US so far.)