Because President Donald Trump is overwhelmingly popular with his base, finding someone to challenge him in the 2020 election has been a persistent preoccupation for a group of ‘Never Trumpers’ in the GOP. But the president now has one challenger — William F. Weld, the two-term Republican governor of Massachusetts more than two decades ago — and a handful of dissident Republicans who think they know how to defeat Trump in a primary contest. [NYTimes]
Topping the news: Critics are attacking the appointment of 15 people to serve on an advisory committee that will oversee the management of San Juan County’s 200,000-acre reserve as one-sided and unevenly representing interests contradictory to the ongoing preservation of the Bear Ears area.