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11:20 AM ET, July 16, 2020

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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Even if the Polls Are Really Off, Trump Is Still in Trouble  —  Joe Biden's lead is sufficient to cover a sizable error.  And several of the biggest problems with polling in the last election have either been addressed or become less relevant.  —  With Joe Biden claiming almost a double-digit lead …
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NBC News:
Trump has a 50 percent problem in the new NBC News/WSJ poll  —  WASHINGTON — One figure continually stands out for President Trump in our new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: 50 percent.  —  And not in a good way for him.  —  Fifty percent of all registered voters in our poll “strongly” disapprove of the president.
QU Poll:
Release Detail  —  July 15, 2020 - Biden Widens Lead Over Trump To 15 Points In Presidential Race, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Trump Job Approval Rating Drops To 36 Percent  —  As coronavirus cases surge and states rollback re-openings, former Vice President Joe Biden opens …
Vicky Prodeline / Polls:
Biden Leads But Many Anticipate Secret Trump Vote
Politico:
Trump team launches a sweeping loyalty test to shore up its defenses  —  In the middle of a devastating pandemic and a searing economic crisis, the White House has an urgent question for its colleagues across the administration: Are you loyal enough to President Donald Trump?
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Frantically Plots New Ways to Make Him Feel Good About Himself  —  From the campaign trail to combating coronavirus, the goal is to please the boss.  —  On Tuesday night, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro—whom Donald Trump affectionately calls “my Peter” …
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Trump's coronavirus team puts internal battles on public display
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and Poynter
Wall Street Journal:   Trump's Virus Non-Message
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Replaces Brad Parscale as Campaign Manager, Elevating Bill Stepien  —  The replacement of Mr. Parscale with Mr. Stepien, who had served as deputy campaign manager, comes as the president has struggled in public and private polling.  —  President Trump on Wednesday shook up his re-election team …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Replaces Campaign Manager
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Trump's new campaign manager joined 2016 bid amid similarly sinking battleground polling
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Axios
The Daily Beast:   Trump Campaign Chief Was Edged Out ‘Weeks Ago.’ Now He's Officially Demoted
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks  —  By Jeremy Redmon - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution J. Scott Trubey - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Willoughby Mariano - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  —  Georgia governor extends coronavirus restrictions while encouraging use of face masks
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:   Kemp's ban of mask mandates puts Georgia on collision course with its cities
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Republican convention in Jacksonville will be scaled back next month  —  The Republican Party will hold a scaled-back convention in Jacksonville, Fla., next month that includes a mix of outdoor and indoor venues, according to a letter sent to delegates.  —  The Thursday letter …
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:   RNC to restrict attendance at Florida convention amid coronavirus surge
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:   RNC restricts convention attendance as Florida coronavirus cases climb
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Party Preferences Have Swung Sharply Toward Democrats  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since January, Americans' party preferences have shifted dramatically in the Democratic Party's direction.  What had been a two-percentage-point Republican advantage in U.S. party identification and leaning …
Discussion: Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and UPI
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David Harsanyi / National Review:
Who Funds The Lincoln Project? Exactly Whom You Expect
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Twitter Is Removing Images of Internal Tool Sources Say Enables Account Takeover  —  After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground.  —  Joseph Cox  —  On Wednesday, a wave of high profile accounts including …
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  There is no mystery in the number of Americans dying from COVID-19.  —  Despite political leaders trivializing the pandemic …
Discussion: Progress Pond
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Mary Trump says the U.S. has devolved into a version of her ‘incredibly dysfunctional family’  —  Mary L. Trump, President's Trump's niece, said that watching the country's leadership devolve into “a macro version of my incredibly dysfunctional family” was one of the factors that compelled …
Associated Press:
UK, US, Canada accuse Russia of hacking virus vaccine trials  —  FILE - In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a subject receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine by Moderna for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus …
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BBC:
Coronavirus: Russian hackers target Covid-19 vaccine research
David Moye / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Poses With Goya Products One Day After Ivanka Tweets Support  —  Both pics may violate federal regulations that forbid government employees to use their positions, titles or authority to endorse products.  —  President Donald Trump may be setting himself for a new gig …
Discussion: CNN, TVNewser and The Hill
Politico:
Inspector general: Medicare chief broke rules on her publicity contracts  —  A top Trump administration health official violated federal contracting rules by steering millions of taxpayer dollars in contracts that ultimately benefited GOP-aligned communications consultants, according to an inspector general report released Thursday.
Discussion: Daily Kos
InStyle:
Dr. Fauci Says, “With All Due Modesty, I Think I'm Pretty Effective.”  —  Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife, Dr. Christine Grady, speak with CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell about a potential COVID-19 vaccine, working with the White House, and what life is like at home.
Discussion: Twitchy, Fox News, WHDH-TV and The Atlantic
Graham Kates / CBS News:
The Trump campaign app is tapping a “gold mine” of data about Americans  —  President Trump's campaign app is targeted to his most fervent supporters, but it is able to collect data about a swath of the American public far larger than his base.  —  The app requests access to significantly …
Discussion: Raw Story
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Weekly jobless claims rise by more than 1 million for 17th straight week  — Initial weekly jobless claims came in at 1.3 million for the week ending July 11.  — Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a print of 1.25 million.  — It was also the 17th straight week in which initial claims totaled at least 1 million.
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Is the Saudi Government Plotting Against Another U.S.-Based Critic?  —  In early May, officials with the C.I.A. reached out to Ali Soufan, a former F.B.I. agent who served as a lead investigator in the months before the September 11th attacks, to say they had learned that Al Qaeda militants were plotting against him.
Will Feuer / CNBC:
Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC  — Since the pandemic began, the CDC has regularly published data on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units across the country.  — But Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run …
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The NFL Is on the Brink  —  The league survived all sorts of crises in the past, yet they are in deep trouble like never before.  —  The National Football League celebrated its 100th anniversary last year.  This should be a time of self-congratulation for the brutal sport, which has no similar counterpart outside the United States.
Daniel Bergner / New York Times:
‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere.  But Does Antiracism Training Work?  —  Robin DiAngelo's best seller is giving white Americans a new way to talk about race.  Do those conversations actually serve the cause of equality?  —  To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Discussion: Althouse and The Federalist
Kelly McBride / NPR:
NPR Let The US Attorney General Tell A Falsehood On The Air  —  NPR's four-member “election security team” is responsible for covering all things about American voting, from access, to fraud to innovations and investments in the process.  It is one of the foundations of NPR's politics coverage.
Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Shootings Have Soared.  Is the N.Y.P.D. Pulling Back?  —  As shootings go unsolved, some elected officials think that officers are staging a slowdown.  But the department says it is stretched thin.  —  First, a gunman shot a 23-year-old man in the leg on Monday afternoon in eastern Brooklyn, then fled in a red sport-utility vehicle.
Washington Post:
Tens of thousands of mail ballots have been tossed out in this year's primaries.  What will happen in November?  —  More than 18,500 Floridians' ballots were not counted during the March presidential primary after many arrived by mail after the deadline.  —  In Nevada, about 6,700 ballots …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
GOPers Are Trying to Recruit QAnon Voters And Using This YouTube Show to Do It  —  Patriots' Soapbox is unlike any other Q-related program.  And it's begun attracting some actual political figures.  —  As she gathered support for what was then thought to be a long-shot primary bid against Rep. Scott Tipton …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Myth of Trump as a Centrist Dealmaker  —  From vaunted negotiator to feckless ideologue.  —  On a Sunday-morning talk show in December 2015, a rising politician had this to say about Senator Ted Cruz's campaign for president, “Look at the way he's dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there …
Discussion: Alternet.org
 
 
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Tami Luhby / CNN:
1.3 million Americans filed first-time unemployment claims last week
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Charlamagne tha God: Nick Cannon firing over anti-Semitic comments proves Jews ‘have the power’
Michael Miller / Washington Post:
A teen led a Black Lives Matter protest in his small town. A cross was burned in his yard.
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
A fight over nude swimming marks return of pre-coronavirus banalities in Europe
New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Pushes Cuomo to Back Billionaires' Tax
Discussion: The Hill
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Locking America Down Again Is Exactly What China Wants Because It Will Ruin Us
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
In Shadow of Pandemic, U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Resurge to Record
Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Congress edges toward deal to extend federal unemployment subsidy in coronavirus bill
Discussion: The Guardian and POLITICUSUSA
Emma L. Briant / Brookings:
We need tougher action against disinformation and propaganda
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
As Trump refuses to lead, America tries to save itself
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Ivanka Trump's ‘let them eat cake’ economics
Discussion: Raw Story
Roger Stone / The Daily Caller:
Adam Schiff Just Can't Stop Lying
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR Radio Ratings Collapse As Pandemic Ends Listeners' Commutes
 

 
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