memeorandum: Dr. Fauci Says, “With All Due Modesty, I Think I'm Pretty Effective.” (InStyle)

1:40 AM ET, July 16, 2020

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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 …

Discussion: Spectator USA, Axios, The Sun, HillReporter.com, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and UPI

CNN:

Trump shakes up campaign leadership as he struggles in latest polls — (CNN)President Donald Trump shook up his campaign leadership on Tuesday, announcing he was promoting Bill Stepien to be his campaign manager and demoting Brad Parscale, who had been serving in that role.

Discussion: Alternet.org and Politico

Washington Post:

Trump replaces campaign manager as polls show him trailing Biden in presidential race — President Trump announced Wednesday night that he is replacing campaign manager Brad Parscale with longtime political aide Bill Stepien as national and swing state polls show him falling further behind …

Discussion: Reuters, Associated Press, The Week, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill

Wall Street Journal:

Trump Replaces Campaign Manager — The president said Bill Stepien, a longtime aide, will succeed Brad Parscale, who remains as a senior adviser — WASHINGTON—President Trump announced on Wednesday that he is replacing his campaign manager less than four months before the November election …

The Daily Beast: Trump Campaign Chief Was Edged Out ‘Weeks Ago.’ Now He's Officially Demoted

Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Rose Parade canceled for first time since World War II due to coronavirus

Discussion: Deadline and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »

Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:

Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President — Anthony Fauci isn't about to quit, despite the White House's clumsy attempts to stain his public image. More so now than at any other point in their uneasy partnership, it seems that if President Donald Trump wants to be rid of Fauci, he'll need to fire him.

Politico:

Hundreds of Trump appointees face a preelection test — Political appointees across the Trump administration are being subjected to unusual interviews to gauge their support for the president. — Johnny McEntee (left), seen here with Dan Scavino, was installed earlier this year as the chief of the White House's personnel office.

NBC News:
White House officials sent document to Pentagon criticizing Vindman after impeachment testimony

Discussion: The Hill, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Roger Stone says McCarthy, Stefanik advocated against preelection clemency

Discussion: Raw Story

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The bill is coming due for those who sold their souls to Trump

Discussion: Raw Story and CNN

Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Ivanka Trump defends Goya post that watchdogs call unethical

Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart

Meg Cunningham / ABC News:
White House attempts to discredit Fauci ‘absolutely outrageous’: Gov. Larry Hogan

Discussion: Reuters and Washington Post

Los Angeles Times:
With Trump, invective obscures his policy messages

Discussion: Informed Comment, Patterico's Pontifications, Bloomberg, Talking Points Memo, IJR and The Daily Caller

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 …

Discussion: The Hill, Fox News, NBC News, Axios, Washington Post, Breitbart, Raw Story, The American Independent, Politico, CNBC, POLITICUSUSA, HillReporter.com, Mediaite, courthousenews.com, The Week and Washington Times

Monmouth University Polling Institute:

Biden Leads But Many Anticipate Secret Trump Vote — Democrat strong in swing counties; close House ballot — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden holds a 13 point lead over Donald Trump among all registered voters in Pennsylvania according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.

Discussion: Mediaite, Politico, Washington Post, courthousenews.com, WHTM-TV, Breitbart, Washington Times, Fox News, POLITICUSUSA and CBS Pittsburgh

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Biden opens up 11-point national lead over Trump in NBC News/WSJ poll — WASHINGTON — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden holds a double-digit lead nationally over President Donald Trump, with 7 in 10 voters saying the country is on the wrong track, and majorities disapproving …

Discussion: Associated Press, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Post, One America News Network, The Hill, Politico and The Week

Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Expands Lead as Trump's Approval Drops

Discussion: New York Post

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 …

Discussion: The Verge, Big League Politics, Deadline, Mediaite, Wired, KSLTV.com, The Daily Caller and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

NBC News:

Biden, Gates, Musk: Bitcoin scam breaches some of world's most prominent Twitter accounts — The Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Elon Musk and many other high-profile people and companies became pawns Wednesday in one of the most visible cyberscams in the internet's history.

Discussion: One America News Network, UPI, The Daily Caller, MSNBC and Reuters

New York Times:
Twitter Accounts for Biden, Gates, Musk and Others Are Hacked

Discussion: National Review and Variety

Nick Statt / The Verge:
Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Apple, and others hacked in unprecedented Twitter attack

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Wrap, WHDH-TV, The Drive, Observer, The Daily Beast, HillReporter.com and The Gateway Pundit, more at Techmeme »

Politico:
Massive hack roils Twitter after seizing accounts of Obama, Biden and others

Discussion: MIT Technology Review, WHTM-TV, NBC News and Fox News, more at Techmeme »

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

WAGA-TV:

Local mask mandates ‘suspended’ by Gov. Kemp's executive order — Atlanta mayor defends decision to roll back city to Phase 1, mask mandate — ATLANTA - Governor Brian Kemp is overruling local governments that have issued mandatory mask laws in a new executive over issued Wednesday.

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:

A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming — There was always a logical explanation for why cases rose through the end of June while deaths did not. … There is no mystery in the number of Americans dying from COVID-19. — Despite political leaders trivializing the pandemic …

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: Fox News

George Will / Washington Post:

The nation is in a downward spiral. Worse is still to come. — Because of his incontinent use of it, the rhetorical mustard that the president slathers on every subject has lost its tang. The entertainer has become a bore, and foretelling his defeat no longer involves peering into a distant future …

Discussion: Mediaite

Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:

Kanye West Is Officially on the Ballot in Oklahoma — Ye's running. — Kanye West is officially on the ballot as a presidential candidate in the state of Oklahoma. Only hours after the rapper filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission, he formally entered the presidential campaign.

Discussion: SPIN, Rolling Stone, Mediaite and Fox News

Tulsa World:

Kevin Stitt ‘pretty shocked’ to be first governor to test positive for COVID-19 … OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt has tested positive for COVID-19, he confirmed Wednesday. — The news comes after the state recently reopened but is seeing record spikes in cases.

Discussion: Washington Post, IJR, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Associated Press, Fox News and NPR

CNN:
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announces he has tested positive for coronavirus

Discussion: Redstate and The Week

Washington Post:

Hospital officials, experts say new federal rules for covid-19 reporting will add burdens during pandemic — Trump administration officials say the system will allow them to deliver medicines and personal protective equipment faster and more efficiently — State health leaders …

idsociety.org:
Response from IDSA President to New COVID-19 Data Reporting Protocol

Discussion: ABC News

abc7NY:

NYPD Chief Monahan among injured in NYC protests; dozens arrested — LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) — Protests turned violent on Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and left nearly 40 people arrested and one of the NYPD's top cops covered in blood. — Police intended to keep two groups of protesters separate …

Discussion: CBS New York, KSLTV.com, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, New York Post and Twitchy

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 …

Discussion: Associated Press

David Folkenflik / NPR:

NPR Radio Ratings Collapse As Pandemic Ends Listeners' Commutes — Broadcast ratings for nearly all of NPR's radio shows took a steep dive in major markets this spring, as the coronavirus pandemic kept many Americans from commuting to work and school. The network's shows lost roughly …

Damon Linker / The Week:

The ‘Flight 93’ election has ended in disaster — Easily the most influential pro-Trump essay of the 2016 election cycle was “The Flight 93 Election” by the pseudonymous author Publius Decius Mus (later revealed to be author Michael Anton, who went on to serve on Donald Trump's national security council …

Discussion: Washington Post

Deevon Rahming / KARE-TV:

Minneapolis park board will vote to repeal nudity ordinance — On Wednesday, the park board will take its first of three votes needed to repeal the ordinance with a final reading and vote set for mid August. — MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis park nudity ordinance is turning heads, and you might see some changes.

Discussion: Power Line, Redstate, The Daily Caller and Twitchy

Michael Powell / New York Times:

How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets — The outcry over free speech and race takes aim at Steven Pinker, the best-selling author and well-known scholar. — Steven Pinker occupies a role that is rare in American life: the celebrity intellectual.

USA Today:

In historic move, North Carolina city approves reparations for Black residents — ASHEVILLE, N.C. - In an extraordinary move, the Asheville City Council has apologized for the North Carolina city's historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of basic liberties to Black residents …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Todd Starnes, ABC News and Fox News

Jon Miltimore / Foundation for Economic Education:

Why Sweden Succeeded in “Flattening the Curve” and New York Failed — Coronavirus deaths have slowed to a crawl in Sweden. With the exception of a single death on July 13, no deaths in this nation of 10 million have been reported since July 10. — But the debate over Sweden's approach …

Discussion: STAT

David Harsanyi / National Review:

Who Funds The Lincoln Project? Exactly Whom You Expect — If The Lincoln Project was exclusively campaigning against Donald Trump, one might be tempted to believe it wasn't merely an arm of the Democratic Party. If one of its co-founders, John Weaver, hadn't been registered …

Discussion: Power Line, The Hill and Townhall

Tyler Bridges / The Advocate:

Democrats still looking for a big-name candidate to challenge Sen. Bill Cassidy's reelection bid — With control of the U.S. Senate in play, high-profile Democrats are challenging Republican incumbents running for re-election in state after state this year. — But not in Louisiana - at least not so far anyway.

Mark Osler / The Appeal:

THE ROGER STONE COMMUTATION WAS BAD. CONGRESS SHOULDN'T MAKE THINGS WORSE. — Democrats in Congress must still their impulse to legislate restrictions on clemency. Not only would such a law be unconstitutional, but it may deter future presidents from using clemency the way that the framers intended.