04/09/2020 05:14 CDT

DEATH COUNT DOWNGRADED AS VIRUS SPREAD SLOWS ACROSS AMERICA; BERNIE SANDERS DROPS OUT OF RACE; NBC NEWS SPREADS CHINESE PROPAGANDA

TODAY’S TOP TEN

DEATH PROJECTIONS TUMBLE AS VIRUS STARTS TO SLOW

MODELERS SHARPLY DOWNGRADE DEATH PROJECTION to 60,000 as virus spread flattens across America. National Review.

POLL SHOWS AMERICANS BLAMING CHINA, not politicians, for coronavirus pandemic. Legal Insurrection.

POMPEO ANNOUNCES U.S. WAS ABLE to bring home 50,000 Americans stuck abroad during virus crisis. The Daily Signal.

WHO WON’T REVEAL WHICH DOCTORS BLOCKED early danger warnings on virus. Daily Wire.

CONCEDING THE INEVITABLE, BERNIE SANDERS drops out of presidential race. Real Clear Politics.

NBC NEWS UNCRITICALLY SPREADS CHINESE coronavirus propaganda. Breitbart.

CRAZED HOWARD DEAN REFUSES TO APPEAR on MSNBC until they stop airing President Trump’s daily press briefings. Daily Caller.

NEW YORK TIMES DECEPTIVELY REPORTS that President Trump has “financial interest’ in hydroxychloroquine. Legal Insurrection.

MY PILLOW CEO MIKE LINDELL SAYS TWITTER is stifling his account. NewsBusters.

LAWSUIT CLAIMS 1.7 MILLION DEAD PEOPLE in New Mexico could get mail-in ballots. Breitbart.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• All mail vote: Great for lawyers, awful for election integrity. Adam Brandon.
• The three big questions nobody is answering. Ben Shapiro.
• The grand farce of social distancing. Michelle Malkin.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• CBS surprisingly honors Holy Week. Media Research Center.
• NY doctor says treatment method might be all wrong. Real Clear Politics.
• Michigan Democrat explains how hydroxychloroquine saved her life. Media Research Center.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• Separating fact and fiction about Pocahontas. Voice of America.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@RBPundit) So the new way American media is going to prove themselves to be the enemy of the people is to defend the World Health Organization which was parroting Chinese propaganda. Got it. Tweet.
• (@BuckSexton) We think of ourselves as a nation that will always hold power in check and resist overreaching government- Then milllions shrug their shoulders as the state shuts down parks and trails because there is an infinitesimal chance someone jogging 10 feet away might cough on you Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

• HAS PRESIDENT TRUMP SKILLFULLY BOXED Democrats into November oblivion by his virus framing? John Hinderaker.

DRUDGE LEAD AT TIME OF EMAIL 

• 100 DAYS; EMOTIONAL TOLL RISES; CUOMO WARNS 'NEW NORMAL’; FEDS PLAN DATABASE OF INFECTED;VIRUS SLAMS BLACK AMERICANS Drudge.