At a Minnesota rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump today, Reuters Politics photographed one Trump supporter wearing a pretty provocative T-shirt.
I am pretty sure Donald Trump didn’t see this shirt, he would have brought the guy onstage and congratulated him on his outfit.
From Trump rally in Minnesota today, via @ReutersPolitics pic.twitter.com/a7CdYT1UCi
— Breanne Deppisch (@breanne_dep) November 6, 2016
President Obama laid out a simple truth today while doing his final campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Revealing that Donald Trump’s campaign advisers took away Trump’s twitter account over the weekend, the President asked;
“If your closest advisers don’t trust him to tweet, how can we trust him with the Nuclear codes?”
I haven’t heard it said so clearly before. Can you imagine?
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.@POTUS on @realDonaldTrump: “If your closest advisers don’t trust you to tweet, then how can we trust him with the nuclear codes?” pic.twitter.com/z7KQaKGZLP
— POLITICO (@politico) November 7, 2016
What, really, is there to say? We have come to the end of a truly unique and disturbing Presidential election, and in the end, most people will reject Donald Trump’s twisted view of America and his repeated assertion that only he can fix our problems. Yes, I know that many on the left, and some on the right, are rightly appalled that he stayed so close in the race through November. Why isn’t Hillary Clinton trouncing him in the polls? What’s wrong with the Republican Party? Where’s the outrage?
The honest truth is that it was always going to be far more difficult electing a woman to the presidency. Overt sexism is alive and very well in the United States, and, more specifically, at Harvard University, and while I can’t say that it’s more or less virulent than racism, it does seem to manifest itself on a broader level in society. More people, it seems, see racism and treatment of African-Americans as more unjust, more obnoxious and more unfair than our historic treatment of women, and I think it’s because mistreatment of women cuts across all ethnic and racial groups. Seeing women as second class citizens and/or as sex objects is still a cultural norm.
That Hillary Clinton will likely become the first female president will be a significant milestone in the country’s development. She will have overcome an opponent who represents the worst of America and who reminds us that we are not a nation that wants to turn the clock back to a time when it was fine to refer to woman as inferior or to question someone’s judgement because of their ethnicity. Three debates and countless news stories have shown that Donald Trump is not the kind of person most people want to lead our country. It will be close. In the end, it won’t matter. Hillary will be the president and she will have the power of the office.
It will then be up to the Republicans to decide whether they want the country to move forward. Will they make good on their promise to block any Supreme Court nominee that Clinton send them? Will they threaten to shut down the government? Will they refuse to compromise on tax reform, immigration reform and background checks? We cannot afford four more years of one party believe that the other party’s presidents are somehow illegitimate. It’s time to move forward.
Make sure you get out and vote on Tuesday.
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While campaigning for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina on Friday, President Obama defended a Trump supporter who tried to disrupt the president’s speech. Naturally, the crowd tried to shout down the lost Trump soul, but the president stood up for the man.
“Everybody sit down and be quiet for a second,” Obama said. “You’ve got an older gentleman who’s supporting his candidate,” he added. “He’s not doing nothing. You don’t have to worry about him.”
“We live in a country that respects free speech,” the president later said. “Don’t boo, vote.”
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Obama just lost control of the crowd in North Carolina which was shouting down a Trump supporter; Obama defended the guy’s right to protest pic.twitter.com/bTjHPvadcj
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) November 4, 2016
Ted Cruz finally joined the Trump campaign Thursday, but apparently the campaign forgot to mention that campaigning for the man means telling people who the man is.
The Texas senator stumped for Trump for the first time on Thursday, joining Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, on the trail in Iowa. But Cruz could not bring himself to so much as say Trump’s name onstage.
Instead, he dedicated his speech to slamming the Affordable Care Act and warning of what Hillary Clinton’s appointments to the Supreme Court would mean for Americans.
“Putting a Republican in the White House and keeping a Republican Senate is the whole enchilada,” Cruz said. “We are one liberal justice away from losing our constitutional rights.”
Just when you think Americans knew better, you see polls like this.
Strong enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton has ebbed since the renewal of the FBI’s email investigation.
While vote preferences have held essentially steady, she’s now a slim point behind Donald Trump — a first since May — in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates.
In the latest results, 46 percent of likely voters support Trump, and 45 percent are for Clinton. With the data taken to a decimal place for illustrative purposes, a mere 0.7 of a percentage point divides them.
He has his ways, after all he is a Republican. But John Kasich is probably the most sensible Republican alive today. For example, he recently went to the polls and voted… for John McCain.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich voted Monday for 2008 Republican nominee John McCain instead of for 2016 Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The Republicans have nominated a man for president who has seen favor with groups like the KKK and White Supremacists. And now in the last days of before the general election, these racist groups are going all out, doing everything they can to get their man in the oval office.
This is what these white supremacists are saying about their candidate, Donald Trump
The American National Super PAC makes this call to support Donald Trump. The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called “racist.” Donald Trump is not afraid.
Another call said this;
The white race is being replaced by other peoples in America and in all-white countried. Donald Trump stands strong as a nationalist. The American National Super PAC makes this call in support of Donald Trump.
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And yet another woman. Trump would call her a liar just like the other 12 so far.
Barbara Corcoran, well-known for her appearances on “Shark Tank,” came forward on CNN to tell of the time the Republican choir-boy Donald Trump, put his hands up in front of her breast and compared them to his wife’s breast.
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Watch the “Christian Conservatives” rush to Donald Trump’s defence on this. Despite the fact that adultery is considered a sin in the Bible, these “Christian” voters would somehow make an excuse in Trump’s case.
During the early months of 1990, Donald Trump was a frequent presence in the tabloids of New York City, often gracing the cover of The New York Postwith new details of his ongoing separation from his first wife Ivana.
As he deftly tried to juggle the split while courting Marla Maples—who went on to become his second wife—Trump gave a revealing interview to reporters Esther Pessin and Bill Hoffmann for the February 23, 1990 issue of the Post. In it, he declared that adultery is not a sin and hinted at his own extramarital affair, almost urging the tabloid to reach the obvious conclusion. It colors Trump’s impression of himself in the 90s and onward as a playboy who could have any woman he wanted, no matter their marital status or desire for his attention.
The Post, often friendly to Trump during his current presidential campaign, has not publicized its archives prior to 1998 but The Daily Beast obtained some of the old issues which document Trump’s views at the times.
“Do you think adultery is a sin?” Trump was asked in the February issue.
“Very good question,” he responded. According to the report at the time, Trump paused and then said:
“I don’t think it’s a sin but I don’t think it should be done.”
The reporters pressed: “Would you do it?” After which, Trump coyly responded “I’ll let you guess.”
The rape accusation comes from “Katie Johnson” and a lawsuit, originally filed in California but dismissed because of filing errors, has been refiled against Donald Trump in New York. Katie alleges that the multiple incidents began in 1994 when she was only 13-years-old.
In a statement attached with her filing, the plaintiff (listed as “Jane Doe”) wrote;
I traveled by bus to New York City in June 1994 in the hope of starting a modeling career. I went to several modeling agencies but was told that I needed to put together a modeling portfolio before I would be considered. I then went to the Port Authority in New York City to start to make my way back home. There I met a woman who introduced herself to me as Tiffany. She told me about the parties and said that, if I would join her at the parties, I would be introduced to people who could get me into the modeling profession. Tiffany also told me I would be paid for attending.
The parties were held at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Jeffrey Epstein. Each of the parties had other minor females and a number of guests of Mr. Epstein, including Defendant Donald Trump at four of the parties I attended. I understood that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew I was 13 years old.
Defendant Trump had sexual contact with me at four different parties in the summer of 1994. On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant Trump tied me to a bed, exposed himself to me, and then proceeded to forcibly rape me. During the course of this savage sexual attack, I loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but he did not. Defendant Trump responded to my pleas by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted,
Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal any of the details of Defendant Trump’s sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I wold be physically harmed if not killed.
A New York based website posted that “a federal lawsuit filed in New York accuses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl more than 20 years ago, at several Upper East Side parties hosted by convicted sex offender and notorious billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein.
“The suit, first reported by the Real Deal, accuses Trump and Epstein of luring the anonymous plaintiff and other young women to four parties at Epstein’s so-called Wexner Mansion at 9 East 71st Street. Epstein allegedly lured the plaintiff, identified in the suit only as Jane Doe, with promises of a modeling career and cash.”
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Come on now, be honest. Did you panic on Friday night? Are you still panicked over the emails that might cost Hillary the election and cost you your sanity? Are you angry that Hillary set up a private email server in the first place? Even angrier that FBI Director James Comey had the gall to insinuate himself into the election?
I’m here to tell you that you are wasting precious emotional and intellectual capital by doing any of those things. Hillary Clinton will be elected president on November 8 and chances are good that the Democrats will control the Senate, if only because Vice president Tim Kaine will be around to break ties.
What makes me so confident you say?
First and foremost, there doesn’t seem to be anything that indicates this new batch of (10,000+) emails came from Clinton’s server. They are messages that Huma Abedin had because she was printing them out or they were duplicates of emails that Clinton had already given to the FBI. Of course, there could be some messages that we don’t know about or ones that Anthony Weiner saw and shouldn’t have, but that’s what the FBI is looking at. The GOP can say all it wants about investigating Clinton’s server, but that’s not an issue here.
Also, the Clinton campaign will make this about James Comey, and will do so effectively. He will need to defend his actions when other Justice Department officials told him that they opposed releasing such a bombshell so close to a presidential election date. He will ultimately need to say that he doesn’t know what’s in these emails and that to conclude that the are in any way incriminating would be wrong. Then the GOP will attack him and the story will continue to be about James Comey, not Hillary Clinton.
I understand why he sent his letter to Congress, because to sit on this information until the election was over would open him up to accusations that he wasn’t following the law. And obviously if there was something incriminating he has his duty to release it, but there isn’t any. In fact, his letter to FBI employees states specifically that they don’t know what’s on the computers. This is irresponsible. Imagine if you did that on your job. The job you would then lose, I mean.
The other nonissue is that most voters have already made up their minds and either have voted or wouldn’t dream of voting for Trump. This is where polarization works to Hillary’s advantage. If the GOP had a reputable candidate and the election was close, then I could see being worried. But Donald has already overreached by calling this as big as Watergate and I’m assuming that Comey will need to clarify that the FBI doesn’t know what it has, so that will undercut Trump’s attempts at blaming anything specific on Hillary. Plus, the email issue is nothing new and it won’t erase the terrible things that Trump has said over the course of the campaign.
What about the polls, you say? The polls have been tightening, right? Well, yes and not-so-yes. The margin by which Hillary has been leading, since July, I might add, is getting a bit smaller, but that seems to be because recalcitrant Republicans who were repulsed by Trump’s misogyny are coming back to the party. They’ll regret it later, but Trump’s improvement has been almost entirely built on his getting a greater share of GOP voters than he did earlier this month.
Most state polls, which are the ones that we should be watching, show that he’s behind in most of the swing states and has never led in the Electoral College projections since the campaign started. He could even win Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina and Florida and still lose, assuming that Clinton wins Virginia, Colorado, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, which she will, so I don’t know why you’re bothering me about this. Probably because you’ve been consulting the mainstream press, which has an interest in creating uncertainty so you’ll continue to consume their messages. Please stop.
The most important thing that Democrats can do now is to vote. I know that some thought that Hillary had this in the bag, but that’s not true if people don’t vote for her and Democrats for House and Senate. Vote early if you can. This election is too vital not to.
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