2016 Election

ARIZONA: New Monmouth Poll Shows Dead Heat

Politico reports: Two weeks out from Election Day and Arizona is a toss-up, according to a Monmouth University poll released Tuesday afternoon. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in Arizona, a state that has gone red in 15 of the last 16 presidential elections and where Trump leads by just 1 percentage point. In a four-way race, Trump tops …

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Trump Camp Issues Unrealistic Electoral Map

NBC News scoffs: A new memo released by Donald Trump’s campaign shows how his team hopes to compete in toss-up battleground states in the waning weeks of the 2016 election. But the Trump team’s battleground map is far more optimistic than assessments by almost all outside experts, including NBC News. Trump’s campaign lists a total of 12 tossup states: Nevada, …

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REPORT: Dems Very Likely To Take Senate Majority

The Hill reports: The nonpartisan Cook Political Report predicted on Tuesday that the Democratic Party would see a net gain of five to seven Senate seats in next month’s election, giving them a slim majority regardless of which party takes the White House. Cook said that Senate Republican candidates appeared to be doing well across the country, despite the unpopularity …

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Fox News Guest: The White House Knows That Hillary Is Secretly Taking Performance “Boosting Drugs” [VIDEO]

Via Raw Story: How can you tell that Hillary Clinton is winning? Because Fox News is resorting to floating increasingly outlandish conspiracies about her. Case in point: On Fox & Friends on Tuesday, conservative author Ed Klein claimed that he has a source from within the White House who told him that Hillary Clinton has been taking performance-enhancing drugs to …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Hillary +7 In New York Times Poll

The New York Times reports: No state that voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 has posed a bigger challenge for Donald J. Trump than North Carolina. He has trailed in every survey there since the first presidential debate, and he does not have a credible path to the presidency without its 15 electoral votes. A New York Times Upshot/Siena College …

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Hannity Tells Kellyanne Conway: For Trump To Win The Electoral College He Must “Run The Table” [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Monday night, host Sean Hannity laid out an electoral college path to victory for Trump during his interview with Conway, stipulating that the real estate mogul must “run the table” in swing states in order to win. The path laid out by Hannity left out an electoral vote from Maine, prompting Conway to correct him and note that …

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Rachel Maddow On Trump’s Poll Monitors [VIDEO]

Last night Rachel Maddow delivered a report on Donald Trump’s repeated demands for his supporters to monitor polling stations, allegedly in order to prevent voter fraud. The piece is an excellent history lesson on how the Republican Party continues to be under a court-ordered 1981 “consent decree” to prevent them from once again intimidating voters as they did in New …

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Hillary +5 Nationwide In New NBC Poll

NBC News reports: Hillary Clinton’s 5-point lead over Donald Trump remains virtually unchanged since last week—but after prolonged in-fighting among GOP party leaders, a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters (57 percent) see a lasting fracture in the Republican Party, according to the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll. In a four-way match-up, Clinton enjoys 46 percent support this week among likely …

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President Obama Reads Mean Tweets [VIDEO]

Via Us Weekly: It’s a social media showdown! President Barack Obama appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday, October 24, and took the opportunity to troll Donald Trump during the famous ‘Mean Tweets’ sketch. POTUS was a good sport as he read out a long list of insults people had posted about him, from mocking his ugly dad jeans, to …

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TONIGHT: Beta Test Launch For Trump TV

Wired reports: Tonight, the Trump campaign is kicking off a show that will air on the candidate’s Facebook page every night at 6:30 pm ET via Facebook Live from the campaign war room at Trump Tower. The show will be hosted by Boris Epshteyn, a senior adviser to the campaign, Tomi Lahren, a conservative commentator for Glen Beck’s TheBlaze, and …

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Trump Lies About Yet Another Endorsement

Donald Trump is fond of claiming that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has endorsed him even though the media has repeatedly pointed out that he was merely endorsed by a workers union of ICE employees. Today he pulled a similar trick, claiming to have been endorsed by the sheriff’s office for St. Johns County, Florida. The sheriff’s office …

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Mike Pence: Hillary’s Team And Her Media Cronies Are Trying Demoralize Us By Quoting The Polls [VIDEO]

This must be today’s talking point since Sean Spicer said basically the same thing early this morning. Via Mediaite: Mike Pence called into Rush Limbaugh‘s show this afternoon to talk about dealing with being the underdogs in the race right now. Pence diverted from talking about the polls to say, “It’s clear to me the national media is trying to …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Gov. Pat McCrory +1 In New Poll

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has closed a significant gap between himself and Democratic challenger Roy Cooper in a Monmouth University Poll released Monday. While the latest polling from Monmouth shows McCrory with a mere 1-point lead, two months ago the incumbent Republican governor was 9 points behind in that poll. In that time, …

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Elizabeth Warren To Trump: Nasty Women Will Cast Our Nasty Votes To Get Rid Of You Forever [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Elizabeth Warren has a message for Donald Trump: Nasty women vote — and they’re not voting for you. Warren on Monday turned the tables on the Republican presidential nominee calling Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” during the final presidential debate last week, saying those women are going to vote against him come November. “Nasty women have really …

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RNC SPOX: The Mainstream Media Is Trying To Fool People Into Staying Home By Quoting The Polls [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: During a heated and contentious interview with CNN’s John Berman and Kate Bolduan, RNC communications director Sean Spicer insisted that the race for the White House was a “dead heat” and said that Republican nominee Donald Trump was ahead in several key battleground states. Per Spicer, the whole thing is even and many polls show Trump is trending …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Homocons Launch Crowd-Funding Campaign To Post “Gays For Trump” Billboards

North Carolina homocon Peter Boykin and his supporters have raised $2646 so far in his GoFundMe campaign to post “Gays For Trump” billboards in his home state. Earlier this month Boykin’s husband was ejected from a Trump rally in Greensboro after assaulting a protester. From his poorly written GoFundMe page: My Husband came up with this Great IDEA to get …

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Mark Cuban Mocks Trump For Funny Or Die [VIDEO]

Roll Call reports: “The only thing worse than Trump being elected is you being conscious after he’s elected,” businessman Mark Cuban jokes in a new Funny or Die video. In the video, the billionaire Hillary Clinton supporter invents the satirical “Trump coma” as a solution “if the thought of living through a Trump presidency sounds like a hideous nightmare to …

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Trump: Democrats Are Making Up Phony Polls

Via Politico: Donald Trump accused Democrats on Monday of manufacturing fake polls that show him trailing in the presidential election in order to discourage the GOP nominee’s supporters from voting on Election Day. “Major story that the Dems are making up phony polls in order to suppress the the [sic] Trump,” the Manhattan billionaire wrote on Twitter Monday morning. “We …

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Jan Brewer: Donald Trump Has Been “Waterboarded” By All These Accusations Of Sexual Assault [VIDEO]

Via the Daily Beast: Former Arizona Gov. and Donald Trump supporter Jan Brewer defended the Republican nominee for threatening to sue the women accusing him of sexual assault. And she did so with some unfortunate imagery. “He’s been waterboarded by these issues,” Brewer said on CNN’s State of the Union, prompting uncomfortable laughter from her fellow panelists. “It seems like …

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Karl Rove Does The Math: Trump Can’t Win [VIDEO]

Media Matters has the transcript: “He has 186 electoral votes in states that he either leads outside of the margin of error or is thought comfortably put away. That compares to Romney’s 206. That’s Romney’s states minus Arizona and North Carolina, where he’s behind, plus Iowa, where he’s ahead. There’s only one other — he’s ahead in Ohio by less …

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