2016 Election

New Pro-Hillary Super PAC Ad: Donald Trump’s Policy Positions Are Dangerous For America [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: A Pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC released one of its first general election ads on Sunday, hitting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for what it calls “dangerous” policy positions. In the 30-second ad, titled “Presidential,” Priorities USA, the largest super-PAC supporting presumptive Democratic nominee Clinton for president, rehashes controversial statements Trump has made throughout his campaign. “I know …

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Chelsea Clinton Gives Birth To Second Child

CNN reports: Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton, gave birth to a son on Saturday, according to her Twitter and Facebook accounts. “Marc and I are overwhelmed with gratitude and love as we celebrate the birth of our son, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky,” the former first daughter tweeted on Saturday. This is the second child for Clinton and …

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Talking About Things And Saying Things About Things Is Different From Trump Saying What He’ll Do

GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter today unleashed a bit of Palin-worthy word salad in defense of Donald Trump. From the Washington Post: “What I’m done with is trying to articulate or explain or answer for what Donald Trump says,” Hunter said. “I think he’ll be a great president. I think he’ll make good decisions on the economy, on the border, on …

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“Friend-To-Gays’ Trump Tweets Smiling Photo With Pastor Who Says LGBT Rights Will Bring The Anti-Christ

Politico reports: Donald Trump has spent the week stating his support for the LGBT community in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, remarking that he is a better ally than Hillary Clinton, whom he has repeatedly attacked for accepting donations from governments hostile to LGBT rights on behalf of the Clinton Foundation. But a photo posted to …

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FLORIDA: GOP US Senate Frontrunner Drops Out To Clear The Way For Marco Rubio To Enter Race

CNN reports: Florida Rep. David Jolly on Friday announced he will pull out of the Republican primary to replace Sen. Marco Rubio. Jolly instead will for reelection to his seat in Congress, citing “unfinished business” in an email to supporters Friday afternoon. He said he had been convinced to run for Senate by insiders who told him redistricting made his …

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Major Corporations Drop Out Of GOP Convention

Bloomberg reports: A growing number of prominent U.S. corporations are opting to drop or scale back their sponsorship of the Republican national convention next month in Cleveland, as the nomination of Donald Trump promises a level of controversy rarely seen in such gatherings. Among those to signal in recent days that they won’t sponsor the convention this year are Wells …

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Priebus: Claims Of GOP Discord Are Pure Fiction

From Talking Points Memo: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Thursday swore that there was no truth to multiple reports that the GOP was collapsing under the strain of a presumptive nominee who frequently mocks his party’s own leaders. In the past two weeks, Republicans on Capitol Hill have alternately distanced themselves from or stayed silent on Trump, who …

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Twitter Explodes After Trump Says “Ask The Gays” Which Candidate Will Be Better For Them [VIDEO]

From the Washington Blade: Donald Trump continues to invoke his newly enumerated, but highly dubious support for LGBT people to encourage his election to the White House. After recognizing the LGBT victims of the mass shooting during a national security speech on Monday reiterating his call for a Muslim ban, Trump again referenced the LGBT community on Wednesday during a …

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Donald Trump: I Was Right, Obama Supports ISIS

The Hill reports: Donald Trump on Wednesday tweeted a link to an article that claims President Obama has indirectly supported the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), standing behind his remarks earlier this week that Obama might sympathize with terrorists. The story says Clinton’s State Department received a memo from an intelligence agent that al-Qaeda in Iraq, a group …

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Dan Savage: Trump Is No Friend Of LGBTs [VIDEO]

Via Raw Story: Columnist and activist Dan Savage bluntly rebuked Donald Trump on Tuesday for his response to the Orlando mass shooting attack. “We’re not gonna fall for it,” Savage told MSNBC host Chris Hayes. “You can’t draw a clean line between the LGBT community and the Muslim community because there are LGBT Muslims in the United States and all …

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Politico: Senate Republicans Have The Trump Sadz

Via Politico: Senate Republicans have tried to work with Donald Trump. They’ve offered gentle advice and firm guidance, hoping he’ll morph into a general election candidate who won’t kill their chances of keeping the Senate, or better yet, will give Hillary Clinton a run for her money. None of it has worked. And now a palpable mix of despair and …

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First Post-Orlando Poll: Hillary Clinton + 12 Points

This is the first major poll since Orlando. Via Bloomberg: Democrat Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, whose negatives remain unusually high for a presidential candidate amid early indications that the Orlando terrorist attack has had little direct impact on the 2016 race. A new Bloomberg Politics national poll shows Clinton leading Trump …

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Hillary Wins DC Primary, Meets With Bernie Sanders

And that’s that. Via the Associated Press: Hillary Clinton is finishing the Democratic presidential primary season with a lead of more than 380 pledged delegates over Bernie Sanders. Clinton won the District of Columbia, which was the last to hold its primary, on Tuesday. With 20 delegates at stake, Clinton won at least 14. Sanders picked up at least two. …

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New From Trump Has Tiny Hands PAC [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: A political action committee focused on the size of Donald Trump’s hands is calling on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to “release the measurements.” A new ad, produced by Americans Against Insecure Billionaires with Tiny Hands PAC, asks viewers to sign a petition calling on Trump to disclose the measurements of his hands. “It’s a dangerous time …

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Russian Government Hackers Breach Democratic National Committee’s Research Files On Trump

The Trump campaign has refused to comment. NBC News reports: The Democratic National Committee’s computer network was breached by Russian government cyber operations that have had access to the group’s communications and databases since at least last summer, NBC News confirms. The sophisticated Russian groups, which have previously targeted the White House, the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of …

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Hillary Mocks Trump University Scandal [VIDEO]

TIME recaps: Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is spotlighting the controversy over Donald Trump’s now-defunct seminar program, Trump University, with a mock infomercial for the program which is the subject of a class action lawsuit alleging it was a scam. The biting video released Saturday references recently-released ‘playbooks’ which detailed how sales-people worked to convince potential clients, even those already in …

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Mitt Romney Again Denounces Donald Trump: He’ll Change America With His Trickle-Down Racism [VIDEO]

CNN reports: Mitt Romney suggested Friday that Donald Trump’s election could legitimize racism and misogyny, ushering in a change in the moral fabric of American society. The 2012 Republican nominee, who has openly opposed Trump’s candidacy, went further than he has before in outlining to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer how the country’s character would suffer in a Trump White House. Trump’s …

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Rabbi Earns Standing Ovation With Blazing Progressive Speech At Muhammad Ali’s Funeral [VIDEO]

I watched every minute of this live on CNN. You should watch it below. Business Insider recaps: Rabbi Michael Lerner delivered a powerful eulogy for boxing legend Muhammad Ali at his funeral on Friday, praising Ali for daring “to love black people at a time when black people had a hard time loving themselves” and calling for an end to …

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New Reuters Poll: Hillary +11 Points

Reuters reports: Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 11 points in the U.S. presidential race, showing little change after she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. The online poll, conducted from Monday to Friday, shows 46 percent of likely voters support Clinton while 34.8 percent back Trump. Another 19.2 percent …

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Human Rights Campaign On Donald Trump: Everything We Have Fought For Is On The Line [VIDEO]

The Human Rights Campaign has issued another video slamming Donald Trump. From the clip description: This election year, everything we’ve fought for is on the line. Donald Trump has spewed vitriol about marriage equality, people of color, women, immigrants and more. In the words of Hillary Clinton, “Cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division, empowerment is better …

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