2016 Election

The above two images are being widely shared on Twitter today as reports come in about voter intimidation attempts by presumed supporters of Donald Trump. From the Washington Post: Voters in Florida, a key battleground, have reported multiple accounts of voters saying they have encountered aggressive, intimidating behavior, according to a nonpartisan group monitoring election issues nationwide. “In Florida we …

From Breitbart: Pop star Lady Gaga was burned on social media late Monday, with fans furious that the singer “dressed literally like a Nazi” while speaking at Hillary Clinton’s final campaign rally. Gaga took the stage at a midnight rally in Raleigh, North Carolina for one final push to support Clinton heading into Election Day. But rallygoers and those watching …

The Moscow Times reports: Readers of the popular news website can follow an election-day live blog. As a service to its audience in the United States, Gazeta.ru shared the phone number for Donald Trump’s hotline, set up to collect reports of voting violations. Strangely, the website thought the information might also be useful to people living in Russia, far removed …

CNN reports: In a sign that the legal team for the Trump campaign is aggressively laying the groundwork for potential legal challenges — big and small — lawyers have gone to state court in Nevada in an early vote dispute. In legal briefs filed last night, Trump lawyers are asking for relief in case “the election of presidential electors from …

Via Jezebel: Donald Trump showed up this morning to vote in New York City, where he was greeted by a warm show of support from his friends and neighbors—just kidding, they booed him the whole time. Video from outside PS 59 shows a group of people booing loudly as Trump, accompanied by his wife, Melania, scurried inside the building to …

NBC News reports: As the world waited Tuesday for Americans to choose their new president, a Middle East airline launched an advertising campaign that took a swipe at Donald Trump’s original plan to ban Muslims from the USA. Royal Jordanian Airlines posted a promotion on social media urging customers: “Just in case he wins… travel to the U.S. while you’re …

USA Today reports: Hillary Clinton has overwhelmingly won the vote on the tiny U.S. island of Guam. The territory, located west of the international date line, is 15 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time and bills itself as “Where America’s Day Begins.” With 32,071 voters casting ballots, Democrat Clinton received 71.63% of the vote. Republican Donald Trump received 24.16%, and …

From his “closing argument” last night: “You can decide tomorrow to save America from the declining state it is in and stop this downward spiral. That’s what this election is about. Tomorrow night, if Hillary Clinton is elected, those who didn’t support Donald Trump, voted for Hillary, or #NeverTrump-er, I’m telling you right now: You own her Supreme Court, you …

JMG reader Bess tips us that New Yorkers are waiting in a hour-long line at the Rochester gravesite of legendary suffragette Susan B. Anthony so that they can place their “I Voted” sticker on her tombstone. From New York Magazine: On November 8, 1872, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for illegally casting a ballot in the presidential election. More than …

From the editorial board of the New York Daily News: Fearing for the fate of the republic as never before in an election, the Daily News Editorial Board fervently hopes that reason conquers passion among those who, in their loathing of Clinton, are prepared to hand the nation to the most outrageously successful con man in presidential history. Trump is …

Via World Net Daily: If Hillary Clinton wins the election Tuesday, a prominent Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee says there will be an immediate move to impeach her before she can even be sworn into office Jan. 20. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told WND he has spent the last week ensuring Congress has secured all of the hundreds …

Via Politico: As Trump closed out his campaign, he remained true to form, often rambling off topic during the 15-minute phone interview — demonstrating the kind of shaky message discipline that’s endeared him to many supporters but horrified political operatives. “Well, it’s very exciting,” Trump said about Election Day. “You know, I’ve spoken to you folks for a lot during …

It took me about 45 minutes to vote for Hillary for the fifth time this morning. In 12 years on the Upper East Side, I’d never had more than three people in front of me but this morning the line wrapped nearly around the block. New arrivals were clearly surprised to find such a crowd, but everybody was in high …

Billboard reports: Madonna gave New Yorkers the surprise of a lifetime when she serenaded the crowd at Washington Square Park on Monday night (Nov. 7) with a special acoustic performance in support of Hillary Clinton. She stood in the center of Washington Square Fountain surrounded by a group comprised mostly of NYU students and cheered as she performed covers of …

“We need a Christian revolution in America. Let’s support men and women at every level of government-local, state, and national-who will lead this country back to really being one nation under God, so that we can truthfully say, once again, ‘In God we trust.’ “No matter who wins, our ongoing job as Christians is to make the impact of Christ …

The rally begins at 7PM and the line to get in is over 1.5 miles long at this writing. I’m posting this a bit early as a heads-up. Via NBC News: Bruce Springsteen is set to join a powerful lineup of guests that includes President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jon Bon Jovi on …

IMPORTANT CORRECTION: I had the numbers flipped in my first wrong, wrong, wrong draft of this post. Raleigh’s ABC affiliate reports: Hours before Election Day, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows races couldn’t be closer in North Carolina. Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump 47 percent to 45 percent – well within the margin of error. In North Carolina’s Senate race, …

CNN reports: Hillary Clinton’s campaign sent cease-and-desist letters to broadcasters advising that they shouldn’t air ads from pro-Donald Trump PACs that include the claim that Clinton is “under investigation by the FBI.” The letters were dated Sunday, the same day the FBI announced that it was sticking by its conclusion that no charges were recommended against Clinton following completion of …

“I didn’t want to write this. I avoided making a decision as long as I could. I schlepped my absentee ballot all over the country for almost four weeks. I would periodically take it out of the envelope, look at it, shake my head in disgust, and put it back in my suitcase. I had decided to write-in my mother …

CNN reports: The National Rifle Association thinks gun rights supporters and gun control advocates should vote on different days. The NRA posted a photo on its Instagram page showing two election dates. The picture shows the side of a building with a sign that says, “Remember your assigned voting days! Second Amendment supporters: Nov. 8. Gun control activists: Nov. 9.” …