2016 Election

NORTH CAROLINA: State GOP Issues Press Release Bragging About Success In Suppressing Minority Vote

“African American Early Voting is down 8.5% from this time in 2012.” Via Daily Kos: This morning, the NC GOP sent out a press release bragging about how successful the state party has been in suppressing the vote. As a reminder, the state “surgically” slashed the early voting methods used by most often by African Americans — including eliminating “Souls …

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Fox Business Edits Obama Interview To Make It Look Like He’s Encouraging “Illegals” To Vote [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Fox Business Network used a deceptively edited clip of President Barack Obama Monday to argue that the president encouraged illegal immigrants to vote, when in fact he had done nothing of the sort. FBN host Stuart Varney reported on story that he complained was getting “no media play at all, except here.” Varney played a clip of a …

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TONIGHT: Hillary Clinton To Deliver “Closing Message” In Largest Single Ad Buy Of Campaign [VIDEO]

Via Buzzfeed: The night before polls open across the country, Hillary Clinton will lay out her closing argument for a “hopeful and inclusive” vision in a two-minute direct-to-camera ad set to reach an estimated national audience of 20 million people. “I think we can all agree it’s been a long campaign. But tomorrow, you get to pick our next president,” …

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Final Emerson College Poll Predicts Hillary Landslide

Via press release: Amidst a general tightening of the race in key battleground states and a pattern of both Democratic and Republican voters coming home to the major-party candidates, Emerson College Polling is predicting that Hillary Clinton will win the Electoral College by a lopsided margin of 323-215. The map, shown below, reflects recent Emerson polling results in battleground and …

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Trump’s Fantasy Cabinet: Secretary Of State Gingrich, Attorney General Giuliani, Defense Secretary Flynn

NBC News reports: Donald Trump’s cabinet-in-waiting is taking shape in the final days of the race, as aides eye a number of Trump loyalists for major posts should he win on Tuesday. Among the names being considered, according to conversations with three campaign advisers who requested anonymity to speak freely: Rudy Giuliani for attorney general, Newt Gingrich for secretary of …

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FLASHBACK: One Day More: Les Misbarack [VIDEO]

On the final day before Election 2016, many on Twitter are quoting lines from the Les Miserables anthem, One Day More. And that reminds me of one of our favorite moments from the closing days of the 2008 Obama campaign, when members of the Los Angeles-based Ultimate Improv troupe went viral with their lip-synced performance of the song from the …

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New York Daily News: NOW He Tells us

From the New York Daily News: FBI Director James Comey on Sunday once again cleared Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server — ending the agency’s surprise second probe as suddenly as it began. After nearly upending an already-raucous presidential election with an eleventh-hour reexamination of Clinton’s emails, Comey sent a letter to congressional lawmakers that left …

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Hillary +4 In Final CBS National Poll

CBS News reports: With just one day left in the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton holds a four-point lead over Donald Trump nationally, 45 percent – 41 percent — similar to last week. Few voters say their minds could change. Trump leads among white men, whites without a college degree, and seniors. Clinton leads among women, African-Americans and younger voters, …

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Trump Rally Shirt Calls For Lynching Journalists

The Hill reports: A Donald Trump supporter’s T-shirt calling for the lynching of journalists went viral Sunday, after it was spotted at the GOP nominee’s rally in Minnesota. “Rope. Tree. Journalist,” the shirt read. “Some assembly required.” The man wearing the shirt was photographed at a Trump rally in Minneapolis, Minn., on Sunday. Trump has frequently slammed the media, calling …

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John Oliver: Trump Is My Fault [VIDEO]

Via Deadline: It is frankly hard to believe there ever was a time when people thought a Trump candidacy would be funny, Oliver acknowledged. “But there was such a time,” he confessed, “Because, as you may remember, three years ago I guest-hosted The Daily Show. Cue up The Daily Show video of Trump saying he would consider a White House …

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PHILADELPHIA: Transit Strike Settled, Service Returning

In the nick of time. Philadelphia’s ABC affiliate reports: SEPTA and TWU Local 234 have announced a tentative agreement that ends the strike that has crippled transportation in greater Philadelphia for nearly a week. The announcement came at 5:30 a.m. Monday at the union’s headquarters in the Spring Garden section of Philadelphia. The deal involves a new five-year contract. Officials …

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Sen. Al Franken: Trump’s Closing Message Ad Is An Anti-Semitic Dog Whistle To His Alt-Right Fans [VIDEO]

The Guardian reports: The Democratic senator for Minnesota, Al Franken, has accused Donald Trump of launching an antisemitic TV advertisement along the lines of the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Franken, who is Jewish, said he immediately was struck by what he called “a German shepherd whistle, a dog whistle” in a new two-minute advert from the Trump …

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Nate Silver: Hillary Is Probably Going To Win But She’s One State Away From Losing Electoral College [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton is one state away from losing the presidential election, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver said Sunday. While the Democratic presidential nominee has a 65.7 percent chance of winning the presidency on Tuesday, she is not “in a terribly safe position,” the pollster said on ABC’s “This Week.” “The electoral map is actually less solid for Clinton than …

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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Delivers Epic Closing Argument: Trump Is A Cancer On American Democracy [VIDEO]

CNN host Fareed Zakaria opened his show this morning with a five-minute statement on Donald Trump. Via Mediaite: Not only does he find Trump “tacky and vulgar,” but Zakaria believes Trump has “expressed himself in word and deed in ways that can only be described as racist.” He argued that Trump believes “deeply in ethnic stereotypes” and is quick to …

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Pence: We’ll Accept The Outcome Of A Clear Win But Reserve “All Legal Rights And Remedies” Otherwise

Via Politico: On “Fox News Sunday,” the Indiana Republican dismissed Trump’s previous suggestions that he might not accept the election results if Democrat Hillary Clinton is the victor. “The campaign’s made it very clear — a clear outcome, obviously both sides will accept,” Pence told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. Trump has frequently called the election “rigged” against him. And During …

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Hillary +4 In Final NBC/WSJ National Poll

NBC News reports: Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a four-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of the 2016 presidential race. Clinton gets support from 44 percent of likely voters, while Trump gets 40 percent. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson is at 6 percent, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein is at 2 percent. …

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Conway: Hillary Planted Last Night’s Protester [VIDEO]

This morning Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway appeared on Fox to declare that the Clinton campaign had planted the protester at Trump rally in Reno last night. “This protester, we’re finding out this morning, he’s a Democrat, I’m told. And so people are trying to spin it, ‘Oh, this is the kind of action you get at your rallies.’ This …

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Frank Bruni: The Ugliness Is Far From Over

“Tuesday nears, after such epic ugliness. ‘It’s almost over,’ friends say. ‘We’ll finally be done with this.’ What a lovely thought. What a naïve fantasy. There’s no end here, just a punctuation mark, a measly comma between the rancor that has built until this point and the fury to come. And there’s no way to un-see what all of us …

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SNL Makes Final Dig At The Election [VIDEO]

The Huffington Post recaps: “Saturday Night Live” poked fun at Donald Trump’s relationships with the FBI, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the KKK in its final pre-election show. Alec Baldwin as the GOP nominee and Kate McKinnon as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton appeared on the spoof “OutFront” show. But instead of asking Baldwin as Trump about his scandals, show anchor …

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NEVADA: Donald Trump Rushed Off Stage After Shouts Of “Gun!” – Protester Had No Weapon [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: Donald Trump was rushed off stage by the Secret Service while delivering speech in Reno, Nevada, Saturday night after someone in the crowd yelled “gun” but no weapon was found. “Immediately in front of the stage, an unidentified individual shouted “gun”. Secret Service agents and Reno Police Officers immediately apprehended the subject,” the Secret Service said in …

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