2016 Election

POSTED: My Third Column For Pride Life

Last month I launched a twice-monthly column for the website of Britain’s Pride Life magazine, a quarterly LGBT rights and lifestyle magazine. Today’s third installment takes a look at the never-ending Trump controversies, his down-ballot effect on other GOP candidates, Hillary Clinton’s AIDS gaffe, and the delegate standings in the Democratic race. Clickety-click the link. DISCLOSURE: Pride Life is owned …

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ILLINOIS: Two Students Charged With Hate Crime For Defacing Chapel With Trump’s Name And Swastika

And they threw in anti-gay and racist slurs as well. The Chicago Tribune reports: A Cook County judge on Saturday lashed out at two Northwestern University freshmen accused of spray-painting racist and homophobic messages along with the name of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump inside a nondenominational chapel on the university’s campus. “These allegations are disgusting to me,” Judge Peggy …

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Bernie Sanders Unveils HIV/AIDS “Prize Plan”

Perhaps in response to Hillary Clinton’s gaffe about the Reagans and her followup policy statement on HIV/AIDS, Bernie Sanders last night issued his own strategy on HIV/AIDS, which includes a multi-billion dollar annual federal prize as a substitute for new drug patents. Below is his message in full: Today, one of the biggest problems in caring for the 1.2 million …

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Trump Repeats Vow To Rewrite Libel Laws [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: Remember how Donald Trump wants to change the libel laws? Well, he basically admitted on Fox News today that he wants to do that because it’s hard for him to win libel lawsuits with the current protections in place. Howard Kurtz asked Trump specifically how he would change current laws. He dismissively moved onto complaining about how dishonest …

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SNL Turns Hillary Into Bernie [VIDEO]

Mediaite recaps: This week’s Saturday Night Live didn’t spare former secretary of State and Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, cutting the candidate with a razor-sharp spoof commercial that lampooned Clinton’s carefully-workshopped patter and eagerness for votes. Most hilariously (or Hillary-ously?), Kate McKinnon‘s Hillary undergoes a most drastic and surprisingly convincing transformation into Bernie Sanders at the end of the spot.

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Trump: I’ll Pay The Legal Fees Of That Redneck Who Sucker-Punched A Black Protester [VIDEO]

Via Talking Points Memo: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that he has instructed his team to look into paying the legal fees of the man who sucker punched a black protester. Trump said he doesn’t condone violence. “But I want to see. The man got carried away, he was 78 years old, he obviously loves his country, and …

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Trump Threatens To Sic Supporters On Bernie Rallies

From the Washington Post: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump threatened Sunday to send his supporters to infiltrate the campaign rallies of Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders, whom Trump continued to insist was behind disruptions at his events. “Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren’t told to go to my events,” Trump said on Twitter. “Be careful Bernie, or my …

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Bernie Sanders Slams Hillary On AIDS [VIDEO]

The Guardian reports: Bernie Sanders has criticized Hillary Clinton’s brief praise for Nancy Reagan, whom the Democratic presidential frontrunner said “started a national conversation” on HIV/Aids. “I just don’t know what she was talking about,” Sanders, the independent Vermont senator who is running for the Democratic nomination, said in an interview with CNN on Sunday. “I’m glad [Clinton] apologized, but …

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Hillary Clinton Issues Second And Lengthy “Reagans & AIDS” Apology: I Made A Mistake, Plain And Simple

HIV/AIDS activists were far from satisfied by the one-line apology issued yesterday afternoon by Hillary Clinton after she made the astoundingly ahistorical claim that Nancy Reagan’s “low-key advocacy” had spurred advances against the virus. Tonight Clinton issued a second and quite lengthy statement. Below is her message in full: Yesterday, at Nancy Reagan’s funeral, I said something inaccurate when speaking …

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Trump: My Stage-Rusher Has ISIS Ties [VIDEO]

Donald Trump tonight falsely told rally attendees that Thomas Dimassimo, the man who rushed his stage earlier today, has ties to ISIS. This afternoon Trump tweeted out a troll’s video as proof. Heavy.com reports: Dimassimo, a student at Wright State University in Dayton, has been an avid supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and Vermont Senator and presidential candidate …

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OHIO: Secret Service Rushes To Donald Trump’s Aid After Rally Protester Grabs At His Leg [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: A Donald Trump rally took a dramatic turn Saturday when a disturbance broke out behind him — causing Secret Service agents to jump on stage and form a wall around the candidate amid the commotion. A campaign spokeswoman told NBC News that a man at the Dayton, Ohio, event “attempted to breach the secure buffer and was …

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Today’s New York Daily News

From their editorial: Donald Trump was not yet near his Chicago rally turned melee Friday night when protesters tangled in confrontation with the Republican front-runner’s fervent supporters. Shoves, fists and screams tore through the arena, promoting Trump to cancel — and then to insist on CNN “I take no responsibility.” Of course he doesn’t. Trump rallies are large, testament to …

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Cruz Reaffirms Pledge To Support Trump

Last night Ted Cruz denounced Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric, which Cruz says provoked the chaos in Chicago. But unlike Marco Rubio, Cruz is not wavering from his pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, even if it’s Trump. Via Politico: “My answer is the same,” Cruz told reporters here at a suburban St. Louis high school. “I committed at the …

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Marco Rubio Wavers On Pledge To Support Eventual GOP Nominee: It’s Getting Harder Every Day [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Marco Rubio on Saturday said he is no longer sure he can support Donald Trump should he become the GOP presidential nominee following the protests and unrest sparked by a planned Trump rally in Chicago. “I don’t know,” the Florida senator said, pausing in despair, after being asked directly if he stands by his pledge to support Trump …

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Trump: Chicago’s “Thugs” Helped My Campaign

As last night’s chaos in Chicago unfolded, Donald Trump called each of the cable news networks in quick succession to deny responsibility and actually blame President Obama for “dividing the nation.” This morning he is claiming that Chicago’s protesters actually helped his campaign. He may be right.

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Cruz Blames Trump For Chicago: Urging Supporters To Punch People Gets A Predictable Result [VIDEO]

Breitbart readers are furious with Cruz’s reaction: Texas Senator Sen. Ted Cruz appeared in a western suburb of Chicago only moments after it was confirmed that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump had canceled his downtown Chicago rally due to a threat of mob violence. Cruz said the “anger and rage” came from the top of the campaign. Without saying Donald Trump’s …

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LIVE VIDEO: Chaos In Chicago, Trump Rally Cancelled

The future of an America under President Trump is unfolding before our eyes in Chicago tonight. Watch the embedded live-streams below.

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ST. LOUIS: More Trump Rally Turmoil [VIDEOS]

From the New York Daily News: Another rally, more hate — again. Donald Trump’s protest-filled campaign continued with a bloody stop Friday in St. Louis, where several protesters were tossed from the event, including a black man hauled off by police with a bloodied face. The bellowing blowhard’s gathering at the Peabody Opera House downtown was interrupted several times, prompting …

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Hollywood Women For Hillary [VIDEO]

USA Today reports: Shondaland has a message and that message is: “I’m with Hillary.” Shonda Rhimes, along with the stars of her TGIT shows (Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder and Grey’s Anatomy), Kerry Washington, Viola Davis and Ellen Pompeo, appeared in an ad for Hillary Clinton, comparing her to the protagonists of those series. Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating …

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Hillary Apologizes: I Misspoke About Reagans & AIDS

Minutes ago Hillary Clinton issued the above apology for her earlier claim that Nancy Reagan’s “low-key advocacy” had spurred action on AIDS during the Reagan administration. Kudos to the Clinton camp for acting so quickly. Now let’s see if this story continues to have legs. I’ll update this post with reactions as they arrive.

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