2016 Election

WOW. The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton has opened up a 12-point national lead over Donald Trump among likely voters with less than a month to go before Election Day, a new poll finds. Clinton takes 50 percent support in the Monmouth University survey released Monday, which has Trump at 38 percent. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson has 5 percent support and …

Right wing commentator Erick Erickson, of late one of the alt-right’s arch enemies, today cemented that position by declaring that it’s all over but the shouting for Donald Trump. He writes: On October 17, 2012, the Real Clear Politics average had Barack Obama ahead of Mitt Romney by 0.4%. At the same time in 2008, Barack Obama led John McCain …

NBC News reports: Hillary Clinton is maintaining a 50-point lead over Donald Trump among Latino voters heading into the final weeks of the presidential election, and more Latinos now say they they’re very interested in the November contest, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll. The poll found that 67 percent of Latino likely voters back Clinton in …

CNN reports: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is leading her Republican rival Donald Trump by eight points among likely voters, according to the most recent CNN Poll of Polls, released Monday. The poll average shows Clinton has 47% of support from likely voters, Trump at 39% support, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson with 7% and Green Party nominee Jill Stein getting …

The Financial Times reports: Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has informally approached one of the media industry’s top dealmakers about the prospect of setting up a Trump television network after the presidential election in November. Mr Kushner — an increasingly influential figure in the billionaire’s presidential campaign — contacted Aryeh Bourkoff, the founder and chief executive of LionTree, a boutique …

The Hill reports: A new Hillary Clinton ad compares Donald Trump to bullies from movies like “Mean Girls,” “A Christmas Story,” and “Back to the Future.” In “Bully,” some of Trump’s controversial comments are juxtaposed with lines from some of Hollywood’s most memorable antagonists. The ad then shifts to Clinton talking with a young girl about the importance of standing …

The Associated Press reports: WikiLeaks says that founder Julian Assange’s internet access has been cut by an unidentified state actor. Few other details were immediately available. Assange has been up holed up at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for more than four years after skipping bail to avoid being extradited over sex crimes allegations. The cramped quarters haven’t prevented the …

Vulture recaps: There’s no denying that both major party presidential nominees have their drawbacks: One is considered by many to be too rehearsed and hard to relate to, while the other is a liar, alleged serial sexual predator, and definite racist. So it’s possible to feel sympathetic toward those undecided voters — though maybe not Ken Bone anymore — and …

Durham’s ABC affiliate reports: Donald Trump has commented on the firebombing of a North Carolina country Republican Party headquarters, blaming the incident on “animals representing Hillary Clinton.” “Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning,” Trump posted to Twitter on Sunday evening. Hillsborough police are investigating after the …

ABC News reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stood by Republican nominee Donald Trump’s claim that the election is being “rigged,” blaming what he calls “the unending one-sided assault of the news media” on the GOP candidate. “Without the unending one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be beating Hillary Clinton by 15 points,” Gingrich told ABC News’ Martha …

NBC News reports: Hillary Clinton is ahead of Donald Trump by double digits with just over three weeks until Election Day, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted entirely after the second presidential debate. In a four-way race, Democrat Clinton holds an 11-point lead over Republican Trump among likely voters, 48 percent to 37 percent, with …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump has generally had a pretty good sense of humor about how “Saturday Night Live” has portrayed him — even when it has been hugely unflattering. He didn’t even have much to say when SNL called his supporters racist multiple times on the same show, for example. But no more. After this weekend’s show, SNL …

From the editorial board of the Des Moines Register: The outcome of the 2016 presidential election won’t tell us anything we don’t already know about the two major-party candidates — but it will say a lot about who we are. Are we a nation that believes in freedom of religion, a right our founders held so dear they enshrined it …

Just in via press release: The Democratic Coalition Against Trump lodged a complaint for cyber-terrorism and treason against Roger Stone and the Trump campaign for their likely involvement with WikiLeaks, and working with a foreign government to influence American elections. Stone had fair warning before the most recent emails were released, and predicted back in August that Podesta would be …

From the editorial board of the New Orleans Times-Picayune: Mr. Trump has proved himself wholly unsuited to be president. He has spent this campaign denigrating women, Muslims, Mexicans, refugees, disabled people, the parents of a soldier who died in Iraq and essentially anyone who questioned him. He has suggested that an African-American protester at one of his rallies should be …

The Huffington Post recaps: “The Simpsons” takes aim at GOP nominee Donald Trump’s reportedly cozy relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin in a new web short. Homer Simpson is about to vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at the polls when he becomes suspicious of a Red Sox fan in front of him in line. “Good businessman, never sleeps. Doesn’t …

Politico reports: Four decades after five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is trying to frame the hacking of her campaign manager’s email as a repeat of the most famous political scandal in American history – and to directly implicate Donald Trump. “What did Trump know, and when did he know it?” …

Gothamist reports: Jon Girodes, the Republican State Senate candidate who recently came under fire for planning to donate Kool Aid, KFC, and watermelons to his prospective East Harlem constituents, was arrested on Friday for allegedly ripping off 10 people in a Craigslist rent scam. According to the Post, Girodes listed his luxury apartment at 635 W. 42nd for just $1,000 …

People Magazine recaps: Will.I.Am has a serious message about Donald Trump. The Black Eyed Peas frontman did not hold back in a new music video — in collaboration with Funny Or Die — called “GRAB’m by the P—-,” in which he condemned the GOP nominee for the controversial remarks that have marred his campaign — particularly the infamous hot-mic video …

TIME reports: House Speaker Paul Ryan just talked to college Republicans about the 2016 election without mentioning Donald Trump’s name a single time. In a 20-minute speech in Madison, Wis., the nation’s top ranking Republican made only glancing references to the nominee of his own party, noted that he “doesn’t blame” voters who want to sit out the election and …