2016 Election

NEW YORK CITY: Trump Quintuples His Own Trump Tower Rent Now That The Campaign Is Paying For It

From the Huffington Post: After bragging for a year about how cheaply he was running his campaign, Donald Trump is spending more freely now that other people are contributing ― particularly when the beneficiary is himself. Trump nearly quintupled the monthly rent his presidential campaign pays for its headquarters at Trump Tower to $169,758 in July, when he was raising …

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Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway: OK, He Does Hurl Personal Insults But They Started It [VIDEO]

Talking Points Memo reports: Donald Trump’s newly-minted campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, made clear Monday night that while she doesn’t support personal attacks, she thinks her boss was only hitting back when he accused the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” of having an off-camera romance. After Trump took to Twitter to slam Mika Brzezinski as “neurotic” and call her the “very …

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Trump: Don’t Buy The Washington Post’s Boring Book That I Worked With Them For Months To Produce

The Hill reports: Donald Trump on Monday slammed the Washington Post reporters and researchers behind a new book about him, calling it a “hit job” made up of “inaccurate” stories. Trump over the past few months spent more than 20 hours speaking with the Post reporters working on the biography, “Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and …

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Ann Coulter: If Hillary Wins There Will Never Be Another Republican President (But She’s Totally Not Winning)

CNBC reports: Hopes for Republican presidents down the road would be slim if Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton were to defeat Donald Trump, conservative commentator and best-selling author Ann Coulter told CNBC on Tuesday. Coulter said on “Squawk Box” a Clinton presidency would usher in amnesty for undocumented immigrants and open borders, stacking the deck with future voters. “There will be …

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New GOP Ad: Hillary Can’t Stop Lying [VIDEO]

The GOP this morning pounced with a new web ad that attacks Hillary Clinton over the latest batch of 15,000 emails uncovered by the FBI. The clip features multiple soundbites of Clinton shrugging off previous reports on her private email server. Watch below.

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Trump Calls On Justice Department To Appoint Special Prosecutor To Investigate Clinton Foundation [VIDEO]

Via the USA Today: Seeking to make the Clinton Foundation a major election issue, Donald Trump said Monday that a special prosecutor should probe the financial dealings of the organization begun by ex-president Bill Clinton and current Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump told supporters at a rally in Akron, Ohio, that the Justice Department and FBI did a “whitewash” on …

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Roger Stone: Trump Should Release His Taxes [AUDIO]

Via Mediaite: Roger Stone is a ride-or-die fan of Donald Trump, but even he thinks the mogul should just release his tax returns already. The Hillary Clinton hater was on The Fernand Amandi Show on Miami’s 610 WIOD radio today and he just came out with it. “I think he should release his tax returns immediately,” he said, echoing Clinton’s …

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Hillary On Latest Emails: What’s A Few More? [VIDEO]

Via ABC News: Hillary Clinton took on two controversial topics in a late-night interview on ABC’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on Monday. First, Kimmel quizzed the Democratic presidential candidate about news that broke earlier in the day of the release of additional emails from the time she served as secretary of state. “The state department said that they have to release …

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Hillary +8 Nationwide In New NBC Poll

NBC News reports: Hillary Clinton continues to hold a large national lead over Donald Trump, 50 percent to 42 percent, weeks after the Democratic National Convention. Clinton’s 8-point advantage is virtually unchanged from her 9-point lead last week, and she has seen similar margins since the end of July. These results are according to the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election …

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FBI Finds 15K Undisclosed Clinton Emails

The Guardian reports: Nearly 15,000 emails recovered by the FBI from the private server used by Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state are set to be made public just before the presidential election in November, it emerged in court on Monday. The state department said it was reviewing 14,900 documents that came to light in the now-closed investigation …

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Trump Campaign Refuses To Comment On Racist And Anti-Muslim Social Media Posts Made By Staffers

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump’s paid campaign staffers have declared on their personal social media accounts that Muslims are unfit to be U.S. citizens, mocked how Mexicans talk, called for Secretary of State John Kerry to be hanged and stated their readiness for a possible civil war, according to a review by The Associated Press of their postings. The …

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Democrats Denounce GOP Sen. Mark Kirk For Calling Obama The “Drug Dealer In Chief” For Iran Payment

The Chicago Tribune reports: Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, who has made opposition to a U.S.-led nuclear agreement with Iran a major theme of his re-election campaign, likened home-state President Barack Obama to “drug dealer in chief” over a $400 million payment linked to the release of American prisoners. Kirk’s controversial rhetoric has been an issue as the first-term senator …

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Trump’s 12 Year-Old Boy Wonder Is Very Trump-Like

Multiple outlets are buzzing today about the 12 year-old boy now running Trump’s campaign office in Denver. As it turns out, the kid is following in his hero’s footsteps in more ways than one. From a Guardian article posted just before the GOP convention: The Colorado delegation to the Republican national convention has long been one of the most vocal …

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FLORIDA: Republican US House Candidate Flips Out When Reporter Questions Donations [AUDIO]

Former Secret Service agent and GOP US House candidate Dan Bongino really doesn’t like it when reporters wonder why 94% his campaign donations have come from outside the district he’s running in. Politico reports: The dispute began on Twitter early in the day when Bongino bashed the Naples Daily News for writing “propaganda.” Asked by POLITICO reporter Marc Caputo about …

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A 12 Year-Old Is Running Trump’s Colorado Office

Talking Points Memo reports: One Colorado 12-year-old is spending his summer vacation helping Donald Trump get elected by running the campaign’s field office in one of the state’s most populous counties. The Trump campaign’s field office in Jefferson County, which includes the greater Denver area, is largely run by Weston Imer, 12. While his mother, Laurel Imer, is listed as …

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Trump: Shut Down The Corrupt Clinton Foundation

Via press release from Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton is the defender of the corrupt and rigged status quo. The Clintons have spent decades as insiders lining their own pockets and taking care of donors instead of the American people. It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history. What they were doing during …

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Clinton Campaign Makes $80M TV Ad Buy [VIDEO]

With a new spot that eviscerates Trump on his temperament. ABC News reports: Hillary Clinton’s campaign is ramping up its presence on the airwaves. According to an aide, the campaign has reserved $80 million worth of TV ad space in battleground states to take them through the fall campaign. The buy – which includes $3 million in additional ads for …

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Trump Doesn’t Hurl Personal Insults

Yesterday Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway appeared on ABC’s This Week to smugly declare that Trump “doesn’t hurl personal insults.” Less than 24 hours later, her candidate decided that it makes sense to call Mika Brzezinski a neurotic and not very bright mess. Trump followed that tweet up a few minutes later by threatening to out the Morning Joe pair …

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Michele Bachmann: I’m Advising Trump On Terrorism

Donald Trump held a fundraiser in Minnesota this weekend and Michele Bachmann was one of the few local Republicans willing to be seen there. MPR News reports: Before the event, former Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said she has been advising Trump on foreign policy and issues of concern to Christian conservatives. She said Trump is right to call for …

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Trump Surrogate Steve Cortes: Breitbart Isn’t A Racist Site Because Milo Yiannopoulos Is Gay [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: Joy Reid held a panel on Sunday to address Stephen Bannon‘s hiring by the Donald Trump campaign on Sunday. During the discussion, one of the mogul’s supporters gave a really weird reason for why hiring the chief of Breitbart isn’t proof that the Trump movement is becoming increasingly far-right. Reid brought up examples of Breitbart affiliation with the …

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