Teabagistan

This must be today’s talking point since Sean Spicer said basically the same thing early this morning. Via Mediaite: Mike Pence called into Rush Limbaugh‘s show this afternoon to talk about dealing with being the underdogs in the race right now. Pence diverted from talking about the polls to say, “It’s clear to me the national media is trying to …

Via Mediaite: During a heated and contentious interview with CNN’s John Berman and Kate Bolduan, RNC communications director Sean Spicer insisted that the race for the White House was a “dead heat” and said that Republican nominee Donald Trump was ahead in several key battleground states. Per Spicer, the whole thing is even and many polls show Trump is trending …

Via Politico: Donald Trump accused Democrats on Monday of manufacturing fake polls that show him trailing in the presidential election in order to discourage the GOP nominee’s supporters from voting on Election Day. “Major story that the Dems are making up phony polls in order to suppress the the [sic] Trump,” the Manhattan billionaire wrote on Twitter Monday morning. “We …

Joe Klein writes for TIME Magazine: Donald Trump will probably lose this election, which is good news. Here’s the bad news: that loss may be just the beginning of Trump’s toxic presence in American political life. Nightmare scenarios are floating through Republican circles. The best cases posit a bitter and continuing Republican civil war between the Trump and “Establishment” factions …

This morning Donald Trump tweeted the wildly out-of-context 2007 quote from Michelle Obama that Politfact rated as false when he said it on the stump two days ago. Here’s the full quote: “One of the most important things that we need to know about the next president of the United States is, is he somebody that shares our values? Is …

CNN reports: Donald Trump vowed Saturday to sue the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct in recent weeks. “Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign,” Trump said during remarks in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. “Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.” He added that …

“I have been under constant surveillance. Two of my dogs have been poisoned, and someone regularly rummages through my trash where they will find nothing, since I wasn’t born yesterday. We all know that politics is a blood sport, and I am no stranger to fights or controversy. I’ve been called every name in the book, but calling me a …

For your LOL file: Climate change. Supporting the Iraq War. Accepting the results of the presidential election. Even Donald Trump admitted Friday he relishes denying things. Speaking at a rally in Fletcher, North Carolina, Trump denounced what he hyperbolically suggested were “thousands and thousands of ads” run by Hillary Clinton’s “juggernaut,” which he said has raised “billions of dollars.” “I …

The New York Post reports: Donald Trump claims to only hire the “best people,” but also boasted once of hiring a teenager with no experience just because she was beautiful. In video taken of Trump giving a paid Learning Annex speech in 2007, the Republican presidential candidate — currently accused of groping as many as 11 women against their will …

Miranda Blue reports at Right Wing Watch: The Tea Party “election integrity” group True the Vote has been ramping up its efforts to send poll watchers to polling places in advance of the presidential election, fueled in part by Donald Trump’s frequent claims that the election will be “rigged” against him and his calls for supporters to monitor polls in …

But they give no admission that Trump’s trolls did the same thing to recent click-polls on many mainstream sites. Via Breitbart: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has overtaken Hillary Clinton on a Breitbart debate poll, despite a stream of overseas Clinton bots skewing the results in favour of the Democratic nominee. The original results of the poll were gleefully reported …

Via Breitbart: Build The Wall: The Game, an iPhone game created by pro-Trump internet personality Baked Alaska, has been rejected from the Apple App Store for including a cameo by Pepe the Frog. “I had a free game coming out on iOS today for y’all, but Apple has banned it’s release due to a cartoon picture of Pepe The Frog …

Politico reports: Jim Murphy, Donald Trump’s national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move. “I have not resigned but for personal reasons have had to take a step back from the campaign,” Murphy said in a statement to POLITICO. Since joining the Trump campaign in June, Murphy, …

ABC News reports: Speaking for the first time since the presidential debate last night, Donald Trump said he would “promise and pledge” to accept the results of the election — if he wins. “I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States, that I will …

Talking Points Memo reports: Fearful that a decades-old court order blocking the Republican Party from engaging in certain Election Day activities could be extended for many more years, the RNC is warning its members not to engage in poll watching or any other so-called “ballot security” measures. The RNC’s concerns are heightened because of the vigilante poll watching GOP nominee …

Donald Trump just accused Fox News anchor Chris Wallace of providing Hillary with last night’s debate questions in advance. Yep. And of course, he’s gleefully tweeting out the results of click polls showing him as the runaway winner. Meanwhile Twitter’s conspiracy machine is in full tilt with claims that Hillary used a secret earpiece (again!), that her bodyguards were anxiously poised …

Business Insider reports: In an interview with Chris Cuomo on CNN, the campaign manager attempted to argue that Trump’s speculation about the integrity of the election system was akin to Al Gore’s initial refusal to concede the 2000 presidential race to George W. Bush. “Everybody, including Al Gore in 2000, waits to see what those election results are, if they’re …

“Seems silly media sheep are all chomping down on one issue after this debate, at least according to all the reporters who hollered out this same question to me: ‘What about Trump not accepting the election results?’ More power to Trump for explaining how vitally important the legitimacy of every election is to our democracy within our Republic. “What reasonable …

From the editorial board of the New York Times: Donald Trump turned, in the third and final presidential debate, from insulting the intelligence of the American voter to insulting American democracy itself. He falsely insisted there were “millions of people” registered to participate in the election who did not have the right to vote and declared he would not commit …

At this writing Hillary Clinton remains in the lead in Breitbart‘s debate poll, much to the anguish of the site’s readers, most of whom are screaming “rigged!” There’s little doubt that Breitbart was targeted by trolls using the same tactics and bots that Trump supporters have used to freep previous polls on mainstream media sites. Meanwhile Hillary actually did win …