Democrats try to taint California opponents with Trump links

Donald Trump is playing a starring role in at least five of the most hotly contested races for the California Assembly and Senate. California Democrats in those races are using a strategy their party has employed in congressional and other contests across the country - spending millions of dollars to link Republican candidates to their party's nominee for president, even in races where GOP lawmakers have refused to back Trump.

What debate experts saw in the second Clinton/Trump debate

Supporters of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each could come away from the Sunday, Oct. 9, debate feeling good about their candidate, according to Southern California debate experts who watched the event. Gordon Stables, director of the Trojan Debate Squad and an assistant dean at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, said the first 25 minutes of the debate in St. Louis were “the most uncomfortable bit of political communication I've ever seen.