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Trump Retweets Juanita Broaddrick in Foreshadowing of Debate Strategy
This is apparently an indication of how Trump plans to handle the "grab them by the p***y" video" tomorrow: Bill Clinton to start, a heaping helping of Bill Clinton for the main course - and for dessert? Bill Clinton : If your style is to hit back whenever you're hit, this is the logical place to go, and he's already starting. It's a reminder that he's not the only awful person on the stage.
Sanders supporters seethe over Clinton’s leaked remarks to Wall St.
Supporters of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday expressed anger and vindication over leaked comments made by Hillary Clinton to banks and big business that appeared to confirm their fears about her support for global trade and tendency to cozy up to Wall Street. Clinton, who needs Sanders' coalition of young and left-leaning voters to propel her to the presidency, pushes for open trade and open borders in one of the speeches, and takes a conciliatory approach to Wall Street, both positions she later backed away from in an effort to capture the popular appeal of Sanders' attacks on trade deals and powerful banks.
GOP ‘Revolutionary’ Considers Hillary
Vin Weber, once a major lieutenant in the Gingrich army and now a Beltway insider, says he can't vote Trump. But that's all he'll say-for now.
Quiz Predicts If You Love or Hate Trump
The political and media elites dismiss Trump's supporters as ignorant. William Poundstone started constructing quizzes to find out if that was true.
When Trump’s losing he’s whingeing … and guess what? He’s doing a lot of whingeing
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall-style forum, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, in Sandown, N.H. In this unpredictable election year, the simplest way to assess the state of the race is to check how often Donald Trump complains that the fix is in. Polls can be unreliable and contradictory, most radio and cable news broadcasts are nakedly partisan, but Trump's fragile ego can be trusted: if he's whingeing, he's losing.
Clinton’s Wall Street remarks are tempered by time, supporters say
The remarks by Hillary Clinton during the paid speeches show a politician at ease with the lexicon and mandate of international finance and a realpolitik approach to world events. For progressive Democrats, the release of hacked emails suggesting a tight relationship between Hillary Clinton and Wall Street and her dream of "open trade and open borders" was an uncomfortable reminder of where she stood when her presidential campaign began.
WikiLeaks Releases Paid Clinton Speech Excerpts, And Threatens To Expose Google
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes the Independent: Wikileaks has dumped thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta , which includes apparent excerpts from Ms Clinton's paid, closed-door speeches to Wall Street executives after leaving her position as Secretary of State.
Democrats plot as tapes rock Trump
Workers prepare the stage for the second presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in St Louis. Photo / AP Democrats are watching from offstage as a Republican drama unfolds before them, determined not to step on their opponents' bad news and eager to tie down-ballot Republican candidates to their increasingly isolated nominee.
Lewd language on Trump tape creates a challenge for parents
The 6-year-old girl turned to her mother and asked, "What does it mean to grab somebody by the p---y?" Then she saw the television screen. "You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them," Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, was saying in a 2005 recording.
Romney “offended and dismayed” by Trump
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he was ''offended and dismayed'' by the conduct of current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Rough Cut .
With campaign in crisis, Melania Trump asks country to forgive her husband
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump introduces his wife Melania on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Melania Trump came to her husband's defense Saturday, saying the vulgar comments the Republican nominee made in an uncovered video do "not represent the man that I know."
Iowa political leaders react to Donald Trump’s lewd remarks
On the eve of the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Republican candidate is yet again under fire, this time for lewd and vulgar comments he made toward women during a 2005 conversation. "I'm automatically attracted to beautiful women," Trump said in a 2005 videotape released Friday by The Washington Post.
Strickland slams Portman for not retracting Trump endorsement
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ted Strickland assailed his Republican opponent, incumbent U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, today for not retracting his endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the wake of lewd comments by Mr. Trump caught on tape in 2005. "I would say that after seeing this video that Donald Trump is unfit to be the president of the United States of America and as a result of Rob Portman's continued support of him, Rob Portman is unfit to be a senator from the state of Ohio," Mr. Strickland said in an interview today with The Blade.
Rhoads: Mike Pence for President
It is time for Donald Trump to end his childish and vulgar campaign against women and resign his nomination while there is still time for the Republican National Committee to replace Trump at the top of a new ticket. There is still time for the RNC to save some down-ballot candidates and nominate Gov. Mike Pence, who can unite the party and defeat Hillary Clinton.
Era of big monthly job gains appears over, and economists say that’s a good thing
A job seeker stops at a table offering resume critiques during a job fair in Atlanta. The U.S. unemployment rate ticked up to 5 percent last month, according to data released Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, the highest since April, but that was largely because the labor force expanded by about 444,000 people.
Private Clinton speeches leaked in hacking blamed on Russia
Hillary Clinton told bankers behind closed doors that she favored "open trade and open borders" and said Wall Street executives were best-positioned to help reform the U.S. financial sector, according to transcripts of her private, paid speeches leaked Friday. Excerpts of the speeches given in the years before her 2016 presidential campaign included some blunt and unguarded remarks to her private audiences, which collectively had paid her at least $26.1 million in speaking fees.
Some Republicans urge ticket-splitting for Clinton
Since then, he's been a reliable backer of Republican presidential nominees, including both presidents Bush, Bob Dole and Mitt Romney. The software engineer from Matthews isn't a fan of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, but he insists she would make a more reasonable president, especially on foreign affairs, than Trump.
Trump Campaign Reels as Some Donors Explore Replacing Him
Key Republican donors have begun looking into whether it's possible to replace Donald Trump as the party's presidential nominee after his campaign was jarred Friday by a video showing him speaking about groping women and making other crude, sexually aggressive comments. Trump released a video statement early Saturday apologizing for the second time in 24 hours for the 2005 comments.
Republicans reeling after Trump’s vulgar comments revealed
In a videotaped midnight apology, Donald Trump declared "I was wrong and I apologize" after being caught on tape making shockingly vulgar and sexually charged comments. Yet he also defiantly dismissed the revelations as "nothing more than a distraction" from a decade ago and signaled he would close his presidential campaign by arguing rival Hillary Clinton has committed greater sins against women.