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Freyland wrote:

Max Peck wrote:Eric Trump mansplains how becoming President would be a step down for his father.

Okay, little irritated here. That article points out that Eric Trump "caused a furor when he compared Syrian refugees to Skittles". I just read his statement, and it seemed an extremely reasonable analogy in an otherwise sea of Trump garbage.

Freyland wrote:

Max Peck wrote:Eric Trump mansplains how becoming President would be a step down for his father.

Okay, little irritated here. That article points out that Eric Trump "caused a furor when he compared Syrian refugees to Skittles". I just read his statement, and it seemed an extremely reasonable analogy in an otherwise sea of Trump garbage.

Max Peck wrote:Eric Trump mansplains how becoming President would be a step down for his father.

Freyland wrote:

Max Peck wrote:Eric Trump mansplains how becoming President would be a step down for his father.

Okay, little irritated here. That article points out that Eric Trump "caused a furor when he compared Syrian refugees to Skittles". I just read his statement, and it seemed an extremely reasonable analogy in an otherwise sea of Trump garbage.

Max Peck wrote:

Freyland wrote:

Max Peck wrote:Eric Trump mansplains how becoming President would be a step down for his father.

Okay, little irritated here. That article points out that Eric Trump "caused a furor when he compared Syrian refugees to Skittles". I just read his statement, and it seemed an extremely reasonable analogy in an otherwise sea of Trump garbage.

That's some good irony, that is. Right? Also, it was Donald Trump Jr., not Eric.

tgb wrote:Is it me, or does it seem like this surrogate started hitting the Jack Daniels when she woke up this morning? I probably would be,too, if I had to seriously spout this shit.

It's 5:00 somewhere

PLW wrote:

Freyland wrote:

Max Peck wrote:Eric Trump mansplains how becoming President would be a step down for his father.

Okay, little irritated here. That article points out that Eric Trump "caused a furor when he compared Syrian refugees to Skittles". I just read his statement, and it seemed an extremely reasonable analogy in an otherwise sea of Trump garbage.

The analogy is only apt if you think eating a skittle is of equivalent moral value to saving a stranger's life.

CNN host Erin Burnett then asked Giuliani if there was any story that could come out that would lead him to disavow Trump.

"I'm not going to engage in hypotheticals," he said, before asking Cuban, "If someone came to you and said Hillary Clinton murdered someone, and you believed them, would it change your mind?"

"Yes," Cuban said in response.

"Okay," Giuliani said. "Um, yeah. But that's a hypothetical."

On Trump's businesses, Cuban said, aside from real estate, Trump's been a failure at "everything else" and he's now "crushing his brands."

"It makes no sense what he's doing because everything he's saying is hurting his brand," he said.

Giuliani responded by saying he visited Trump's hotels and golf courses, and added that "everyone's had failures."

"Why all the failures?" Cuban said.

"People doing bold things sometimes fail," Giuliani later said.

"Trump steaks is bold?" Cuban interjected. "Trump playing cards is bold? Trump card games is bold?"

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Has Fivethirtyeight had Clinton as the favorite to win Ohio for awhile now or is that a new thing?

tgb wrote:Is it me, or does it seem like this surrogate started hitting the Jack Daniels when she woke up this morning? I probably would be,too, if I had to seriously spout this shit.

It's 5:00 somewhere

malchior wrote:

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Has Fivethirtyeight had Clinton as the favorite to win Ohio for awhile now or is that a new thing?

Since the 2nd debate at least.

Republican Rep. Brian Babin on Thursday defended Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton "a nasty woman" at the final presidential debate, saying "sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty."
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Appearing on the "Alan Colmes Show" on Thursday evening, Babin, a Trump supporter, was asked if he thought Trump's comment was appropriate.

"You know what, she's saying some nasty things," the Texas congressman answered.

Colmes asked again if the comment was appropriate, to which Babin responded, "Well, I'm a genteel Southerner, Alan."

"So that means no?" Colmes asked.

"No, I think sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty," Babin replied. "I do."

"My assessment is that Mrs. Clinton has got so much baggage--" Babin added. "I think she's done some nasty things."

After Colmes repeatedly pressed the Texas congressman, he said he agreed with Trump's assessment of Clinton as a "nasty woman."

In a interview Thursday on the Mike Gallagher Show, Gingrich, a prominent adviser to the GOP nominee, cited anti-Trump Republicans, the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of private email, and the release this week of an edited video suggesting a Democratic operative and staff hired people to incite violence at Trump rallies as evidence that the election might be rigged against Trump.

"So you look at all that stuff, and you say, I'd be a little bit cautious about automatically accepting that Hillary Clinton will be legitimately anything," Gingrich said. "We are in the worst cycle of corruption in American history, and in many ways, we resemble Venezuela and Argentina more than we resemble traditional America."

Max Peck wrote:Speaking of classy, why does Newt Gingrich hate America so much?

In a interview Thursday on the Mike Gallagher Show, Gingrich, a prominent adviser to the GOP nominee, cited anti-Trump Republicans, the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of private email, and the release this week of an edited video suggesting a Democratic operative and staff hired people to incite violence at Trump rallies as evidence that the election might be rigged against Trump.

"So you look at all that stuff, and you say, I'd be a little bit cautious about automatically accepting that Hillary Clinton will be legitimately anything," Gingrich said. "We are in the worst cycle of corruption in American history, and in many ways, we resemble Venezuela and Argentina more than we resemble traditional America."

I was worried that Trump might turn the USA into a banana republic, but according to Newt it already is.

When deliberating over a presidential endorsement, the Daily News Editorial Board strives to identify the person who offers the greatest promise to brighten the futures of Americans and to safeguard the national security.

Never have we questioned a candidate’s fitness to serve.

Then came Donald Trump — liar, thief, bully, hypocrite, sexual victimizer and unhinged, self-adoring demagogue.

Dogstar wrote:

Then came Donald Trump — liar, thief, bully, hypocrite, sexual victimizer and unhinged, self-adoring demagogue.

Jim Murphy joined in June to serve as political director, replacing Rick Wiley, who'd only been in the position for two months. On Thursday, it was reported that Murphy had to "step back" from the campaign for the last three weeks for personal reasons. Murphy came on shortly after former campaign manager Paul Manafort joined the team, but outlasted Manafort by about a month-and-a-half.

Murphy's job was to focus on Trump's efforts on the ground in those battleground states. This would be a thankless job under any circumstances, given Trump's repeatedly expressed antipathy for running traditional field campaigns and his apparent decision to outsource most of the work of contacting and turning out voters to the Republican Party. As Clinton has seen her lead expand and as Trump has watched the electoral math slip further away thanks to stagnant or worsening numbers in key states, it's easy to see why a political director might become a bit disheartened.

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What a political campaign should be doing right now — even a struggling political campaign — is driving a unified message, contacting voters with that message before they vote and encouraging supporters in early-voting states to get to the polls. It's the Jim Murphys of the campaign who are responsible for doing that.

Trump is now without a Jim Murphy. Even if he could crawl back nationally — probably a decent-sized if — he's now completely reliant on his party to do the hard work of ensuring voters go to the polls. If he doesn't crawl back nationally, or if he doesn't crawl back enough, the party doesn't have a lot of incentive to spend time and money that could instead go to embattled House and Senate candidates.

For another campaign, this would be a crisis. But for this campaign, it's a crisis that's somewhere toward the middle of the long line of crises. It's a guy who lost a finger walking into an emergency room filled with people who have lost both legs and arms. It's a problem, and a big one — but it's not the worst one.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gained on his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton among American voters this week, cutting her lead nearly in half, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling released on Friday.

The polling data showed Trump's argument that the Nov. 8 election is "rigged" against him has resonated with members of his party.

"Remember folks, it's a rigged system," Trump told a Pennsylvania rally on Friday. "That's why you've got to get out and vote, you've got to watch. Because this system is totally rigged."

Clinton led Trump 44 percent to 40 percent, according to the Oct. 14-20 Reuters/Ipsos poll, a 4-point lead. That compared with 44 percent for Clinton and 37 percent for Trump in the Oct. 7-13 poll released last week.

Max Peck wrote:Reuters polling explorer

Defiant wrote:

Max Peck wrote:Reuters polling explorer

OK, I'm not sure I trust their likely voter model if 3% of likely voters say they wouldn't vote.

So let’s use today’s Election Update as an excuse to talk about something else: the effect that likely-voter models are having on the polls. Every pollster has its own method for determining who’s a likely voter, although I generally think of likely-voter models as falling into two categories: “soft” likely-voter screens that simply ask voters whether they’re likely to vote, and “hard” likely-voter screens like the one that Gallup employed that use a longer battery of questions, including voting history. I won’t go into too much more detail on methodology here, but there’s a great primer on likely-voter models at the old Mystery Pollster site if you’re into that kind of thing.

Donald Trump declared that he was “looking forward” to suing every woman who has accused him of groping and assault during a Saturday speech laying out his plan for the first 100 days of his presidency.

“All of these liars will be sued after the election,” Trump claimed, alleging that the 10 women who have so far accused him of unwanted advances came forward “to hurt my campaign.”

The Trump team billed the speech, held in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s address, as an opportunity to lay out his top priorities.

Holman wrote:Remember Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, where he threatened to sue everyone who had accused him of sexual assault?

Donald Trump declared that he was “looking forward” to suing every woman who has accused him of groping and assault during a Saturday speech laying out his plan for the first 100 days of his presidency.

“All of these liars will be sued after the election,” Trump claimed, alleging that the 10 women who have so far accused him of unwanted advances came forward “to hurt my campaign.”

The Trump team billed the speech, held in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s address, as an opportunity to lay out his top priorities.