2016

2016

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Trump & Pence swinging into Minnesota

"Trump, who has said in recent days that Minnesota is his to win, will make his first public visit to the state Sunday afternoon.
The Trump rally will be at 2 p.m. at the Sun Country hangar at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, located at 2005 Cargo Road. Gates will open at 11 a.m.
Vice-presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence will have a rally at the Duluth airport at 9:30 a.m. Monday." PioneerPress
 

L.A. Times Tracking POLL: Trump by 5.4?

"Trump 48.2% Clinton 42.6%." L.A. Times

Emails: There's more...

"Uncovered: Clinton sent classified emails to her daughter..." LouDobbs

Pollster Zogby sees 2012 -- in Reverse

"Veteran pollster John Zogby sent out an “Uh-oh” alert Saturday night noting that heading into Sunday, two key voting groups that had shifted toward Barack Obama by the Saturday before the 2012 election — and that gave him his victory — were not moving Democrat Hillary Clinton’s way four days before Tuesday’s election.
“Donald Trump will win if kids and blacks stay home,” Mr. Zogby said in response ot an email from The Washington Times.
The two groups were 18-29 year olds---Second, young African Americans “are not quite in Clinton’s Camp.”
“When I see African Americans who are undecided, especially this late in the game, it tells me that they are not going to vote,” Mr. Zogby says.
About one in five young voters are still undecided.... Mrs. Clinton is still polling around 50 percent of 18-29 year olds and many are telling pollsters and reporters that she represents the Establishment, something they reject." WashingtonTimes
 

Arizona POLL: Trump by 5?

"In Arizona, Trump leads Clinton by five points among likely voters, 45 percent to 40 percent, while Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson is at 9 percent and the Green Party's Jill Stein is at 3 percent." NBC

Kaine gives entire speech in Spanish

"PHOENIX — Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine made history Thursday as he delivered what was called the first speech completely in Spanish by a candidate at an organized campaign rally during a presidential election.
"Latinos will have a very important voice in this election and the option is crystal clear," the senator from Virginia said in Spanish to a crowd of roughly 360 people gathered at the Phoenix rally, which was punctuated by a mariachi band and signs like "Bienvenidos a Arizona." NBC

Pence video Released Targeting Evangelicals

"The Republican campaign is releasing a video of vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence sharing his personal Christian testimony." BCN 

Will Cuban Voters hand Trump Florida?

"If Republican candidate Donald Trump wins Florida, as some polls predict, and goes on to win the
Nov. 8 election — a big if, but not an impossible outcome — he might have President Obama to thank for lending him a hand in the final stretch of the race.
Obama’s Oct. 14 decision to further relax the U.S. embargo on Cuba by allowing American tourists to bring back unlimited quantities of Cuban rum and cigars, as well as his Oct. 26 decision to abstain for the first time in a United Nations vote against the U.S. embargo on Cuba, have probably pushed many undecided Cuban Americans in Florida to vote for Trump.
“Cubans return to Trump,” read a sub-headline of The New York Times Upshot/Siena University poll released Oct. 27, which gave Trump a four-point lead in Florida. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was leading in the same poll only a month earlier." SeattleTimes

Kaine Swipes at FBI

"Tim Kaine: Some in the FBI are "actively working" to help Donald Trump." CNN

Dems Last Minute "October Surprise" Crumbles in November

"A woman who accused Donald Trump of raping her as a young girl in the 1990s has dropped her lawsuit against him. 
Politico reported that the unidentified woman, going by the pseudonym “Jane Doe,” dropped the New York federal lawsuit Friday without explanation." TheHill 
 

Trump Edging in Toss-Up States Aggregate

"News/WaPo tracking poll: Trump has slight lead, 48-45%." ABC

Iowa POLL: Trump widens Lead

"Donald Trump has taken a 7 point lead in Iowa.
According to Saturday's Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll, Trump is the top choice for 46 percent of voters who say they have cast their ballot or definitely will vote in the 2016 election, compared to Hillary Clinton, who is at 39 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson is at 6 percent, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein is at 1 percent." Politico

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Secret Service rushes Trump Off Stage

"Secret Service agents rushed Donald Trump offstage on Saturday evening during a rally in Reno,
Nevada after they determined a protester in the audience posed a threat to the Republican presidential candidate. 'Go! Go!' agents shouted as they whisked him away and a combination of local police and private security wrestled the suspect to the ground.
A sea of bodies scattered, screams rang out and authorities dragged the man away as he kicked and strained.
A Trump campaign source who spoke with DailyMail.com said someone in the audience had shouted 'gun' kicking off the ensuing chaos. 
Trump then returned to the stage just minutes later.
'Nobody said it was going to be easy for us,' Trump declared. 'But we will never be stopped. Never, never be stopped.'
'I want to thank the Secret Service. These guys are fantastic. They don't get enough credit. They don't get enough credit. They're amazing people.'" msn

 

Emails: Hillary team Planned to go after Rand Paul's son if need be

"Leaked emails between Hillary Clinton campaign staffers showed a willingness to target Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s family if it meant protecting the Clintons.
One Clinton staffer remarked on Paul’s unwillingness to comment on his 22-year-old son’s DUI, suggesting it could be used the next time Paul “attacks someone in [Hillary]’s family.”
Paul has been a stern critic of Bill Clinton’s treatment of women and has referred to the former president as a sexual predator.
After Rand Paul’s 22-year-old son William was cited for driving under the influence of alcohol in May of 2015, the Clinton campaign appeared ready to use that information to hit back at Paul if they felt it was needed." IW

ISIS calls for a Bloody U.S. Election Day

"May Allah make this year’s U.S. presidential election a dreadful calamity like no other to have struck America throughout its pathetic history," the seven-page manifesto distributed by ISIS and entitled "The Murtadd Vote," read." ZH

Bill Clinton caught Mocking Working Class Voters

"While speaking at a private fundraiser, former president Bill Clinton scoffed at working class voters
for worrying about the economic impact of immigration, leaked documents reveal.
Clinton also claimed that “non-Evangelical white working class people” are simply supporting Trump because “they have an IV hooked up to FOX News.”
“So when Trump says, ‘I’ll build a wall around Mexico and no more illegal immigrants can get in'” Clinton said, “Believe me, nobody in coal country lost a job because of a Latin-American immigrant. They lost their industry.”
Hillary Clinton has been the subject of criticism for promising to put coal miners out of business if elected." DC

Hillary Event Washed out in 7 Minutes

"Hillary Clinton’s only scheduled rally Saturday in Florida was cut short by heavy rain.
Clinton’s speech only lasted about seven minutes, and she yelled hoarsely as rain poured." DC

How Trump Reversed Class Voting in 2016

"These working-class voters have heard Trump say that he will bring mining back to coal country, whereas Clinton more highly prioritizes climate change.

They have heard Trump tell Ford executives that he will slap a 35-percent tariff on cars imported from factories moved to Mexico, while Clinton prioritizes the health of the corporations (and the
donations of CEOs) more than the resurrection of American industry.

They have heard Trump talk “extreme vetting,” while Clinton calls for a 500 percent increase in Syrian refugees. And they know that the refugees are coming to their towns and not to Montgomery County or Westchester or Bel Air.
 
The NASCAR-loving, country music-listening, culturally conservative working class doesn’t exist just in the Rust Belt or the South. It also exists in Massachusetts. These are the people whose salaries have ebbed as the 1 percent has prospered. These are, in the late novelist Carson McCullers’s words, the “leftover people.” They know, as The New York Times recently trumpeted, that the rich this year are voting for Hillary Clinton. They know they are not. And they might just win." RCP

L.A. Times Tracking POLL: Trump +5.4%?

"Trump 48% Clinton 42.6%" L.A. Times

Media POLL: Hillary +5?

"Support for Donald Trump has slipped to its lowest in 10 days and enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton has recovered from its apparent damage by the latest FBI email investigation. Yet the race between them remains close in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll.
Forty-seven percent of likely voters support Clinton with 43 percent for Trump in the latest four-night results. Whether it holds is an open question: Monday night’s results, the best for Clinton in the series, will roll out tomorrow." ABC

Trump the G.O.P. James Bond?

"It’s probably safe to say that for many, one of Trump’s greatest moments during the debates was his response to Clinton’s statement about how it’s a good thing he isn’t in charge of the law in our country. Trump’s response was, “Because you’d be in jail.”
Greg Gutfeld, a Fox News commentator said “Trump is a tornado and Clinton is the trailer park.”
Mark Steyn discussed an interesting question posed during the 2008 presidential election to Daniel Craig, the current James Bond. He asked which candidate would make a better 007." PJ

Qatar Controversy for Hillary

"The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she signed an "ethics agreement" to do just that." ZH

Trump gives G.O.P. weekly address

"In the Weekly Republican Address, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses his plan for moving our country in a new direction from the failed leadership of the last eight years, and asks the American people to elect Republicans up and down the ticket to make that vision possible.

DONALD TRUMP: For the past seventeen months I’ve travelled across this nation and met the amazing people of our country. Their hopes have become my hopes and their dreams have become my dreams.

This is not just a campaign, it’s a movement. It’s a once in a lifetime chance to take our government

back from the donors and the special interests, and return the power to you, the American people.

Fifteen days ago, I proposed my Contract with the American Voter—a 100 day action plan to bring real change to Washington. We need change so badly. If we win on November 8, and elect a Republican House and Senate, we can finally deliver the change the American people deserve.

My Contract includes a plan to create 25 million new jobs. We will cut taxes on the middle class Americans by 35 percent, and we will repeal and replace the total disaster known as ObamaCare – it doesn’t work.

We will also immediately fix our terrible trade deals and stop the jobs from leaving our country. My Contract includes a pledge to end illegal immigration, and end it rapidly, cancel federal funding for sanctuary cities, and suspend the admission of Syrian refugees into our country. They’re coming in by the thousands, and Hillary Clinton wants to increase that by 600 percent.

We will rebuild our badly depleted military, and take care of our great, great veterans.

We will give every parent in America the right to send their kids to the school of their choice, including millions of low-income African American and Hispanic children who have been failed, so long—for generations in fact—by the Democratic politicians like Hillary Clinton. They just haven’t been able to do the job. They’ve treated African Americans and Hispanics horribly in so many ways.

We will undertake a national effort to reduce crime and poverty, and bring jobs and safety to our inner cities—finally, at last.

We will restore the Constitution and nominate Supreme Court Justices who will do the same.

At the center of my Contract is my plan to end government corruption. Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States, and if she were to win it would create
a constitutional crisis like no other. She’s under multiple federal investigations, has committed many crimes, including perjury, and she’s now facing the prospect of a federal indictment.

It’s time to close the history books on the Clintons, and to open a bright new chapter focused on the great citizens of our country."
RCP

Dave Chappelle slams Hillary

"Comedian Dave Chappelle has been prepping for his November 12 hosting slot on Saturday Night
Live with a series of surprise shows at The Cutting Room in New York. ... he shocked the crowd with a 60-minute set largely devoted to slamming Hillary Clinton.
He was particularly agitated about what he believes was Clinton’s role in leaking a surreptitiously recorded conversation between Republican nominee Donald J. Trump and TV personality Billy Bush. “What I heard on that tape was gross,” Chappelle said. “But the way I got to hear it was even more gross. You know that came directly from Hillary.” He stated this had put him off a candidate he had already known was “not right.” Observer

Democrat Elector won't cast his Electoral Vote for Hillary

"A Democratic presidential elector in Washington state says he will not vote for Hillary Clinton.
Former Bernie Sanders delegate Robert Satiacum told ABC News Friday night that the Democratic presidential candidate's stance on the environment clashed with his Native American heritage. "I will not vote for Hillary Clinton," he told ABC News. "I will not write her name. I will not. I will not."
The member of the Puyallup Tribe in the Evergreen State says he believes Clinton lied about using a private email server, calling it a "heinous act of stupidity." ABC