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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Lindsey Graham bashed Trump’s comments at a Wednesday town hall on national security, including Trump’s suggestion that an internal court system should be set up to address rape in the military, TPM’s Tierney Sneed reported. “George Washington beat him to it,” Graham said Thursday, referring to the fact that such a system already exists.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “I don’t think Lauer did a great job. He devoted too much time to the email issue. There were various times where I suspect that he was just overwhelmed by Trump’s nonsense and didn’t know where to start in correcting him. He certainly should have piped up when Trump falsely claimed that he’d been against the Iraq War when we have so much proof that that’s a straight up lie. But he did press Trump and he came back at Trump, albeit in fairly soft ways, which prompted Trump to double down or expand on moronic or transparently ridiculous arguments. Maybe I’m giving Lauer too much credit and he was just the Mr. Magoo of Trump moderators, blindly and luckily walking into saying things that made Trump make a fool of himself. But I don’t think that’s quite the fullness of what happened.”
Say What?!
“Most of them are just names on paper.”
– Contrary to Trump’s bluster about having legions of policy experts, former staffers said that advisers had minimal roles in the campaign.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “It’s interesting to look at what the polls are saying, though. Yes, Clinton’s support has been falling — but it’s moving towards third party candidates, not out of the arena. We’ll see what happens, but it seems likely to me that many of those potential third-party voter will come back to the Democrats if Trump looks likely to win in their individual states. (If I’m unhappy with my choices in California, I can vote however I please; Clinton’s winning there no matter what. I may vote differently in, say, Florida.)”
Related: Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, stunned “Morning Joe” hosts by asking: “What is Aleppo?“
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What We’re Reading
Fear of a female president. (The Atlantic)
A week on board a refugee recovery ship. (Time)
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