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From The Reporter’s Notebook
In the face of a wave of Republicans who disavowed their endorsements of Donald Trump following a leaked tape of Trump making predatory comments, the GOP nominee’s former rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) stood by him in a statement released Tuesday, TPM’s Kristin Salaky reported. “I wish we had better choices for President,” Rubio said in the statement, according to The Miami Herald. “But I do not want Hillary Clinton to be our next President. And therefore my position has not changed.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “It happens that we know the Trump world is awash in the alt-right/neo-Nazi web. After all, that’s where all the retweeting of #WhiteGenocide accounts and the like comes from. So anything is possible. Perhaps there’s a more complex explanation. But the simplest one is that it’s organic. Russian propaganda stories from outlets like RT, Sputniknews and other similar sites spread freely on the alt-right/white supremacist web. And that’s where the Trump camp lives. So it’s entirely plausible that that’s why material that appears only on these Russian propaganda sites shows up so frequently in Trump’s speeches.”
Say What?!
“Maybe that’s the problem.”
– Ben Carson tried to convince a baffled CNN host that perhaps “the problem” with Trump’s 2005 comments about groping women is that she hasn’t heard more stories like that.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Although these tapes (and any that follow) are a disaster for Trump, I’m afraid that they’re a godsend in the longer run for the kind of people who make up Trump’s solidest base. All of a sudden he’s not losing because he’s an incompetent rich boy bigot with a loud mouth and only the worst of policy ideas. He’s losing because those smug elitists couldn’t stand the way a Real Alpha Male talks. If only next time they can find a crazy nativist demagogue who isn’t a longtime sexual predator, they can figure they’ll win big. It’s like all the wingnuts who keep arguing that the Far Right loses when they run candidates who aren’t far right enough. Only worse.”
Related: Donald Trump continued to lash out at House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday, setting himself up to blame a loss in November on a lack of support from the GOP establishment.
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