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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Yet another Republican revealed he may be willing to vote for Hillary Clinton on Friday, TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal reported. Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense under President George W. Bush, said that Donald Trump is “dangerous” and that his comments regarding foreign policy are “disturbing.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “I have no idea what Bannon is spending his time doing. Reporters covering the inner workings of the campaign might. He’s done various jobs in his life that require significant organizational skill. As far as I know, he’s never run a political campaign before. At the presidential level, it’s never a first time job. What does this all mean? There are many campaign titles that are fuzzy and potentially meaningless. But there are many tasks that are specific, concrete and critical. Whatever label is applied to them, they are jobs that need to get done or else things go wildly wrong. That’s where the Trump camp is right now. So beyond the impulse control deficit and other deficiencies of the candidate, critical parts of running a national campaign aren’t being tended to — having a person in charge of running the campaign, a coordinate communications strategy, organizing field operations. As we get into the meat of the campaign, that will start showing up in running disasters, mishaps and discovery that various tasks were simply never done.”
Say What?!
“He sees the tree on the White House lawn has been renamed ‘Holiday tree’ instead of ‘Christmas tree.'”
– Eric Trump accused the White House of renaming its Christmas Tree (it has not), citing it as one reason that his father is running.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “How could Bannon be in charge when the Trump campaign appears to be trying to soften its hard line stance on immigration? Well, maybe when he was hired he told Trump ‘the racist alt-right is with you but you need to change your messaging to appeal to the college educated white voters we’re losing.’ As the head of Breitbart, Bannon could plausibly claim to speak for the entire subset of voters who will never abandon Trump (his 30% floor from the GOP primaries) and give Trump permission to ‘appeal’ to the less openly racist wing of the Republican party because winning in November is the ultimate goal.”
Related: Trump continued to avoid giving details of his immigration policy, dodging questions about his position on deportation.
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What We’re Reading
Wikileaks clashes with the AP over a privacy story. (The Washington Post)
Disney is betting big on Vice Media. (WSJ)
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