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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Donald Trump’s allies were quick to explain away the Republican nominee’s comment about “Second Amendment” people and Hillary Clinton, TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal reported. But they seemed to struggle to clean up his mess, offering conflicting explanations for his remark.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “As things get bleaker for Trump, more and more Republicans are trying to distance themselves from what appears to be a building reputational disaster for the GOP and all associated with Trump. But all are not created equal. So we’ve created a three part taxonomy. “Ready for Hillary” for Republicans who’ve taken the ultimate plunge and announced they will vote for Hillary Clinton. “Holdouts” are those who have announced that they will not vote for Trump but either refuse to say who they will vote for or have announced that they will vote for someone other than Hillary Clinton. “Arch-Weasels” are those Republicans who have made increasingly harsh criticisms of Trump, sometimes questioning his fitness for office and even his sanity but still endorse him for President and say they plan to vote for them. Given this effort to fudge and weasel out of the most elemental question a politician faces, the “Arch-Weasel” designation should speak for itself.”
Say What?!
“They (one of them) turned it off between floors and didn’t know how to get it back on.”
– Trump and his team apparently got themselves stuck in a Colorado elevator, according to a fire marshal’s emails.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I don’t know that there’s ‘a line,’ singular. There’s plenty of ‘lines’ plural, and every time [Trump] says or does something like this there’s no doubt in my mind that he loses some voters. I expect that he’ll bottom out somewhere in the 30-35% range, with that figure being the people who would vote for him even if he walks out into the middle of 5th Avenue and kills someone. In that scenario I imagine his 30% of diehards would tell themselves something to the effect of ‘Donald loves the 2nd Amendment so much he was willing to kill someone to prove it!'”
Related: Tim Kaine condemned Trump’s line about “Second Amendment people,” citing it as proof that Trump does not have the temperament to be president.
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