A month ago, at what appears to have been his last Q&A with reporters, Donald Trump was asked what could make him change his mind about agreeing to debate Hillary Clinton.
“Um—hurricanes, natural disaster,” Trump replied.
It’s been a rough year for Chris Christie. Knocked out of the presidential race, Christie passed over the Trump Dignity Loss Event Horizon from which no one can ever return and became a mere husk of his former self. Christie became the first and canonical Trump Dignity Wraith. No more the bullyish, swaggering New Jersey tough guy or the poster boy for the male GOP id, Christie was reduced to being Donald Trump’s footman, carrying bags, tossing out “You got It“s when ordered back home, taking taunts about scarfing Oreos, making burger runs at Donald’s request, literally begging to be chosen for veep before being tossed on the Trump bone heap in favor of Mike Pence.
All attention now is rightly focused on getting people to evacuate, prepare for and survive Hurricane Matthew – which by various measures is predicted to be one of the worst storms to hit Florida in recorded history. (If you’re there, you don’t need me to tell you. But if they’re telling you to leave, LEAVE!) But the political consequences could also be significant. Florida is always a critical state. (At the moment the PollTracker Average has Clinton ahead by 5.7 percentage points – not terribly close. But that could and likely will change.) And the election is only about 30 days away.
The storm appears set to hit the state’s Democratic heartland in coastal South Florida. Of course, there are Democrats and Republicans throughout the state. But the state’s Democratic votes are concentrated into highly populous counties on the southern coastal strip in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. That’s exactly where Matthew appears likely to hit.
We’ve been covering the GOP voter suppression movement for years, but we’ve never seen a situation quite like the one we’re in now.
As things stand a month before the election, voting right advocates have won a series of legal victories rolling back or throwing out voting restrictions in multiple states. But rather than that putting an end to the matter and clearing the way for more liberal access to the polls, GOP states and elections officials are slow-rolling the courts: ignoring or defying court orders in some cases.
It has forced voting rights advocates to haul states back into into court and hold them to account. They’re succeeding in most cases, but there’s no reason to think this won’t continue right through Election Day. Tierney Sneed reports.
As we’ve seen in various parts of the world over the years, factional fighting often erupts in the nomenklatura as regime collapse nears, of course. Tonight, Megyn Kelly ripped into Donald Trump for refusing to emerge from media safe spaces like the Sean Hannity show.
Did Trump use a legislative goof which briefly allowed people to bank “losses” without actually losing money to live tax free for almost twenty years?
Former accountant who filed the papers for trump near $1 billion loss says Trump doesn’t know jack about taxes. He did the magic.
I wanted to make sure everyone saw this. Recently the Trump camp put in a request for a media opportunity/tour at the Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Museum declined the request and since then they’ve been deluged with various threats of violence and reprisals from feral Trumpers with racial slurs, threats to burn the building down or shoot up the building.
With the dawn of a new day we can see one thing clearly, Tim Kaine went into the debate with one mission: force a week of rehashing and relitigation of basically every lie, crazy idea and toxic rant we’ve heard from Donald Trump over the last year and a half. Whether he made ignore the attack, deny the attacks or agree with the attacks didn’t really matter. As it happened, he got one and two. Here’s the Clinton campaign’s rapid response video lining up every Kaine claim, Pence denial and Trump video saying it. It’s a classic Pence Said, Videotape Said thing. Everybody now digs into to see who’s telling the truth.
How many times to Mike Pence deny Trump said things we have video of Trump saying? Here’s the whole list with all the details.