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It’s starting. Armed Trump supporters openly carrying firearms sat outside a Democratic campaign office in Virginia for 12 hours yesterday as a form of ‘protest’.
It’s October 14 and the PollTracker Average stands at Clinton 46.5 percent, Trump 38 percent, an 8.5 percentage-point spread
The TPM Electoral Scoreboard stands at Clinton 335, Trump 186. Arizona and Nevada are in the Toss Up category
Mike Pence tells young girl upset by Donald Trump’s comments about women’s bodies that he and Trump will project American power around the world.
I want to be very precise about what I say here. There’s a new conspiracy theory rapidly gaining traction among Trump supporters about the origin of the ‘Access Hollywood’ Trump tape which triggered days of new allegations about Donald Trump’s alleged history of sexual abuse. The conspiracy theory is rapidly taking on an explicitly anti-Semitic character. As far as I can see it has not been pushed by the Trump campaign itself, at least not publicly. But it’s catching fire with numerous supporters and surrogates – most notably Jerry Falwell Jr, a key Trump supporter among evangelicals and President of Liberty University, the school founded by his father.
The claim is also being pushed by Breitbart and David Duke in various neo-Nazi web forums. Notably, in recent months Breitbart, with which the Trump campaign has now effectively merged, has itself more openly embraced anti-Semitism.
Here’s our timeline of the rapidly expanding list of Donald Trump sexual abuse and assault allegations.
After not getting nearly as much sleep as I needed last night, the first thing I saw when I woke up was an alert on my cell phone that Bob Dylan had won the Nobel Prize. I was surprised, enlivened, filled with happiness and a sense of the possible. This was in stark contrast to almost everything I see in front of us today with the on-going trauma of Trumpism.
Is it desperation? The themes and instincts of the anti-Semitic radicals and extremists his campaign stews in? A “global conspiracy” of the political elites, international finance and the media who have “robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put the money in the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.”
Trump attacks reporter who alleged assault, says she’s not attractive enough for him to assault.
Right now Michele Obama is giving an incredible speech. For once the word is not inappropriate. If you’re near a TV, flip on CNN or MSNBC to watch it. It’s fascinating because it’s raw and real and incredibly important. And at the same time by being apolitical it’s devastating, shattering in political terms. Her whole speech runs with the tacit statement: We’re not even going to talk about politics. We’re going to operate on the common assumption that there’s a monster loose in the country. And go from there …