So Fox News had a weakly sourced dubious story. RCP and The Hill further distorted and added additional falsities. Now even Fox News … yes, even Fox News has been forced to admit the story was a “mistake.” Bret Baier says he’s “sorry.” This is not typical behavior for Fox. So I guess I give them some limited credit because stories being tendentious or fake or poorly sourced is usually okay at Fox. Maybe the post-Ailes Fox is slightly different.
This was BS from the word go. This is all part of the crop of the Giuliani/FBI/Trump/Fox News bullshit farm. Lies and agitprop, corruption of our basic governmental institutions. Truly a disgrace.
I would say a fairly good run of polls today so far for the Democrats. Nothing dramatic. More just steady as she goes, which is good for Hillary Clinton since she’s ahead. Trump’s rise in the polls seems to have stalled, at least on the basis of today’s polls.
First national standalone live phone poll in a couple days: Fox poll Clinton +1.
That allegedly defamatory campaign TV ad that Cliven Bundy is suing a Democratic congressional candidate over in Nevada? The campaign says no such ad exists, and Bundy’s lawyer tells TPM, “I have not seen the TV ad myself.”
This really says it all. A federal district judge in Ohio has issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump campaign, as well as Trump’s advisor Roger Stone and his group “from conspiring to intimidate, threaten, harass, or coerce voters on Election Day.” The Trump campaign just announced its appealing the order.
It’s hard to look past the presidential election, or even the battle for the senate, but there are a few initiatives on the ballot that are significant. On election day, voters in Colorado will decide whether to create a single-payer health insurance system in their state that would replace both private insurance from employers and the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges. The vote will tell something about whether Americans in a relatively progressive state would now favor going beyond Obamacare to a system of “Medicare for all” like Bernie Sanders proposed in the primary. Based on what I’ve seen in Colorado, I’m not optimistic.
This moment with President Obama calming down the crowd that starts chanting in response to a protester is a pretty elegant illustration of the difference between the leadership of the two political parties.
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Two national phone polls out this evening. Fox: Clinton +1, McClatchy/Marist Clinton +2.
