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August 14, 2016
By ALEXANDER BURNS and MAGGIE HABERMANAUG. 13, 2016
Donald J. Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN. The rattled candidate’s advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention.
Joined by his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, a cluster of Mr. Trump’s confidants pleaded with him to make that day — June 20 — a turning point.
He would have to stick to a teleprompter and end his freestyle digressions and insults, like his repeated attacks on a Hispanic federal judge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/us/politics/donald-trump-campaign-gop.html
Inside the Failing Mission to Tame Donald Trump’s Tongue
Inside the Failing Mission to Tame Donald Trump’s TongueBy ALEXANDER BURNS and MAGGIE HABERMANAUG. 13, 2016
Donald J. Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN. The rattled candidate’s advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention.
Joined by his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, a cluster of Mr. Trump’s confidants pleaded with him to make that day — June 20 — a turning point.
He would have to stick to a teleprompter and end his freestyle digressions and insults, like his repeated attacks on a Hispanic federal judge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/us/politics/donald-trump-campaign-gop.html
August 12, 2016
By Aaron Blake August 12 at 1:29 PM
Donald Trump's week of bad polls just got much worse.
Four new NBC News/Marist College polls released Friday show Hillary Clinton leading Trump by five points in Florida, nine points in North Carolina, and double digits in Colorado (14) and Virginia (13) . All four states have been battlegrounds in recent presidential elections.
And really, it's those last two numbers that show just how massively difficult Trump's path to the presidency is right now. Because without Colorado and Virginia -- and a third state where he trails by double digits, Pennsylvania -- he's all but sunk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/12/these-three-states-are-making-a-trump-win-basically-impossible/
These three states are making a Trump win basically impossible
These three states are making a Trump win basically impossibleBy Aaron Blake August 12 at 1:29 PM
Donald Trump's week of bad polls just got much worse.
Four new NBC News/Marist College polls released Friday show Hillary Clinton leading Trump by five points in Florida, nine points in North Carolina, and double digits in Colorado (14) and Virginia (13) . All four states have been battlegrounds in recent presidential elections.
And really, it's those last two numbers that show just how massively difficult Trump's path to the presidency is right now. Because without Colorado and Virginia -- and a third state where he trails by double digits, Pennsylvania -- he's all but sunk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/12/these-three-states-are-making-a-trump-win-basically-impossible/
August 12, 2016
Dylan Stableford Senior editor August 11, 2016
Donald Trump says if he loses the presidential election to Hillary Clinton, he’d be fine with it because he’s got a lot of money and he’s the one telling the truth.
“I’m a truth teller,” the Republican nominee told CNBC on Thursday. “All I do is tell the truth. And if at the end of 90 days I fall short because I’m somewhat politically [incorrect] even though I’m supposed to be the smart one and even though I’m supposed to have a lot of good ideas, it’s OK. You know, I go back to a very good way of life.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lose-back-very-good-000000734.html
Donald Trump: If I lose, ‘it’s OK ... I go back to a very good way of life’
Donald Trump: If I lose, ‘it’s OK ... I go back to a very good way of life’Dylan Stableford Senior editor August 11, 2016
Donald Trump says if he loses the presidential election to Hillary Clinton, he’d be fine with it because he’s got a lot of money and he’s the one telling the truth.
“I’m a truth teller,” the Republican nominee told CNBC on Thursday. “All I do is tell the truth. And if at the end of 90 days I fall short because I’m somewhat politically [incorrect] even though I’m supposed to be the smart one and even though I’m supposed to have a lot of good ideas, it’s OK. You know, I go back to a very good way of life.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lose-back-very-good-000000734.html
August 12, 2016
Poll: Clinton leading Trump in critical battlegrounds
Poll: Clinton leading Trump in critical battlegrounds
By Tom LoBianco, CNN
Updated 1:07 PM ET, Fri August 12, 2016
Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton has opened up commanding leads over Donald Trump in several critical battleground states, including North Carolina and Colorado, according to a new poll Friday.
Clinton leads Trump 46%-32% in Colorado, 44%-39% in Florida, 48%-39% in North Carolina and 46%-33% in Virginia, according to new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
The results represent increasing margins for Clinton in each of those four states, compared with polling conducted before the conventions and all the leads are outside each poll's margin of sampling error. The polls also tested four-way matchups including Gary Johnson and Jill Stein and found that the margin between Clinton and Trump holds when the third party candidates are included.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/12/politics/clinton-trump-swing-state-polls/index.html
August 12, 2016
A Democratic landslide in November could flip a dozen or more legislative majorities that Republicans captured during the Obama era.
RUSSELL BERMAN 6:00 AM ET
Donald Trump’s recent plunge in the polls has tempted Democrats to widen their dreams for a big night in November. A landslide victory for Hillary Clinton, they now believe, could bring with it control of the U.S. Senate and dramatically shrink the party’s gap with Republicans in the House—if not flip it entirely.
But there could be a Trump effect in another 2016 battleground that could shape the electoral landscape much further into the future: the elections for control of state legislatures.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/will-donald-trump-hand-state-capitols-to-democrats-2016-election/495494/
Will Donald Trump Hand State Capitols to Democrats?
Will Donald Trump Hand State Capitols to Democrats?A Democratic landslide in November could flip a dozen or more legislative majorities that Republicans captured during the Obama era.
RUSSELL BERMAN 6:00 AM ET
Donald Trump’s recent plunge in the polls has tempted Democrats to widen their dreams for a big night in November. A landslide victory for Hillary Clinton, they now believe, could bring with it control of the U.S. Senate and dramatically shrink the party’s gap with Republicans in the House—if not flip it entirely.
But there could be a Trump effect in another 2016 battleground that could shape the electoral landscape much further into the future: the elections for control of state legislatures.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/will-donald-trump-hand-state-capitols-to-democrats-2016-election/495494/
August 12, 2016
A Democratic landslide in November could flip a dozen or more legislative majorities that Republicans captured during the Obama era.
RUSSELL BERMAN 6:00 AM ET
Donald Trump’s recent plunge in the polls has tempted Democrats to widen their dreams for a big night in November. A landslide victory for Hillary Clinton, they now believe, could bring with it control of the U.S. Senate and dramatically shrink the party’s gap with Republicans in the House—if not flip it entirely.
But there could be a Trump effect in another 2016 battleground that could shape the electoral landscape much further into the future: the elections for control of state legislatures.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/will-donald-trump-hand-state-capitols-to-democrats-2016-election/495494/
Will Donald Trump Hand State Capitols to Democrats?
Will Donald Trump Hand State Capitols to Democrats?A Democratic landslide in November could flip a dozen or more legislative majorities that Republicans captured during the Obama era.
RUSSELL BERMAN 6:00 AM ET
Donald Trump’s recent plunge in the polls has tempted Democrats to widen their dreams for a big night in November. A landslide victory for Hillary Clinton, they now believe, could bring with it control of the U.S. Senate and dramatically shrink the party’s gap with Republicans in the House—if not flip it entirely.
But there could be a Trump effect in another 2016 battleground that could shape the electoral landscape much further into the future: the elections for control of state legislatures.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/will-donald-trump-hand-state-capitols-to-democrats-2016-election/495494/
August 12, 2016
Published 9:18 PM EDT Aug 11, 2016
(CNN) —Donald Trump said in an interview Thursday that he would support trying US citizens suspected of terrorism in military tribunals -- a controversial proposal that would likely be challenged as unconstitutional.
The Republican presidential nominee told the Miami Herald that he doesn't "at all" like the idea of trying terrorist suspects in the civilian court system, even though US citizens are constitutionally entitled to due process. He added that he would be "fine" with trying US citizens in military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, the US naval base that is also home to a military prison housing captured terror suspects.
http://www.wptz.com/politics/trump-fine-with-trying-us-citizens-in-military-courts/41162230
Trump: 'Fine' with trying US citizens in military courts
Trump: 'Fine' with trying US citizens in military courtsPublished 9:18 PM EDT Aug 11, 2016
(CNN) —Donald Trump said in an interview Thursday that he would support trying US citizens suspected of terrorism in military tribunals -- a controversial proposal that would likely be challenged as unconstitutional.
The Republican presidential nominee told the Miami Herald that he doesn't "at all" like the idea of trying terrorist suspects in the civilian court system, even though US citizens are constitutionally entitled to due process. He added that he would be "fine" with trying US citizens in military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, the US naval base that is also home to a military prison housing captured terror suspects.
http://www.wptz.com/politics/trump-fine-with-trying-us-citizens-in-military-courts/41162230
August 12, 2016
All Pants on Fire! statements involving Donald Trump..Politifact
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/pants-fire/
August 11, 2016
AP August 11, 2016
WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign are expressing ideas similar to those espoused by white supremacists, legal, media and civil rights experts say.
In addition, the experts said Wednesday, white supremacists are using the 2016 presidential elections to attempt to control the culture of politics.
"Many white supremacists see this as their last stand for controlling the country," Heidi Beirich, head of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said on a conference call with reporters.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/experts-say-white-supremacists-see-trump-campaign-as-last-stand/
Experts say white supremacists see Trump campaign as "last stand"
Experts say white supremacists see Trump campaign as "last stand"AP August 11, 2016
WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign are expressing ideas similar to those espoused by white supremacists, legal, media and civil rights experts say.
In addition, the experts said Wednesday, white supremacists are using the 2016 presidential elections to attempt to control the culture of politics.
"Many white supremacists see this as their last stand for controlling the country," Heidi Beirich, head of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said on a conference call with reporters.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/experts-say-white-supremacists-see-trump-campaign-as-last-stand/
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