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| Democratic race moves on to California as Sanders and Clinton split wins – live | Democratic race moves on to California as Sanders and Clinton split wins – live |
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| Kentucky clerk declares all votes are in, including elusive 'ghost precincts' | |
| Dan Roberts | |
| Anyone wondering why the result of the Kentucky primary has not been officially declared by Associated Press, which is usually the semi-official arbiter of these things, might want to look to Kenton County, a suburb of Cincinnati in the north of the state, writes Guardian Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts: | |
| According to the county’s “cumulative report”, only 103 of its 107 precincts have reported. This is what is showing on the results maps used by The Guardian and others, which rely on AP data. It may be also be why people are reluctant to declare a state-wide win for Hillary Clinton, who is just 1,923 votes ahead of Bernie Sanders at the state level. | |
| What is confusing however, is that the Kentucky Secretary of State’s office preliminary records show that all the Kenton County precincts are in, but lists only 105. | |
| I just spoke to the county clerk in Kenton, Gabrielle Summe, who appears to have cleared up the discrepancy and says all the primary election votes are in. | |
| She blames the delay on a computer glitch, caused primarily by the fact that Kenton includes two “ghost” precincts in its total, which do not have any voters in the them and are not counted by the state. Ghost precincts are usually tiny strips of land in between areas where people live that are created in an effort to clean up the electoral map by, for example, making House and Senate districts contiguous. | |
| Another tiny precinct only has a handful of voters, none of whom showed up, but is confusing the system by recording a zero. The fourth missing “precinct” is not actually a precinct at all, rather an amalgam of all the absentee voters, who have now been allocated to the respective home precincts. | |
| To make matters more confusing there was also a legal dispute over the residency status of one of the candidates in a local election, which meant its results have had to be redacted pending a court challenge. | |
| All in all, Summe tells the Guardian “all my results are in” and is insistent there are no missing votes still out there that could affect the state-wide result. Given that Clinton was the winner locally, it seems all but impossible this county could be the source of sufficient votes to make a difference. | |
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| Ivanka Trump: dad 'not a groper' | |
| A day after Melania Trump confirmed that husband Donald Trump is “not Hitler,” Trump daughter Ivanka tells CBS News that he’s not a groper either. | |
| He’s “not a groper. It’s not who he is,” Ivanka Trump told “CBS This Morning”. | |
| A New York Times piece published at the weekend quoted some women from Trump’s past as saying that the businessman had made unwanted or aggressive sexual advances. One said he gave her a “gross” kiss on the lips. Another said Trump was “groping me under the table” during a weird dinner business meeting. The article also quoted women as saying that Trump is obsessed with women’s bodies and talks about them a lot. | |
| Ivanka Trump on Wednesday denied that Trump frequently comments on women’s bodies and appearances. Which means among other things that she was not a regular listener to the Howard Stern show in the late 1990s and early 2000s. | |
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| The Latino vote and Donald Trump | The Latino vote and Donald Trump |
| From Florida to Nevada, Arizona to Iowa, and countless other states beyond, there is evidence that the sleeping giant of the Latino vote is stirring, begins a new Guardian report on whether Latinos might swing the general election against Trump: | From Florida to Nevada, Arizona to Iowa, and countless other states beyond, there is evidence that the sleeping giant of the Latino vote is stirring, begins a new Guardian report on whether Latinos might swing the general election against Trump: |
| Trump’s favorability ratings with Hispanic voters are running at historic lows, while he faces an increasingly well-organized nationwide campaign to oppose him. | Trump’s favorability ratings with Hispanic voters are running at historic lows, while he faces an increasingly well-organized nationwide campaign to oppose him. |
| A Guardian exploration of three key swing states and survey of national Hispanic outreach groups has found that the presumptive Republican nominee faces an uphill struggle to repair the damage caused by his threats to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants and build a wall with Mexico. | A Guardian exploration of three key swing states and survey of national Hispanic outreach groups has found that the presumptive Republican nominee faces an uphill struggle to repair the damage caused by his threats to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants and build a wall with Mexico. |
| Related: Will Latino loathing of Trump drive a voter movement to swing the election? | Related: Will Latino loathing of Trump drive a voter movement to swing the election? |
| On the other hand... “despite the taco bowl embarrassment, despite his provocative remarks about “illegals” and murderous rapist Mexicans, there is a body of Hispanic Americans who remain among his most impassioned fans,” writes Ed Pilkington: | On the other hand... “despite the taco bowl embarrassment, despite his provocative remarks about “illegals” and murderous rapist Mexicans, there is a body of Hispanic Americans who remain among his most impassioned fans,” writes Ed Pilkington: |
| Take Luz Helena, a 40-year-old from Colombia who has lived for 17 years as a naturalized American citizen in Toms River, New Jersey. | Take Luz Helena, a 40-year-old from Colombia who has lived for 17 years as a naturalized American citizen in Toms River, New Jersey. |
| She told the Guardian: “I love and support Donald Trump100%.” | She told the Guardian: “I love and support Donald Trump100%.” |
| But wasn’t she upset by the candidate’s pledge to build a wall along the Mexican border? Not at all, she said. | But wasn’t she upset by the candidate’s pledge to build a wall along the Mexican border? Not at all, she said. |
| “When we came to this country we did it right. We paid our taxes and followed its laws. But everywhere you look, my people are abusing the law. They are illegal but they are having kids left and right because they want the benefits of living here.” | “When we came to this country we did it right. We paid our taxes and followed its laws. But everywhere you look, my people are abusing the law. They are illegal but they are having kids left and right because they want the benefits of living here.” |
| Read the full piece here: | Read the full piece here: |
| Related: Latinos for Trump: anatomy of an unlikely voter bloc | Related: Latinos for Trump: anatomy of an unlikely voter bloc |
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| Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders won the Oregon primary by about nine points on Tuesday night to slightly close his delegate gap with Hillary Clinton, who narrowly edged Sanders in the primary in Kentucky, according to the state’s secretary of state. The overall delegate picture for the Democrats changed little – they’re still headed for California. | Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders won the Oregon primary by about nine points on Tuesday night to slightly close his delegate gap with Hillary Clinton, who narrowly edged Sanders in the primary in Kentucky, according to the state’s secretary of state. The overall delegate picture for the Democrats changed little – they’re still headed for California. |
| Read our news coverage of primary night here: | Read our news coverage of primary night here: |
| Related: Bernie Sanders takes Oregon primary while Clinton claims Kentucky | Related: Bernie Sanders takes Oregon primary while Clinton claims Kentucky |
| Fox News host Megyn Kelly interviewed Donald Trump last night, confronting him about retweeting someone who called her a bimbo. He asked to be excused – in her heart, not from the room: | Fox News host Megyn Kelly interviewed Donald Trump last night, confronting him about retweeting someone who called her a bimbo. He asked to be excused – in her heart, not from the room: |
| Related: Donald Trump pleads ignorance to Megyn Kelly over 'bimbo' tweets: 'Did I say that?' | Related: Donald Trump pleads ignorance to Megyn Kelly over 'bimbo' tweets: 'Did I say that?' |
| The National Republican senatorial committee is out with a new attack ad against Clinton – and the Democratic senatorial candidates who would appear on the ballot with her – featuring whooshing names of past Clinton scandals and proclaiming her “the living embodiment of everything people hate about politics”. | The National Republican senatorial committee is out with a new attack ad against Clinton – and the Democratic senatorial candidates who would appear on the ballot with her – featuring whooshing names of past Clinton scandals and proclaiming her “the living embodiment of everything people hate about politics”. |
| Thanks as always for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thanks as always for reading and please join us in the comments. |