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| Sanders slams superdelegate system: Democrats 'anointed' Clinton – campaign live | Sanders slams superdelegate system: Democrats 'anointed' Clinton – campaign live |
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| Clinton: Sanders can run as he likes | |
| Hillary Clinton is next on NBC’s Meet the Press, with host Chuck Todd, who asks her off the bat whether Democratic rival Bernie Sanders is helping Republican Donald Trump. | |
| Clinton says she doesn’t think so. “I don’t think so. I think that Senator Sanders has every right to finish off his campaign however he chooses.” | |
| “I do think there will then be the obvious need for us to unify the party. I faced the same challenge in 2008. I will certainly do my part, reaching out to Senator Sanders, reaching out to his supporters. And I expect him to do his. And he said about a week ago, he was going to spend seven days a week trying to defeat Donald Trump. And I believe that’s the case.” | |
| Why the sudden confidence that you’re going to be the nominee, Todd asks, when a week ago you wouldn’t say? | |
| Clinton says that her declaration that she will be the nominee comes from her experience in 2008, when she lost a closer race to Barack Obama, and her from an increasingly urgent demand: confronting Donald Trump. | |
| And I want to spend a lot of my time, as you’ve seen me do, really taking on Trump. Because I find what he says, the kind of candidacy he’s presenting, to pose a danger to our country. | |
| Related: Hillary Clinton: Trump presidency will put 'kids at risk of violence and bigotry' | |
| Todd brings his question back around to Bernie Sanders, asking whether he might be more electable: polls consistently show Sanders is better liked than Clinton and Trump, and that he has a higher margin of support than Trump in a hypothetical general election. | |
| Clinton responds by pointing out that she is winning the Democratic primary in the popular vote, pledged and “super” delegates both. “It’s also fair to say that I have been vetted and tested, and I think that that puts me in a very strong position” | |
| Todd stops her for a second: “You don’t think Bernie Sanders’ been vetted? You don’t think this one long year of campaign, your campaign against him, has vetted him?” | |
| Clinton makes a striking claim: “Let me say that I don’t think he’s had a single negative ad ever run against him. And that’s fine. But we know what we’re going into, and we understand what it’s going to take to win in the fall.” | |
| Then she says she doesn’t care about polls. “I would say that, you know, polls this far out mean nothing. They certainly mean nothing to me. And I think if people go back and look, they really mean nothing in terms of analyzing what’s going to happen in the fall.” | |
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| Martin Pengelly | |
| And now on Fox, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, of Alabama, senator and adviser to Donald J Trump, Esq. | |
| Was Trump wrong to jump so quickly on to Egypt Air as an act of terror? | |
| “It certainly appears to be a terrorist act,” says Trump’s national security adviser. | |
| But if it isn’t? Was Trump too quick, too unpresidential? | |
| Well, look, one of the things that’s undermining our ability to be effective is we’re so politically correct. If it’s not a terrorist attack that’s great news but if it’s not… we need to be able to talk about it and act. | |
| So that sorts that, then. Sessions is then asked about Trump’s meeting with Henry Kissinger this week, which he says was productive and was about being cautious in engagement around the world. Which Kissinger, if memory serves, wasn’t. Really. | |
| Trump believes in “peace through strength”, Sessions says. Nice slogan. | |
| Sessions is asked about dissent from James Baker and Robert Gates, foreign policy and security titans who have not been too impressed with Trump, particularly over his suitability for taking care of the nuclear trigger. Does Trump need to moderate and become more informed? | |
| Gates and Trump are closer to agreement than many think, Sessions says, rather than answering the question. | |
| Then we’re on to the NRA, its endorsement of Trump, Hillary Clinton’s evil designs on the second amendment and Trump’s list of possible supreme court nominees, released this week. Sessions cheerleads for Trump and attacks Clinton. Of course he does. | |
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| Trump: some teachers should have guns | |
| Early this morning Donald Trump made an unexpected call to the Fox program Fox and Friends, where he was asked to clarify his ideas about guns. | |
| In particular he was asked about classrooms, and gave a waffling answer: “I don’t want to have guns in classrooms although in some cases teachers should have guns in classrooms, frankly.” | |
| “Because teachers are you know the things that going on in our schools are unbelievable. You look at some of our schools, unbelievable what’s going on. But I’m not advocating guns in classrooms.” | |
| But then he says: “trained teachers should be able to have guns in classrooms.” | |
| They ask him about whether he or anyone can unite the US. | |
| “As far as bigotry our country has never [been worse],” Trump says. “We have a president who’s a total divider and Hillary is weak, a weak person.” | |
| Then the Fox crew ask him about reports that many major Republican donors are refusing to contribute at all to his campaign. | |
| “These are people that won’t have access to the White House, they’re not going to be able to tell me what to do,” Trump threatens. | |
| He says these donors “would’ve had total control over Jeb” Bush and “would’ve had total control over many of these people.” | |
| Trump hedges a bit when asked whether he’ll self-fund through the general election, which is expected to cost $1bn for each party. | |
| “What I have done is I said I would self-fund through primaries then make a decision,” Trump says. He says now he’s helping the Republican party fund other Congressional and governors’ races – he doesn’t mention that the party will also help fund his campaign. | |
| “I’m going to be putting a lot of my own money, a tremendous amount of my own money, in the race.” | |
| He also does not directly answer a question about whether he is worth $10bn, as he claims but has yet to prove, for instance through tax returns that he has refused to release. The Wall Street Journal found that, based on his 2016 claimed income, Trump would not have the funds to self-fund a general election campaign. | |
| Last week Bernie Sanders joked that Trump is “probably as broke as everybody else is”. | |
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| Martin Pengelly | |
| Now Fox News Sunday is on to Michael McCaul. | |
| “Clearly something catastrophic occurred,” he says of the Egypt Air crash. “I think many signs do point to terrorism [and] an explosive device on the aircraft.” | |
| The Republican says he is concerned about extremists working at European and north African airports. It could’ve been a mechanical problem, McCaul says, but “it happened so quickly I question that”. | |
| McCaul discusses enhanced airport security and what can be done – the Senate is holding up two bills that would help Secretary Johnson increase it, he says. He also says President Obama doesn’t take the threat of Isis seriously, although his points are largely obscured in a jumble of past Republican talking points. | |
| Was Trump wrong to propose his Muslim ban? | |
| “I don’t think you can ban an entire population,” he says. | |
| Would such a ban foster more terrorism? | |
| “I think it would cause in the Muslim community a bit of a backlash.” | |
| Johnson is given a chance to respond to McCaul’s claim that Obama “doesn’t get” Isis. He gives a rote answer… progress, concern, security. Etc. | |
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| Bernie Sanders is back on TV, this time on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. | |
| The host tries to get Sanders into describing Hillary Clinton as “the lesser of two evils” – Sanders doesn’t take the bait. He instead points out that Clinton is historically disliked, surpassed only by the dislike Americans feel for Donald Trump. | |
| Stephanopoulos asks the senator whether he’s ready to back Clinton, who has the math in her favor, in terms of popular vote and delegates both. | |
| Sanders says that if Clinton is “prepared to stand up to Wall Street,” ready to confront climate change, for instance with a tax on carbon, “is prepared to say that the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality”, then: “if she is strong on those issues, yeah, I think she will win and win by a large vote.” | |
| But if she’s not ready, he warns, Clinton will have trouble ahead. | |
| The host then asks about whether his most passionate supporters are threatening the unity of the Democratic party – and threatening Democrats personally, as they did after the Nevada convention. | |
| Sanders condemns those threats but says that reports of violence were overblown: “to the best of my knowledge was nobody was touched.” | |
| “What happened was people were rude, that’s not good. They were booing, that’s not good. “They were behaving in ways that were boorish, that’s not good. But let’s not talk about that as violence.” | |
| Should his supporters want to go to the national convention in Philadelphia, he says, they have the right to go and protest. | |
| “We’re not encouraging anybody, but of course people have the right to peaceably assemble and to make their views heard.” | |
| Finally Stephanopoulos asks the weekly question: would you be accept an offer to be Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential pick? | |
| “It’s a little bit early to talk about that,” Sanders demurs. “We’re going to do everything that we can to get every vote, every delegate.” | |
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| Martin Pengelly | |
| Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson is first on Fox News Sunday. Host John Roberts asks him about the strike against Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. “Did we get him?” | |
| Johnson is not quite prepared to “positively confirm that he’s been killed”, but if he has been he says it will be significant because Mansoor was actively undermining “efforts at reconciliation”. | |
| “I think we’ll know pretty soon,” if Mansoor is dead, he says. | |
| Related: US drone strike in Pakistan kills Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor | |
| He continues to Egypt Air: “At this point we can not rule out some sort of terrorist attack but it’s still very early.” Johnson then deflects a question about terrorist “chatter” in preceding days. | |
| What about Trump and Clinton suggesting the plane may have been brought down by terrorists? Are they over their skis? | |
| Johnson ignores the question, so he gets another about presidential candidates jumping too soon: “I have no comment about that.” | |
| He does say Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the US, even temporarily and in the name of security, is “unwise and counter-productive, quite frankly”. | |
| Finally, Johnson is asked about a protest during his commencement speech at Georgetown on Saturday night, from undocumented students. | |
| “We live in a noisy democracy and they made some noise,” he says. “And then I went on with my commencement address. It was fine.” | |
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| Martin Pengelly | Martin Pengelly |
| Over on Fox News Sunday, Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson and House homeland security committee chair Michael McCaul are talking Egypt Air. Despite Donald Trump’s certainty, it is not known if the plane came down because of terrorism. Jeff Sessions, the Alabama senator and Trump adviser, is also due to discuss the issue. | Over on Fox News Sunday, Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson and House homeland security committee chair Michael McCaul are talking Egypt Air. Despite Donald Trump’s certainty, it is not known if the plane came down because of terrorism. Jeff Sessions, the Alabama senator and Trump adviser, is also due to discuss the issue. |
| McCaul has trailed his line of argument on Twitter, retweeting thus: | McCaul has trailed his line of argument on Twitter, retweeting thus: |
| .@RepMcCaul: Many signs do point to terror. #EgyptAirMS804 #FNS | .@RepMcCaul: Many signs do point to terror. #EgyptAirMS804 #FNS |
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| Republican Representative Peter King is next on CNN, talking about the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804. | Republican Representative Peter King is next on CNN, talking about the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804. |
| He links the crash, without evidence, to terrorism. He draws a clearer line between security concerns in general at airports and reports that MS804 had, two years ago, had political graffiti written on it saying the plane would go down – a play on words between the plane’s registration letters and the name of Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. | He links the crash, without evidence, to terrorism. He draws a clearer line between security concerns in general at airports and reports that MS804 had, two years ago, had political graffiti written on it saying the plane would go down – a play on words between the plane’s registration letters and the name of Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. |
| “People behind the scenes, those with the access,” King says, “airport workers, the cleaners, the scrubbers, anyone who does not face the same scrutiny as the passengers,” must be of greater concern. | “People behind the scenes, those with the access,” King says, “airport workers, the cleaners, the scrubbers, anyone who does not face the same scrutiny as the passengers,” must be of greater concern. |
| King grows more cautious when asked about what exactly brought down MS804 over the Mediterranean last week. “Right now the indicators are tip[ping] the scales” toward terrorism, he says, but “the longer it goes without responsibility being claimed it could also be a malfunction on the plane itself, an electrical malfunction.” | King grows more cautious when asked about what exactly brought down MS804 over the Mediterranean last week. “Right now the indicators are tip[ping] the scales” toward terrorism, he says, but “the longer it goes without responsibility being claimed it could also be a malfunction on the plane itself, an electrical malfunction.” |
| No terror group has claimed responsibility in the several days since the plane crashed, unlike a quick claim by Isis after a Russian jet exploded over Egypt last year. | No terror group has claimed responsibility in the several days since the plane crashed, unlike a quick claim by Isis after a Russian jet exploded over Egypt last year. |
| King says “we should find out sooner rather than later” from studying debris about what caused the crash. “We always have to start off with the premise that terrorism is the most likely option,” he adds, “not to say that it was certain, [but] that it was the most likely, but to work our way back.” | King says “we should find out sooner rather than later” from studying debris about what caused the crash. “We always have to start off with the premise that terrorism is the most likely option,” he adds, “not to say that it was certain, [but] that it was the most likely, but to work our way back.” |
| Donald Trump has said, without evidence, that the crash was caused by terrorism and that anyone who does not “And if anyone doesn’t think it was blown out of the sky, you’re 100% wrong.” | Donald Trump has said, without evidence, that the crash was caused by terrorism and that anyone who does not “And if anyone doesn’t think it was blown out of the sky, you’re 100% wrong.” |
| King has said he will support Trump’s nomination but expressed reservations about his lack of knowledge on foreign policy, national security and terrorism. | King has said he will support Trump’s nomination but expressed reservations about his lack of knowledge on foreign policy, national security and terrorism. |
| Hillary Clinton has also said she believes terrorism the most likely cause of the crash. | Hillary Clinton has also said she believes terrorism the most likely cause of the crash. |
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| Libertarian candidate: Trump plan akin to Kristallnacht | Libertarian candidate: Trump plan akin to Kristallnacht |
| Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld is next on the CNN program, talking about a third-party campaign that’s already happening: the Libertarian party. | Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld is next on the CNN program, talking about a third-party campaign that’s already happening: the Libertarian party. |
| Weld is the vice-presidential pick for the Libertarian ticket, which is led by former New Mexico Gary Johnson. “You can have an administration that’s fiscally conservative and socially inclusive,” Weld says. | Weld is the vice-presidential pick for the Libertarian ticket, which is led by former New Mexico Gary Johnson. “You can have an administration that’s fiscally conservative and socially inclusive,” Weld says. |
| “I think that may be 40-[percent]-plus of the country” may feel that way, he adds. | “I think that may be 40-[percent]-plus of the country” may feel that way, he adds. |
| But he hasn’t gone around to any Republicans disaffected by Donald Trump yet, he says. | But he hasn’t gone around to any Republicans disaffected by Donald Trump yet, he says. |
| “I think we have our positions, we’re going to press them. I think we’d ideally nudge the Democrats” to the economic center, he continues. “I’d like to nudge the Republicans to get them away from their anti-abortion stance, their queasiness with gay and lesbians [and] the believable proposals made up in the immigration area.” | “I think we have our positions, we’re going to press them. I think we’d ideally nudge the Democrats” to the economic center, he continues. “I’d like to nudge the Republicans to get them away from their anti-abortion stance, their queasiness with gay and lesbians [and] the believable proposals made up in the immigration area.” |
| “This is really not prime time and we don’t mind saying so.” | “This is really not prime time and we don’t mind saying so.” |
| Tapper then asks whether Weld stands by his comparison of Donald Trump’s ideas to Kristallnacht, the pogroms in 1938 when Nazis burned synagogues, vandalized homes and killed nearly 100 Jews. | Tapper then asks whether Weld stands by his comparison of Donald Trump’s ideas to Kristallnacht, the pogroms in 1938 when Nazis burned synagogues, vandalized homes and killed nearly 100 Jews. |
| Weld stands by the comparison of Trump’s proposal to deport immigrants to the Nazis, saying it’s not hyperbole or overstatement. | Weld stands by the comparison of Trump’s proposal to deport immigrants to the Nazis, saying it’s not hyperbole or overstatement. |
| “I served five years on the US Holocaust commission” under George W Bush, he says. “You have to forget a lot of things if you think it’s a good idea to round up and deport 11 million people living peaceable.” | “I served five years on the US Holocaust commission” under George W Bush, he says. “You have to forget a lot of things if you think it’s a good idea to round up and deport 11 million people living peaceable.” |
| That could happen in “China maybe, but not the United States,” he concludes. | That could happen in “China maybe, but not the United States,” he concludes. |
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| Sanders: Democrats 'anointed' Clinton | Sanders: Democrats 'anointed' Clinton |
| Bernie Sanders is first up this morning on CNN’s State of the Union, where host Jake Tapper asks him about concern among Democrats that the senator’s campaign is damaging Hillary Clinton’s general election chances against Donald Trump. | Bernie Sanders is first up this morning on CNN’s State of the Union, where host Jake Tapper asks him about concern among Democrats that the senator’s campaign is damaging Hillary Clinton’s general election chances against Donald Trump. |
| “That’s nothing that I have ever said. The last that I heard is that we are a democracy,” Sanders says. “Elections are about vigorous debates over the issues. Secretary Clinton and I disagree on many issues.” | “That’s nothing that I have ever said. The last that I heard is that we are a democracy,” Sanders says. “Elections are about vigorous debates over the issues. Secretary Clinton and I disagree on many issues.” |
| He lists a few: a national $15 minimum wage, tax on carbon, universal healthcare, foreign intervention. | He lists a few: a national $15 minimum wage, tax on carbon, universal healthcare, foreign intervention. |
| “Those are legitimate issues to debate. What we are trying to do is bring more people into the political process.” | “Those are legitimate issues to debate. What we are trying to do is bring more people into the political process.” |
| Tapper asks Sanders about the math – it’s steeply stacked against him. Sanders says he’s fighting to win the pledged delegates, and that he while “it may not be a bad idea” to get rid of the superdelegates – party officials who can vote however they please – he thinks those unbound delegates should be thinking a lot more about their votes, rather than following orders from party leadership. | Tapper asks Sanders about the math – it’s steeply stacked against him. Sanders says he’s fighting to win the pledged delegates, and that he while “it may not be a bad idea” to get rid of the superdelegates – party officials who can vote however they please – he thinks those unbound delegates should be thinking a lot more about their votes, rather than following orders from party leadership. |
| “I assume that most of the people that come to my rallies can do arithmetic,” he says. But the fact that about 400 superdelegates had pledged to Clinton so early, he adds, “was an anointment, and that is bad for the process.” | “I assume that most of the people that come to my rallies can do arithmetic,” he says. But the fact that about 400 superdelegates had pledged to Clinton so early, he adds, “was an anointment, and that is bad for the process.” |
| “The current situation is undemocratic and it is ill-advised,” he adds.“The status quo clearly is unacceptable to me, and that has got to be changed.” | “The current situation is undemocratic and it is ill-advised,” he adds.“The status quo clearly is unacceptable to me, and that has got to be changed.” |
| He again pitches the superdelegates: “We have the energy, we have the excitement, we have the young people, we have the working people.” | He again pitches the superdelegates: “We have the energy, we have the excitement, we have the young people, we have the working people.” |
| He hints at what he wants to change in the Democratic party on a larger level, too. “Not all of my supporters go to these fancy fundraising dinners. They are working people who are hurting now and want real change,” he says. “I hope the Democratic leadership understands they have got to open up and let those people in.” | He hints at what he wants to change in the Democratic party on a larger level, too. “Not all of my supporters go to these fancy fundraising dinners. They are working people who are hurting now and want real change,” he says. “I hope the Democratic leadership understands they have got to open up and let those people in.” |
| Sanders adds that if elected president he would not reappoint the current chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. | Sanders adds that if elected president he would not reappoint the current chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. |
| As for accusations that he has not been “vetted”, he says he’s had a few “very ugly, very vicious” campaigns. “I’m not saying she cannot beat I am the stronger candidate because we appeal to independents, people who are not in love with either the Democratic or the Republican party, often for very good reasons.” | As for accusations that he has not been “vetted”, he says he’s had a few “very ugly, very vicious” campaigns. “I’m not saying she cannot beat I am the stronger candidate because we appeal to independents, people who are not in love with either the Democratic or the Republican party, often for very good reasons.” |
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| Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the 2016 presidential election, as it moves into the final days of its primaries most likely pitching a former reality TV star versus a former secretary of state who would be the most disliked candidate in history were it not for the former TV star. | Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the 2016 presidential election, as it moves into the final days of its primaries most likely pitching a former reality TV star versus a former secretary of state who would be the most disliked candidate in history were it not for the former TV star. |
| Washington state will hold its Republican primary this week, though Donald Trump stands alone as the party’s presumptive nominee. Hillary Clinton is on the brink of sealing the Democratic nomination, with her lead all but unassailable by Senator Bernie Sanders. | Washington state will hold its Republican primary this week, though Donald Trump stands alone as the party’s presumptive nominee. Hillary Clinton is on the brink of sealing the Democratic nomination, with her lead all but unassailable by Senator Bernie Sanders. |
| The senator from Vermont will make his case nonetheless, despite accusations from fellow Democrats that his diehard supporters threaten to cause chaos within the party by rejecting Clinton. Sanders is scheduled to appear three times this morning. | The senator from Vermont will make his case nonetheless, despite accusations from fellow Democrats that his diehard supporters threaten to cause chaos within the party by rejecting Clinton. Sanders is scheduled to appear three times this morning. |
| Trump has not deigned to meet the press this Sunday, though the businessman remains as unpredictable as ever. After telling the National Rifle Association he would “cherish” their gun rights on Friday, he tweeted on Saturday that Clinton’s secret service protection should disarm if she really wants to reduce the number of guns in America. | Trump has not deigned to meet the press this Sunday, though the businessman remains as unpredictable as ever. After telling the National Rifle Association he would “cherish” their gun rights on Friday, he tweeted on Saturday that Clinton’s secret service protection should disarm if she really wants to reduce the number of guns in America. |
| Crooked Hillary wants to get rid of all guns and yet she is surrounded by bodyguards who are fully armed. No more guns to protect Hillary! | Crooked Hillary wants to get rid of all guns and yet she is surrounded by bodyguards who are fully armed. No more guns to protect Hillary! |
| And then on Sunday. | And then on Sunday. |
| Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president because her judgement has been proven to be so bad! Would be four more years of stupidity! | Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president because her judgement has been proven to be so bad! Would be four more years of stupidity! |
| Trump’s speech before the NRA nearly coincided with a visit by Clinton to the family of Trayvon Martin, a black, unarmed teen who in 2012 was shot dead by a neighbor who considered himself a vigilante. The pair of speeches in many ways brought the primary process full circle: a year ago the US was reeling from mass shooting after mass shooting, protests over police violence and questions of systemic racism – questions raised in part by the violence and by Trump’s inflammatory remarks about minorities. | Trump’s speech before the NRA nearly coincided with a visit by Clinton to the family of Trayvon Martin, a black, unarmed teen who in 2012 was shot dead by a neighbor who considered himself a vigilante. The pair of speeches in many ways brought the primary process full circle: a year ago the US was reeling from mass shooting after mass shooting, protests over police violence and questions of systemic racism – questions raised in part by the violence and by Trump’s inflammatory remarks about minorities. |
| Those remarks include a proposal by Trump to bar all Muslims from entering the US until leaders “can figure out what is going on”. After an EgyptAir flight crashed in the Mediterranean this week, Trump immediately blamed – with no evidence – terrorism, a theme that is sure to loom large in the election and this Sunday. Several members of Congress – including a senator who supports Trump and is one of his main foreign policy advisers – are scheduled for interviews. | Those remarks include a proposal by Trump to bar all Muslims from entering the US until leaders “can figure out what is going on”. After an EgyptAir flight crashed in the Mediterranean this week, Trump immediately blamed – with no evidence – terrorism, a theme that is sure to loom large in the election and this Sunday. Several members of Congress – including a senator who supports Trump and is one of his main foreign policy advisers – are scheduled for interviews. |
| They may also discuss the news overnight from Pakistan, where the leader of the Taliban was killed by a US drone strike on Saturday. | They may also discuss the news overnight from Pakistan, where the leader of the Taliban was killed by a US drone strike on Saturday. |
| Related: Trump and Clinton on guns: two visions of race, justice and policing in the US | Related: Trump and Clinton on guns: two visions of race, justice and policing in the US |
| And finally, one of the last hopes of the vaunted but not very competent “Never Trump” movement will also appear: Mark Cuban, the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. Like Trump, Cuban is a brash, wealthy businessman who gets involved in professional wrestling, reality TV and politics. Several Republicans in the anti-Trump coalition reportedly asked Cuban if he would assume the mantle of a third-party campaign for disaffected conservatives. He said no. | And finally, one of the last hopes of the vaunted but not very competent “Never Trump” movement will also appear: Mark Cuban, the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. Like Trump, Cuban is a brash, wealthy businessman who gets involved in professional wrestling, reality TV and politics. Several Republicans in the anti-Trump coalition reportedly asked Cuban if he would assume the mantle of a third-party campaign for disaffected conservatives. He said no. |
| But Cuban still doesn’t like Trump, and will undoubtedly share his opinions. Trump loves it when his critics do that. Word fight. | But Cuban still doesn’t like Trump, and will undoubtedly share his opinions. Trump loves it when his critics do that. Word fight. |
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