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| 'Never Trump' say 63% of women in new national poll – live | 'Never Trump' say 63% of women in new national poll – live |
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| 12.18am BST | |
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| Trump says he did not want to run for president | |
| “We can’t continue to live this way...” Trump says. Then he reworks an old Ronald Reagan line: | |
| If you think you feel safer now than you did eight years ago – I don’t think there’s anyone here in this room that feels that way. | |
| Trump definitely still wants to build the border wall, he tells the crowd: | |
| Don’t even think about it. We’re going to build that wall. Don’t even think about it. | |
| Trump: And who is going to pay for it? | |
| Crowd: Mexico! | |
| Trump: Who? | |
| Crowd: Mexico! | |
| Trump: 100% | |
| Trump then says he did not want to run for president: | |
| I didn’t want to do this, folks, I’ll tell you. I don’t know about you, but it’s about 110 degrees up here. I didn’t want to do this. I would’ve been very happy if Obama were a great president... but you know what, he’s been one hell of a lousy president. | |
| 12.13am BST | |
| 00:13 | |
| Trump brags about shutting the Washington Post out of his events: | |
| I said, why should I have people following me around, sitting up there like bigshots, and they write very untruthful stories. | |
| So I did it with the Washington Post, I’m so happy... maybe they’re somewhere in the back, the back bleachers. | |
| 12.09am BST | |
| 00:09 | |
| Trump says that the United States has admitted many immigrants since 9/11 from countries that persecute gays and lesbians. Perhaps the US is providing asylum – he does not say. | |
| He continues his attack on Clinton: | |
| She’s no friend of women, and she’s no friend of LGBT Americans. No friend, believe me. And how can you be a friend when you take many many millions of dollars... when these countries are oppressive to LGBT, they’re oppressive to everybody. | |
| And then women like Hillary better than Donald Trump? I don’t think so, I’ll be honest. I don’t think so. | |
| Trump says Clinton wants to resettle hundreds of thousands of refugees – “people that we don’t know, people we don’t know anything about” - at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars. He’s making up the numbers, it seems? | |
| Trump again insists of Syrian refugees "we don't know who they are." They are actually subject to an intensive screening process. | |
| In Greensboro, the entire crowd has stayed standing as Donald Trump talks about terrorism and the LGBT community. pic.twitter.com/8olIq2zkf4 | |
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| at 12.11am BST | |
| 12.04am BST | |
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| Trump: Obama 'was more angry at me than he was at the shooter' | |
| Trump interrupts his statement on Orlando to attack Clinton. | |
| Clinton “plays the women card more than any human being I’ve ever seen in my life. And frankly, I don’t even think women like her, from what I’ve seen,” he says. | |
| Trump says Clinton takes money from countries “that kill gays”. | |
| “Let’s call for Hillary and Bill Clinton to give back the $25m plus from the countries that we’re talking about,” Trump says. He’s presumably referring to a donation or donations to the Clinton Foundation. | |
| Then Trump replies to the president’s speech today in which Obama said Trump’s proposed immigration ban violated American ideals. | |
| “Political correctness” is “killing us,” Trump says: | |
| I watched president Obama today, and he was more angry at me than he was at the shooter. And many people said that. One of the folks on television said, ‘boy has Trump gotten under his skin.’ | |
| That’s the kind of anger he should have for the shooter, and these killers, that shouldn’t be here. | |
| 12.00am BST | |
| 00:00 | |
| Trump says “we can’t be led by weak ineffective people”. He names Obama and Clinton, who are booed. Trump says that refugees from Syria “are being snuck into certain communities” without state governors knowing. | |
| Trump has a prepared statement on the Orlando attack, which he seems not to want to read. | |
| “I just wrote some of this down, but we gotta do it, because normally we talk about jobs,” he says. | |
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| Trump is speaking in Greensboro. Here’s a live feed: | |
| 11.49pm BST | |
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| Guardian politics reporter Ben Jacobs is monitoring the Trump rally for us tonight: | |
| Pastor Mark Burns introducing Donald Trump in NC repeatedly insists that Hillary Clinton is a racist | |
| We’ll serve up a live video feed shortly. | |
| 11.44pm BST | 11.44pm BST |
| 23:44 | 23:44 |
| Sanders calls for end to superdelegates | Sanders calls for end to superdelegates |
| In his statement in Washington, DC, earlier, Bernie Sanders called for an end to the superdelegates system by which senior Democratic party figures cast decisive votes in the presidential nominating contest. | |
| Sanders also called for same-day registration, adequate staffing and training for elections and other “major, major changes”. | |
| AP has video: | |
| VIDEO: Bernie Sanders vows to fight for change in Democratic party, including an end to superdelegates. https://t.co/IyYgFlc549 | VIDEO: Bernie Sanders vows to fight for change in Democratic party, including an end to superdelegates. https://t.co/IyYgFlc549 |
| Here’s the current Democratic delegates count, including superdelegates: | Here’s the current Democratic delegates count, including superdelegates: |
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| 11.39pm BST | 11.39pm BST |
| 23:39 | 23:39 |
| It appears the Trump event in Greensboro is off to a spirited start: | It appears the Trump event in Greensboro is off to a spirited start: |
| More than 40 minutes before Trump speaks in Greensboro, already had three separate protestors kicked out pic.twitter.com/bWhRKJvRyY | More than 40 minutes before Trump speaks in Greensboro, already had three separate protestors kicked out pic.twitter.com/bWhRKJvRyY |
| Anti Trump march pic.twitter.com/T0T2lEiaGZ | Anti Trump march pic.twitter.com/T0T2lEiaGZ |
| 11.29pm BST | 11.29pm BST |
| 23:29 | 23:29 |
| Treasurer of pro-Trump Pac was convicted of $460m fraud | Treasurer of pro-Trump Pac was convicted of $460m fraud |
| Politico’s Ken Vogel comes across a strange filing by a pro-Trump political action committee called Get Our Jobs Back, Inc. It claims a $50m expenditure on “digital media marketing” – a huge sum: | Politico’s Ken Vogel comes across a strange filing by a pro-Trump political action committee called Get Our Jobs Back, Inc. It claims a $50m expenditure on “digital media marketing” – a huge sum: |
| Assuming this is either a typo or a prank: new super PAC reports a $50 MILLION digital ad buy supporting Trump. https://t.co/VEBRa9hQyn | Assuming this is either a typo or a prank: new super PAC reports a $50 MILLION digital ad buy supporting Trump. https://t.co/VEBRa9hQyn |
| His curiosity piqued, Vogel called PAC treasurer Steven Hoffenberg, only to be threatened with a lawsuit: | His curiosity piqued, Vogel called PAC treasurer Steven Hoffenberg, only to be threatened with a lawsuit: |
| Just called treasurer of this pro-Trump PAC.He said it will cost me $1M to intervu him, then threatened to sue, so… https://t.co/vcdrinQlHo | Just called treasurer of this pro-Trump PAC.He said it will cost me $1M to intervu him, then threatened to sue, so… https://t.co/vcdrinQlHo |
| Then Vogel notes that Steven Hoffenberg is also the name of a financier who, in 1995, pleaded guilty “to criminal conspiracy and fraud charges in connection with a $460 million scheme that was described by prosecutors as one of the largest financial swindles in history”, as the New York Times reported. | Then Vogel notes that Steven Hoffenberg is also the name of a financier who, in 1995, pleaded guilty “to criminal conspiracy and fraud charges in connection with a $460 million scheme that was described by prosecutors as one of the largest financial swindles in history”, as the New York Times reported. |
| Maybe just coincidence, but the confrontational treasurer of pro-Trump PAC has same name as notorious Ponzi schemer: https://t.co/JLQhLMmk0u | Maybe just coincidence, but the confrontational treasurer of pro-Trump PAC has same name as notorious Ponzi schemer: https://t.co/JLQhLMmk0u |
| Not a coincidence, it turns out: Hoffenberg spent more than a decade in federal prison for his crimes, which the Times summarized like this: | Not a coincidence, it turns out: Hoffenberg spent more than a decade in federal prison for his crimes, which the Times summarized like this: |
| Mr. Hoffenberg admitted to being the ringleader of one of the largest so-called Ponzi schemes on record, having sold more than $460 million in fraudulent notes and bonds to investors and having used some of the money he collected from later investors to pay interest owed to earlier investors. The rest of the money was used to run The New York Post briefly and to support a Potemkin-village financial empire with inflated revenues and fictitious profits that made it appear to be a major health care financing company | Mr. Hoffenberg admitted to being the ringleader of one of the largest so-called Ponzi schemes on record, having sold more than $460 million in fraudulent notes and bonds to investors and having used some of the money he collected from later investors to pay interest owed to earlier investors. The rest of the money was used to run The New York Post briefly and to support a Potemkin-village financial empire with inflated revenues and fictitious profits that made it appear to be a major health care financing company |
| CONFIRMED: Treasurer of this pro-Trump PAC is notorious Ponzi schemer Steven Hoffenberg, convicted of a $460M fraud. https://t.co/JLQhLMmk0u | CONFIRMED: Treasurer of this pro-Trump PAC is notorious Ponzi schemer Steven Hoffenberg, convicted of a $460M fraud. https://t.co/JLQhLMmk0u |
| Trump spent months warning that outside political groups were a corrupting influence in American politics. Last month, however, he hired a finance chairman and announced he would build a “world-class finance organization”. | Trump spent months warning that outside political groups were a corrupting influence in American politics. Last month, however, he hired a finance chairman and announced he would build a “world-class finance organization”. |
| The splash page for that Super PAC reads like it's some sort of spoof. https://t.co/sTneIRdgJr cc @derekwillis pic.twitter.com/5TtxlQ15iP | |
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| at 11.54pm BST | |
| 11.18pm BST | 11.18pm BST |
| 23:18 | 23:18 |
| DC polls to close at 8pm ET | DC polls to close at 8pm ET |
| It’s finally here. The last voting in the 2016 presidential nominating season is happening as we speak in Washington, DC, where Democrats are holding a primary (Republicans in the district held their contest in March; Marco Rubio won 10 delegates and John Kasich won 9). | It’s finally here. The last voting in the 2016 presidential nominating season is happening as we speak in Washington, DC, where Democrats are holding a primary (Republicans in the district held their contest in March; Marco Rubio won 10 delegates and John Kasich won 9). |
| Polling stations in DC close at 8pm ET. | Polling stations in DC close at 8pm ET. |
| Before the polls close, Donald Trump will speak, should all proceed as scheduled, at a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. We’ll carry coverage of the speech here. | Before the polls close, Donald Trump will speak, should all proceed as scheduled, at a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. We’ll carry coverage of the speech here. |
| 11.09pm BST | 11.09pm BST |
| 23:09 | 23:09 |
| Trump: 'I'm much better for women than she is. I'm much better for gays' | Trump: 'I'm much better for women than she is. I'm much better for gays' |
| Are the 63% of women who told the Bloomberg /Selzer poll that they would never vote for Trump missing something? | Are the 63% of women who told the Bloomberg /Selzer poll that they would never vote for Trump missing something? |
| Trump tells Fox News host Sean Hannity that “I’m much better for women than [Clinton] is. I’m much better for gays’. | Trump tells Fox News host Sean Hannity that “I’m much better for women than [Clinton] is. I’m much better for gays’. |
| Trump to Hannity in interview to air tonight: "I’m much better for women than she is. I’m much better for gays.” pic.twitter.com/nfekhmtTWB | Trump to Hannity in interview to air tonight: "I’m much better for women than she is. I’m much better for gays.” pic.twitter.com/nfekhmtTWB |
| In other news, BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski has unearthed yet another Trump interview with Howard Stern, in which Trump talked about the (late-1970s) heyday of Studio 54, the nightclub: | In other news, BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski has unearthed yet another Trump interview with Howard Stern, in which Trump talked about the (late-1970s) heyday of Studio 54, the nightclub: |
| You’d see the top models in the world getting screwed on tables in the middle of the dance floor,” said Trump. “You would see things you just don’t see today primarily because of AIDS and other diseases. But it was incredible. You’d see the most beautiful women in the world, the most beautiful people in the world. Then, an hour later, you’d see them making love right in front of you. And I’m there saying, ‘Excuse me?’ | You’d see the top models in the world getting screwed on tables in the middle of the dance floor,” said Trump. “You would see things you just don’t see today primarily because of AIDS and other diseases. But it was incredible. You’d see the most beautiful women in the world, the most beautiful people in the world. Then, an hour later, you’d see them making love right in front of you. And I’m there saying, ‘Excuse me?’ |
| Trump added he was dating “a million” models at the time. | Trump added he was dating “a million” models at the time. |
| 10.16pm BST | 10.16pm BST |
| 22:16 | 22:16 |
| 63% of women say #NeverTrump – poll | 63% of women say #NeverTrump – poll |
| The Bloomberg / Selzer poll asked a lot of “never would I ever” questions. | The Bloomberg / Selzer poll asked a lot of “never would I ever” questions. |
| 55% of voters surveyed said they could never vote for Trump, compared with 43% who said they could never vote for Clinton. | 55% of voters surveyed said they could never vote for Trump, compared with 43% who said they could never vote for Clinton. |
| But Trump’s numbers were even worse with women. 63% of women surveyed told the pollsters they could never vote for Trump. | But Trump’s numbers were even worse with women. 63% of women surveyed told the pollsters they could never vote for Trump. |
| If you can never get the vote of two in three women, who are a majority of voters, that is something that has to change for Trump to emerge victorious,” Selzer said. | If you can never get the vote of two in three women, who are a majority of voters, that is something that has to change for Trump to emerge victorious,” Selzer said. |
| In the 2012 presidential election, women were 53% of voters. Barack Obama won 55% of them. In 2008 Obama won women 56-43. Read further here. | In the 2012 presidential election, women were 53% of voters. Barack Obama won 55% of them. In 2008 Obama won women 56-43. Read further here. |
| More from the poll: | More from the poll: |
| 66% of electorate "bothered" by Trump's Muslim ban; 72% by his remarks on Curiel. Some things haven't been breached. pic.twitter.com/80WtqLFqh8 | 66% of electorate "bothered" by Trump's Muslim ban; 72% by his remarks on Curiel. Some things haven't been breached. pic.twitter.com/80WtqLFqh8 |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 10.24pm BST | at 10.24pm BST |
| 10.07pm BST | 10.07pm BST |
| 22:07 | 22:07 |
| Clinton up 12 points in Bloomberg poll | Clinton up 12 points in Bloomberg poll |
| Hillary Clinton holds a 49-37 lead over Donald Trump among likely voters nationally, a new Bloomberg poll finds. | Hillary Clinton holds a 49-37 lead over Donald Trump among likely voters nationally, a new Bloomberg poll finds. |
| The poll was conducted on 10-13 June and, at the end, included a question about the 12 June Orlando attack. | The poll was conducted on 10-13 June and, at the end, included a question about the 12 June Orlando attack. |
| The poll found a wider lead for Clinton than the 7-point-lead depicted in an NBC News / Survey Monkey poll released this morning. | The poll found a wider lead for Clinton than the 7-point-lead depicted in an NBC News / Survey Monkey poll released this morning. |
| 55% of those polled by Bloomberg said they could never vote for Trump. Here’s Bloomberg: | 55% of those polled by Bloomberg said they could never vote for Trump. Here’s Bloomberg: |
| “Clinton has a number of advantages in this poll, in addition to her lead,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer, who oversaw the survey. “Her supporters are more enthusiastic than Trump’s and more voters overall see her becoming a more appealing candidate than say that for Trump.” | “Clinton has a number of advantages in this poll, in addition to her lead,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer, who oversaw the survey. “Her supporters are more enthusiastic than Trump’s and more voters overall see her becoming a more appealing candidate than say that for Trump.” |
| One bit of positive news for Trump in the results is that he narrowly edges out Clinton, 45 percent to 41 percent, when those surveyed were asked which candidate they would have more confidence in if a similar attack to the one in Florida took place a year from now. | One bit of positive news for Trump in the results is that he narrowly edges out Clinton, 45 percent to 41 percent, when those surveyed were asked which candidate they would have more confidence in if a similar attack to the one in Florida took place a year from now. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 10.30pm BST | at 10.30pm BST |
| 10.01pm BST | 10.01pm BST |
| 22:01 | 22:01 |
| Trump seeks 'founding members' | Trump seeks 'founding members' |
| A new email from the Donald Trump campaign invites potential supporters to become a “Founding Member of our campaign to officially mark your membership in the greatest American movement since our country’s founding.” | A new email from the Donald Trump campaign invites potential supporters to become a “Founding Member of our campaign to officially mark your membership in the greatest American movement since our country’s founding.” |
| If Crooked Hillary gets elected, the country we love will be lost,” the email warns. “Say goodbye to the Supreme Court, our military, our border, our freedoms –everything that has made America great... | If Crooked Hillary gets elected, the country we love will be lost,” the email warns. “Say goodbye to the Supreme Court, our military, our border, our freedoms –everything that has made America great... |
| If you think that sounds bad, you can become a founding member here. | If you think that sounds bad, you can become a founding member here. |
| (h/t: @bencjacobs) | (h/t: @bencjacobs) |
| 9.33pm BST | 9.33pm BST |
| 21:33 | 21:33 |
| Trump: Post made it sound like I said Obama was shooter | Trump: Post made it sound like I said Obama was shooter |
| Donald Trump has elaborated on his decision to nix press credentials for the Washington Post. The Post had reported that Trump had suggested the president harbored some nefarious secret agenda, which the Guardian also reported. | Donald Trump has elaborated on his decision to nix press credentials for the Washington Post. The Post had reported that Trump had suggested the president harbored some nefarious secret agenda, which the Guardian also reported. |
| The Post’s report was preceded by an investigation that revealed that Trump had not given away money to veterans’ charities as he claimed, seemingly pressuring Trump into writing a $1m check to a charity. | The Post’s report was preceded by an investigation that revealed that Trump had not given away money to veterans’ charities as he claimed, seemingly pressuring Trump into writing a $1m check to a charity. |
| On Fox News, Trump said the Post accused him of saying “essentially that Obama went in and shot the people” at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando: | On Fox News, Trump said the Post accused him of saying “essentially that Obama went in and shot the people” at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando: |
| Trump doubles down on Washington Post ban, on "Hannity": pic.twitter.com/pJInzueSmY | Trump doubles down on Washington Post ban, on "Hannity": pic.twitter.com/pJInzueSmY |
| 9.23pm BST | 9.23pm BST |
| 21:23 | 21:23 |
| Video: Obama unloads on Trump | Video: Obama unloads on Trump |