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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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Trump’s done. Ten minutes until Washington DC polls close.
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Trump: 'Pocahontas' could be Clinton veep pick
Trump says he thinks Senator Elizabeth Warren might be Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential pick. But he does not refer to her by name; he calls her “Pocahontas” in reference to her disputed Native American heritage.
Trump:
I think maybe it could be Pocahontas. I hope so. I hope it’s Pocahontas.
They want me to apologize. But I did! Can you believe it, I apologized. I said, ‘I’d like to apologize to Pocahontas. It’s true. The great Pocahontas.
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Trump is re-telling the story of how he beat Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination. Like how Clinton always talks about beating Martin O’Malley and Jim Webb.
“I remember New Hampshire, I love New Hampshire. In fact just yesterday I was in New Hampshire. Gave a speech about” that “horrible, horrible” incident...
Next Trump riffs about the heroin and opioids epidemic in New Hampshire. Now he’s talking about how great he was in the debates. Who’s going to begrudge him a little walk down memory lane, it’s his birthday!
Trump is yet again revisiting the Republican primaries and complaining about Charles Krauthammer at length. #pivot
The dishonest @washingtonpost lies about the size of Trump's crowd. Sad! https://t.co/BDuaIb6qPt
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Trump is saying lyrics, as he has before, from Al Wilson’s The Snake. “Think of your border, think of people pouring in who you know are going to be trouble at some point”.
[A protester is taken out. “Get him out,” Trump says. “That’s right, go home to mommy. Bye”]
“Think about your border folks. .. We’re gonna protect our country”. Then he recites the lyrics in full, though he is interrupted by another protester and stops to join the crowd in a chant of USA! USA! USA!.
On her way to work one morningDown the path along side the lakeA tender hearted woman saw a poor half frozen snakeHis pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew“Oh well, “ she cried, “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you”“Take me in oh tender womanTake me in, for heaven’s sakeTake me in oh tender woman, “ sighed the snake
She wrapped him up all cozy in a curvature of silkAnd then laid him by the fireside with some honey and some milkNow she hurried home from work that night as soon as she arrivedShe found that pretty snake she’d taking in had been revived“Take me in, oh tender womanTake me in, for heaven’s sakeTake me in oh tender woman,“ sighed the broken snake
Now she clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried“But if I hadn’t brought you in by now, my gosh you would have died”Now she stroked his pretty skin and then she kissed and held him tightBut instead of saying thank you, that snake gave her a vicious bite“Take me in, oh tender womanTake me in, for heaven’s sakeTake me in oh tender woman,” sighed that vicious snake
“I saved you, “ cried that woman“And you’ve bit me heavens, why?You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die”“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in”
Trump’s applauded for his recitation. “We know what we’re getting into, but we keep doing it, because we don’t learn,” Trump says.
Trump is reading The Snake which he describes as a parable about US and immigrants. Could also be about him and the GOP.
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Trump: 'we're no longer gonna be the stupid people'
Trump promises a relief from idiocy:
It’s America First. We’re no longer gonna be the stupid people. And we’re not the stupid people. But we’re led by the stupid people. And that’s gonna end.
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Dallas’ local CBS station reports that the cities of Irving and Grand Prairie, Texas, have declined to host Donald Trump rallies:
#EXCLUSIVE: 2 N. #Texas cities have rejected hosting @realDonaldTrump rallies. @thecityofirving & @gp_tx. @CBSDFW pic.twitter.com/nIu3fEg7RF
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Trump says he did not want to run for presidentTrump 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:“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.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: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.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?Trump: And who is going to pay for it?
Crowd: Mexico!Crowd: Mexico!
Trump: Who?Trump: Who?
Crowd: Mexico!Crowd: Mexico!
Trump: 100%Trump: 100%
Trump then says he did not want to run for president: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.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.
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Trump brags about shutting the Washington Post out of his events: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.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.So I did it with the Washington Post, I’m so happy... maybe they’re somewhere in the back, the back bleachers.
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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.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: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.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.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 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.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/8olIq2zkf4In 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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Trump: Obama 'was more angry at me than he was at the shooter'Trump: Obama 'was more angry at me than he was at the shooter'
Trump interrupts his statement on Orlando to attack Clinton.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.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”.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.“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.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:“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.’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.That’s the kind of anger he should have for the shooter, and these killers, that shouldn’t be here.
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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 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.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.“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:Trump is speaking in Greensboro. Here’s a live feed:
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Guardian politics reporter Ben Jacobs is monitoring the Trump rally for us tonight: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 racistPastor Mark Burns introducing Donald Trump in NC repeatedly insists that Hillary Clinton is a racist
We’ll serve up a live video feed shortly.We’ll serve up a live video feed shortly.
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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
Here’s the current Democratic delegates count, including superdelegates:
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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
Anti Trump march pic.twitter.com/T0T2lEiaGZ
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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:
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:
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.
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:
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
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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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).
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.
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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?
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
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?’
Trump added he was dating “a million” models at the time.
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63% of women say #NeverTrump – poll
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.
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.
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:
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
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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.
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.
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.”
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.
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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.”
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.
(h/t: @bencjacobs)
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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.
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:
Trump doubles down on Washington Post ban, on "Hannity": pic.twitter.com/pJInzueSmY
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Video: Obama unloads on Trump