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| Donald Trump's comments described sexual assault, White House says – live | Donald Trump's comments described sexual assault, White House says – live |
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| President Barack Obama, on the stakes of the 2016 election: | |
| Civility is on the ballot! Respect for women is on the ballot! Tolerance is on the ballot! Justice is on the ballot! Equality is on the ballot! Democracy is on the ballot! If you want to send a message in this election, make it a resounding message! | |
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| Closing out his remarks by speaking directly to young voters, President Barack Obama urges them to turn out, despite the coarsening of the American political process during the 2016 campaign. | |
| “There are a lot of things about our politics that can seem cheap, and trivial, and frustrating,” Obama says, “but here’s a chance to reject a divisive and mean-spirited politics that would just take us backwards. And there’s nothing cheap or trivial about that.” | |
| “That’s real - that is true. And young people, you have a chance to do that, so don’t fall for the easy cynicism that says my vote doesn’t matter, or all politicians are the same,” Obama continues. “I promise you - your vote matters!” | |
| “If you care about equality, if you supported Bernie in the primaries, you’ve got a choice!” Obama says. “When he asks you what you have to lose, you answer - you’ve got everything to lose!” | |
| “Send a message for hope! Send a message by voting for Hillary Clinton!” Obama closes. “Send a message about who we are as the American people, and make our kids proud!” | |
| “Let’s get to work!” | |
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| President Barack Obama turns his attention to national security, often seen in polling at Donald Trump’s strongest quality among voters, deriding the notion that Trump would be a safer commander-in-chief than Hillary Clinton. | |
| “If you’re concerned about who’s gonna keep you and your family safe in a dangerous world, the choice is even clearer,” Obama says, and “she’ll do it without resorting to torture, or banning entire religions from our country.” | |
| “He might be up, I guess, at 3am, but that’s tweeting insults at someone who got under his skin instead of getting a good night’s sleep to do the job of being president of the United States!” | |
| “Come on!” Obama shouts, as the audience laughs. | |
| “When, in the middle of a debate, you threaten to put your political opponent in jail - no trial, no indictment, no lawyers - when you welcome Russian meddling in our electoral process, then you’re disregarding not just things like facts or evidence or a free press, but you’re chipping away at core values like tolerance and due process and mutual respect,” Obama says. “And our democracy doesn’t work that way.” | |
| “We have stood in contrast and in opposition to those kids of ideas, and I frankly never thought I’d see the day when we have a major-party candidate who would be promoting those kinds of notions!” | |
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| President Obama reacts to Alex Jones: | |
| He said me and Hillary are demons. Said we smell like sulfur. Ain’t that something? Now, I mean, come on, people! Democracy does not work if you just say stuff like that! | |
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| President Barack Obama, on Donald Trump’s age: | |
| At 55, it’s hard for me to change - I know at 70 it’s gonna be harder! | |
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| President Obama, extending an olive branch to Republicans who have been no fan of his administration for the past eight years, tells the audience in Greensboro, North Carolina, that not all Republicans (#NotAllRepublicans?) say or believe the things that Donald Trump does - but that he’s a creation of their that they need to expressly disavow. | |
| I do not believe that every Republican official thinks the way Donald Trump does - many of them do not. The overwhelming majority of Republicans, they love the families, they love their country, they’re good and decent people doing all sorts of good things for this country. What is true is that over the last eight, ten, however long you wanna say, if you’ve been only about obstruction, if in order to score political points, you tell your voter base crazy stuff like I wasn’t born here, or that I’m a Muslim, or that— well, it’s just a long list. | |
| “And you repeat it over and over again, and so that your only agenda is negative and you just make up facts,” Obama continues, as call-and-response “Yeahs!” echo throughout the hall, “over time what happens is that you produce a nominee who’s all about obstruction and insults and makes up his own facts! Now, I don’t think that’s how the majority of Republicans think, but this is the habit you get into that creates this kind of nominee. And now you find a situation in which the guy says stuff that nobody would find tolerable if they were applying for a job at 7/11. | |
| The fact that now you’ve got people saying, well, we strongly disapprove, we really disagree, we find those comments disgusting, but we’re still endorsing him, we still think he should be president, that doesn’t make sense to me! | |
| I’m certainly not perfect, nobody’s perfect, and I too believe in forgiveness and redemption, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to elect the person president! | |
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| President Obama: 'Tweeting doesn’t qualify you' to serve as president | President Obama: 'Tweeting doesn’t qualify you' to serve as president |
| “You don’t have to be a husband or a father to hear what we heard just a few days ago and say, ‘That’s not right,’” President Barack Obama says, of Donald Trump’s remarks about sexually assaulting women. “You just have to be a decent human being to say, ‘that’s not right.’ And if it makes you mad, you can do something about it!” | “You don’t have to be a husband or a father to hear what we heard just a few days ago and say, ‘That’s not right,’” President Barack Obama says, of Donald Trump’s remarks about sexually assaulting women. “You just have to be a decent human being to say, ‘that’s not right.’ And if it makes you mad, you can do something about it!” |
| “Nobody fully understands - including me - the jobs and demands of this job until you’ve sat behind this desk,” Obama continues. “The buck stops here! And so, like, tweeting doesn’t qualify you. Soundbites don’t qualify you. Insults certainly don’t qualify you. Nobody can fully know what it’s like to manage a global crisis, or know the feeling of sending a young person into war, but I tell you, nobody’s been closer to those decisions than Hillary.” | “Nobody fully understands - including me - the jobs and demands of this job until you’ve sat behind this desk,” Obama continues. “The buck stops here! And so, like, tweeting doesn’t qualify you. Soundbites don’t qualify you. Insults certainly don’t qualify you. Nobody can fully know what it’s like to manage a global crisis, or know the feeling of sending a young person into war, but I tell you, nobody’s been closer to those decisions than Hillary.” |
| “She knows what it means, she knows what it takes,” Obama continues. “She understands that the decisions you make in this job mean life or death, affect soldiers and veterans and workers who need a raise or a decent retirement. She understands that it counts for families that are trying to climb into the middle class, or stay in the middle class.” | “She knows what it means, she knows what it takes,” Obama continues. “She understands that the decisions you make in this job mean life or death, affect soldiers and veterans and workers who need a raise or a decent retirement. She understands that it counts for families that are trying to climb into the middle class, or stay in the middle class.” |
| “No matter how daunting the odds, or how many times she gets knocked down, she doesn’t point fingers or throw blame, she doesn’t say the system is rigged, she doesn’t check her mic,” he says, tapping the microphone. “She is qualified to be president of the United States of America.” | “No matter how daunting the odds, or how many times she gets knocked down, she doesn’t point fingers or throw blame, she doesn’t say the system is rigged, she doesn’t check her mic,” he says, tapping the microphone. “She is qualified to be president of the United States of America.” |
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| President Barack Obama, woke AF: | President Barack Obama, woke AF: |
| You don’t have to be a husband or a father to hear what we heard just a few days ago and say, ‘That’s not right.’ You just have to be a decent human being to say, ‘that’s not right.’ | You don’t have to be a husband or a father to hear what we heard just a few days ago and say, ‘That’s not right.’ You just have to be a decent human being to say, ‘that’s not right.’ |
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| Speaking at a raucous rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, President Barack Obama outlines the progressive victories of the past eight years of his administration - and points to the threat to that agenda posed by the election of Donald Trump. | Speaking at a raucous rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, President Barack Obama outlines the progressive victories of the past eight years of his administration - and points to the threat to that agenda posed by the election of Donald Trump. |
| “I wanted to say thank you for all of the support you’ve given us over the years,” Obama says. “When we look back, eight years later, we fought back from the recession, our auto industry is setting new records, our businesses have turned job losses into 15 million new jobs... incomes are rising, poverty is falling, uninsured rate at an all-time low, across America you can marry whoever you love, brought our brave troops to our families, delivered justice to Osama bin Laden, shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons program, opened a new chapter with the people of Cuba... no wonder I’ve gone grey, ‘cause we’ve been busy! We’ve been busy!” | “I wanted to say thank you for all of the support you’ve given us over the years,” Obama says. “When we look back, eight years later, we fought back from the recession, our auto industry is setting new records, our businesses have turned job losses into 15 million new jobs... incomes are rising, poverty is falling, uninsured rate at an all-time low, across America you can marry whoever you love, brought our brave troops to our families, delivered justice to Osama bin Laden, shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons program, opened a new chapter with the people of Cuba... no wonder I’ve gone grey, ‘cause we’ve been busy! We’ve been busy!” |
| “That’s why I’ve got all this grey hair! I’ve been busy!” Obama continues, the crowd eating it up. “But Michelle says I still look good.” | “That’s why I’ve got all this grey hair! I’ve been busy!” Obama continues, the crowd eating it up. “But Michelle says I still look good.” |
| “But I am telling you, Greensboro, all that press goes out the window if we don’t make the right choice just four weeks from today. The closer we get, the clearer the choice becomes,” Obama continues. “We’ve got a choice right now between somebody who is as qualified as anybody who has ever run for the White House, and somebody who has proven over and over again that he is unfit to represent this county.” | “But I am telling you, Greensboro, all that press goes out the window if we don’t make the right choice just four weeks from today. The closer we get, the clearer the choice becomes,” Obama continues. “We’ve got a choice right now between somebody who is as qualified as anybody who has ever run for the White House, and somebody who has proven over and over again that he is unfit to represent this county.” |
| “He doesn’t have the temperament or the knowledge or apparently the inclination to obtain the knowledge” to serve as president, Obama says, “and that was before we knew about his attitudes towards women!” | “He doesn’t have the temperament or the knowledge or apparently the inclination to obtain the knowledge” to serve as president, Obama says, “and that was before we knew about his attitudes towards women!” |
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| President Barack Obama campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Greensboro, North Carolina | President Barack Obama campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Greensboro, North Carolina |
| Watch it live here: | Watch it live here: |
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| Former House speaker John Boehner has declared that while Donald Trump is “not a conservative, he’s barely a Republican,” he still plans to vote for him: | Former House speaker John Boehner has declared that while Donald Trump is “not a conservative, he’s barely a Republican,” he still plans to vote for him: |
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| Reuters poll: Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 8 points after tape, debate | Reuters poll: Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 8 points after tape, debate |
| Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican rival Donald Trump has widened to 8 points among likely voters less than a month before Election Day, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows one in five Republicans hold the opinion that Trump’s predatory remarks about sexually assaulting women disqualify him from holding office. | Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican rival Donald Trump has widened to 8 points among likely voters less than a month before Election Day, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows one in five Republicans hold the opinion that Trump’s predatory remarks about sexually assaulting women disqualify him from holding office. |
| The survey, which was conducted after news of Trump’s remarks to Access Hollywood in 2005 as well as after the second of three presidential debates between the two candidates, unhelpfully declines to include the specific percentages of likely voters supporting either candidate, other than stating that Clinton’s lead has extended from a 5-point lead the last time the survey was conducted. (Thanks, guys!) | The survey, which was conducted after news of Trump’s remarks to Access Hollywood in 2005 as well as after the second of three presidential debates between the two candidates, unhelpfully declines to include the specific percentages of likely voters supporting either candidate, other than stating that Clinton’s lead has extended from a 5-point lead the last time the survey was conducted. (Thanks, guys!) |
| According to voters who watched at least part of the second presidential debate, 53% said that Clinton won, while only 32% saw Trump as the winner - surely information that Trump will take into account the next time he tweets that every poll taken after the debate showed him winning by massive margins. | According to voters who watched at least part of the second presidential debate, 53% said that Clinton won, while only 32% saw Trump as the winner - surely information that Trump will take into account the next time he tweets that every poll taken after the debate showed him winning by massive margins. |
| Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support! | Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support! |
| According to the poll, 42% of American adults - and 19% of Republicans - find that Trump’s comments in 2005, in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women and being able to get away with it by virtue of his fame, believe that Trump’s remarks disqualify him from the presidency. | According to the poll, 42% of American adults - and 19% of Republicans - find that Trump’s comments in 2005, in which he bragged about sexually assaulting women and being able to get away with it by virtue of his fame, believe that Trump’s remarks disqualify him from the presidency. |