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Obama on Trump's baseless claims of rigged election: 'Stop whining' – live
Obama on Trump's baseless claims of rigged election: 'Stop whining' – live
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8.27pm BST
20:27
Trump calls for term-limits amendment
“This is our final shot folks. In four years it’s over. We’re never going to be able to win. It’s going to be a final party system. This is your final shot.”
Then Trump describes how he would “drain the swamp” in Washington. He proposes various regulations on lobbyists.
“If I’m elected president I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. They’ve been talking about that for years.”
8.23pm BST
20:23
Now Trump is dissing the Washington Post while quoting it. “Another beauty,” he calls it. Then he cites an article on non-citizen voters.
“The system is also rigged by the donors, giving hundreds of millions of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s campaign,” Trump says. Rigged rigged rigged.
8.22pm BST
20:22
Trump:
“We have only just begun to fight... and I hear we’re going to win Colorado. My people say you’re going to win Colorado, it doesn’t matter what they’re saying.”
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8.19pm BST
20:19
Trump is now ten talons sunk deep in the media. They “attack my businesses, they attack my family.”
Trump says of Melania Trump’s appearance on CNN last night, “that she even has to do that is a shame.”
“This is election is about truth, and you’re not going to get it from the dishonest media. Some people can’t handle the truth.”
“Even though we’re doing pretty good in the polls, I don’t believe in the polls anymore... believe me folks, we’re doing great. If we keep our spirit, and if we go out and win, this is another Brexit.”
Then he points to the size of his crowd. Then he makes fun of Hillary Clinton for debate prep:
“You know what the debate prep is? It’s resting. It’s lying down and going to sleep.”
Then he goes back to attacking the media:
“Even my worst critics agree that the media has come after us like they have never come after anyone before.”
Then he says the New York Times is dying then he quotes from a Times piece about unbalanced media coverage.
8.14pm BST
20:14
Trump now says that Clinton has committed criminal acts as revealed in notes taken by the FBI indicating that state department employee Patrick Kennedy pressured an FBI agent to change classification levels of material in Clinton emails. The assertion is that there was some quid pro quo deal offered to the FBI by state.
It was the first question Obama took in his Rose garden news conference today. Obama said it did not reflect actual events, “what actually happened.”
Trump says the media refuses to cover the story. “This is a bigger event than Watergate and they practically refuse to cover it.”
8.09pm BST
20:09
Trump makes a bunch of promises. Your incomes will go up, jobs will go up, unemployment will go down, companies won’t be leaving, everything will work, America first.
He disses the “dishonest media” in an aside and we/they are booed.
Trump rattles off some growth statistics.
He then says that the DNC pays people to protest Trump:
“It’s rarely covered by the media, but it’s all over the Internet.. can you imagine? That’s a big story. Hardly covered by the media.”
Boos.
So how did he find out about it?
8.07pm BST
20:07
Trump predicts victory in Colorado. Then he actually delivers a locally tailored get-out-the-vote message, telling his audience to mail their ballots.
The Denver Post explained on Monday:
This week, the 2016 election gets real.
Colorado election officials will begin mailing ballots Monday to more than 3,125,300 active voters, and the initial wave of votes is expected by the end of the week.
The first mail-ballot presidential election marks a fundamental shift in how elections are managed in Colorado and introduces significant variables to the political calculus that will determine the winners. [...]
More than half of Colorado voters are expected to return the ballots before Nov. 8, and starting next week, state election officials will begin reporting vote totals by party. In-person voting begins at voting centers Oct. 24.
8.04pm BST
20:04
Hey look it’s Donald Trump in Colorado Springs, just beginning:
7.53pm BST
7.53pm BST
19:53
19:53
Democrat Chuck Schumer, possibly the next senate majority leader, is running for reelection in New York (running far ahead of his challenger). And if wrangling a cow is what it takes –
Democrat Chuck Schumer, possibly the next senate majority leader, is running for reelection in New York (running far ahead of his challenger). And if wrangling a cow is what it takes –
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The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs sees Trump strength in absentee ballot returns in Iowa:
The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs sees Trump strength in absentee ballot returns in Iowa:
For all the talk of Dem gains in GA or TX, Trump looking very strong in IA as Dem margin in absentee ballots is 45k behind 2012 today
For all the talk of Dem gains in GA or TX, Trump looking very strong in IA as Dem margin in absentee ballots is 45k behind 2012 today
It’s a close race (visit HuffPost Pollster):
It’s a close race (visit HuffPost Pollster):
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7.43pm BST
19:43
Preparations are under way for Trump’s appearance at his event in Colorado Springs, Colorado this afternoon. “Several hundred Trump supporters are already here, listening to pre-Trump speakers, including Kimberly Jajack, a Trump alternate delegate from Colorado,” according to a pool report:
Jajack spoke of a “downward spiral of destruction” in the event Clinton is elected.
“Our sovereign nation is being slowly but surely destroyed,” she said.
As for Trump and the accusations before him, “forgive him as a child of God.”
As she spoke about Clinton, several chants of “Lock her up!” broke out. One man shouted “Off with her head!”
We’ll have a live video stream for you as showtime approaches.
7.26pm BST
19:26
Pretty good.
And @azizansari (reluctantly?) adds to the celebrities-telling-millennials-to-vote ad library: https://t.co/YRQ6I56IBo
7.23pm BST
19:23
Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence has paid a visit to the Republican campaign offices that were firebombed at the weekend in liberal-ish Orange County, North Carolina:
At the Orange County, NC GOP headquarters to stand solemnly with these courageous volunteers in the wake of an act of political terrorism. pic.twitter.com/mB2fRlEnko
The phrase “Nazi Republicans, leave town or else” with a swastika was painted on an adjacent building. No one was injured in the attack. A GoFundMe campaign at the weekend raised $10,000 to rebuild the office and there were condemnations and calls for understanding and justice on all sides.
Well, not all sides:
Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning @NCGOP
7.10pm BST
19:10
Who’s looking forward to tomorrow night’s debate? *ducks*
Getting set up in the media filing center for tomorrow night's Clinton-Trump debate pic.twitter.com/orqLv3pOs6
But in earnest, the audience for the second debate was off about 20% from the first debate. Will more or fewer people tune in for the third debate after the shambles that was No.2? To whet viewers’ appetites, Trump has announced that he has invited Pat Smith, the mother of a State Department IT consultant who was killed in the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack.
Smith gave a wrenching speech at the Republican convention in which she said, “I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son.” Then a couple weeks later the guy who wrote the speech came out and said he would never vote for Trump and might vote for Clinton.
Hillary Clinton's guests at the third and final debate in Las Vegas will be Meg Whitman and Mark Cuban, per @jmpalmieri
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6.58pm BST
18:58
Video: Obama tells Trump to 'stop whining'
6.57pm BST
18:57
America’s First Freedom, the official journal of the National Rifle Association, has a new cover featuring Hillary Clinton’s face wrinkles advocating for gun safety legislation:
It's that time of the month! Got my @NRA magazine in the mail. Live tweet begins now (with this horrendously designed cover) pic.twitter.com/HeKm9yyK4K
Wait. Clinton's "wrinkles" have actually been cleverly-disguised fine print about gun restrictions THIS WHOLE TIME?? https://t.co/wZdHGpigNd
(h/t @lgamgam)
6.54pm BST
18:54
Vogue magazine has followed in the footsteps of USA Today in setting aside its practice of not endorsing presidential candidates. In 2016, Vogue’s with her:
Vogue endorses @HillaryClinton for president of the United States: https://t.co/4zstNuUu16 pic.twitter.com/k9tS50Gxy5
It looks like Hillary Clinton has just been told that 20 years hence she will be polling within three points of the Republican presidential nominee in Texas. 1993 portrait by Annie Liebovitz. From the endorsement:
Vogue has no history of political endorsements. Editors in chief have made their opinions known from time to time, but the magazine has never spoken in an election with a single voice. Given the profound stakes of this one, and the history that stands to be made, we feel that should change.
There go a bunch of canceled subscriptions.
6.39pm BST
18:39
Polls depict tight races in trio of swing states
Mona Chalabi
In three crucial states – Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio – the contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remains extremely close, according to polling data released by CNN/ORC today.
Voters were asked between 10 and 15 October which presidential candidate they support (the polls were conducted after the release of a video which showed Trump bragging about sexual assault). In Nevada, 46% of likely voters said they planned to back Clinton while 44% said they would support Trump. In North Carolina voters were split 48-47 in favor of Clinton, while in Ohio Clinton attracted only 44% of likely voters compared with Trump’s 48%.
Additional polling in Nevada only adds confusion to the picture:
WaPo has Trump up 4 in NevadaMonmouth has Clinton up 7 unskewing opportunities for everyone!
The poor favorability ratings of both presidential nominees this year is an old story, but comparing those ratings with other political figures’ is still a bracing exercise:
Here are the fav/unfav ratings in our latest national NBC/WSJ poll pic.twitter.com/ceSWBchUL1
Read further here:
And for those who wonder whether 2016 might produce an election night-surprise on the model of “Dewey defeats Truman”:
If anyone tries to say this race is like 1948 in terms of a polling error, show them this... https://t.co/09LJFFZ54F pic.twitter.com/TJ37wAe6gf
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5.35pm BST
17:35
Reactions: Obama tells Trump to “stop whining”
.@POTUS to @realDonaldTrump: "Stop whining" about "rigged election" and go try to win votes https://t.co/TjNqB0WR08 https://t.co/vS3OU6RM4F
Obama to Trump: please take my bait and commence days-long feud
@nate_cohn OMFG.
5.28pm BST
17:28
Obama: 'I'd invite Mr Trump to stop whining'
Obama is asked whether he’s concerned about a potential for violence on Election Day, given Trump’s call for supporters to surveil polling sites? And what does he make of Trump’s claim that the election is rigged?
Obama:
One of the great things about America’s democracy is we have a vigorous sometimes bitter political contest and when it’s done, historically, regardless of party...
[Trump’s charges of a rigged election are] unprecedented, it happens to be based on no facts. Every expert, ... regardless of ideology... will tell you that instances of significant voter fraud are not to be found. That keep in mind elections are run by state and local officials which means that there are places like Florida for example where you’ve got a Republican governor whose appointees will be running... that is both irresponsible, and by the way it doesn’t really show the leadership and toughness that you’d want out of a president. You start whining before the game’s even over? ... Then you don’t have what it takes to be in this job. Because there are a lot of times when things don’t go our way, or my way...
The larger point is that there is no serious person out there who would suggest that you could even rig America’s elections, in part because they’re so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved.. and so I’d invite Mr Trump to stop whining and try to make his case to get votes..
If Trump wins, Obama says, he’d expect Clinton to give a gracious concession speech and promise to work with him. If Trump wins, Obama says, he’ll welcome him to the White House and escort him over to the Capitol for a peaceful transfer of power.
That’s what Americans do. That’s why America’s already great. One way of weakening America and making it less great is if you start betraying those basic American traditions that have been bipartisan and helped to hold the democracy together now for the better part of two centuries.
