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Marco Rubio to Trump: stop saying election will be rigged – campaign live
Trump heads to Colorado while Clinton prepares for third debate – campaign live
(35 minutes later)
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.
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Obama: 'quid pro quo' accusations don't reflect 'actual events'
The president now answers a question about an apparent discussion, revealed in notes taken by the FBI, between the FBI and state department officials as to the appropriate classification level of certain Clinton emails. Critics say the discussion represents a negotiation in which the FBI expected favors for reducing the classification status of emails. The status was important as a measure of just how sensitive was the material Clinton handled on her private email server.
“Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy personally tried to convince FBI officials that the email should be declassified,” CNN reported. “One interviewee described feeling “pressured” by another FBI official at Kennedy’s request.” But the FBI has denied any quid pro quo.
Obama says the charges “aren’t based on actual events”:
I think you’ve heard directly from both the FBI and the state department that... the accounts that have been put out there are just not true... based on what we have seen, heard, learned, some of the more sensational implications or appearances... aren’t based on actual events, what actually happened, and I think derive from overly broad characterizations of interactions between the state department and the FBI that happen a lot, happens between agencies.
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“Mr Trump rarely surprises me these days. I’m much more surprised by Republican officials now supporting and in some cases echoing” Putin’s policy approaches, Obama says.
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Obama calls out Republican hypocrisy on Trump and Putin
Obama is taking questions. Two doozies: he’s asked about Trump’s approach to Putin. And he’s asked about communication between the FBI and state department about classification of Hillary Clinton emails.
Obama says he’ll be subdued in discussing the race “in this context.” But he would like to talk about Russia. When he arrived in office, Russia had invaded parts of Georgia and Obama tried to reach out to Medvedev, “acknowledging enormous differences.” He names the new Start treaty and WTO membership for Russia as well as “international challenges.”
Obama said he’s talked with Putin about cooperation. “The challenge... is very much centered on Russian aggression... in Ukraine, where they have engaged in similar conduct to what they did in Georgia... in Syria... he doubled down in his support for Assad..”
“So any characterization that somehow we have improperly challenged Russian aggression or have somehow tried to encroach on their legitimate interest is just wrong. And Mr Trump’s continued flattery of Mr Putin and the degree to which he appears to model many of his... approaches to politics on Mr Putin is unprecedented in American politics.”
Then Obama questions how Republicans who criticized his efforts to reach out to Russia can now back Trump.
“You’ll have to explain to me how it is that some of the same leaders of the Republican party who were constantly haranguing us for even talking to the Russians... including Mr Trump’s selection for vice president now reconcile their endorsement of Mr Trump with their previous views.”
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Here’s a metaphor for the election. An elephant rushes into the water to rescue a trainer she believes is drowning (at least that’s how the action in this footage is described, and sure enough that looks like a lifeguard move on the elephant’s part). Just as the GOP sensing a nation in peril has leapt to its rescue but wait the nation was just going for a swim now what.
Here’s a metaphor for the election. An elephant rushes into the water to rescue a trainer she believes is drowning (at least that’s how the action in this footage is described, and sure enough that looks like a lifeguard move on the elephant’s part). Just as the GOP sensing a nation in peril has leapt to its rescue but wait the nation was just going for a swim now what.
Baby elephant rushes into river to rescue her trainer who she thought was drowning at Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. pic.twitter.com/HaY9zfsNxn
Baby elephant rushes into river to rescue her trainer who she thought was drowning at Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. pic.twitter.com/HaY9zfsNxn
4.48pm BST
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Here’s a live video stream of president Barack Obama’s ongoing news conference with Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi:
Here’s a live video stream of president Barack Obama’s ongoing news conference with Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi:
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Hillary Clinton has just boarded her plane for Las Vegas, where the third presidential debate will be held tomorrow night. Donald Trump has two stops in Colorado today before arriving in Las Vegas tonight.
Hillary Clinton has just boarded her plane for Las Vegas, where the third presidential debate will be held tomorrow night. Donald Trump has two stops in Colorado today before arriving in Las Vegas tonight.
Hillary Clinton, boarding plane to Vegas, ignores shouted questions about debate prep, offering a thumbs up instead. pic.twitter.com/qZO2fmZQ2C
Hillary Clinton, boarding plane to Vegas, ignores shouted questions about debate prep, offering a thumbs up instead. pic.twitter.com/qZO2fmZQ2C
“Trump is doing some debate prep this morning,” according to a pool report. No details were provided.
“Trump is doing some debate prep this morning,” according to a pool report. No details were provided.
COLORADO Trump there today:Clinton 45 (7 pts up) Trump 37Johnson 10Stein 3Q poll of likely voters Oct 10-16https://t.co/vaO45sbZmN
COLORADO Trump there today:Clinton 45 (7 pts up) Trump 37Johnson 10Stein 3Q poll of likely voters Oct 10-16https://t.co/vaO45sbZmN
Trump spending 1 of 21 remaining campaign days in a state basically no one outside his team thinks is close to being in play https://t.co/DHQiUWow21
Trump spending 1 of 21 remaining campaign days in a state basically no one outside his team thinks is close to being in play https://t.co/DHQiUWow21
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The John Podesta emails released by Wikileaks include one with an early long list of potential running mates for Clinton, grouped by Podesta into what he calls “food groups” – Latinos, women, white men, African Americans, military officers and business leaders.
The John Podesta emails released by Wikileaks include one with an early long list of potential running mates for Clinton, grouped by Podesta into what he calls “food groups” – Latinos, women, white men, African Americans, military officers and business leaders.
Bernie Sanders was his own food group (greens? dessert? Superfoods?). Here’s the full list of 39:
Bernie Sanders was his own food group (greens? dessert? Superfoods?). Here’s the full list of 39:
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The New York Times’ T fashion mag has a spread this weekend featuring the first lady. Click through for more photos, and for written tributes:
The New York Times’ T fashion mag has a spread this weekend featuring the first lady. Click through for more photos, and for written tributes:
Michelle Obama has spent the past 8 years quietly and confidently changing the course of American history https://t.co/01mOOJXcj8 pic.twitter.com/JcwICwZ1vU
Michelle Obama has spent the past 8 years quietly and confidently changing the course of American history https://t.co/01mOOJXcj8 pic.twitter.com/JcwICwZ1vU
What a wonderful tribute to Mrs. Obama & the incredible role model she’s been to countless people, including me https://t.co/FVTU8Y0dpi
What a wonderful tribute to Mrs. Obama & the incredible role model she’s been to countless people, including me https://t.co/FVTU8Y0dpi
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From Trump’s Wisconsin rally Monday night:
From Trump’s Wisconsin rally Monday night:
Trump tried to kiss a little girl at his rally tonight and she isn't having it (via @GoAngelo) pic.twitter.com/rwlWe8bFQ4
Trump tried to kiss a little girl at his rally tonight and she isn't having it (via @GoAngelo) pic.twitter.com/rwlWe8bFQ4
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Pictures: Hillary victory fund fundraiser
Pictures: Hillary victory fund fundraiser
This happened last night in New York:
This happened last night in New York:
4.09pm BST
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Rothenberg reports: Clinton will win
In a new Washington Post column, Stu Rothenberg, the well respected former Roll Call columnist and author of the eponymous report on politics, states flatly that Clinton will win the presidential election and the only remaining question is by how much:
It would be a mistake to call Trump’s current path to an electoral college victory narrow. It is nonexistent. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, once part of the Trump scenario, have never been “in play,” and he is not competitive in 2012 states Obama won only narrowly, such as Virginia and Colorado. Trump is more likely to lose North Carolina than win it, which would put him under 200 electoral votes. [...]
Now, with early voting already underway and only three weeks left until Election Day, the writing is on the wall. Clinton is headed for solid popular vote and electoral vote victories that are larger than Obama’s were over Romney.
Read the full piece here.
4.04pm BST
16:04
Naked Clinton statue sets off skirmish in downtown Manhattan
Speaking of disliking Hillary Clinton – a naked statue of Clinton erected outside the Bowling Green subway station in downtown Manhattan Tuesday morning drew a crowd and caused a skirmish as a woman knocked down and attacked the statue while a man repeatedly tried to stand it back up.
“The statue was up for less than three hours before an enraged woman toppled it over and started yelling at the statue’s creator,” the Daily News reports:
“This is obscene!” shouted Nancy, an employee at the nearby National Museum of the American Indian who would only identify herself by her first name.
“To put something up like this in front of my work place...I shouldn’t have to see this,” she later told the Daily News, fighting back tears as she gestured toward the crude figure.
Click through for video. (h/t @paultowen)
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3.50pm BST
15:50
Why do people dislike Hillary Clinton? The story goes far back
Megan Carpentier
There is – and perhaps there always will be – a dedicated group of people who don’t know Hillary Clinton personally, but nonetheless hate her.
Whether they are truly a “vast rightwing conspiracy” (as Clinton called them in 1998) or just many in number and conservative in outlook, there’s no arguing that they exist or that they continue to try to influence public opinion on the Democratic nominee.
But even if people consider themselves savvy enough to reject the strangest conspiracy theories (sample claims include that she is a mass-murderer, a closeted lesbian faking her 40-year marriage, a member of the Illuminati and/or an agent of the devil himself), there seems little doubt that an undercurrent of hostility spanning decades has had an impact upon how she is viewed.
Clinton’s unfavorability rating may not be as low as Donald Trump’s, but in an election year which has frequently degenerated into name-calling, she has attracted invective from both the left and the right. Polls have frequently cited the public view that she is not trusted, while Trump has rallied his supporters with the “Crooked Hillary” epithet.
Her links to Wall Street, her missing emails and her supposed responsibility for the security failures that contributed to the attack on the Benghazi consulate are the ostensible reasons for some deeply personal attacks in 2016. But the roots of hostility towards her go much deeper.
Craig Shirley, a Ronald Reagan biographer and historian who spent decades as a conservative political consultant, said that, when Hillary Clinton arrived in Washington DC as first lady, “she came from Little Rock with a reputation already established” as “such a militant feminist, difficult to deal with”.
He noted that she faced hostility in Arkansas politics and media when Bill Clinton was first elected governor, because she kept her maiden name.“Here she comes, the feminist from Wellesley and Yale,” Shirley explained of the supposedly prevailing attitude of the time, “down to Little Rock and brings her attitudes with her”.
Read the full piece here:
3.35pm BST
15:35
Christie on Trump campaign: 'it's not my campaign'
Asked about allegations of sexual assault against Donald Trump, New Jersey governor Chris Christie told NBC News (video), “I can only take him at his word, and I am.”
Asked whether he was proud of Trump’s campaign, Christie said it wasn’t his campaign:
It’s not my campaign... I’m proud of everything I’ve said. And that’s all I can control. The rest of it I can’t control.
As Christie watches his political future crumble with the Trump campaign, the governor faces increasing legal peril. A New Jersey judge last week ruled that a misconduct complaint against Christie in the Bridgegate affair could move forward.
3.18pm BST
15:18
CNN’s Teddy Schleifer flags a JetBlue ad playing on the Clinton mantra borrowed from Michelle Obama: “When they go low, we go high.”
“Nabbing a great fare is never up for debate,” the ad copy begins. What do you think, does this ad work for Trump fans?
JetBlue just blatantly ripping up the Clinton HQ talking points this AM. pic.twitter.com/wMh84FkOJu
3.08pm BST
15:08
Here’s some data via NBC News that’s catching a lot of interest this morning. The provocative suggestion is that, your blood pressure medication aside, the presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton remains essentially unchanged since January 2016.
There, there. It was all but a dream.
The comparison is built on favorability ratings and polling of head-to-head matchups between Trump and Clinton over the last 10 months:
A-m-a-z-i-n-g, via @NBCFirstRead. pic.twitter.com/cUW9ulCp4k
Is there a difference between a stable race and one moves a lot but then arrives back where it started? And what about that supposed shift by independents toward Hillary Clinton after the first debate – did that really happen?
Clinton's margin in the reweighted LAT/USC poll continues to follow the RCP 4-way average fairly well. pic.twitter.com/q2LV3jDEO0
2.54pm BST
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Republican Representative Mike Coffman, who’s running for reelection in Colorado’s 6th district east of Denver, has produced a very un-Trump-like ad showcasing his support for the local Ethiopian community:
Great @RepMikeCoffman ad, showing how GOP can win in diverse places https://t.co/1a7kgfMoy9
2.47pm BST
14:47
Activists stage 'this pussy votes' rally in Chicago
Activists have gathered outside Trump tower in downtown Chicago to protest the nominee with chants of “This pussy votes!” and “GOP, hands off me!” and signs reading “Pussy grabs back,” “Real men get consent” and “Fuck you Cheeto Voldemort.” Check out #GOPhandsoffme for more.
Anti Donald Trump protest in Chicago now about 200 strong, outside Trump Tower pic.twitter.com/vHWajtlWvE
#Trump protest this morning in front of the Trump Tower in downtown #Chicago. pic.twitter.com/8bqKnMfaSR
Protest happening now across Trump Tower in Chicago pic.twitter.com/YiIOEpdgbP
2.26pm BST
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Where the candidates are today
Hillary Clinton has no events on her public schedule today. The third and final presidential debate is scheduled for tomorrow night at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Donald Trump is to appear at two rallies in Colorado this afternoon. His running mate, Mike Pence, has two rallies scheduled in North Carolina.
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine and his wife, Ann Holton, have an event in Detroit, Michigan, today, while Bill Clinton is to campaign in Pennsylvania. Senator Bernie Sanders will be deployed in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Off the campaign trail, Barack and Michelle Obama are currently greeting the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, at the White House. The Obamas are to host a state dinner in Renzi’s honor this evening.
White House Arrival Ceremony for Italian Prime Minister @MatteoRenzi - LIVE on C-SPAN2 https://t.co/UaNzIFfb2k pic.twitter.com/qg4DpJvEWT
1.44pm BST
13:44
Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House.
Florida senator Marco Rubio said last night that Donald Trump should “stop saying” that the upcoming election is “rigged” because “there is no evidence” of that happening.
It was the most direct admonishment yet of Trump by a top Republican for Trump’s repeated declarations that the election is about to be stolen. House speaker Paul Ryan has released a statement through a spokesperson voicing general confidence about the integrity of the election, while Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has ignored the nominee’s attack on democracy.
“This election is not being rigged,” Rubio said in a debate last night with Representative Patrick Murphy, who is trying to take his senate seat. “And I’m going to explain to you why it’s not being rigged in Florida and why I hope he stops saying that – he should stop saying that.”
Rubio pointed out that Florida has a Republican governor and said “there is no evidence behind any of this, so this should not continue to be said.”
Trump says Ryan has an eye on 2020
Asked by ABC News whether Ryan wants him to win the election, Trump said, “maybe not, because maybe he wants to run in four years, or maybe he doesn’t know how to win.”
Ryan, the unsuccessful 2012 ticketmate of nominee Mitt Romney, could take on Hillary Clinton for the White House in four years if Trump loses (or Ryan could run against Trump in the primaries).
Donald Trump suggests Speaker Paul Ryan doesn't want Trump to win because of his own political ambitions in 2020. https://t.co/X66IOCQjW2 pic.twitter.com/kxS0ANmwTV
Trump says assault accusers seeking fame
In the same interview with ABC News, Trump dismissed women who have accused him of sexual assault as fame-seekers. “These people come up, maybe for a little fame or maybe for some other reason, or maybe because they’re part of the Clinton campaign,” he said.
Trump: dead people are voting
“People that have died 10 years ago are still voting,” Trump told a crowd in Green Bay, Wisconsin, last night. “Illegal immigrants are voting.” He said that the election is “rigged” at “polling booths” and would be stolen. He did not mention any specific cases of voter fraud, name places where that has happened or explain why protections against voter fraud including transparency and decentralization weren’t working.
The vote-rigging in the Atlanta area appeared to be especially elaborate on Monday, with long lines of people outside polling stations for the first day of early in-person voting giving the impression of regular old participatory democracy in action:
Extremely long lines form at Atlanta-area polling locations on the first day of early voting in Georgia. https://t.co/n7TqA3VDnW pic.twitter.com/uoFc4WcxHk
Melania Trump: ‘This is not the man I know’
Trump’s wife told Fox News’s Ainsley Earhardt that she did not recognize the man heard on a hot mic tape with TV host Billy Bush. “This is not the man that I know,” Trump said. “This is – we could see, as I always said, as my husband said, as well, for a successful businessman, entrepreneur, entertainer to achieving so much in his life, being in so many shows, so many tapes, it’s very hard to run for public office. And he did this anyway. He said, I want to help American people. I want to keep America safe. I want to bring back jobs, bring back economy, so our children, our futures will be the best way possible.”
#POLLS 10/17 8PM ■CBS/NYT: CLINTON +9■MON: CLINTON +12■BG: C+8■NBC/WSJ: C+10■NOLA: C+9■PEW: C+7■FOX N: C+8■ATLANTIC: C+11■REUT: C+7
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