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| Trump and Clinton campaign after dueling charity dinner speeches – live | |
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| Senate judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley is up for reelection from Iowa this year, and there are good signs for him: polling averages have him up 13 points, and Iowa Republicans appear even to be sticking by Trump at the top of the ticket (like, perhaps, their counterparts in Ohio and in contrast with voters in other purplish states such as Pennsylvania-Virginia-Colorado). | |
| Grassley is not phoning it in, though – he’s just produced an ad featuring Ben Stein reprising his Ferris Bueller role: | |
| Chuck Grassley goes negative on Patty Judge in a new ad featuring Ben Stein doing his schtick from Ferris Bueller https://t.co/2YQ40jNYbK | |
| Fun ad... except is anyone else bothered by Judge coming before Grassley in the roll call? | |
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| Corey Lewandowski made half a million dollars on campaign | |
| Why is this man smiling? | |
| Three-managers-ago Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been paid $541,000 so far by the Trump campaign, new federal election commission filings reveal. That’s not counting the money Lewandowski has made as a hired commentator at CNN. | |
| Lewandowski, a police academy graduate, was a state-level political operative in New Hampshire before he jumped the Trump train. | |
| The Huffington Post points out that neither Lewandowski nor other highly paid Trump hires have given any cash to the effort actually to elect the candidate: | |
| Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has made more than a half-million dollars from the GOP nominee’s run. Dan Scavino has made nearly $183,000 from it. Current campaign manager Kellyanne Conway’s polling firm has been paid nearly $382,000 in a single month. | |
| (h/t @bencjacobs) | |
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| Former RNC chairman: 'I was damn near puking during the debates' | |
| Michael Steele, the predecessor of Reince Priebus as chairman of the Republican National Committee, has announced that he’s not voting for Donald Trump, his party’s nominee. Buzzfeed reports: | |
| “I will not be voting for Clinton,” Steele told a dinner in honor of the 40th anniversary of the progressive magazine Mother Jones in San Francisco Friday. “I will not be voting for Trump either.” | |
| Steele, a former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, said that Trump has “captured that racist underbelly, that frustration, that angry underbelly of American life and gave voice to that.” | |
| “I was damn near puking during the debates,” Steele said, adding that he believes Trump only represents 30% of the Republican Party. | |
| Steele was criticized for mismanaging party funds and stepped down in January 2011. Current RNC chairman Reince Priebus has been a stalwart Trump-backer, seeking to enforce party discipline in support of the nominee with a warning in September that former presidential candidates who did not support Trump may not be allowed to run again. | |
| Wow – Politics1.com points out that that’s six (6) former national party chairs who say they won’t vote Trump: | |
| Update: SIX former RNC Chairs are not voting Trump: George HW Bush, Bill Brock, Marc Racicot, Mel Martinez, Ken Mehlman, Michael Steele. | |
| What’s going to happen to the Republican party after this election? Matthew Continetti has your long read on that right here in the Washington Free Beacon: | |
| This is the crisis of the conservative intellectual. After years of aligning with, trying to explain, sympathizing with the causes, and occasionally ignoring the worst aspects of populism, he finds that populism has exiled him from his political home. He finds the détente between conservatism and populism abrogated. His models—Buckley, Burnham, Will, Charles Murray, Yuval Levin—are forgotten, attacked, or ignored by a large part of the conservative infrastructure they helped to build. He finds the prospect of a reform conservatism that adds to our strengths while ameliorating our weaknesses to be remarkably dim. Such conservatism has exactly two spokesmen in the Senate. It has a handful of allies in the House and states. | |
| From the Panama Canal to the Tea Party, from Phyllis Schlafly to Sarah Palin, the conservative intellectual has viewed the New Right as a sometimes annoying but ultimately worthy friend. New Right activists supplied the institutions, dollars and votes that helped the conservative intellectual reform tax, crime, welfare, and legal policy. But that is no longer the case. Donald Trump was the vehicle by which the New Right went from one part of the conservative coalition to the dominant ideological tendency of the Grand Old Party. | |
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| Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. | Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. |
| Can we say we’re in the home stretch? Election day is three Tuesdays away. More than 4 million people have already voted, according to the Election Project. The debates are done. We’ve had more “October surprises” than we had a right to expect. Miley Cyrus is door-knocking in Virginia. | Can we say we’re in the home stretch? Election day is three Tuesdays away. More than 4 million people have already voted, according to the Election Project. The debates are done. We’ve had more “October surprises” than we had a right to expect. Miley Cyrus is door-knocking in Virginia. |
| The election cycle passed another milestone last night with the Al Smith charity dinner, hosted by the archbishop of New York, where the candidates don formal attire and, traditionally, deliver self-deprecating humorous monologues, because in the end we’re all friends. Not this year, though, as Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton “corrupt” and she suggested that Vladimir Putin rides him like a horse. Here are those highlights: | The election cycle passed another milestone last night with the Al Smith charity dinner, hosted by the archbishop of New York, where the candidates don formal attire and, traditionally, deliver self-deprecating humorous monologues, because in the end we’re all friends. Not this year, though, as Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton “corrupt” and she suggested that Vladimir Putin rides him like a horse. Here are those highlights: |
| Meanwhile on the trail ... Clinton campaigns in Cleveland today, while Trump has a North Carolina stop and two Pennsylvania stops planned. Trump running mate Mike Pence is in New Hampshire, Clinton running mate Tim Kaine is in Pennsylvania, and Vice-President Joe Biden also is in Pennsylvania. Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak twice in Florida. | Meanwhile on the trail ... Clinton campaigns in Cleveland today, while Trump has a North Carolina stop and two Pennsylvania stops planned. Trump running mate Mike Pence is in New Hampshire, Clinton running mate Tim Kaine is in Pennsylvania, and Vice-President Joe Biden also is in Pennsylvania. Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak twice in Florida. |
| Not speaking on behalf of Clinton today, that we know of, is the woman who has emerged as perhaps Trump’s most powerful critic: Michelle Obama. In a speech in Phoenix yesterday, Obama chastised Trump for refusing to say he would accept the election result. “You do not keep American democracy in suspense,” Obama said: | Not speaking on behalf of Clinton today, that we know of, is the woman who has emerged as perhaps Trump’s most powerful critic: Michelle Obama. In a speech in Phoenix yesterday, Obama chastised Trump for refusing to say he would accept the election result. “You do not keep American democracy in suspense,” Obama said: |
| Thank you for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thank you for reading and please join us in the comments. |
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