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| Trump steps off campaign trail to promote DC hotel – election live | Trump steps off campaign trail to promote DC hotel – election live |
| (about 2 hours later) | |
| 4.12pm BST | |
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| The only part of Trump’s hotel that’s solidly occupied: | |
| Trump aides says this event at Old Post Office hotel not a campaign event, not a press conference; it's just a hotel ribbon cutting. pic.twitter.com/7DRxGHxeVs | |
| 4.10pm BST | |
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| More Gingrich on himself: | |
| Here's what Newt told reporters about that Megyn Kelly intv in a gaggle just before going into the event ballroom here: pic.twitter.com/Rrii5N6kfp | |
| 4.03pm BST | |
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| Yesterday Clinton told a Florida crowd not to get complacent and to ignore the polls showing her far ahead – people still have to get out and vote. | |
| Cher amplifies that message in Cherspeak: | |
| DONT POP🍾CORKS,BECAUSE UR SURE HILLARY WILL WIN IN A LANDSLIDE‼️DONT TAKE HER WIN 4GRANTED‼️DEAD🦂'S KILL,&🚽IS A WOUNDED🦂,HE CAN STILL KILL‼️ | |
| (ty @ambiej) | |
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| Gingrich says Trump hotel event is on-message | |
| Daily Mail politics editor David Martosko, who has Trump pool duty today, has cornered Newt Gingrich at Trump’s hotel to ask him about his tangle on TV last night with Megyn Kelly. | |
| Martosko is a partisan of all caps which we’re letting stand for effect. | |
| Gingrich explains Trump’s appearance at his hotel like this: “Right now he’s got to make the case that he brings things in under budget and ahead of schedule. And a Trump government would be under budget and ahead of schedule.” | |
| Here’s Martosko’s report: | |
| ASKED IF HIS INTERVIEW WITH MEGYN KELLY GOT “A LITTLE ROUGH” LAST NIGHT: | |
| “That’s just the business.” | |
| ASKED IF TRUMP CAN “TURN IT AROUND” BY NOV. 8: | |
| “I think Trump will win. I don’t think he has to turn it around. I think he’ll win.” | |
| ASKED WHAT TRUMP SHOULD BE DOING FOR THE NEXT 13 DAYS: | |
| “What he’s doing. Right now he’s got to make the case that he brings thing in under budget and ahead of schedule. And a Trump government would be under budget and ahead of schedule.” | |
| TOLD THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE SEE THIS HOTEL EVENT AS “A DISTRACTION FROM THE CAMPAIGN”: | |
| “That’s because they don’t understand the message: It’s under budget and ahead of schedule. That’s a very important message because it means nothing in the current bureaucratic government tells you what a Trump administration would be like.” | |
| ASKED IF TRUMP IS “WORRIED ABOUT UTAH” AND THE “THIRD-PARTY” THREAT: | |
| “I’m sure he is.” | |
| “REALLY?” | |
| “Sure, he is! He should worry about all 50 states.” | |
| Updated | |
| at 3.59pm BST | |
| 3.51pm BST | |
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| Longtime Republican strategist and communications hand Matt Mackowiak, who it should be noted doesn’t like Trump, questions what in Hades Trump is doing in DC today: | |
| 1. Here's my electoral map as of today: HC 324 (FL, PA, NC, NV, NH) DT 207 (OH, IA, GA, AZ)https://t.co/kOnGkmeJQi | |
| 2. Today, with 13 days left, here’s what the GOP nominee’s campaign is doing:> Trump is opening a hotel in DC (3 EVs)> Pence is in Utah | |
| 3. Trump has only 1 path to 270. Hold Romney states (incl GA, AZ, NC) & pick up FL, OH, IA & NV. But that’s only 265. He needs NH(4) & ME(1) | |
| 4. Any campaigning or resource deployment anywhere outside FL, OH, NC, NV, IA and NH is deliberately wasteful at this point. Time and money. | |
| 5. The single most valuable commodity in any campaign is the candidate’s time, because it is a constantly diminishing resource. | |
| 6. Trump in DC today, instead of NH (which he must have) or the 5 battleground states he needs is ridiculous. @KellyannePolls knows this. | |
| 7. As @stuartpstevens says, “Trump isn’t running a campaign, it’s a concert tour.” All he cares about is earned media and his brand. | |
| 8. There are no more big moments left in the campaign. Debates are past. Early voting is going on everywhere. Clinton is banking votes. | |
| 9. I’ll admit this is a volatile election and Trump’s base is more enthusiastic, but as of today I see no way for Trump to win. None. | |
| 10. Set the polls/punditry aside. Hillary is -700 to win. That means you’d have to bet $700 on Hillary to win $100. She’s a 7-1 favorite. | |
| 12. At this point I expect Hillary to win more than 320 EVs w/ a national win of 5-7%. In that range, the GOP has a chance to hold Senate. | |
| 3.43pm BST | |
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| Hillary Clinton turns 69 years old today. | |
| Surprise! Happy Birthday HRC!! 🎂 pic.twitter.com/U2H7XUUltc | |
| This looks more like an anniversary photo? | |
| Happy birthday, Hillary. I hope this year is one for the history books. pic.twitter.com/UndDdFb1xh | |
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| at 3.46pm BST | |
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| Khizr Khan to campaign against Trump in Virginia | |
| Democrats take their fight to the heart of the US military establishment on Wednesday by deploying the father of a Muslim war hero to campaign againstDonald Trump. | |
| Khizr Khan, whose speech at the party’s convention in June came at the high-water mark in Trump’s poll ratings, will speak to veterans in Norfolk, Virginia, home of the world’s largest naval base and some 150,000 military workers. | |
| Trump shocked many Republicans earlier this year by initially attacking the sincerity of the parents of army captain Humayun Khan, who died saving his unit from an Iraqi suicide bomb, after they criticised his proposed ban on Muslims entering the US. | |
| But Captain Khan’s father is returning to haunt the campaign, and launching anew television advert, in which he again challenges the celebrity property developer: “Would my son have a place in your America?” It could further drive a wedge into remaining Republican support among military families after a disastrous few weeks that has seen the party’s presidential campaign pull out of states like Virginia. | |
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| Guardian Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts catches a protest outside the hotel: | |
| 3.32pm BST | |
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| Donald Trump is expected to appear any moment at the grand opening of his empty hotel in Washington, DC. Here’s a live video stream: | |
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| at 3.32pm BST | |
| 1.05pm BST | 1.05pm BST |
| 13:05 | 13:05 |
| Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. The Clinton campaign has the candidate and surrogates arrayed across Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Ohio today while the Trump campaign is in ... Washington DC and Utah? | Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. The Clinton campaign has the candidate and surrogates arrayed across Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Ohio today while the Trump campaign is in ... Washington DC and Utah? |
| Donald Trump is attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony today at his eerily empty new hotel in the nation’s capital. He has two later events in North Carolina. | Donald Trump is attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony today at his eerily empty new hotel in the nation’s capital. He has two later events in North Carolina. |
| DC does have three electoral votes https://t.co/3DRKa6yJYM | DC does have three electoral votes https://t.co/3DRKa6yJYM |
| Trump running mate Mike Pence, meanwhile, will be covering serious ground, with events in three western states: Nevada, Utah and Colorado. Pence’s stop in Utah is sure to have people talking, as the state usually is at the top of the rankings of states voting Republican. Mormon aversion to Trump and the independent candidacy of Evan McMullin have changed the calculus this time around. | Trump running mate Mike Pence, meanwhile, will be covering serious ground, with events in three western states: Nevada, Utah and Colorado. Pence’s stop in Utah is sure to have people talking, as the state usually is at the top of the rankings of states voting Republican. Mormon aversion to Trump and the independent candidacy of Evan McMullin have changed the calculus this time around. |
| Hillary Clinton has two rallies in Florida today, one in Palm Beach County in the south-east and one in Hillsborough County on the Gulf coast. Tim Kaine has two events in Pennsylvania, while Bill Clinton is diligently trying to put his wife over the top in North Carolina, with three stops there today after three stops there yesterday. Chelsea Clinton has three stops in Ohio, while senator Elizabeth Warren has an event in Pittsburgh. | Hillary Clinton has two rallies in Florida today, one in Palm Beach County in the south-east and one in Hillsborough County on the Gulf coast. Tim Kaine has two events in Pennsylvania, while Bill Clinton is diligently trying to put his wife over the top in North Carolina, with three stops there today after three stops there yesterday. Chelsea Clinton has three stops in Ohio, while senator Elizabeth Warren has an event in Pittsburgh. |
| Trump with narrow Florida edge – Selzer poll | Trump with narrow Florida edge – Selzer poll |
| A poll of likely voters in Florida by gold-star pollster J Ann Selzer for Bloomberg politics has Trump slightly ahead of Clinton in the state, 45-43, when third-party candidates are included. That’s within the margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points. Trump had 46% to Clinton’s 45% in a head-to-head matchup. Clinton has a three-point lead in polling averages of the state. | A poll of likely voters in Florida by gold-star pollster J Ann Selzer for Bloomberg politics has Trump slightly ahead of Clinton in the state, 45-43, when third-party candidates are included. That’s within the margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points. Trump had 46% to Clinton’s 45% in a head-to-head matchup. Clinton has a three-point lead in polling averages of the state. |
| Trump wants Biden behind barn | Trump wants Biden behind barn |
| The campaign action overnight was typically nasty and nausea-inducing, with Trump saying that yes, he would like to go in back of the barn with Biden (Biden had said gym), and campaign surrogate Newt Gingrich accusing Fox News host Megyn Kelly of having a “fascination with sex” because she takes the women who say Donald Trump violated them seriously. | The campaign action overnight was typically nasty and nausea-inducing, with Trump saying that yes, he would like to go in back of the barn with Biden (Biden had said gym), and campaign surrogate Newt Gingrich accusing Fox News host Megyn Kelly of having a “fascination with sex” because she takes the women who say Donald Trump violated them seriously. |
| The row on Tuesday night between Kelly and one of Trump’s most stalwart supporters began when the host brought up the multiple sexual assault and misconduct allegations against the candidate. | The row on Tuesday night between Kelly and one of Trump’s most stalwart supporters began when the host brought up the multiple sexual assault and misconduct allegations against the candidate. |
| During the ensuing debate, which bordered on personal attack, Gingrich said the host was “fascinated with sex” and Kelly urged him to “take your anger issues and spend some time working on them”. | During the ensuing debate, which bordered on personal attack, Gingrich said the host was “fascinated with sex” and Kelly urged him to “take your anger issues and spend some time working on them”. |
| Dan Scavino, Trump’s director of social media, later responded on Twitter, saying Kelly had “made a total fool out of herself” and warning: “Watch what happens to her after this election is over.” | Dan Scavino, Trump’s director of social media, later responded on Twitter, saying Kelly had “made a total fool out of herself” and warning: “Watch what happens to her after this election is over.” |
| .@MegynKelly made a total fool out of herself tonight- attacking @realDonaldTrump. Watch what happens to her after this election is over. | .@MegynKelly made a total fool out of herself tonight- attacking @realDonaldTrump. Watch what happens to her after this election is over. |
| Revealed: Trump’s ties with pipeline company | Revealed: Trump’s ties with pipeline company |
| Donald Trump’s close financial ties to Energy Transfer Partners, operators of the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline, have been laid bare, with the presidential candidate invested in the company and receiving more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from its chief executive. | Donald Trump’s close financial ties to Energy Transfer Partners, operators of the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline, have been laid bare, with the presidential candidate invested in the company and receiving more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from its chief executive. |
| Trump’s financial disclosure forms show the Republican nominee has between $500,000 and $1m invested in Energy Transfer Partners, with a further $500,000 to $1m holding in Phillips 66, which will have a 25% stake in the Dakota Access project once completed. | Trump’s financial disclosure forms show the Republican nominee has between $500,000 and $1m invested in Energy Transfer Partners, with a further $500,000 to $1m holding in Phillips 66, which will have a 25% stake in the Dakota Access project once completed. |
| Thank you for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thank you for reading and please join us in the comments. |