NATIONAL–PRESIDENT–USA Today/Suffolk–Clinton 48, Trump 41
VIRGINIA–PRESIDENT–Hampton University–Clinton 43, Trump 41
WEST VIRGINIA–PRESIDENT–MetroNews–Trump 49, Clinton 31
PENNSYLVANIA–PRESIDENT–PPP–Clinton 48, Trump 43
PENNSYLVANIA–SENATOR–PPP–McGinty 46, Toomey 40
PENNSYLVANIA–SENATOR–Franklin & Marshall–McGinty 43, Toomey 38
This is how you handle a heckler.
Video: Biden stumping for Clinton in OH when man protests over Iraq War: “My friend died!”
Biden: “So did my son.”
https://t.co/zl5VPFBBUq— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) September 1, 2016
“Instead of speaking to the congregation at Great Faith Ministries International, Mr. Trump will be interviewed by its pastor in a session that will be closed to the public and news media, with questions submitted in advance. And instead of letting Mr. Trump be his freewheeling self, his campaign has prepared lengthy answers for the submitted questions, consulting black Republicans to make sure he says the right things.”
“An eight-page draft script obtained by the New York Times shows 12 questions that Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, the church’s pastor, intends to ask Mr. Trump during the taped question-and-answer session, as well as the responses Mr. Trump is being advised to give. The proposed answers were devised by aides working for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee.”
Another Clinton Foundation Investigation Shows They Played It By the Book https://t.co/DWWTHHXhoS
— Nancy LeTourneau (@Smartypants60) September 1, 2016
Political strategist James Carville tells Vanity Fair that the Republican party is committing suicide.
Said Carville: “I just didn’t think that a modern American party was capable of suicide. I thought that something would happen, that somebody would think of a way to stop this. And they couldn’t. I think that they wanted to but they couldn’t.”
He added: “And most of the Republicans that I talk to, which are quite a few, they are not so much worried about losing the election as I think they are about losing an entire generation. No one knows how much damage that Trump is going to cause the Republican Party beyond 2016. It is really something, to watch a party just march right over a cliff, and no one can stop them.”
Set aside the policy details. Trump's core message about immigrants is that they're scary, dangerous people. https://t.co/6yBxsJj2Kt
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) September 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign raised $143 million in August for her campaign, the DNC and state parties, according to CNN.
The Lid: “And/but it’s worth noting: While Clinton’s total fundraising is way up, her numbers for her campaign itself are flat — about $62 million in August compared to $63 million in July. The big jump is how much cash Clinton raised for the party, pulling in $81 million for Dems in August outside of what she raised for her own coffers, compared to just $26 million the previous month.”
I think that’s a great thing. One of Obama’s great failures is that he neglected the Democratic Party (and put DWS in charge of the DNC). In August 2012, he raised a stunning $84m for his own campaign, but only $22m for the DNC. Hillary raised $81m for the DNC, and $62m for herself. Good for her.
trump foundation obscured political donation, cited by irs, but please go on about clinton foundation "optics" https://t.co/QM8WY3vQcB
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) September 1, 2016
And that political donation, from the Foundation to Florida AG Pam Bondi, was an actual bribe to make her drop her state’s fraud investigation into Trump University. But yes, do go on about Hillary’s fucking optics, you media-whore pieces of shit.
“Bernie Sanders will hit the trail for Hillary Clinton on Monday in New Hampshire, in the former Democratic presidential rival’s first event campaigning solo since he announced his endorsement of the former secretary of state in July,” Politico reports.
Clinton: "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." https://t.co/Z6csEboWel pic.twitter.com/9Nl9y5At4B
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 2, 2016
BuzzFeed says Trump has given up on getting Latino support: “In the wake of Donald Trump’s hardline immigration speech Wednesday night, Republicans throughout the party largely abandoned discussion of a late push to win over Latinos, and seemed instead to focus on a new question: Which white voters can the candidate still reach?”
“Trump’s much-hyped speech in Phoenix came after two rollercoaster weeks in which the nominee flailed and flip-flopped on the immigration issue, and suggested he was ‘softening his stance. This brief flirtation with moderation led many to speculate that Trump was courting Hispanic voters — a theory that was buoyed by the candidate’s last-minute meeting with the Mexican president Wednesday. But interviews with a wide range of Republicans — from unabashed Trump supporters to #NeverTrump bitter-enders — suggested few in the party are still clinging to that hope.”
TRUMP: Make The Purge real!
CLINTON: I have charity that helps millions and I use email.
MEDIA: I honestly cannot tell the difference.
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 1, 2016
We need Media Reform. Start with banning corporate ownership and re-instituting the Fairness Doctrine.
Ron Brownstein says GOP Senators cannot count on split ticket voting to save them: “Since the 1970s, the share of voters who split their tickets—supporting one party for president and the other in Senate races—has steadily declined. If that pattern persists in November, Republicans will likely lose their slim upper-chamber majority because the most competitive Senate races are clustered in blue or purple states where Trump faces the greatest resistance. To maintain control, Republicans will need either a dramatic Trump recovery in states such as Illinois and Wisconsin—or to convince more voters to split their ballots in Senate races than either side has typically persuaded lately. Neither will be easy.”