Delaware Liberal

Mark Cuban, who has savaged Donald Trump by suggesting the GOP nominee is not really a billionaire, was given a front row seat in next week’s first presidential debate by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, CNN reports. “Cuban has tried to publicly shame Trump throughout the 2016 campaign, regularly slamming the Republican nominee for not releasing his taxes. The attacks have been particularly effective, given Cuban’s status as a fellow billionaire and his public persona as a similarly brash businessman.” More on how Hillary is preparing for the debate, and tons of new poll numbers inside!

Donald Trump faced a swift backlash after declaring that African Americans are “in the worst shape they’ve ever been” during a campaign event in North Carolina, the Washington Post reports. “The comments drew immediate criticism on social media from critics who accused him of failing to consider the United States’ history with slavery and North Carolina’s history with Jim Crow laws and segregation.” And one of Donald Trump's solutions: nationwide stop and frisk. "We did it in New York, it worked incredibly well," Trump said of the practice, which empowered police officers to stop a person on the street for a pat-down if they suspected him or her of wrongdoing. In fact, data showed that the practice effectively turned into racial profiling that disproportionately targeted black New Yorkers. Studies also found that stop-and-frisk was ineffective in catching criminals or preventing crime. A federal judge ruled it unconstitutional in 2013. Not to mention, I thought Republicans were for less government? What Trump is calling for is a nationwide police state that can stop any citizen for any reason (because we are talking about the subjective thoughts of a cop, and recent evidence demonstrates wrongdoing equals being black).

The Delaware Democratic Party has been holding Platform meetings up and down the state over the last two months, as part of the process of drafting a new platform that will be presented and hopefully approved of at the 2017 Democratic State Convention. You can submit platform ideas yourself by emailing proposals and suggestions to Platform@deldems.org, so long as you are a registered Democrat of course (if you are a Green or an Independent and want to take part in this process in order to make the Democratic Party more liberal, how about you, oh I don't know, join the Democratic Party in order to make it more liberal). The public comment period will remain open until October 31, 2016. The Progressive Democrats for Delaware (PDD) have submitted their suggestions....

Talking Points Memo:

The Donald Trump campaign on Tuesday night blasted the Washington Post over the paper's latest report on the Trump Foundation and how Trump used his charity's funds for personal matters, but the campaign did not address the specifics of the report. [...] The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Trump used a total of $258,000 from his foundation to settle personal legal issues. For example, when Trump was fined in 2006 by the town of Palm Beach over the height of the flag pole at Mar-a-Lago, Trump settled the issue by donating to a charity of the town's choice. However, Trump wrote a check with funds from his foundation. This follows Washington Post reporting showing that Trump's Foundation has largely used other people's money in the past few years. Responding to the Washington Post report on Tuesday night, the Trump campaign did not address the specific checks highlighted by the Post, and instead tried to turn focus on Hillary Clinton's family charity.

The Trump campaign is most nervous about this story, according to reports. There is something thee. Keep digging.

Dear Tom Carper and Chris Coons, If you want to know what a Democrat is, watch this clip inside. All of it.