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11:00 AM ET, October 12, 2016

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Kendall Taggart / BuzzFeed:
Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing  —  “Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before.”  —  Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Former Miss Arizona: Trump ‘just came strolling right in’ on naked contestants … On an April, 11, 2005, Howard Stern show, Donald Trump bragged about some of the special perks he enjoyed while owner of the Miss USA pageant.  They came not in a locker room but a dressing room.
CBS Los Angeles:   Former Beauty Queen: Contestants Were Forced To Greet Trump Even When Not Fully Dressed
Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Poll: Trump falls into tie with Clinton among Utah voters  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Republican Donald Trump appears to have, in his earlier words, “a tremendous problem in Utah” as a new poll shows him slipping into a dead heat with Democrat Hillary Clinton since crude comments he made about women surfaced last weekend.
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The Salt Lake / Salt Lake Tribune:
In the end, Hillary Clinton is the only qualified candidate, and the best choice
Discussion: Politico
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump campaign manager squabbles with Anderson Cooper over polls  —  Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway stole a play from the GOP nominee's playbook Tuesday night, labeling Hillary Clinton “the magic 46” for her inability to climb higher in the polls despite an array of advantages.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Conway: GOP ‘dangerously close’ to becoming party of elites until Trump  —  Far from alienating many who might otherwise vote for a Republican for president, Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Wednesday morning that the Manhattan billionaire has rescued the GOP from becoming “the party of the elites.”
Discussion: RedState and ABC News
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:   Donald Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway Berates ‘Wishy-Washy ’ Republican Leaders
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Breitbart Boss Stephen Bannon Bragged in 2015: 'I'm Trump's Campaign Manager'
Discussion: Mediaite
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's New Attack Strategy: Curb Clinton Vote  —  The Republican nominee has given up the conventional wisdom of trying to reach voters far outside his core of support  —  Donald Trump, faced with opposition inside and outside his party, plans to renew the nationalist themes that built …
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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Obama mocks Republicans for standing by Trump
Discussion: The Resurgent and ABC News
Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
It's Obama Versus Trump as Clinton Leans on Her ‘Cleanup Hitter’
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Exclusive: Trump campaign CEO wanted to destroy Ryan  —  's presidential campaign, gave explicit orders to his staff to destroy Speaker Paul Ryan  —  (R-Wis.).  —  On editorial conference calls, the Breitbart chairman would often say “Paul Ryan is the enemy,” according to a source who worked with Bannon at the news organization.
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump: Maybe Ryan won't be Speaker if I win WH
Discussion: RedState
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
‘Unprecedented’ Rift Among Republicans Puts Party's Survival in Limbo, Experts Say
Carolyn Kaster / Chicago Tribune:
GOP nears all-out civil war as party clashes over Donald Trump
Discussion: The Atlantic
Plain Dealer:
New Ohio poll puts Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald Trump by 9 points after news of Trump's vulgar talk  —  Hillary Clinton has opened up a big lead over Donald Trump in Ohio, according to the most thorough statewide poll to date, conducted by the Baldwin Wallace University Community Research Institute.
New York Times:
F.B.I. Investigating if Fatal Plane Crash in East Hartford Was Intentional  —  The F.B.I. is investigating whether the crash of a small plane in East Hartford, Conn., that killed a passenger on Tuesday was intentional, according to four federal law enforcement officials.
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
'I Think He's a Very Dangerous Man for the Next Three or Four Weeks'  —  Back in early March, Politico Magazine brought together five Donald Trump biographers for a conversation over lunch at Trump Tower.  At the time, the country was just beginning to grapple with the reality …
Discussion: Raw Story
CBS News:
Neb. senator re-endorses Trump after tape scandal  —  Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer was on Donald Trump's team.  Then she wasn't.  Now she is again.  —  Fischer, who on Saturday suggested Republican nominee Donald Trump should “step aside and allow Mike Pence” to become the GOP's candidate …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
In reversal, Sen. Fischer renews support for Trump
Discussion: New York Magazine
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Clinton campaign chairman ties email hack to Russians, suggests Trump had early warning  —  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta, said Tuesday that the FBI is investigating a “criminal hack” of his private email account, which he blamed on Russia …
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Clinton camp appeared to have contacts with DOJ on email case
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Women Are Defeating Donald Trump  —  A series of national polls released on Tuesday showed Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by margins ranging from 5 to 11 percentage points — except for the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times tracking poll, which defiantly continues to show Trump up by 2 points.
New York Times:
Split Over Donald Trump Threatens to Tilt Republican States  —  Donald J. Trump's intensifying battle with his own party is tearing open the nation's political map, pulling Republicans across the country into a self-destructive feud that could imperil dozens of lawmakers in Congress …
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
‘Whole bunch’ of facts don't support Obama's claim that many VA bosses were fired over scandal  —  “I don't want to, in any way, pretend that we are where we need to be but we have, in fact, fired a whole bunch of people who are in charge of these facilities.”
Discussion: Hot Air
insight-us.org:
NC's 2016 Voter Turnout (through 10 October)  —  This is the second in a twice-weekly series of updates detailing pre-Election Day voter turnout across North Carolina in near real time, employing State Board of Elections data.  New installments appear here on the Insight(u)s Blog on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons through Nov. 8th.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
REVEALED: Donna Brazile Shared CNN Town Hall Questions With Clinton Camp  —  Donna Brazile, the current head of the Democratic National Committee, appears to have tipped the Clinton campaign off to a question about the death penalty that was going to be asked during a CNN town hall in March, newly released emails show.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Support for marijuana legalization continues to rise
Discussion: Vox and The Atlantic
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
NY Trump Supporter Arrested After Threatening To Beat Black Woman
Discussion: alan.com and Albany Times Union
Wlady Pleszczynski / The American Spectator:
History Is Full of Surprises
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Trump trails Clinton by 8 points after tape scandal, debate: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: The Week and Hot Air
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Will Hillary explain her dream of ‘open borders’?
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Tyler Coward / FIRE:
University of Tennessee Investigating Student Accused of Sexual Harassment for Writing Wrong Name on Quiz
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The Obamacare problem that Democrats don't want to talk about
Discussion: The CT Mirror and Florida Politics
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Pence asks Republicans to share WikiLeaks revelations about Clinton — but overstates what's in them
 

 
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