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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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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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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.
The Salt Lake / Salt Lake Tribune:
In the end, Hillary Clinton is the only qualified candidate, and the best choice  —  It is time to get serious.  —  It has been amusing, to a degree, to watch the circus that was the Republican primary process struggle and fuss and finally produce such a disappointment to be its presidential nominee.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump hints that Ryan is part of ‘sinister deal’ … One day after warning the GOP that his “shackles” are off, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump  —  floated the prospect of a “sinister deal” preventing Speaker Paul Ryan  —  (R-Wis.) from coming to his defense.
Discussion: ABC News and Politicus USA
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Conway: GOP ‘dangerously close’ to becoming party of elites until Trump
Discussion: ABC News and RedState
ABC News:
The Note: The Unshackling of Donald Trump
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Catholic group demands top Clinton aide resign over leaked emails  —  A top aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton  —  is under fire from Catholic groups for remarks she made in hacked emails published by WikiLeaks, with one group calling on Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri to resign.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
FBI (re)issues statement on Podesta hack  —  The FBI is reacting to the hacking of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta's emails by re-issuing a broadly-worded statement about cyber threats to those active in American politics.  —  “The FBI is aware of media reporting …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: ‘What the hell do I have to do with Putin?’
Discussion: ABC News
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
How Hillary Clinton should go in for the kill  —  Hillary Clinton's extraordinary run of good electoral luck is continuing, with Donald Trump in a full-blown meltdown over the party's reaction to his 2005 comments about sexual assault.  He's attacking Speaker of the House Paul Ryan …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages  —  There is a 19-year-old black man in Illinois who has no idea of the role he is playing in this election.  —  He is sure he is going to vote for Donald J. Trump.  —  And he has been held up as proof by conservatives …
Discussion: Mother Jones, The Week and RedState
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Major GOP Donors Are Asking Trump for Their Money Back  —  Donald Trump's big-dollar donors asking for their money back, NBC News learns 2:52  —  Two big-money donors who have given or raised tens of thousands of dollars for Donald Trump are livid at the Republican presidential nominee …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Pence Makes The Case At Liberty University That Christians Should Forgive Trump  —  LYNCHBURG, Va. — Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence urged Christian college students on Wednesday to vote for Donald Trump despite his behavior, continuing his damage control efforts as the tape controversy continues this week.
Discussion: alan.com
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Cooper Allen / USA Today:
Pence at Liberty University calls on Christians to forgive Trump
Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze.com:
Glenn Beck: Presidential election has injected ‘poison’ into the Christian church
Tom Griffith / Rapid City Journal:
Despite disappointment, Thune to vote for Trump  —  South Dakota's senior U.S. senator said Tuesday that the current presidential campaign represented “a race to the bottom,” but that he would still likely cast his ballot for GOP hopeful Donald Trump.  —  In the wake of Friday's release …
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Wlady Pleszczynski / The American Spectator:
Dear Speaker Ryan: Resign  —  Dear Mr. Speaker:  —  I like you.  —  We both admired and worked for Jack Kemp at different stages of his career.  I agree with much of your Kemp-style agenda.  So it gives me no pleasure to say what is now abundantly obvious.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Republican politicians fall back in line behind Trump after defecting
Ross Douthat / New York Times:   The Republican Inferno  —  Seven months ago, on the ides of March …
Los Angeles Times:
LAPD detective investigating Derrick Rose case found dead of gunshot wound in Whittier  —  An LAPD employee was fatally shot in Whittier on Tuesday.  (KTLA)  —  A Los Angeles Police Department detective who was investigating rape allegations against NBA star Derrick Rose died after being found …
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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Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
New Marquette Law School Poll finds Wisconsin voters shifting support to Clinton after Trump video release  —  MILWAUKEE - A new Marquette Law School Poll finds 44 percent of Wisconsin likely voters supporting Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for president and 37 percent supporting Republican Donald …
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Attacks Help Hillary Clinton Forge Truce in Her Long War With the Media  —  Now that Donald Trump has disinterred a heap of 1990s-era scandals, Hillary Clinton is under the microscope for how she reacted then, and how she's reacting now as a woman standing by her man.
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Wlady Pleszczynski / The American Spectator:   History Is Full of Surprises
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
NY Trump Supporter Arrested After Threatening To Beat Black Woman  —  A Donald Trump supporter was arrested Monday night after allegedly threatening to beat a black woman outside a ShopRite in upstate New York, the Albany Times-Union reported.  —  Todd Warnken, 55, was asked to leave the store after …
Discussion: alan.com
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Emily Masters / Albany Times Union:
Police: Trump supporter threatens black woman in Albany
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
What the WikiLeaks Emails Say About Clinton  —  “There is no other Donald Trump,” Hillary Clinton likes to say about her opponent.  “This is it.”  —  The events of the last two weeks—Trump's two debate performances, the release of his bawdy comments about women in a 2005 video clip …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Danger on November 9th  —  I've been wanting to discuss this.  But so much has been happening it keeps getting pushed back to the next day or the next post.  Quite simply, everybody needs to be paying close attention to what happens on November 9th.  —  It now seems quite likely …
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Facebook Helped Drive a Voter Registration Surge, Election Officials Say  —  A 17-word Facebook reminder contributed to substantial increases in online voter registration across the country, according to top election officials.  —  At least nine secretaries of state have credited …
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Support for marijuana legalization continues to rise  —  The share of Americans who favor legalizing the use of marijuana continues to increase.  Today, 57% of U.S. adults say the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 37% say it should be illegal.  A decade ago, opinion on legalizing marijuana …
 
 
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