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6:30 PM ET, October 18, 2016

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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Tells Trump: Stop ‘Whining’ and Trying to Discredit the Election  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama said Tuesday that Donald J. Trump should “stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.”  —  Speaking at a Rose Garden news conference with Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister …
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Obama Slams Donald Trump's ‘Flattery’ of Vladimir Putin as Unprecedented and ‘Out of Step’  —  President Obama today characterized Donald Trump's affection for Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “unprecedented” moment in U.S. history.  —  “Any characterization that somehow …
Discussion: Politico, Guardian and The Week
Politico:
Matteo Renzi hopes to avoid curse of Obama
Discussion: Politico
Tamerra Griffin / BuzzFeed:
Obama: “I'd Advise Mr. Trump To Stop Whining” About A Rigged Election
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mediaite
Brent Griffiths / Politico:
Italian prime minister takes a swipe at Trump during White House visit
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
President Obama Tells Donald Trump To ‘Stop Whining’ About Mythical Voter Fraud
Discussion: mrctv.org/videos
Stephanie Petit / People.com:
PEOPLE Reveals 6 Witnesses Who Corroborate Natasha Stoynoff's Story of Being Attacked by Donald Trump  —  Six colleagues and close friends who corroborate former PEOPLE writer Natasha Stoynoff's account of being attacked by Donald Trump in 2005 are now coming forward.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
RNC members agree with Trump: It's rigged  —  Donald Trump is spending the final weeks of his presidential bid declaring he's the victim of an unprecedented vote-rigging conspiracy meant to elect Hillary Clinton.  —  Many top Republican Party officials agree.
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Ben Jacobs / Guardian:
Controversial Republican Mike Roman to run Donald Trump's ‘election protection’
Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR:
5 Reasons (And Then Some) Not To Worry About A ‘Rigged’ Election
New York Daily News:
SEE IT: Naked statue of Hillary Clinton in downtown Manhattan causes fight during morning commute  —  An artist erected an obscene statue of Hillary Clinton in downtown Manhattan Tuesday morning causing a heated fight between defenders of the profane piece of protest art and women trying to tear it down.
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
‘I need a favor’: FBI official at center of alleged Clinton email ‘quid pro quo’ speaks out  —  FBI official Brian McCauley had been trying for weeks to get his contact at the State Department to approve his request to put two bureau employees back in Baghdad.  —  Around May 2015, Patrick Kennedy finally called back.
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National Enquirer:
Hillary Fixer Breaks Ranks: I Arranged Sex Trysts For Her — With Men & WOMEN  —  Stunning revelations of Clinton bag man!  —  Hillary Clinton is a secret sex freak who paid fixers to set up illicit romps with both men AND women!  —  That's the blockbuster revelation from a former Clinton family operative …
LESSIG:
On the wikileak-ed emails between Tanden and Podesta re: me  —  I'm on my way from Iceland to my parents' to see my dad, who's not doing well.  Landing in JFK, I found my inbox flooded with questions about the above.  Here's a single, and my only, response.  —  I'm a big believer in leaks for the public interest.
Discussion: Vox and Washington Post
Anjali Mullany / Fast Company:
Ivanka Breaks Her Silence On The Trump Tape  —  The presidential hopeful's daughter makes her first public statement on the now-infamous recording.  —  It has been two weeks since the Trump Tape—the now-infamous recording of Republican candidate Donald Trump and TV host Billy Bush speaking …
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
Curt Schilling says he's running for Senate in 2018, setting up potential blockbuster race with Elizabeth Warren  —  Former star major-league pitcher and conservative firebrand Curt Schilling said Tuesday that he had decided to challenge Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for her US Senate seat in 2018.
Discussion: The Right Scoop, Mediaite and The Week
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Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  Nevada  —  Clinton Retakes Lead; Senate Race Remains Close  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Hillary Clinton has pulled ahead of Donald Trump by 7 points in Nevada, which has been one of the “swingy-est” states of the 2016 election.
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Hollywood Reporter:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Glen Powell Teaming for ‘Captain Planet’ Movie (Exclusive)  —  The ‘Scream Queens’ star and writing partner Jono Matt are in talks to pen the screenplay for Paramount.  —  Paramount and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions are teaming to recruit Captain Planet to take pollution down to zero.
Chris Massie / CNN:
Maine Gov. Paul LePage claims election not legitimate until voter ID laws passed  —  (CNN)Maine Gov. Paul LePage claimed Tuesday that elections in his state and in the US as a whole couldn't be considered legitimate until voter ID laws are passed.  —  LePage, a prominent supporter of Donald Trump …
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Vogue:
Vogue Endorses Hillary Clinton for President of the United States  —  For all the chaos and unpredictability and the sometimes appalling spectacle of this election season, the question of which candidate actually deserves to be president has never been a difficult one.  —  Vogue has no history of political endorsements.
Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Trump's path to an electoral college victory isn't narrow.  It's non-existent.  —  The trajectory of the 2016 presidential race — which will result in a Hillary Clinton victory — remains largely unchanged from May, when Donald Trump and Clinton were in the process of wrapping up their nominations.
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
DSCC yanks spending from Florida Senate race  —  Senate Democrats pulled their last chunk of remaining ad reservations in Florida on Monday night, leaving Rep. Patrick Murphy on his own in his race against Sen. Marco Rubio.  —  The decision to slash the final remaining week of reservations …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton holds clear advantage in new battleground polls  —  Hillary Clinton holds a decisive advantage over Donald Trump in the competition for votes in the Electoral College, leading in enough states to put her comfortably over the 270 majority needed to win the presidential election in November …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump super PAC chair: Trump needs ‘a miracle’ to win  —  (CNN)Ed Rollins, the chair of the pro-Donald Trump Great America PAC, said Tuesday it will take a miracle for the Republican nominee to win the election.  —  Rollins made the comments on the Laura Ingraham Show during a discussion on the future of the Republican Party.
Discussion: Political Wire and The Right Scoop
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Camp's Latest Rigged Election Myth: Voter Fraud Won Obama NC In '08  —  As Donald Trump amps up his allegations that the election will somehow be rigged against him, he and his surrogates have latched on to a myth that fraudulent votes somehow swung North Carolina to President Obama's favor in 2008.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Politico and Mediaite
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Trump: 'I don't believe the polls anymore' … says he doesn't believe polls that show Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton  —  beating him by an average of 7 points nationally.  —  “Even though we're doing pretty good in the polls, I don't believe the polls anymore,” …
Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Ecuador cut off Assange's internet at U.S. request, WikiLeaks says  —  WASHINGTON  —  Wikileaks said Tuesday that Secretary of State John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, from publishing leaked emails that could disrupt peace negotiations with a guerrilla group in Colombia.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
The Right Scoop:
James O'Keefe is out with this latest bombshell video entitled “Mass Voter Fraud”:  —  In the second video of James O'Keefe's new explosive series on the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign, Democratic party operatives tell us how to successfully commit voter fraud on a massive scale.
 
 
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump calls for congressional term limits
Charles Marsh / Religion & Politics:
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Silicon Valley Gets Government Favors - While Boosting Leftists and Blocking Conservatives
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Benghazi victim's mother to attend debate as Trump's guest
 Earlier Items: 
George Takei / The Daily Beast:
George Takei: An Open Letter to America's Young Voters
Discussion: Raw Story and twitchy.com
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Claims of ‘Rigged’ Election Could Hurt His Own Campaign, Research Shows
Discussion: electionlawblog.org