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Clinton: Half of Trump supporters are in ‘basket of deplorables’ — New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton told an audience of donors Friday night that half of Donald Trump's supporters fall into “the basket of deplorables,” meaning people who are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic.
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Is Hillary Clinton Right About Trump Supporters? This Is What The Polling Data Says — She has an opinion. These are the facts. — Speaking at a fundraiser in New York on Friday night, Hillary Clinton described half of opponent Donald Trump's supporters as a “basket of deplorables,” …
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Hillary Clinton: Half of Trump Supporters Belong in ‘Basket of Deplorables’ — Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton could shoot someone and not be prosecuted 2:22 — Hillary Clinton urged supporters late Friday not to be complacent about Donald Trump's chances of winning the election …


This Is Critical: Hillary Can't Back Down — Let me take a moment to address this “basket of deplorables” comment because I think it's critically important to get this right. Hillary Clinton has simply said what is the premise of most election coverage of the 2016 campaign: a big chunk of Trump supporters are haters.


Trump Campaign Seeks Clinton Apology Over ‘Deplorables’ Dig at His Supporters — Donald Trumps's campaign sought an apology Saturday from his Democratic rival after Hillary Clinton took aim at the Republican's supporters, suggesting that half of them are what she called “deplorables.”
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Donald Trump Says Hillary Clinton Wouldn't Be Prosecuted Even if She Shot Someone — PENSACOLA, Fla. — Donald J. Trump, in escalating attacks against Hillary Clinton, suggested on Friday that his opponent was so immune to prosecution that she could shoot someone in front of thousands of witnesses and not be prosecuted.
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Clinton supporter Streisand sends up Trump with ‘Send In The Clowns’ parody
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Trump: Clinton could shoot somebody and not be arrested
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Real-Time Election Day Projections May Upend News Tradition — PALO ALTO, Calif. — For decades, news organizations have refrained from releasing early results in presidential battleground states on Election Day, adhering to a strict, time-honored embargo until a majority of polls there have closed.


EXCLUSIVE: Bigot tried ripping off two Muslim women's hijabs as they strolled with their babies in Brooklyn attack — A bigoted Brooklyn woman launched a sickening attack on two Muslim women pushing their babies in strollers — punching them in the face and trying to pull off their hijabs, prosecutors said Friday.
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2 Muslim women, babies attacked in alleged hate crime in New York
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David Brooks' Realignment Won't Happen — Reading David Brooks is always a mixture of pleasure and pain. On the one hand he does seem to understand reality a little bit better than most of his conservative colleagues, and you can tell that unlike most of his conservative colleagues he genuinely means well.
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Time for a Realignment
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Jill Stein calls for new 9/11 investigation — Green Party candidate Jill Stein on Friday called for a new inquiry into the 9/11 terror attacks, saying that the commission that conducted the initial investigation was stonewalled by the Bush administration. — “Led by the families …
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Jill Stein's Statement On 9/11
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Watch: KISS Stops Concert to Give Thousands to Vets, Take Shots at Kaepernick, and Say Pledge of Allegiance — The rock band KISS is a staple of American rock and roll, but this rock band is more than just makeup, platform boots, and catchy hooks. This band is also highly patriotic.


Apple Is Said to Be Rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is rethinking what it plans to do about self-driving cars, just as other big tech companies appear ready to plow ahead with competing efforts. — In a retrenchment of one of its most ambitious initiatives …
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Trump Slogs Through Another Pitch To The Religious Right — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump dutifully trundled onto the stage at Washington's Omni Shoreham hotel Friday afternoon to attend to one of his dreariest campaign-trail chores: courting conservative Christians.
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The Curious Case of Susan Estrich — Susan Estrich is known for being first. — A celebrated feminist legal scholar, Ms. Estrich was the first female president of The Harvard Law Review. Working for Michael S. Dukakis in 1988, she was the first woman to manage a presidential campaign.
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Alt-Right Leaders: We Aren't Racist, We Just Hate Jews — Bad news, Jews: You don't get to be part of Richard Spencer's white ethno-state. — In a windowless room in a swanky hotel half a block from the White House on Friday afternoon, three of the most visible leaders of the Alt-Right movement held …
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