memeorandum: With Hillary as President ‘We are Looking at Nuclear War With Russia or China’ (Sputnik International)

10:25 AM ET, September 16, 2016

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Trump defiant as polls rise, won't say Obama was born in United States — CANTON, Ohio — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview here that he remains unwilling to say that President Obama is born in the United States, that he is more bullish than ever on his chances …

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TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT — “Hillary Clinton's campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President. This type of vicious and conniving behavior is straight from the Clinton Playbook. As usual, however, Hillary Clinton was too weak to get an answer.

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Daniella Diaz / CNN:

Trump campaign: Obama born in the US — “In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion,” his campaign said — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign on Thursday said he believes President Barack Obama was born in the US, a major reversal from a line of attack Trump launched five years ago.

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Jake Sherman / Politico:

Exclusive: Reid hits back at Trump — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid punched right back at Donald Trump for poking fun at his grisly eye injury, calling the GOP presidential nominee a “con artist” and rapping Republican leaders for not getting answers from the New York billionaire.

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CNN:

Michelle Obama makes case for Clinton — Michelle Obama's entire Democratic convention speech — Washington (CNN)With virtually unmatched popularity at her back, First Lady Michelle Obama debuts on the stump for Hillary Clinton Friday, hoping to galvanize suburban voters behind a candidate she once fiercely opposed.

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump on Obama's citizenship: ‘We have to keep the suspense going, OK?’

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Alana Abramson / ABC News:
Donald Trump Jr.: 'Doesn't Know' if Father Will Explicitly Say Obama Born in US

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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Donald Trump Again Won't Acknowledge Obama Was Born in U.S.

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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump refuses to say whether he thinks Obama was born in US

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New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party — WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies, unnerved by the tightening presidential race, are making a major push to dissuade disaffected voters from backing third-party candidates, and pouring more energy into Rust Belt states …

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Gary Johnson cuts into Clinton's lead — NEW YORK — Gary Johnson was never supposed to be a problem for Hillary Clinton. — The low-profile Libertarian's presence on the ballot would serve as an easy out for #NeverTrump Republicans, Democrats aligned with the nominee have long figured, and that could only hurt Donald Trump.

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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:

Poll: Donald Trump gaining on Hillary Clinton in Michigan — WASHINGTON - A month after it appeared the race for president in Michigan might be all but over, Donald Trump has cut deeply into Hillary Clinton's post-convention lead, with an exclusive new Free Press/WXYZ-TV poll showing …

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The race is tightening for a painfully simple reason

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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton and Trump in a one-point race among likely voters

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Bill Bartel / Associated Press:
Trump-Clinton is now too close to call in Virginia, according to new poll

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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

Heinz Ketchup proves that Donald Trump is out of his mind — Trump wants to end food safety regulation. Seriously. — Food poisoning will make America great again! — Or, at least, that's what Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears to be banking on with a new proposal released on Thursday.

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FACT SHEET: DONALD J. TRUMP'S PRO-GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY WILL CREATE 25 MILLION JOBS

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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Trump would roll back food safety regulations

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Donald J Trump for President:
TRUMP DELIVERS SPEECH ON JOBS AT NEW YORK ECONOMIC CLUB

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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:

What's Really Ailing Hillary — She wasn't always like this. She wasn't always a woman who could almost collapse in public, then emerge from seclusion a couple of hours later announcing, “I'm feeing great,” as if nothing had happened, as if she hadn't already known for two days that she had pneumonia.

Liz Crokin / The New York Observer:

Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors — Wells Fargo fraud department inundated with calls from low-income Clinton supporters reporting repeated unauthorized charges — Hillary Clinton's campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by purposefully …

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Clare Foran / The Atlantic:

How Bernie Sanders Die-Hards Echo Clinton Conspiracy Theories — Some conservatives are hard at work spreading conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton's health in an attempt to disqualify her from seeking higher office. Video footage of the Democratic nominee stumbling as she abruptly departed …

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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:

Kasich: ‘Very unlikely’ I'll vote for Trump … Ohio Gov. John Kasich isn't ruling out voting for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — , though he says it's “highly unlikely” he'll support his former GOP rival. — “I'll let everybody know when, but I think my actions have spoken very loudly …

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Dow Jones Newswires:

In Places With Fraying Social Fabric, a Political Backlash Rises (9/15/16) — Ruth Gonzalez, 44, is getting help from the Lions Club in trying to renegotiate the two mortgages on her house, which is facing foreclosure. She fell behind on her payments because of mounting medical bills …

Paul Demko / Politico:

Obama steps in to save Obamacare — Deep into the final year of his presidency, Barack Obama is working behind the scenes to secure Obamacare's legacy, struggling to bolster a program whose ultimate success or failure will likely be determined by his successor.

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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
How Obamacare Clears the Field for a GOP Senate Win

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Sputnik International:

With Hillary as President ‘We are Looking at Nuclear War With Russia or China’ — The US Democratic Party continues to play the “Russian scare card” as part of its election campaign, criticizing Republicans for merely making positive remarks about Russia and its leader …

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Media Matters for America:
The Drudge Report Has Linked To Russian Propaganda Sites At Least 91 Times In 2016

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The Columbus Dispatch:

Police chief identifies officer who shot 13-year-old suspect — City and police officials released the name of the police officer who shot a 13-year-old boy Wednesday night in the Olde Towne East neighborhood. — Tyre King, an 8th grader at Linden-McKinley STEM Academy …

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Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:

Trump Camp Defends Don Jr.: He Was Talking Executions, Not The Holocaust! — Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump campaign both defended his “gas chamber” quip in a Thursday interview, saying that he was making a reference to capital punishment rather than the Holocaust, as many had interpreted it.