Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:50 PM ET, October 8, 2016

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC halts Victory project work for Trump  —  The Republican National Committee on Saturday appeared to at least temporarily halt the operations of some of the “Victory” program that is devoted to electing Donald Trump.  —  The move comes as the GOP nominee is under mounting pressure …
RELATED:
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
WHIP LIST: Republicans breaking with Trump  —  GOP lawmakers and elected officials are abandoning presidential nominee Donald Trump  —  in droves just one month before Election Day after audio emerged of him making sexually obscene remarks about groping women.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Amid growing calls to drop out, Trump vows to ‘never withdraw’  —  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview Saturday that he would not drop out of the race under any circumstances, following calls from several in his party to do so.  —  “I'd never withdraw.
Donald Trump / Entertainment Tonight:
EXCLUSIVE: Nancy O'Dell Reacts to Donald Trump Recording  —  Entertainment Tonight host Nancy O'Dell has released the following statement in response to comments made by Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump that came to light Friday:  —  “Politics aside, I'm saddened that these comments still exist in our society at all.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
How McCain finally decided he couldn't stomach Trump anymore  —  Donald Trump criticized John McCain last year for being a prisoner of war and for not doing enough for veterans, then attacked a Gold Star family this summer.  McCain criticized Trump at each turn, but stuck by his pledges to support the Republican nominee.
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Says Campaign Not in Crisis, and There Is 'Zero Chance I'll Quit'  —  GOP presidential candidate tells The Wall Street Journal 'support I'm getting is unbelievable'  —  Donald Trump, under pressure to step aside as the Republican presidential candidate after the disclosure …
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Scrambles to Salvage Election After Donald Trump's Latest Imbroglio  —  Republican candidates and party officials disavow presidential candidate, seek personal paths to political survival  —  A divided Republican Party descended into turmoil, as a startling chorus of GOP candidates …
New York Times:
Lewd Donald Trump Tape Is a Breaking Point for Many in the G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump's campaign was teetering on Saturday after the release of a video in which he speaks of women in vulgar sexual terms, with more Republican leaders calling for him to leave the ticket and demanding …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
RNC lawyers look at options for replacing Trump  —  The Republican National Committee is taking the weekend to reevaluate its strategy while lawyers examine the legal hurdles to replacing Donald Trump with another nominee, according to Republicans in touch with the committee.
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Just Lost The Election
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
GOP mega-donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer stand by Trump
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
GOP consumed by crisis as more Republicans call on Trump to quit race
Us Weekly:
Nancy O'Dell Identified as the Married Woman Donald Trump Bragged to Billy Bush About Hitting on in 2005 Video: Details
CNN:
Donald Trump to Howard Stern: It's okay to call my daughter a ‘piece of ass’  — Topics Trump discussed: Ivanka's physique, having sex with women on their menstrual cycles. and leaving women after they reach the age of 35.  —  (CNN)Warning: This story contains graphic language.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WIKILEAKS BOMBSHELL: Racist Hillary Trashes African Americans - Calls Them Losers  —  Julian Assange announced in August: The “Most Interesting and Serious” Wikileaks Info On Hillary Clinton Yet to Be Released.  On Friday Wikileaks released clips of Clinton's paid speeches to Wall Street banks and other organizations.
RELATED:
Associated Press:
Leaked Campaign Emails Show ‘Moderate’ Side of Clinton
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
New York Times:
Leaked Speech Excerpts Show a Hillary Clinton at Ease With Wall Street
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
In closed-door remarks delivered to a foreign bank, Hillary Clinton declared that her …
Jim Stinson / LifeZette:
Wikileaks Dump: Hillary Dreams of ‘Open Trade and Open Borders’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Infowars
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump puts Clinton on watch by retweeting Juanita Broaddrick  —  Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, wrote on Twitter Saturday that Hillary Clinton's defense of her husband throughout the episode was “horrific.”  Donald Trump, under fire for his own boasts of committing sexual assault, agrees.
RELATED:
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
BROADDRICK: Hillary's actions speak louder than Trump's words
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Dump Trump, Now More Than Ever  —  “We have to think of the future and not of the past.  This also applies in a small way to our own affairs at home.  There are many who would hold an inquest in the House of Commons on the conduct of the Governments—and of Parliaments, for they are in it …
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
RELATED:
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Why Republicans Are Probably Stuck With Donald Trump
Discussion: Politico and The Mahablog
Desert Sun:
Two slain police officers identified in Palm Springs shooting  —  (Oct. 8, 2016) Gabby Ferriera/The Desert Sun  —  Two police officers were killed and one was wounded in a shooting in Palm Springs on Saturday, plunging the community into mourning as police searched for the suspect.
RELATED:
Los Angeles Times:
3 police officers shot in Palm Springs; manhunt underway, one officer in critical condition
Discussion: KTLA and WREG-TV
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Bottom Could Fall Out For Trump  —  Let's not naively insist on taking a wait-and-see approach regarding the events of the past 24 hours.  The revelation of a tape from 2005 in which Donald Trump was caught making a number of lewd comments about women, and seemed to condone unwanted …
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Frances Langum / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Robert DeNiro's Video Was ‘Too Partisan’ For A GOTV Campaign, But...  So the “Vote Your Future” campaign asks celebrities to speak into a camera about the importance of voting.  —  It's so important to make your voice heard. You have the power to change the world. Your voice and your vote matter.
RELATED:
Reuters:
Evangelical leaders stick with Trump, focus on defeating Clinton  —  Leaders of religious conservative groups largely stood behind Donald Trump on Saturday, the day after vulgar sexual comments he made about women surfaced online, but some expressed concern that the U.S. Republican presidential …
Discussion: Washington Post
RELATED:
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:50 PM ET, October 8, 2016.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Unfit  —  There are many reasons why Donald Trump should not …
Dustin Moskovitz:
Additional Contributions in the 2016 Election Cycle
Discussion: Politico and BuzzFeed
New York Times:
How U.S. Torture Left Legacy of Damaged Minds
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Melania Trump: My Husband's Words ‘Are Unacceptable And Offensive’
 Earlier Items: 
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Is Trump's campaign over?  —  It's fitting that the election …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Donald Trump Could Send Republicans Crashing Down
Steven Shepard / Politico:
GOP insiders: It's not a knockout punch
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page