memeorandum: Paul Ryan won't defend or campaign for Trump ahead of election (Kelsey Snell/Washington Post)

8:25 PM ET, October 10, 2016

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Carrie Dann / NBC News:

Poll: After Trump Tape Revelation, Clinton's Lead Up to Double Digits — NBC/WSJ poll: Clinton holds major lead 7:03 — As Donald Trump's campaign reels over tapes of the presidential candidate's sexually aggressive comments about women in 2005, the Republican nominee now trails Hillary Clinton …

New York Times:

Paul Ryan Won't Defend Donald Trump, Upsetting Trump and G.O.P. Hard-Liners — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan dealt a hammer blow to Donald J. Trump's presidential candidacy Monday, dashing any remaining semblance of party unity and inviting fierce backlash from his own caucus by announcing …

John Bresnahan / Politico:

Ryan abandons Trump — Speaker Paul Ryan told House Republicans on a conference call Monday morning that he's done defending Donald Trump and will focus on maintaining his party's increasingly imperiled House majority, according to sources on the call. — The message amounted to a concession …

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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:

Priebus promises RNC still stands with Trump — With Donald Trump's campaign in a historic free-fall, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus declared Monday that the party is standing behind its presidential nominee. — “First of all, I want to make it very clear that the RNC …

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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:

Is Trump a Sufferable Evil? — The Republican party is looking down the road to disaster. — The emergence Friday of the disgusting Trump tape was a gift to the Republican party. It provided an occasion, at the very last minute, for the party to dump a fundamentally unworthy and radically unfit nominee.

Discussion: NBC News and Washington Post

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

The GOP tumbles toward anarchy: 'It's every person for himself or herself' — The Republican Party tumbled toward anarchy Monday over its presidential nominee, as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) cut Donald Trump loose in an emergency maneuver to preserve the party's endangered congressional majorities.

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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Ralph Nader predicts fastest impeachment in history for Trump

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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cotton, Ernst stand by Trump

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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Resumes Attacks on Bill Clinton

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New York Times:
Donald Trump Vows Retaliation as Republicans Abandon Him

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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway throws down the gauntlet to Paul Ryan

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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan won't defend or campaign for Trump ahead of election

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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
The Debate's Biggest Loser Was the GOP

Discussion: Political Wire, RedState and The Moderate Voice

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:

Jeff Sessions: Behavior Described by Trump in ‘Grab Them by the P—y’ Tape Isn't Sexual Assault — Two days after the videotape of Donald Trump's now-infamous 2005 lewd conversation was released, the Trump team remains divided over the most serious question arising from the tape: Is Trump talking about sexual assault?

Jack Shafer / Politico:

Why Did NBC News Sit on the Trump Tape for So Long? — As the political world ponders whether the past 72 hours have delivered a fatal knockout blow to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the nation's media observers have been bedeviled by a separate question: Why did NBC News hold its story …

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David Edwards / Raw Story:

Pat Robertson: It's ‘macho’ for Trump to grab women ‘by the p*ssy’ without permission — Pat Robertson on Monday declared that Donald Trump was the “clear winner” of Sunday night's presidential debate, and the televangelist asserted that the GOP candidate's admission that he groped women was simply “macho” talk.

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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Donald Trump's threat to imprison Hillary Clinton is a threat to democracy

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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Conway slams Anderson Cooper for pressing Trump on sexual assault

Discussion: Rewire, Associated Press and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
After lying low, Mike Pence delivered a sermon in support of Donald Trump

Discussion: The Charlotte Observer, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Atlanta Black Star

Chrissie.Thompsonfink / Cincinnati.com:
Which vote can they defend? Ohio GOP chair, wife watch debate

Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post, The Resurgent, Guardian and www.wnyc.org

Washington Post:

Trump's debate plan to seat Bill Clinton's accusers in family box was thwarted — ST. LOUIS — Donald Trump's campaign sought to intimidate Hillary Clinton and embarrass her husband by seating women who have accused former president Bill Clinton of sexual abuse in the Trump family's box …

MJ Lee / CNN:

Donald Trump's mission: Make Clinton's life hell for the next month — WARNING: This story contains graphic language. — St. Louis (CNN)Donald Trump issued an unmistakable threat to Hillary Clinton Sunday night: I am willing to cross any line to make the next 30 days of your life hell.

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T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:

Clinton suggests intervention for protester wearing Bill Clinton ‘rape’ shirt — Hillary Clinton encouraged supporters Monday to follow and stage an intervention for a protester who was removed by security after he interrupted her rally in Detroit. — “You know,” Clinton said after the demonstrator …

Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Emails: Firm that hired Abedin called Chelsea Clinton a ‘spoiled brat kid’

Discussion: The Daily Caller, RedState and Washington Free Beacon

Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Juanita Broaddrick's other debate-night claim could be trouble for Breitbart News

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Sarah B. Boxer / Yahoo:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Trump, Kaepernick and her lifelong love of the law — They don't call her the “Notorious RBG” for nothing. — In “My Own Words,” a new compilation of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's writings over the course her lifetime, the vim and vigor that she is famous for expressing …

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Victoria M. Massie / Vox:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg respects Colin Kaepernick's right to protest, but thinks “it's dumb and disrespectful”

Discussion: ABC News and The Daily Caller

Business Wire:

Some Tax Facts for Donald Trump — OMAHA, Neb.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Answering a question last night about his $916 million income tax loss carryforward in 1995, Donald Trump stated that “Warren Buffett took a massive deduction.” Mr. Trump says he knows more about taxes than any other human.

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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Warren Buffett fires back at Donald Trump's comments about his taxes

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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Carl Icahn: I'm still with Trump; ‘salacious’ talk happens everywhere

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Resurgent and Business Insider

The Huffington Post:

There Are Transcripts Of Trump's Unaired Moments On ‘The Apprentice.’ We Got One. — The Republican nominee was hypercritical of one up-and-coming singer's skin. — Top Democratic operatives have offered to pay millions of dollars for unaired footage of Donald Trump on the set of …

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Newsweek:

TRUMP VS CLINTON IN SECOND U.S. PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: FULL TRANSCRIPT — WORLD HILLARY CLINTON DONALD TRUMP — Here is the transcript of the second US presidential debate held live from St Louis, Missouri. — Raddatz : Good evening. I'm Martha Raddatz from ABC news.

Discussion: RedState, Politicus USA, Mother Jones, ABC News and Media Matters for America

New York Times:
Transcript of the Second Debate

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:

GOP ex-prosecutors slam Trump over threat to ‘jail’ Clinton — Donald Trump's debate-night vow to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's email setup and put her “in jail” provoked a sharp blowback from former U.S. prosecutors, who said Trump's view of the Justice Department serving …