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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Woman says Trump reached under her skirt and groped her in early 1990s — Kristin Anderson was deep in conversation with acquaintances at a crowded Manhattan nightspot and did not notice the figure to her right on a red velvet couch — until, she recalls, his fingers slid under her miniskirt …
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Anna Merlan / Jezebel:
Former Apprentice Contestant Summer Zervos Says Donald Trump Sexually Harassed Her After the Show — At a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred Friday afternoon, Summer Zervos, a former candidate on The Apprentice, said that Donald Trump groped her when she met him at the Beverly Hills hotel …
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Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice and Independent Journal Review
New York Times:
Donald Trump Assails His Accusers as Liars, and Unattractive
Donald Trump Assails His Accusers as Liars, and Unattractive
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Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Trump camp puts forward witness to refute sex assault claim — More On: — Donald Trump's campaign says a British man is countering claims that the GOP presidential nominee groped a woman on a cross-country flight more than three decades ago. — The man says he was sitting across …
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Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Prepares New Attack on Media, Clinton — GOP presidential nominee says reports are ‘slanderous’ and media are pitted against him and his supporters — Donald Trump will broaden his attack against the media to hit globalism and the Clinton Foundation by charging …
Reuters:
Trump calls accusers sick liars as new groping claims surface — Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday called the women accusing him of sexual misconduct sick liars seeking fame as part of a plot to discredit him after two more came forward with allegations that he had groped them.
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CNN and ThinkProgress
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The 2016 electoral map is collapsing around Donald Trump — Forget Virginia. Or Colorado. Or lots of other traditional swing states. Right now, Donald Trump's campaign is in such bad free fall that states that haven't voted for a Democrat in generations are suddenly coming into play …
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Politico, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Monthly, Occupy Democrats, Hot Air, WFAA-TV and Business Insider
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
Is the House in Play? What We Know Now
Is the House in Play? What We Know Now
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FiveThirtyEight, Politico, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, CANNONFIRE and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Pence: ‘Something missing’ from polls showing Trump trailing
Pence: ‘Something missing’ from polls showing Trump trailing
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Shareblue and Shakesville
CNNMoney:
Trump on Lindsay Lohan in 2004: ‘Deeply troubled’ women are ‘always the best in bed’ — Donald Trump said in a 2004 interview with Howard Stern about Lindsay Lohan that “deeply troubled” women are “always the best in bed,” according to a CNN KFile review of the appearance.
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Mashable, NY State of Politics, Mediaite, Political Wire, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Refinery29 and Talking Points Memo
Taylor Cairns / Newsplex:
Legally armed protester stands outside Dittmar campaign offices for hours — FLUVANNA COUNTY, Va. (NEWSPLEX) — On Thursday, a Fluvanna County resident stood outside Jane Dittmar's Palmyra campaign office to protest Hillary Clinton. — The protester, Daniel Parks, says that he hopes …
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Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog and RedState
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Armed Trump Supporters ‘Protest’ Outside Virginia Dem's Campaign Office
Armed Trump Supporters ‘Protest’ Outside Virginia Dem's Campaign Office
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Daily Kos
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Armed protester stands outside Dem's office for 12 hours
Armed protester stands outside Dem's office for 12 hours
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alan.com
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Body Shames Clinton, Too! 'I Wasn't Impressed, Believe Me' — Donald Trump appeared to insult Hillary Clinton's physical appearance at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, Friday, saying he “wasn't impressed” when Clinton walked in front of him at Sunday's town hall debate.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: Clinton walked in front of me and 'I wasn't impressed'
The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Made Nasty Comments About Khloe Kardashian On ‘Apprentice,’ Staffers Say — Sources say he called her a “piglet.” — During a 2009 taping of “Celebrity Apprentice,” Donald Trump made disparaging remarks about Khloe Kardashian's weight before firing her from the program …
David Dayen / New Republic:
The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn't About Hillary Clinton — What John Podesta's emails from 2008 reveal about the way power works in the Democratic Party. — The most important revelation in the WikiLeaks dump of John Podesta's emails has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton.
Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:
Ken Bone's Disturbing Reddit History Shows He's Not Nearly as Adorable as We Thought — Talk about building them up to knock them down. — With his red sweater and earnest questions about energy policy at the Clinton/Trump town hall debate, Kenneth Bone quickly became a shorthand …
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New York Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, New York Times, The Daily Caller, The Resurgent, Engadget, Mediaite and Refinery29
Nancy Collins / Hollywood Reporter:
Donald Trump Talks Family, Women in Unearthed Transcript: “When I Come Home and Dinner's Not Ready, I Go Through the Roof” — “Psychologists will tell you that some women want to be treated with respect,” he told Nancy Collins in a never-released 1994 transcript from ABC's ‘Primetime Live.’ …
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Mediaite, Vox, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, alan.com, Washington Post, Political Wire, New York Magazine, The Week and Jezebel
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Wonders Why No One's Accusing Obama of Sexual Assault — Yes, this actually happened. Donald Trump openly wondered today why no women are coming out to accuse President Obama of sexual assault. — He called Obama an “incompetent president” who doesn't know what he's doing …
Scott Stump / TODAY.com:
Mike Pence on TODAY Show says evidence disproving Trump's accusers ‘hours’ away — Defending running mate Donald Trump, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence told TODAY's Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie Friday that the evidence to disprove Trump's accusers was just “hours” away from being made public.
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RedState, Washington Examiner, AOL and The Week
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Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Burning Down the House — A wounded bear is a dangerous thing. Detested and defeated, Donald Trump is now in a tear-the-country-down rage. Day after day, he rips at the last remaining threads of decency holding this nation together. His opponent is the devil, he says — hate her with all your heart.
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Erick-Woods Erickson / New York Times:
Erick Erickson: The G.O.P. After Donald Trump
Erick Erickson: The G.O.P. After Donald Trump
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Esquire, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Resurgent
Mother Jones:
How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream — The first warning sign that something new was brewing came in June 2015, as Donald Trump joined the crowded field vying for the Republican presidential nomination. In the extravagant lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, he announced he would build …
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Media Matters for America, Vox, Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and Orcinus
Virgin:
I want an entrepreneur to become President one day - just not Donald Trump — I would like to see an entrepreneur become President one day. I believe entrepreneurial thinking is incredibly valuable in leaders, and there are many entrepreneurs who I would be delighted to see in power - just not this one.
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Mediaite, AOL, Business Insider and Politico
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
President Obama Blasts Donald Trump as Tough Talker Who Fails to Act on It
President Obama Blasts Donald Trump as Tough Talker Who Fails to Act on It
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Associated Press and Politico
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Clinton's Florida Lead Continues to Grow — PPP's newest Florida poll finds Hillary Clinton's lead in the state continuing to tick up. She's at 46% to 42% for Donald Trump, with Gary Johnson at 5%, and Jill Stein at 1%. When PPP last polled the state two weeks ago, Clinton's advantage was 45/43.
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Florida Politics
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump Jr. posts kid's letter asking that Clinton be jailed — 's son on Friday shared a message on social media from a girl asking that Hillary Clinton — be put in jail. — “Such an awesome letter from a 9-year-old supporter who came to one of my N.C. rallies yesterday,” Donald Trump Jr. said on Instagram.
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Washington Times and Independent Journal Review
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Even if Trump loses big, the anger will remain. Here's how the left can address it. — The urgent task of progressives in this election is to defeat Donald Trump. But even if we succeed, we have a long-term responsibility: to understand why Trump happened and to face up to how failures …
KBSL-TV:
3 men charged in Garden City bomb plot — WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) UPDATE (10/14/16): Three men were arrested on Friday for threatening to attack an apartment complex and mosque in Garden City. — Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall says Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 51, and Patrick Stein were all charged with domestic terrorism.
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Occupy Democrats and Politicus USA