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Obama Slams Donald Trump's ‘Flattery’ of Vladimir Putin as Unprecedented and ‘Out of Step’ — President Obama today characterized Donald Trump's affection for Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “unprecedented” moment in U.S. history. — “Any characterization that somehow …
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Obama: Trump's rigged election claim 'whining before the game's even over' — Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama on Tuesday cast Donald Trump's claims of a rigged election as potentially corrosive to American democracy, insisting that the Republican presidential nominee was griping about an invented conspiracy.


President Obama Tells Donald Trump to ‘Stop Whining’ About Election Rigging

How low can Trump go in the polls? — Polls conducted since the first presidential debate last month put Donald Trump on a pace to earn a smaller percentage of the vote than any major-party nominee in at least 20 years. — In matchups that include third-party candidates, Trump is winning …
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In deep-red Florida, signs of trouble for Donald Trump — A poll of Millennials by USA TODAY and Rock the Vote shows overwhelming support for Hillary Clinton. Here are five other things the poll showed. — THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Lifelong Republican Linda Fogg pauses sometimes while explaining …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute — Nevada — Clinton Retakes Lead; Senate Race Remains Close — West Long Branch, NJ - Hillary Clinton has pulled ahead of Donald Trump by 7 points in Nevada, which has been one of the “swingy-est” states of the 2016 election.
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage claims election not legitimate until voter ID laws passed — (CNN)Maine Gov. Paul LePage claimed Tuesday that elections in his state and in the US as a whole couldn't be considered legitimate until voter ID laws are passed. — LePage, a prominent supporter of Donald Trump …
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The Note: Melania Plays Defense — NOTABLES —TRUMP SAYS 'I DON'T THINK SO' WHEN ASKED IF HE'S CROSSED THE LINE WITH WOMEN: The embattled Republican presidential nominee spoke out tonight on the accusations of sexual assault leveled against him. ABC's TOM LLAMAS, in an interview …
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Trump Suggests Paul Ryan Doesn't Want Him to Be President Because of Ryan's 2020 Ambitions
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Trump's Wisconsin strategy: Burn it all down
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Controversial Republican Mike Roman to run Donald Trump's ‘election protection’ — Operative best known for promoting video of apparent voter intimidation by New Black Panthers will oversee poll-watching efforts — Donald Trump's “election protection” effort will be run by Mike Roman …
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Donald Trump - Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim of ‘large scale voter fraud’
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The GOP Created the “Rigged Vote” Myth
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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Agents Say Comey ‘Stood In The Way’ Of Clinton Email Investigation — FBI agents say the bureau is alarmed over Director James Comey's decision to not suggest that the Justice Department prosecute Hillary Clinton over her mishandling of classified information.
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State Department security really didn't like working for Clinton
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Hillary Clinton accused of stealing furniture from the State Department
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Washington Free Beacon


SEE IT: Naked statue of Hillary Clinton in downtown Manhattan causes fight during morning commute — An artist erected an obscene statue of Hillary Clinton in downtown Manhattan Tuesday morning causing a heated fight between defenders of the profane piece of protest art and women trying to tear it down.
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PEOPLE Reveals 6 Witnesses Who Corroborate Natasha Stoynoff's Story of Being Attacked by Donald Trump — Six colleagues and close friends who corroborate former PEOPLE writer Natasha Stoynoff's account of being attacked by Donald Trump in 2005 are now coming forward.
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Former PEOPLE Writer Natasha Stoynoff Speaks After Trump Controversy: ‘We Cannot Be Silent Anymore’
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Trump's path to an electoral college victory isn't narrow. It's non-existent. — The trajectory of the 2016 presidential race — which will result in a Hillary Clinton victory — remains largely unchanged from May, when Donald Trump and Clinton were in the process of wrapping up their nominations.
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Washington Monthly and New York Magazine


Clinton holds clear advantage in new battleground polls — Hillary Clinton holds a decisive advantage over Donald Trump in the competition for votes in the Electoral College, leading in enough states to put her comfortably over the 270 majority needed to win the presidential election in November …
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Political Wire and Politicus USA


Donald Trump Is Running Some Really Insecure Email Servers — In what might be one of the more delicious cases of irony to ever grace a presidential election, a researcher has found that a number of email servers linked to Donald Trump's hotel and others businesses are running horribly …
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Vogue Endorses Hillary Clinton for President of the United States — For all the chaos and unpredictability and the sometimes appalling spectacle of this election season, the question of which candidate actually deserves to be president has never been a difficult one. — Vogue has no history of political endorsements.
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Benghazi victim's mother to attend debate as Trump's guest — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — has invited the mother of a State Department employee killed in the 2012 Benghazi attacks to attend Wednesday's final presidential debate of 2016. — Pat Smith is a vocal critic of Hillary Clinton
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The Violence May Yet Come — Donald Trump's claims of a “rigged” election have renewed fears of unrest on Election Day. It's time for Republicans to stand up for our democracy. — Back in March, Peter Beinart published a deeply unsettling piece in The Atlantic called “The Violence to Come.”
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Washington Monthly, Political Insider blog and Talking Points Memo


How almost everyone wants a piece of Mosul … With support from the United States and other coalition allies, the Iraqi government finally launched what could be the most decisive engagement in the regional war against the Islamic State. — Mosul, the most important city in northern Iraq …
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Jim Rich exits Daily News; Arthur Browne is new EIC — Daily News editor in chief Jim Rich is exiting the newspaper after a little more than a year in the top masthead slot, and will be replaced by Arthur Browne, a longtime News fixture who finally takes the reins after years effectively serving as the tabloid's perennial no. 2.


John McCain backs off promise Republicans would block Clinton Supreme Court nominees — Sen. John McCain, seen here on April 12, 2016, backed off his comments on a radio show on Oct. 17 that Republicans in the Senate would block any nominee to the Supreme Court made by Hillary Clinton.
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