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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Trump: I'll accept election results — if I win … opened up a Thursday campaign rally by saying he'll accept the results of the presidential election as long as he wins. — “I will totally accept the result of this great and historic presidential election,” Trump told supporters in Delaware, Ohio.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
LePage calls Trump's election results comment ‘an absolute stupid move’ — Even Paul LePage, the controversial governor of Maine who has drawn comparisons to Donald Trump for his loud rhetoric and habit of disparaging the press, is harping on the Republican nominee for his refusal to commit …
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / BuzzFeed:
Paul LePage On Trump's Election Results Answer: “C'mon, Get Over Yourself” — Paul LePage, the governor of Maine and a Donald Trump ally, slammed the nominee on Thursday for not committing to accept the election results at last night's debate. — Although LePage said he did not watch the debate …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
For Trump, a solid debate performance disappears in an instant — LAS VEGAS — Standing in a garish hotel lobby, casino music pounding, a Republican who has worked hard to help Donald Trump couldn't quite believe how the final presidential debate had ended just a couple of hours earlier.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Donald Trump Will ‘Totally’ Accept Election Results ‘if I Win’
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Trump Jr.: Running for president a ‘step down’
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump says he will accept results of election - ‘if I win’
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Larry O'Connor / Hot Air:
Last week Hillary agreed that Gore ‘won’ 2000 election
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Donald Trump Will ‘Totally’ Accept Election Results ‘if I Win’
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Contempt for Democracy — Donald Trump turned, in the third and final presidential debate, from insulting the intelligence of the American voter to insulting American democracy itself. He falsely insisted there were “millions of people” registered to participate in the election …
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Politico:
Full transcript: Third 2016 presidential debate — Chris Wallace: Good evening from the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I'm Chris Wallace of Fox News and I welcome you to the third and final of the 2016 presidential debates between secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The final Trump-Clinton debate transcript, annotated — The final debate of the 2016 presidential race came as Hillary Clinton threatened to shut the door on Donald Trump and as Donald Trump threatened to unleash a torrent of attacks and accusations about the “rigged” election process.
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
The 5 Most Outrageous Hillary Clinton Lies From The Last Debate
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
At third debate, Trump won't commit to accepting election results if he loses
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Hillary Clinton in 2002: George W. Bush Was ‘Selected, Not Elected’ — It is completely irresponsible to argue that a president who reaches 270 electoral votes is not “elected” and legitimate, right, Hillary Clinton? Only a shameless partisan with no concern for democracy or our system …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Clinton Probably Finished Off Trump Last Night — I'm not sure I need to tell you this, but Hillary Clinton is probably going to be the next president. It's just a question of what “probably” means. — Clinton went into the final presidential debate on Wednesday with a lead of about 7 percentage points over Donald Trump.
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Liz Plank / Vox:
“Nasty woman” becomes the feminist rallying cry Hillary Clinton was waiting for
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Media Matters for America:
Trump Ally Alex Jones Suffers Debate Meltdown Over “Lying Whore” Hillary Clinton
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Hillary Clinton's 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins
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Will Jordan / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Post-debate poll: Clinton 49%, Trump 39%
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Poll Shows Republicans Less Committed to Trump in Defeat — Just 24 percent of Republicans and those who lean that way say Trump should be the face of the party nationally if Clinton wins. — Republican primary voters strongly backed Donald Trump for the presidential nomination …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump-driven divide will consume GOP long after the election
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Republicans despondent that Trump threw away final debate — Donald Trump's rocky performance on the final debate stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday night did little to allay his party's concerns that the GOP is headed for an electoral catastrophe up and down the ticket.
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Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Another woman just came forward to say Trump assaulted her — “He said, 'hey look at this one. We haven't seen her before. Look at those legs.'” — Just one day after the third and final presidential debate, another woman has come forward to say that Republican presidential candidate Donald …
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Why Fox's Chris Wallace was a debate night winner — So Debate No. 3 had one clearcut winner: Fox News' Chris Wallace. — This has has been a challenging year indeed for presidential debate moderators, in a campaign filled with all manner of bizarre side issues and a boisterous …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
While You Were Watching The Debate, Trump Just Launched Trump TV — “If you're tired of biased, mainstream media reporting (otherwise known as Crooked Hillary's super PAC), tune into my Facebook Live broadcast.” — In the minutes before the third and final presidential debate …
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Eric Geller / Politico:
Russian hackers infiltrated Podesta's email, security firm says — Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's Gmail account was hacked by the same Russian intelligence-linked hackers that breached the DNC and the DCCC, researchers confirmed Thursday, spurring Clinton's team to immediately lash …
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
With 19 Days to Go, Clinton's Lead Is Bigger Than Ever — Arizona leans HRC; McMullin rises in the west; dark red states take on lighter hue — Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley, Sabato's Crystal Ball October 20th, 2016 — The mist is lifting from the map of the United States …
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