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8:55 PM ET, October 20, 2016

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump national political director ‘steps back’ from campaign  —  Jim Murphy, Donald Trump's national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move - a troubling development for the Republican nominee coming just 19 days before the election.
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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
GOP braces for Trump loss, roiled by refusal to accept election results
Discussion: Hot Air
Madeline Conway / Politico:
LePage calls Trump's election results comment ‘an absolute stupid move’
Discussion: State & Capitol and Politicker
Nathaniel Meyersohn / BuzzFeed:
Paul LePage On Trump's Election Results Answer: “C'mon, Get Over Yourself”
Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
GOP, Democrats React to Trump on Accepting Election Outcome
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Donald Trump Will ‘Totally’ Accept Election Results ‘if I Win’
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Flake says it might be Garland time  —  Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake has maintained for months that Republicans should take up Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination if it looks like the presidential contest is a lost cause for the GOP.  —  It's looking about that time, Flake said in an interview on Thursday.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Towleroad
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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 …
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Republicans in tough races blast Trump for refusing to say whether he'll accept election results
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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Libby Nelson / Vox:
Watch Michelle Obama's Arizona speech: live stream and what to expect after the Clinton-Trump debate
Discussion: ABC News
Liz Plank / Vox:
“Nasty woman” becomes the feminist rallying cry Hillary Clinton was waiting for
Media Matters for America:
Trump Ally Alex Jones Suffers Debate Meltdown Over “Lying Whore” Hillary Clinton
Discussion: New York Magazine and alan.com
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton, Mocking and Taunting in Debate, Turns the Tormentor  —  She mansplained him.  “Let me translate that if I can,” Hillary Clinton said dryly after Donald J. Trump talked up his tax plan.  —  She interrupted him.  When Mr. Trump boasted of the gilded Las Vegas hotel that bears his name …
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts  —  On March 19 of this year, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta received an alarming email that appeared to come from Google.  —  The email, however, didn't come from the internet giant.
Discussion: Esquire, RedState, The Week and Hot Air
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Eric Geller / Politico:
Russian hackers infiltrated Podesta's email, security firm says
Discussion: Motherboard
Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
WikiLeaks claims sham U.S. firm is trying to smear Assange
Discussion: RedState and Sputnik International
Kevin Tampone / Syracuse Post-Standard:
SUNY professor says Trump win at least 87 percent certain; other polls ‘bunk’  —  Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach, Fla  —  Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Trump used his foundation to fund guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe  —  He funneled at least $10,000 to O'Keefe's Project Veritas  —  In Wednesday's presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed that new videos proved that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had “hired people” and “paid them $1,500” …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Chris Wallace said Trump's debate answers didn't surprise him — but he did have a glass of wine (or more) once it was over  —  Asked if he will accept the results on election day, Donald Trump tells the country he wants to “leave you in suspense.”  —  Fox News anchor Chris Wallace landed …
Discussion: Mediaite and TVNewser
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:   A 10th Woman Accuses Donald Trump of Inappropriate Touching
New York Times:
Donald Trump Says He Will Accept Election Outcome ('if I Win')
John DiStaso / WMUR:
WMUR poll: Hassan takes 8 percentage point lead over Ayotte … DURHAM, N.H. —  For the first time in New Hampshire's blockbuster U.S. Senate campaign, the race is no longer a virtual dead heat.  Gov. Maggie Hassan has taken an 8 percentage point lead over Sen. Kelly Ayotte, according to a new poll.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Washington's foreign policy elite breaks with Obama over Syrian bloodshed  —  There is one corner of Washington where Donald Trump's scorched-earth presidential campaign is treated as a mere distraction and where bipartisanship reigns.  In the rarefied world of the Washington foreign policy establishment …
Rasmussen Reports:
White House Watch: Trump Edges Ahead  —  It's too early to measure the impact of last night's final presidential debate, but Republican Donald Trump now has a three-point lead nationally on Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone …
Stephen L. Carter / Bloomberg:
Trump or No Trump, Elections Have Been Stolen  —  If Donald Trump loses the presidential race, I hope that he will concede and move on.  That's what democracy demands.  But the current histrionics over his insistence that the process is rigged against him are overblown.
 
 
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Chris Lehmann / The Baffler:
Trump TV?  —  Until very recently, it seemed self-evident …
Jim Michaels / USA Today:
U.S. service member killed in northern Iraq
Discussion: The Week
Guardian:
Trump loyalists plan own exit poll amid claims of ‘rigged’ election
WCMH-TV:
WATCH: Colleen Marshall's 1-on-1 interview with Donald Trump
Discussion: Politicus USA and alan.com
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Roasts Rubio: You Call Trump A ‘Con Artist’ But You'll Vote For Him?
Discussion: alan.com
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Obama Calls For Public Option, Which He Once Hedged Against
Discussion: Politico
Emma Dumain / Post and Courier:
South Carolinians raise eyebrows at Trump's suggestions of rigged election
The Intercept:
Debate Moderators Under the Spell of Deficit-Obsessed Billionaire Pete Peterson
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:
Laws are for the Little People
Discussion: The Resurgent and Power Line
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
The System Really Is Rigged
Discussion: NewsBusters
Ben Shapiro / National Review:
The Media Will Learn to Love Trump in Due Time
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
For Trump, a solid debate performance disappears in an instant
Discussion: NewsBusters and Washington Monthly
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
With 19 Days to Go, Clinton's Lead Is Bigger Than Ever
Discussion: Florida Politics
 

 
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