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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Clinton Vaults to a Double-Digit Lead, Boosted by Broad Disapproval of Trump (POLL) — Hillary Clinton has vaulted to a double-digit advantage in the inaugural ABC News 2016 election tracking poll, boosted by broad disapproval of Donald Trump on two controversial issues …
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John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Trump Up 2 Points Nationwide, While Clinton Campaigns As If The Race Is Already Won — IBD/TIPP Poll — With 16 days to go until November 8, Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 2 percentage points — 43% to 41% — in a four-way race, according to the latest IBD/TIPP presidential tracking poll.
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CBS News:
Clinton leads in Florida, Trump narrowly leads in Texas - CBS Battleground Tracker — Hillary Clinton holds a three-point lead over Donald Trump in Florida, while in Texas - a state that has voted Republican by wide margins in recent years - Trump leads by a mere three points.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Donald Trump for president — These are turbulent times. — More and more Americans express frustration and disillusionment today with the political institutions that govern the nation. They clamor for an alternative to the incestuous and pernicious atmosphere dominating the capital.
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Julia Ioffe / Foreign Policy:
Trump Won't Inherit the Land, So He's Sowing It with Salt — It's a tactic straight out of Putin's playbook. — When Donald Trump said on Tuesday night that he would leave us in “suspense” come November 9, much of the country let out a gasp and the statement has dominated campaign coverage ever since.
Extra Mustard / SI.com:
Around 15 people showed up to Curt Schilling's Trump rally on Saturday — Former Red Sox pitcher and current political neophyte Curt Schilling held a Trump “rally” outside Boston's city on Saturday, but uh, it wasn't much of a rally. — According to folks passing by …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Curt Schilling Joins Breitbart — With it is looking increasingly unlikely Donald Trump will be heading to the White House, the prospect that he will partner with his campaign CEO, Breitbart Executive Chairman Steve Bannon, to launch a Trump TV network seems more and more probable.
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Late polls show Dems gaining in governor races — A new round of surveys in states electing governors this November show Democrats poised to pick up seats and gain some ground on Republicans in governors' mansions. — Democrats were initially uncertain about their chances to make strides …
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Priebus: Trump ‘not willing to not concede’ — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday he knows what Donald Trump really thinks about accepting the results of the election, despite the GOP presidential nominee's refusal to say he will.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Donald Trump is killing Ivanka's business as women boycott her brand — and the stores that carry it — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — It seems Trump's business spiral isn't isolated to the Donald. And Ivanka Trump might soon need to take her name off of her fashion line now, as well.
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Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
Trump suggests voter fraud might not be so bad after all, provided it helps him win — If you can't beat 'em... During a Saturday campaign stop in Cleveland, Ohio, Donald Trump doubled down on recent claims that the entire election is rigged, including what he baselessly argues is widespread voter fraud against him.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's campaign manager admits: ‘We are behind’ — MIAMI — Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, a longtime Republican pollster, admitted Sunday that her candidate is currently losing to Democrat Hillary Clinton. — “We are behind,” Conway said on NBC's “Meet the Press.”
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New York Daily News:
Eric Trump tricked into taking photo with woman wearing shirt that says ‘AGAINST Trump’ in Spanish — Looks like Eric Trump has a muy mal understanding of Spanish. — The Donald's middle son was played for a fool at a North Carolina rally when he posed for a photo with a young woman wearing a “Latinas Contra Trump” shirt.
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Desert Sun:
Tour bus crash in California kills at least 11, closes I-10 — A bus crashed into a big rig on I-10. At least 11 people are dead. Colin Atagi/The Desert Sun — CONNECT — At least 11 people are dead after a Los Angeles tour bus returning from a trip to a Thermal casino collided …
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Yahoo:
Iraq parliament in surprise vote to ban alcohol — Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq's parliament on Saturday voted to ban the sale, import and production of alcohol, in a surprise move likely to anger some minorities but also to please influential religious parties. — Proponents of the ban argue …
Jon Ralston / KTNV:
The Nevada Early Voting Blog — UPDATED, 10/23/16, 1 PM — I now have the district totals for the first day of early voting and the down-ballot numbers also are awful for the GOP. It is early but: — CD3: Registration is 37-35, Democratic. First day: 3,000 raw-vote lead for Democrats. 47 percent …
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Juju Chang / ABC News:
Gay Republicans Explain Why They Are Proudly Supporting Donald Trump — Charles Moran, a gay Trump delegate from California, was standing just feet from the stage at the Republican National Convention when he heard billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel give his now-famous speech.
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Page Six:
Trump advisers went to strip club night before last debate — More On: — The mainstream media may be in bed with Hillary Clinton's campaign — but they go to strip clubs with Donald Trump's. — Page Six has exclusively learned that a trio of senior Trump advisers was fixated on a different type of …
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Caroline Kenny / CNN:
Latest Trump accuser says he hugged, kissed her without permission — Washington (CNN)Another woman is publicly accusing Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual contact, alleging the GOP nominee touched and kissed her a decade ago during a charity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
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Jeremy Lott / Washington Examiner:
Porn star: Trump propositioned me
Porn star: Trump propositioned me
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