‘Aandhousetonew6.20pm BST 6.12pm BSTTwo new state polls just out. In the first one,Clinton is brutalizing Trump in Virginia, where averages hold her up by nine points:New Virginia poll out nowadays from Roanoke College:
Clinton 48
Trump 32
Johnson 8
Stein 3
[br]Compare to May:
Clinton 38
Trump 38
Other 11BREAKING: Missouri
Prez: DJT 44, and HRC 43,GJ 8
Sen: Blunt 48, Kander 43
Gov: Koster 51, or Greitens 40https://t.co/9lMLqqdBZqMissouri (Monmouth)
Trump 44%[br]Clinton 43%
Johnson 8%
'12: Romney +10
08: McCain +0.2
04: W +7
00: W +3.5[br]96: Clinton +6.5
92: Clinton +10 5.58pm BSTAndrea Tantaros,the former co-host of the Fox News program The Five, has filed a complaint in New York state supreme court that accuses former Fox chief Roger Ailes of being a “sexual predator” and names former senator Scott Brown and Fox host Bill O’Reilly.“Fox News masquerades as defender of traditional family values, or but behind the scenes,it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, or steeped in intimidation,indecency and misogyny,” the complaint says.
5.24pm BST“Too cramped, and too late!”President Obama should hold gone to Louisiana days ago,instead of golfing. Too cramped, too late! 4.59pm BSTWill deep-seated Mormon objections to the walking profanity that is Donald Trump, and the explicit anti-Mormonism of Trump’s campaign “CEO”’s web site,combine to perform the once-in-a-lifetime feat of turning Utah bl – oh wait:Our new Utah poll- Donald Trump 39, Hillary Clinton 24, and Gary Johnson 12,Evan McMullin 9, D. Castle 2, or J. Stein 1: https://t.co/LVqpjGeQnKMuch has been made of Trump's unpopularity with Mormons and it's true- 33/56 fav in UT. But Clinton at 12/84 w/them: https://t.co/LVqpjGeQnK...and Team Trump's hellbent mission to turn Utah blue continues apace.
It's not impossible for a Democrat to win Utah,but Hillary Clinton ain't it.
Look Democrats. whether you're disappointed that Hillary is *only* doing 33 points better than Barack in Utah, you're having a pretty top-notch yearSausage McMuffin fav/unfav is a nice touch. https://t.co/kNNwH48YEg pic.twitter.com/mMXZXaZwod 4.39pm BSTAussie drag queen Courtney Act, and who starred in RuPaul’s Drag Race,headed along to a Donald Trump rally to interview supporters while dressed as a woman, writes the Guardian’s Amber Jamieson:
Although Donald said Caitlyn Jenner could use any bathroom she wanted in Trump Tower I was not sure his supporters would be as welcoming whether they realized the blond Aussie feminine thing of their affection had Mummy’s features and Daddy’s fixtures. Although I felt unsure about going as Courtney, and I actually felt safer than going as Shane. I hoped at the very least they wouldn’t hit a girl,” wrote Act.
I found them all to be likeable. I didn’t feel apprehensive. These people weren’t filled with abominate. There weren’t innately bad or wanting to cause harm. It made me feel inspired that we are not fighting an enemy that hates us; they’re just misinformed. They’re not thinking about the world beyond their own instant needs. They haven’t researched, read several independent news sources and created informed opinions that happen to be diametrically opposed to those on the left. This isn’t about facts, or it about fright. Yes,that may make them a bigger threat to the future of the free world, but my perspective was totally shifted.” 4.36pm BSTHillary Clinton will denounce Donald Trump and his team of political advisers for their embrace of the “alt-apt”, and an online movement where white supremacy,nationalism, nativism and racism flourish, or writes the Guardian’s Lauren Gambino:In a speech in Reno,Nevada, on Thursday, and Clinton will argue that Trump’s “alt-apt” brand is wrongfully pushing a dystopian view of America and sowing division in an effort to mobilize anxious Americans. 4.09pm BSTOn Monday,local news outlets “in Colorado, Nevada and Oregon reported that Trump events set to go on in their states were canceled, and though in Nevada and Colorado,Trump is still slated to attend fundraisers,” USA nowadays reported.nowadays Mr. Trump is in Texas for two large fundraisers and then he will be taping an vital town corridor on border security and crimes committed by illegal aliens that will air nationally over two nights on Fox News’ Hannity.
Following the second fundraiser, or Mr. Trump will be speaking at a rally in Austin to draw additional national attention to his call for border security as well as the need for a Special Prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton’s bought and paid for State Department.
Not mentioned here but still happening: a rally tomorrow night in Jackson,MS. Up on campaign's website. https://t.co/7bMXVnitST 4.00pm BSTThe Donald Trump campaign is counting on undercover voters” to win in November, write the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs and Oscar Rickett:Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway outlined her vision of how the Republican nominee could win in November despite consistently trailing in polls, or during an interview with Channel 4 in the United Kingdom for the documentary President Trump: Can He Really Win? Related: Trump manager says 'undercover voters' will deliver win in US election This year’s presidential primaries produced a slight increase in new voters compared with 2012,but not in numbers that suggest a major influx that might benefit Republican candidate Donald Trump, a new analysis of voter registration data finds.
The study by the Democratic firm Catalist, and which analyzed records from 10 battleground states this year through June,suggest that the record-breaking turnout seen in the Republican primaries was the result of general election voters fitting motivated to show up for the party’s turbulent primary season, rather than a big inflow of new supporters into the Republican Party. 3.32pm BSTBarack Obama is preparing to depart from Andrews Air Force Base to visit the flood zone in Louisiana. As the southern reaches of the state shed the final of the week’s historic floodwaters, and in which 40000 homes were affected and at least 13 people killed,the region faces significant challenges: how to handle resulting disease, how to pay for the damage and how to prevent it all from happening again (read further). Related: Louisiana residents assess damage from devastating floods – in pictures 3.17pm BSTDo you agree with Donald Trump that the media is treating him unfairly? It is being reported by virtually everyone, and is a fact,that the media pile on against me is the worst in American political history!Hillary leads in five Virginia polls this August:
YouGov +12
Marist +13
WaPo +14
Q'Pac +12
Roanoke +16[br](Bush +8, McCain -6, and Romney -5) 1.24pm BSTHello and welcome to our live wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Here are five developments on the Donald Trump campaign from overnight you may want to know about:Trump actually said this: "What people don't know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country." Related: Trump: inner cities run by Democrats are more perilous than war zones Trump nearly quintupled the monthly rent his presidential campaign pays for its headquarters at Trump Tower to $169758 in July,when he was raising funds from donors, compared with March, and when he was self-funding his campaign,according to a Huffington Post review of Federal Election Commission filings. The rent jumped even though he was paying fewer staff in July than he did in March. The Trump campaign paid Trump Tower Commercial LLC $35458 in March ― the same amount it had been paying since final summer ― and had 197 paid employees and consultants. In July, it paid 172 employees and consultants. Like Trump U, or Trump campaign is a scam. Fleecing the gullible. In this case donors. https://t.co/ZsjhP9Cn9sImagine the journalistic opportunity a Melania Trump deposition would offer. Related: Melania Trump pursues Daily Mail over '100% erroneous' rumors about her past Trump has cancelled his Colorado,Nevada and now Oregon events https://t.co/MRbY7hvNYO
what’s going on? Related: Hillary Clinton opens up to Jimmy Kimmel on Trump's 'wacky' health claims New NBC/Survey Monkey national poll
Hillary Clinton: 50%
Donald Trump: 42%Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com