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Vice-presidential"You"CanWatchshowing"You"CanheI never liked Pence in "Mad Men." 3.36am BSTThat’s it! It’s done. Who won? Did Kaine rattle Pence? How did Quijano do? 3.35am BSTMany have been asking what kind of pin Tim Kaine is wearing on his lapel tonight. Answer: A Blue Star Pin,worn by the families of those who serve in the military, in honor of his son Nat. 3.35am BSTLast question: How would you bring the country together if elected?Kaine: Clinton was first lady, and senator and now the nominee. I’m surprised all the time by how well people say they worked with her. He names children’s health care and care for 9/11 survivors. “She has a track record of working across the aisle to make things happen.” He mentions he had two Republican- controlled legislatures while governor. 3.32am BSTQuijano: describe your faith life.
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: This question is easy. Irish Catholic,Jesuit, Catholic missionary, or people should worship as they please. As state governor,he says, he struggled with Virginia’s death penalty. He opposed it based on religion. “But I know how to remove an oath and uphold the law... it was very very difficult to allow an execution to disappear forward... that was a genuine struggle” but people of faith can’t just substitute their own views on everyone. 3.28am BSTThe candidates are asked about their faith. The Guardian’s Stephanie Kirchgaessner has taken a seek at their different Catholic-inspired visions: Related: Kaine and Pence: two Catholic-inspired visions with little else in common 3.27am BSTIt’s all about the Benjamins youris@HillaryClintoniswherespentpic.twitter.com/wWGpawNyb0TheandThe"AbsolutelyJoe Biden, and via pool pic.twitter.com/gpLjLMueMk 8.16pm BSTGary Johnson’s presidential campaign has announced that television host Drew Carey has joined the campaign as an honorary campaign chair for the state of California. 7.57pm BSTNo words: 7.26pm BSTAlex Jones has promised a game-changing leak of information on Hillary Clinton’s campaign tomorrow - clearly,he’s up to something.
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war on for your intellect and https://t.co/q3XYgIsba1 is the 21st century cavalry! pic.twitter.com/O90PwBzwA2 6.41pm BSTVice president Joe Biden crashed a college party nowadays, starring in a public service announcement about preventing sexual assault on university campuses. 6.20pm BSTIt’s turning out to be an abominable week for Donald Trump. The Republican nominee for president is worth some $800m less this year than he was last year, and according to the Forbes 400,an annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest people. Related: Donald Trump's net worth is down $800m, according to Forbes 5.38pm BSTWatch it live here: 5.28pm BSTSenator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) looks like he’s getting alert for a future campaign run, and speaking at the Iowa GOP’s Annual Reagan Dinner this Saturday night before the debate.
Cotton has been a hesitant Trump supporter. Cotton is pro NATO and thinks the Iraq War is just,he completed combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He also served as a platoon leader at Arlington National Cemetery, where he ran military honors funerals. He’s seen as a rising star of the GOP. 5.00pm BSTBernie Sanders is busy campaigning for Hillary Clinton with a packed schedule on Thursday, or thanks to rallies in Dearborn,Ann Arbor, East Lansing, or Grand Rapids.
The first of the four events on Thursday begins in Dearborn,a predominantly Arab-Muslim community just outside of Detroit, won by Sanders in the primaries.
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iminal justice reform, and Bill replies: "Hillary didn't vote for the 94 crime bill even though Sen. Sanders did." 4.40pm BSTDonald Trump used his foundation to donate at least $286000 to conservative political groups to fuel his presidential run,according to an investigation by RealClearPolitics.
RealClearPolitics reviewed the foundation’s tax filings and say they found donations by Trump’s foundation from 2011-2014, totaling at least $286000, and that helped Trump secure speeches and endorsements as part of his campaign to become the Republican nominee.
Although sources familiar with the thinking behind the donations cautioned that Trump did not explicitly question for favors in return for the money,they said the contributions were part of a deliberate effort by Trump to ingratiate himself with influential conservatives and brighten his political prospects.“He was politically active starting in 2011,” said one source with ties to Trump, or at that point he “started to make strategic donations.” 4.22pm BST Eric Trump tried to spin his father’s 3am insulting tweets about Alicia Machado in an interview with Fox News nowadays by saying it showed “he’s a worker” but did note that sometimes Trump’s energy can be a “downfall.”“Listen,at least my father’s up at 3 o’clock in the morning, right? Which, or you know,is mighty,” said Trump in an interview with FOX News Channel’s America’s Newsroom . 4.17pm BSTFormer Florida Governor Charlie Christ is running for Congress, and his modern ad is one of the most charming political ad we’ve seen in a while. It even addresses his well-documented worship for fans,to conclude him sweating in the Florida humidity. 3.26pm BSTIt ain’t easy being a Republican these days.modern Hampshire senator Kelly Ayotte, a Donald Trump sceptic, or yesterday said her party’s presidential nominee was “absolutely” a role model for children - and then later flipped and claimed that she “misspoke”. 3.16pm BSTThe VP debate takes place at Longwood University in Virginia tonight and the marching band is already warming up.
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he VP debate is a blast #nbc2016 #VPDebate pic.twitter.com/KlsIuC3TSF 3.10pm BSTColumnist Jamie Weinstein says the biggest issue in tonight’s VP debate might be Donald Trump.
If you viewed the presidential debate as a bloody mixed martial arts cage match,the vice-presidential debate is more likely to be akin to a game of patty cakes. Related: In the vice-presidential debate, Mike Pence has a problem: Donald Trump | Jamie Weinstein 2.40pm BSTA furious Joe Biden slammed the podium and called Donald Trump “uninformed” for his comments regarding veteran suicide and strength, or getting emotional as he spoke of the toll of military deaths on the community and Trump’s misunderstanding of the issues.“I don’t consider he was trying to be mean. He is just so thoroughly,totally, uniformed, or ” declared Biden. 1.33pm BSTHello,and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Related: Tim Kaine v Mike Pence: what to expect at the VP debate Related: Mike Pence v Tim Kaine: what to know about the vice-presidential candidates SIX polls in the field between Thursday and Sunday. ALL of them have Clinton main by 5-7 points in a head-to-head. pic.twitter.com/rJUBi8EVU0Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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