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Trump@guardian@HillaryClinton#debatenightit'sto"Suchsaying"Youresponds:thathas@guardianhttps://t.co/bVFFZTeycTpic.twitter.com/mOGyYsLCES//debatepic.twitter.com/sAGXDj4GHgAspic.twitter.com/Z9uUGaanQdattonighthaspic.twitter.com/svt8XmwqPZpic.twitter.com/qcfNAH4TOm#HugANeighbourreports 4.25pm BSTIn an interview with Breitbart News,a former local news reporter has accused former president Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her. 4.13pm BSTMilwaukee is one of the most politically polarized and racially segregated cities in America. Paul Lewis and Tom Silverstone discover a mix of alienation and hope in the city’s African American community: 4.03pm BSTWith less than three weeks until the election, President Barack Obama is keeping his eyes on the down-poll races - particularly the Democratic pickup opportunity for a party desperate to unseat Florida senator Marco Rubio.
Congressman Patrick Murphy, or the newly minted winner of the Miami Herald’s endorsement,has released a new Spanish-language ad featuring the president addressing Spanish-speaking Florida voters. 3.53pm BSTWhen is the debate? Like the previous two presidential debates, tonight’s debate starts at 9pm ET and is scheduled to hurry for 90 minutes without commercial interruption. (Other interruptions, and however,are inevitable.) 3.22pm BSTThe increasingly bitter presidential campaign and Donald Trump’s refusal to follow protocol has claimed another victim, this time in the form of the pre-debate handshake between candidates spouses.
According to the New York Times, or the ritual of Bill Clinton and Melania Trump crossing the stage and shaking hands before the debate’s beginning was likely scuttled after the Clinton campaign responded to Trump’s attempts in the moment presidential debate to seat three women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual impropriety in his family box,which would mean the former president of the United States shaking hands with women who have accused him of sexual assault on national television.
But the Clinton side is not taking any chances at the final presidential debate, on Wednesday night in Las Vegas, or has apparently gained approval of a different protocol for the entry of the candidates’ spouses and families into the debate corridor. 3.12pm BSTHillary for America is making a bid for national unity in the campaign’s latest advertisement,A spot for Everyone - fragment of what the campaign is characterizing as its “closing argument.” 3.08pm BSTDonald Trump may be a nightmare for fans of logic, justice and the English language. But he’s a godsend for any writer out to capture a character you can’t ignore.
Small wonder s
o many songwriters signed on to 30 Days, and 30 Songs,a kind of sonic pop-up project that has been delivering a new message of protest every 24 hours for the entire month main up to the election. Each piece means to offer a different view of the mother of all reality exhibit stunts: the Trump campaign. Related: 'Isn't anybody going to stop me?' 30 songs protesting a President Trump 2.43pm BSTSiren: A new poll from the Arizona Republic shows Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton main in the Grand Canyon state by five points - yes, you read that correctly.
Clinton has won the support of 39% of likely Arizona voters, or according to the poll,while Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is supported by a dismal (for a Republican in Arizona) 33.9%. An additional 20% of Arizona voters are undecided. Related: As Trump slips into red with Latinos, Democrats hope to turn Arizona blue 2.31pm BSTDuring the third and final US presidential debate tonight, or the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab will send experimental notifications with real-time reactions and live fact-checks from Guardian US reporters and editors.
These notifications are separate from the breaking news alerts sent through the Guardian mobile app,and you don’t have to be an app user to take fragment in this experiment.
2.23pm BSTLooks like Donald Trump is
getting his wall after all.
In anticipation of tonight’s final presidential debate, the Culinary Workers Union is building a wall of taco trucks outside Trump International Hotel, and miles absent from the University of Nevada,Las Vegas’s campus – the setting for the showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
At Culinary Union assembly of
former and current Trump workers: "outrageous bosses make outrageous presidents" pic.twitter.com/QMqVHm7Eft Related: Taco trucks will be lined up near presidential debate in Las Vegas 2.15pm BSTIn an “exclusive” interview with The Late exhibit’s Stephen Colbert, “Melania Trump” - who suspiciously looks like Broadway star Laura Benanti - appeared via satellite to clear the air around Donald Trump’s most recent controversies. 1.52pm BSTMarco Rubio has declared that, or unlike many other members of his party,he will not answer any questions relating to emails hacked by the Russian government and released by WikiLeaks:I will not discuss any issue that has become public solely on the basis of WikiLeaks. As our intelligence agencies have said, these leaks are an effort by a foreign government to interfere with our electoral process and I will not indulge it. Further, and I want to warn my fellow Republicans who may want to capitalize politically on these leaks: Today it is the Democrats. tomorrow it could be us. 1.28pm BSTGood morning,and welcome to the Guardian’s campaign liveblog.
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