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Today’s projection from RealClearPolitics projects if the election were held today (making a decision based on current polling), Hillary Clinton would win with 340 electoral votes versus Donald Trump’s 198.
A new poll from the Baldwin Wallace Community Research Institute shows Hillary Clinton has pulled out to a 9 point lead over billionaire Donald Trump in the vital swing state of Ohio.
Via Cleveland.com:
Democrat Hillary Clinton has a 9-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in Ohio following the news of Trump’s vulgar talk about women and after the second debate between the candidates, according to a statewide poll released today by Baldwin Wallace University in Berea.
Clinton leads Trump, 48 percent to 38 percent, with 14 percent unsure, in a direct match-up, the poll found. When the two minority party candidates are added to the mix – as they are on state ballots — Clinton leads by 9 percent, 43 percent to 34 percent.
It’s notable that the survey included 1,152 likely voters. That’s a substantial number for a state-wide poll.
Plus, this was taken after the second debate through to Tuesday evening. So the debate and Trump’s “PussyGate” video are baked into these results.
The survey also showed that 63% of Trump voters are primarily casting a vote against Clinton, not for him.
Among Clinton supporters only 47% say they are casting a vote against Trump.
Among Independent voters, 46% say they are voting Clinton; 35% say they plan to vote Trump.
Christian Slater, who plays a gay film pornographer in Jame Franco’s King Cobra, sat down to chat with Conan O’Brien about the film.
Admitting playing a gay role, complete with gay sex scenes, was a bit “out of his wheelhouse,” Slater told Conan, “You have to feel the fear and then do it anyway.” Slater then invited Conan to touch his nipple to jokingly display his control over same-sex anxiety.
“I did have a lot of anxiety and fear about doing something like this,” he continued. “But then I just said, ‘I’m an actor!’ I asked my wife she said you should absolutely go do it. I dove right in.”
King Kobra will land in select theaters and Video OnDemand October 21.
Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump has bragged in the past during interviews on The Howard Stern Show that, as the owner of the Miss USA Pageant, he would walk backstage before or after pageants while women were still dressing.
He never mentioned going backstage to ogle the Miss Teen USA pageant contestants.
From ThinkProgress:
On an appearance on The Howard Stern Show in 2005, published on Sunday by CNN, Trump described going backstage at the beauty pageants while the contestants were undressed. “Before a show, I’ll go backstage and everyone’s getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it,” he said. “You know, I’m inspecting because I want to make sure that everything is good.”
“You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’” he continued. “And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that.”
According to interviews BuzzFeed News conducted with former Miss Teen USA contestants, Trump did just that in 1997. Four women who were competing in the pageant that year — including one who was 15 at the time — recalled that Trump walked into the dressing area while they were changing.
One of them called it “shocking” and “creepy” and said she rushed to cover herself. Another recalled that the contestants were “just scrambling to grab stuff… whatever garments they had.”
Another called it “really shocking,” saying, “We were all naked.”
“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” Mariah Billado, former Miss Vermont Teen USA, said.
Billado remembered Trump saying something like, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.” Another who was 17 at the time recalled that it seemed Trump felt “it was his given right… because he owned the pageant.”
“At the time, you’re a teenager, you’re intimidated — it’s Donald Trump, he runs the pageant,” she said.
Think about that, kids. Your 14, 15 year old daughter takes part in a beauty contest and you have 59 year old Donald Trump barging in to get a look because he gets away “with things like that.”
We’re not talking about imaginary women with no names here. These are actual women coming forward.
And none of his followers will care.
From the clip description:
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With the 2016 Presidential election coming up, America has a critical choice to make. The Cooties have a few words of advice to help you make that all too important vote. Get educated on the real issues behind the campaigns and go into the polling place with a real handle on the true character behind your choice.
The music video goes from parody to anti-endorsement pretty quick.
Between threatening his opponent with jail time, attacking his own political party and more stories of walking into the dressing rooms of teenage pageant contestants, Donald Trump is pretty much approaching “The Final Meltdown.”
Donald Trump: The final meltdown. pic.twitter.com/8wJEiJ0Sh5— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 12, 2016
Donald Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani told a campaign crowd today that he was on site at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and he doesn’t remember seeing then Sen. Hillary Clinton at the site.
The full statement:
Don’t tell me if you said that that you remember September 11, 2001. I remember September 11, 2001. Yes, yes, you helped to get benefits for the people who were injured that day. But I heard her say she was there that day. I was there that day, I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there. That was like when she said she had to run through gunfire. That turned out to be,, what do we call it? A lie.
But don’t tell me that you subscribe the notion that all of us who were with on September 11 and we’re lucky to be alive and have lost so many friends. I lost so many friends on September 11. I think about it every day. Don’t tell me you belong to our very, very tight group of “never forget.” Don’t tell me that.
Please note the picture above of her walking with him on 9/11.
These people say anything that crosses their minds as they address the crowds. And then the people go home and tell everyone this lie that they heard from Rudy Giuliani.
#LiarLiarPantsOnFire
Rudy Giuliani: “I was there” on 9/11, “I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there.” https://t.co/iRB09cQ8eH— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 12, 2016
Speaking in Colorado yesterday, Eric Trump told volunteers at a campaign office that his father’s vulgar comments in a 2005 Access Hollywood video were just “locker room banter,” and the result of “alpha” males being in the same room.
From the Gazette.com:
“I think that’s Hillary going low,” the younger Trump said in the campaign’s Denver office, after he greeted volunteers. “I think you’ve seen that for a long time. If you look at her track record with women, I think you saw that yesterday with some of the people we had sitting at the debate. It’s horrible. She’ll dig out dirt on someone from 15 years ago when someone is in entertainment.
“And, listen, my father apologized for it. He was right to apologize for it, and I’m glad he apologized for it. At the same time, if you look at her track record with women, it’s horrible. It’s absolutely horrible.” There has been no evidence that the Clinton campaign released the damaging tape. Eric Trump said he was “surprised it came out.”
“At the same time, I think it’s locker room banter,” he said, repeating his father’s description of it. “I think sometimes when guys are together they get carried away, and sometimes that’s what happens when alpha personalities are in the same presence. At the same time, I’m not saying it’s right. It’s not the person that he is.”
There’s no evidence to indicate that Clinton or her campaign were involved in the discovery of the Access Hollywood video.
Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of Twitter attacks on his own party today, specifically House Speaker Paul Ryan for effectively cutting him loose and accusing party leaders of trying to sabotage his campaign.
The attack virtually splinters his party and followers as he heads into the last few weeks of the race for the White House.
From Business Insider:
“Donald Trump is like a wounded animal in the forest just thrashing out at anything in his field of vision. He’s unhinged,” said Ryan Williams, a former spokesman for 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
He added: “Any loyalty to the party he may have had is gone. He’s never really been a team player. It’s clear he does not care about the Republican party or anyone else who is running on the ballot this year. This is all about Donald Trump.”
Most recent national polls show Trump’s standing heading south, and his path to 270 electoral votes getting more and more narrow.
Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
The very foul mouthed Sen. John McCain begged for my support during his primary (I gave, he won), then dropped me over locker room remarks!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
Disloyal R’s are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don’t know how to win – I will teach them!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
With the exception of cheating Bernie out of the nom the Dems have always proven to be far more loyal to each other than the Republicans!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016