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Donald Trump Losing Ground In Vital Swing State Florida

The latest Quinnipiac University poll shows GOP presidential candidate losing ground to Dem Hillary Clinton in the vital swing state of Florida:

From Politico:

Clinton leads Trump by eight points in Florida, 47 percent to 39 percent, up seven points overall from May when she was clinging to a 43 percent-to-42 percent advantage.

Trump’s advantage among Florida men dropped 9 points over the last month, from a 13-point lead to just four points, 45 percent to 41 percent in June.

Among women in Florida, Clinton’s advantage grew by 5 points, from 48 percent to 35 percent last month to 52 percent to 34 percent in the post recent survey.

White voters support Trump over Clinton 51 percent to 36 percent, while non-white voters backed Clinton 72 percent to 8 percent.

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New York Daily News Dubs Senate “Slaughter House” After Failure To Pass Any gun Reform

From the NY Daily News:

The GOP-controlled Senate failed to pass legislation aimed at keeping suspected terrorists from buying guns and tightening background checks Monday, shrugging off the worst mass shooting in U.S. history with more inaction.

Barely a week after the Orlando nightclub massacre that killed 49 people and just days after a 15-hour filibuster from Democrats, it felt like “Groundhog Day” on Capitol Hill, with votes falling mostly along party lines to defeat four gun control measures.

“What am I going to tell 49 grieving families? What am I going to tell those who are still in the hospital fighting for their lives?” said Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.). “Sadly, what I’m going to have to tell them is the NRA won again.”

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Trump Campaign Paid $35,000 To Possibly Fictional “Draper Sterling” Ad Agency

Folks are talking about Donald Trump’s most recent FEC campaign filing, and one item of note is that they paid $35,000 to an ad agency that, it seems, only exists in the world of television.

Props to ThinkProgress’ Judd Legum who noticed the detail when poring over Trump’s financial statements.

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/745084049513906180

Oh dear.

As many of you may remember, “Draper Sterling” is similar to the name of the ad agency in AMC’s hit series, Mad Men. So, it would definitely seem odd that the Trump campaign would make several sizeable payments to “Draper Sterling” in April of this year for web advertising.

Even more – look, there’s an address!

Using Google Maps, intrepid folks located the “place of business” for Draper Sterling. And it’s a little surprising. Here’s a pic of the “offices” for Draper Sterling.

Now, the location is interesting not only because it’s a HOUSE, but also because it’s not far from now-former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Now, guess who would have ok’d these payments to “Draper Sterling?”

Oh – and one more little detail. Perhaps this factored into why Corey was fired yesterday?

https://twitter.com/MattMackowiak/status/745112064482390016

UPDATE: ThinkProgress is now reporting that not only did the bios of two of the players involved with “Draper Sterling”disappear from the website of their medical device company early this morning, shortly thereafter the entire site was yanked offline, replaced with password-only access.

ThinkProgress reached out to a third player for “Draper Sterling,” Adam McClain, and this is the response:

When ThinkProgress called Grace’s Grantham Cafe directly on the number listed on its website, Adam McLain answered. (McLain’s super PAC filing says he lives Virginia.)

Asked about his connection to Draper Sterling and what services it provided to his super PAC, McLain said he had “no comment.” Asked whether Grace’s Grantham Cafe was a real cafe that has opened, McLain said he had “no comment.” Asked whether Paul Holzer was his brother, McLain also said he had “no comment.” McLain said he didn’t find the questions “relevant.”

Neither Adkins or Holzer immediately returned inquires from ThinkProgress. An inquiry to the Trump campaign about what services Draper Sterling provided was also not immediately returned.

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“Broadway Bares: On Demand” Raises $1.4 Million

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Broadway Bares does it again!

Tony Award winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell began Broadway Bares in 1992 as a response to the AIDS crisis and its devastating affect on the Broadway community.

To date,Broadway Bares has now raised $15.8 million for Broadway Cares.

Via press release:

Chiseled morning show hosts, rock-hard reality show contestants and pumped up politicos took over the airwaves at this year’s ratings-raising edition of Broadway Bares, an evening of elaborately staged burlesque production numbers that gave a new meaning to “Bares TV.”

Produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Bares: On Demand raised an impressive $1,482,724 in two performances on Sunday, June 19, 2016.

Broadway Bares: On Demand featured 198 of New York’s sexiest and most talented dancers, entertaining standing-room-only audiences at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom. The evening was dedicated to the victims, families and friends of last week’s Orlando night club tragedy.

For the first time in the event’s history, Stripathon, an online fundraiser by the show’s cast and crew, was the single largest contributor to the total, raising by showtime a record $612,212.

This year’s guest performers included Tony and Grammy Award winner Billy Porter, Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita, two-time Tony nominee Christopher Sieber, Frankie J. Grande, Daniel Dae Kim, Michael Longoria and NY1 News’ Frank DiLella and Roma Torre.

The show also included special “on demand” video appearances by seven-time Grammy Award winner Gloria Estefan, Tony nominee Andrew Rannells, Emmy Award nominee Wendy Williams, RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen, Cassandra Peterson as her horror hostess alter ego Elvira and HGTV’s Property Brothers, Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott.

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Fort Worth Pastor On Orlando Shooting Survivors: “I Pray That God Will Finish The Job”

I think a lot of people don’t really believe these hateful folks exist.

But they do. Each one gets more and more scary.

And THIS one is from my own hometown.

Raw Story has the grim details:

Pastor Donnie Romero of Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth told his flock he agrees “100 percent” with Baptist Pastor Roger Jimenez, who made news with his sermon advocating that the government should use a firing squad to “blow their brains out.”

“These 50 sodomites are all perverts and pedophiles, and they are the scum of the earth, and the earth is a little bit better place now,” Romero said in the Sunday sermon.

“And I’ll take it a step further, because I heard on the news today, that there are still several dozen of these queers in ICU and intensive care. And I will pray to God like I did this morning, I will do it tonight, I’ll pray that God will finish the job that that man started, and he will end their life, and by tomorrow morning they will all be burning in hell, just like the rest of them, so that they don’t get any more opportunity to go out and hurt little children.”

Romero’s church has been named by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBT hate group.

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Looking: The Movie – Trailer

I’m way excited to see this.

After two seasons on HBO, Looking was not picked up for another go round.

But the powers that be saw the show had developed a strong enough following that they felt a “wrap-up” movie was in order, and I’m very glad.

I personally saw a lot of not only my life, but my friends’ lives in the San Francisco-based show.

Looking: The Movie debuts Saturday, July 23 at 10PM on HBO.

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Donald Trump “Parts Ways” With Campaign Manager

Corey Lewandowski

Via Huffington Post:

Falling in the polls and watching Republican delegates mount a campaign to oust him, Donald Trump has cut ties with his controversial campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

Lewandowski had been with Trump since January 2015, when most political observers believed the reality TV star was never going to actually run for president, and guided him to securing the nomination in May when his final opponents dropped out.

The New Hampshire native had no experience on national campaigns, and had jealousy protected his access and influence with Trump, arguing that letting “Trump be Trump” was the strategy that would win the White House just as it won the nomination.

For weeks Lewandowski had been competing with longtime GOP lobbyist and consultant Paul Manafort, who was originally brought in to manage the campaign’s delegate tracking operation for the nominating convention in Cleveland.

The Trump campaign issued a statement which read, in part:

“The Donald J. Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the Republican primary having received almost 14 million votes, has today announced that Corey Lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign,” the campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said in a statement. “The campaign is grateful to Corey for his hard work and dedication and we wish him the best in the future.”

Upon news of the announcement, Michael Caputo, a Trump communications aide who has endured an tense relationship with Lewandowski shared this on Twitter: