The folks at Super Deluxe bring you their remix/re-edit of the now infamous Jimmy Fallon “softball” interview of Republican prez hopeful, Donald Trump, that ended in Fallon playfully humanizing Trump by mussing his hair.
Fallon has been taken to task for his fawning over the Trumpster throughout his last appearance on The Tonight Show. Super Deluxe takes the time to underscore Fallon’s adoration and flattering adulation.
Contrast this with Fallon greeting Hillary Clinton wearing a face-mask upon her subsequent visit.
Spoken word artist and poet IN-Q drops these truths about the current presidential campaign.
‘Sometimes you need a great villain to make a great hero/ And that great villain is here/ And that great hero is you/ there’s no question in my mind what we all have to do’
From IN-Q: I’m #VotingAgainst Hate, Fear, Racism, Sexism, Bigotry, Xenophobia, Violence and Ignorance. What are you Voting Against? Register at Vote.org
IN-Q is a National Poetry Slam Champion and multi-platinum winning songwriter. His groundbreaking performances include selling out the largest one-man poetry show in Los Angeles history, being the first spoken word artist to perform with Cirque Du Soleil, and being featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and ESPN’s World Series of Poker.
His newest video, “The Only Reason We’re Alive,” went viral shortly after it was released and just passed two million views online.
Writing on his Facebook page today, Sen. Ted Cruz – who came in second for the Republican presidential nomination – announced he will be voting for GOP candidate Donald Trump for president on November 8.
You’ll recall that Cruz has said in recent months that Trump is a “sniveling coward” and that he could never imagine see himself endorsing Trump.
Cruz cites possible Supreme Court nominations as his number one reason for endorsing the devil Trump.
This election is unlike any other in our nation’s history. Like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election.
In Cleveland, I urged voters, “please, don’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.”
After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
I’ve made this decision for two reasons. First, last year, I promised to support the Republican nominee. And I intend to keep my word.
Second, even though I have had areas of significant disagreement with our nominee, by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable — that’s why I have always been #NeverHillary.
You can read the full text at the link. But, you get the picture.
The timing is interesting in that recently the RNC and Trump have mentioned “sanctions” against future runs for the White House for any of this year’s GOP wanna-be’s who don’t support Trump.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign responded to the endorsement by retweeting a post from Cruz this past spring urging Trump to release his tax returns.
For months now, billionaire Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks, Shark Tank) has been an outspoken critic of Republican Donald Trump’s run for the White House.
Just last week, Cuban offered Trump $10 million if he would sit down to a four hour, one on one interview with Cuban. It goes without saying Trump didn’t respond.
But, Cuban will have a ringside seat to the first presidential debate at Hofstra University this coming Monday as news comes that the Hillary Clinton camp has given Cuban the best ticket they have so he can attend.
Cuban is famous for being down front, yelling at referees, throwing shade during his Mavericks basketball games, so expect some posturing from the Shark Tank star.
Just got a front row seat to watch @HillaryClinton overwhelm @realDonaldTrump at the “Humbling at Hofstra” on Monday. It Is On !
“It just seems that there’s a lack of spirit between the white and the black. I mean, it’s a terrible thing that we’re witnessing,” he said. “You are seeing it, I’m seeing it, and you look at what went on last night in Charlotte, a great place, and you just see it. There’s somewhat — and I see it even going out. There’s such a lack of spirit. There’s a lack of something, something that’s going on that’s bad, and what’s going on between police and others is getting worse.”
Trump went on to suggest stop-and-frisk as a viable tool to stopping crime in America.
New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk program led tons of complaints that the practice led to racial profiling.
In 2013, a federal judge ruled the practice was unconstitutional as data bore out that it unlawfully targeted blacks and Latinos.
Trump’s answer to America’s criminal and/or racial woes is to enact some version of an unconstitutional practice. As he attempts to woo the black vote, he’s saying “relinquish your civil liberties.”
After calling the Black Lives Matter movement “a stupid waste of time,” and saying low voter turnout on behalf of African-Americans is indicative of “the way they’re raised,” Donald Trump’s Ohio campaign chair, Kathy Miller, has resigned.
Oh, did I mention she told the Guardian, “I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected?”
Seriously.
Kathy Miller, who is white and chair of the Republican nominee’s campaign in Mahoning County, made the remarks during a taped interview with the Guardian’s Anywhere but Washington series of election videos.
“If you’re black and you haven’t been successful in the last 50 years, it’s your own fault. You’ve had every opportunity, it was given to you,” she said.
“You’ve had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn’t have. You had all the advantages and didn’t take advantage of it. It’s not our fault, certainly.”
The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Democrat Hillary Clinton heading into the first presidential debate with a 6 point lead over Republican Donald Trump.
From NBC News:
In a four-way horserace, Clinton gets support from 43 percent of likely voters and Trump gets 37 percent, while Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson is at 9 percent and the Green Party’s Jill Stein is at 3 percent.
In a head-to-head matchup without those third-party candidates, Clinton’s advantage expands to seven points, 48 percent to 41 percent. This is the NBC/WSJ poll’s first general-election poll of likely voters in the 2016 race.
The poll was conducted after her bout of mild pneumonia.
Sixty-eight percent of Hillary supporters say they will definitely vote for her; 66% of Trump supporters say the same of their candidate.
A majority of Hillary voters (50%) say their vote is for her as opposed to against Trump (44%).
Forty-one percent of Trump voters say their vote is more about supporting him than opposing Hillary; 51% of his supporters identify their votes as an “anti-Hillary” vote.
The survey also shows President Obama’s approval rating at 52%.
According to this week’s NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll, Hillary Clinton now enjoys 50 percent support among likely voters and Donald Trump has 45 percent support.
In a four-way match up of likely voters, Clinton leads Trump by 5 points—45 percent to 40 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson now has 10 percent support and Jill Stein maintains 4 percent.
Currently, 56 percent of likely voters think Clinton will win. Just 39 percent think Trump will win.
Read this whole thing. Trump on fighting ISIS: "I will give you good results. Don’t worry how I get there, okay?" pic.twitter.com/afObxBI4kA— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 18, 2016
