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NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll Show Hillary Clinton Leading Trump +6

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%.

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Poll: Hillary Clinton Opens 5 Point Lead Over Donald Trump

From NBC News:

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.

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Trump: Disarm Hillary’s Bodyguards And “Let’s See What Happens To Her”

Donald Trump, during a campaign rally, told a crowd again (erroneously) that Hillary Clinton wants to take their 2nd Amendment rights away.

He followed that by saying the armed bodyguards she travels with should disarm if she hates guns so much, adding, “Let’s see what happens to her.”

Another physical threat?

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut was not amused:

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Campaign Ad: Donald Trump Lies “Even When He’s Admitting The Truth”

From the Hillary Clinton campaign on Donald Trump’s “Full Flop” on the Birther movement he started, and made even wilder today.

“Donald Trump has spent years peddling lies about President Obama. And that didn’t stop today.”

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Donald Trump: President Obama Was Born In The United States. Period.

With a wave of his hand and two short sentences, Donald Trump tries to make the ‘birther’ issue magically disappear without taking any responsibility for trying to delegitimize Barack Obama’s presidency.

“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it, you know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period.”

Please note how different media outlets announced the news. I think Buzzfeed gets it right.

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Hell Freezes Over – Donald Trump Admits President Obama Was Born In USA

The news unfolded tonight thusly:

First, Republican presidential candidate and foremost birther conspiracy theorist Donald Trump refused to admit whether or not President Obama was born in the USA.

From Washington Post:

In the interview, conducted late Wednesday aboard his private plane as it idled on the tarmac here, Trump suggested he is not eager to change his pitch or his positions even as he works to reach out to minority voters, many of whom are deeply offended by his long-refuted suggestion that Obama is not a U.S. citizen. Trump refused to say whether he believes Obama was born in Hawaii.

“I’ll answer that question at the right time. I just don’t want to answer it yet,” Trump said.

When asked whether his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was accurate when she said recently that he now believes Obama was born in this country, Trump responded: “It’s okay. She’s allowed to speak what she thinks. I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on other things.”

He added, “I don’t talk about it anymore. The reason I don’t is because then everyone is going to be talking about it as opposed to jobs, the military, the vets, security.”

And within minutes of that statement, Jason Miller of the Trump campaign released a statement saying Donald Trump does, in fact, believe the President was born in Hawaii.

Via NPR:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very nasty, failed 2008 campaign for President. This type of vicious and conniving behavior is straight from the Clinton Playbook. As usual, however, Hillary Clinton was too weak to get an answer. Even the MSNBC show Morning Joe admits that it was Clinton’s henchmen who first raised this issue, not Donald J. Trump.

In 2011, Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate. Mr. Trump did a great service to the President and the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised. Inarguably, Donald J. Trump is a closer. Having successfully obtained President Obama’s birth certificate when others could not, Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States.

As has been mentioned many, many times, the idea that Hillary Clinton originated the ‘birther’ theory has been debunked as false. In 2015, PolitiFact proved the claim to be false. “Clinton’s campaign, one of the most thoroughly dissected in modern history, never raised questions about the future president’s citizenship.”

A couple of things here.

If Trump felt the “ugly incident” was brought to a close in 2011, why did it take over five years for him to admit it? Because he was still promoting the idea a year later. See the tweet below from 2012:

Also, note that the statement is not directly from Trump but a surrogate. When will we hear the actual words from Trump himself? Trump should either own it or denounce it himself – not a surrogate.

My thoughts are that Trump wanted this off the table before the first presidential debate. But does it? Surely there will be questions like mine?

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Donald Trump Promises 35% Tax On Mexican Made Cars

Donald Trump seems to think he can impose taxes at will.

Via the Trumpsters at Breitbart:

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would impose a 35% tax on any cars made in Mexico to keep companies from moving out of the US. Discussing a scenario where a car company wanted to build a plant in Mexico, Trump stated, “What would President Trump do? So I’d call the head of Ford, or whatever company, but I’d call the head of Ford. I’d say, ‘Congratulations, I understand you’re building a massive plant, in Mexico, and you’re taking a lot of jobs away from us in Michigan and other places. I don’t like that. I don’t like it. I just don’t like it.’ And he’ll say, ‘Well, Mr. President. It’s wonderful, wonderful for the economy. Oh, great, just great.’

“It’s wonderful for whose economy? Not for our economy. We lose on everything. We lose on jobs. We lose on money. We lose on everything. So, what I’d say is the following: ‘I don’t want you to do that. And if you do it, you’re not going to have any cars coming across the border unless you pay a 35% tax.’ That’s it. That’s it. No, that’s it! And they’re going to say — they’re going to say to me, ‘Mr. President, please, please, please.’ Now, I guarantee you. Let’s say I make this call at 9:00 in the morning, by 5:00 in the afternoon, I think the deal is done, they move back to the United States.”