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New Suffolk University/USA Today Poll Shows Clinton Leading Trump By 7 Points

The latest national Suffolk University/USA Today poll out Thursday shows Democrat Hillary Clinton leading Republican Donald Trump by 7 points.

Clinton received the support of 48% of 1,000 likely voters, while Trump earned 41%.

This matches similar results from the recent Fox News poll released Wednesday evening, and the 7 point margin shown in the latest Monmouth University poll.

In a four-way race, the survey showed Clinton still held a 7 point lead garnering 42% support, Trump receiving 35%, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson scored 9% and Green Party nominee Jill Stein received just 3%. The remaining 10 percent were undecided.

Trump barely led Clinton among male voters (44%/43%), while Clinton trounced Trump by 16 points among women (54%/38%).

Trump leads by 8 points (49%/41%) with white voters, but Clinton leads by 41 points with Hispanic voters (65%/24%) and by 87 points among black voters (91%/4%).

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Republican National Committee Gives Trump Campaign “Grim Prognosis”

In the aftermath of whatever success or failure folks believe occurred at the two major political parties conventions in July, it’s been clear that the Trump campaign had lost it’s footing as polls showed Hillary Clinton widening her lead on Donald Trump.

The past weeks saw noticeable shifts for the Trumpster. Testing the waters with a possible “softening” of his immigration prescriptions then pulling back, it was clear Trump was lurching about trying to find some kind of message that might sell in the general election.

The New York Times explains a bit as to the underlying dynamics at play in the Trump camp.

Mr. Trump’s course adjustment emerged in an atmosphere of growing urgency and alarm within his campaign. Over the last week, close associates have told both Mr. Trump and members of his family that he is in real danger of losing the race, according to a half-dozen people close to the Trump campaign and briefed on its activities, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid angering the nominee.

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who lobbied in favor of the trip to Mexico, has told Mr. Trump that he must make immediate changes to regain his footing, associates said. And on Monday, Mr. Trump’s son Eric met with senior officials at the Republican National Committee in Washington and heard a grim prognosis of his father’s campaign, according to people briefed on the meeting.

Without a major shake-up of the electoral map, strategists indicated to the younger Mr. Trump, his father’s already narrow path to the 270 electoral votes he needs to win could vanish. Going through the swing states one by one, party officials showed Eric Trump that his father was drastically underperforming other Republicans in the polls.

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White Supremacist Movement LOVED Donald Trump’s Immigration Tirade

While many who watched Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yell his way through a “policy” speech on immigration last night in Arizona were left fairly dismayed, Trump’s white supremacist followers were thrilled.

Anyone expecting some kind of “pivot” during the general election may be surprised to learn that the pivot was from the far-right to the alt-right.

The speech was a grim, high volume rough ride that bordered on fear-mongering against all immigrants. Just the kind of thing white nationalists/supremacists love.

David Duke, former KKK Grand Wizard and current candidate for the U.S. Senate:

Richard Spencer, of the white nationalist think tank National Policy Institute:

Jared Taylor, editor for the white nationalist publication American Renaissance:

According to former campaign manager and current adviser Corey Lewandowski, the speech was written to appeal to the white male voters who already support Trump’s nationalist policies. “White males have a high propensity of voting and this speech is clearly geared at those individuals right now, to make sure he has locked them in for the election,” said Lewandowski on CNN after the hour long speech.

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Donald Trump Trips – Doesn’t Tell Mexican Prez He’ll Pay For “Trump Wall”

After dramatically flying to Mexico for a one on one photo op with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Donald Trump told reporters at a short press event with the Mexican President that the issue of who would pay for the now infamous “Trump Wall” didn’t come up.

Now comes news, via President Pena Nieto’s spokesman, that the President told Trump during their one hour meeting that Mexico would not be paying for any wall.

From Reuters:

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday told Donald Trump that Mexico would not pay for the Republican presidential candidate’s proposed wall along the Mexico-U.S. border, contradicting Trump’s assertion they didn’t discuss payment.

“What the president said is that Mexico, as he has said on several occasions … will not pay for that wall,” presidential spokesman Eduardo Sanchez told Reuters by telephone.

Trump earlier told a joint news conference with Pena Nieto after their meeting in Mexico City that the pair had discussed the wall but not who would pay for it.

https://twitter.com/EPN/status/771118159654891520

President Peña Nieto said in a tweet (above)”At the beginning of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall.”

Did Trump lie during the presser? Or if not, why didn’t the Mexican president correct Trump during the Q&A?

It seems Trump is full of swagger in front of his adoring fans, but not so much when he actually has to step on the world stage.

In my opinion, I don’t know how “presidential” Trump looked today. Standing next to the young, handsome and clearly comfortable President Pena Nieto, Trump swayed side to side looking tired while slumping at the podium. It was certainly not the “strong” Donald Trump image he’s promised his supporters he would be.

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Former President Of Mexico: Trump “Is Not Welcome To Mexico”

We shall see if Donald Trump’s last minute trip to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto works out as a net positive for him.

What’s clear right now is that a LOT of the Mexican people are not pleased to hear he was visiting there today. Especially former President Vincente Fox.

From Talking Points Memo:

“We don’t like him. We don’t want him. We reject his message. I don’t understand why President Pena has offered this opportunity. I think it’s nothing more than a political stunt,” Fox said on CNN’s “New Day.” “Trump is using Mexico, is using President Pena to boost his sinking poll numbers. I think that President Pena is taking an enormous political risk by hosting Trump. If he’s perceived as going soft on Trump, it will hurt him greatly.”

Fox is not a big fan of Trump. He made headlines in February when he told Trump that Mexico is “not going to pay for that fucking wall,” and he later called Trump a “false prophet.”

On Wednesday, Fox told CNN that Trump’s decision to meet with the Mexican president is an “opportunistic move.” He also blasted Trump for lying.

“You cannot cheat people. You have to be straight. You have to speak the truth,” Fox said, adding that he hopes Americans will “finally see what is behind Trump, this false prophet that is just cheating everybody.”

Fox said he does not understand why the country’s president invited Trump to meet with him, but said he hopes he “will take a very firm stand” and call on Trump to apologize to Mexicans.

When asked about Trump’s recent comments on immigration and whether the Republican nominee may be softening his position, Fox said that he can’t “trust” Trump.

“How can we grant confidence and support to ideas that change every day? He’s cynical. He continues to disregard its [sic] own people and disregard Mexicans,” he said, adding that Trump cannot win over both “xenophobic” voters and minorities.

Trump, as usual, tried to take on Fox via Twitter, but Fox is no shrinking violet:

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Trump Campaign Spot Features New World Trade Center

Check out Donald Trump’s latest campaign ad – which will run in nine swing states – Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada – to the tune of $10 million.

While the 30 second clip depicts two different future “Americas” – one failing under Hillary Clinton, the other bright and shiny under the Trumpster – the folks over at Right Wing Watch noticed near the end of the spot the inclusion of the new 1 World Trade Center.

The tower’s inclusion in the ad is curious because Trump himself was a vocal opponent of the One World Trade Center project, claiming in 2005 that design of the tower let “the terrorists win.”

“I don’t want to have the terrorists win … and that’s what’s going to happen if we build this pile of junk,” he said.

Trump had proposed instead building a taller version of the Twin Towers, calling the design that was ultimately chosen “disgusting,” “just terrible,” “a catastrophe” and “the worst pile of crap architecture I have ever seen in my life.”

The spot also makes a point to include an African-American family next to the U.S. flag.

So subtle.

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Campaign Ad: “Don’t Believe The Hat”

New campaign spot from Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump out for saying he wants to “make America great again,” but in real life outsourced his manufacturing to 12 countries including China, India, Mexico and Slovenia.

With shots of Trump wearing his campaign cap, the 30 second clip includes the tagline, “Don’t Believe The Hat.”

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Trump Campaign Defends Trump Tweet About Death Of NBA Star’s Cousin

Donald Trump’s campaign manager sought to tamp down criticism of Donald Trump’s insensitive tweet Saturday which looked to capitalize on the shooting death of NBA star Dwyane Wade’s cousin.

From The Hill:

“He tweeted his condolences to the family right after that,” Kellyanne Conway said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“I would like everybody to know about both tweets, because I think it’s incredibly important for all of us to come together in a very nonpartisan fashion and express our condolences to families like the Wade family and also our outrage that things like this can happen.”

Trump on Saturday faced backlash over his tweet about Nykea Aldridge, who was caught in crossfire and shot in the head and arm while leaving a school in Chicago.

“Dwayne [sic] Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” he tweeted.
He later posted another tweet expressing his condolences to the family.

Conway says Trump tweeted his condolences “right after” the first tweet, but that’s not accurate.

If you check the time stamps on the original tweet and then the “condolences” tweet they were four hours apart. The first was sent at 6:24AM, the second at 10:48AM.

It took Trump more than four hours to realize how heartless he appeared. And more importantly, “condolences” weren’t his first impulse.

By the way, Trump couldn’t even manage to spell Dwyane Wade’s name correctly in his original tweet.

#Sad #Loser

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Campaign Ad From #NeverTrump “Keep Your Word”

Another campaign ad using Donald Trump’s own words against him.

During the GOP primary season, Donald Trump repeatedly told the press he would drop out of the race if polls showed him losing.

“What am I? A masochist?” he said.

The #NeverTrump folks will be running this spot in several swing states urging the Trumpster to drop out of the race so another candidate can possibly beat Hillary Clinton.

Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Trump would lose in a landslide if the election were held today – 362 to 176 in the electoral college.