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Campaign Ad: “What Is Going On With Trump & Russia”

From The Hill:

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Sunday released a video questioning Republican counterpart Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. “We don’t know why Trump praises Putin,” a narrator says at the beginning of the video, which shows a clip of Trump calling the Russian president a “strong leader” and pushing back against criticism of Putin.

A clip then shows Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough saying that the GOP nominee always “upends American foreign policy tradition in a way that benefits Vladimir Putin.”

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Sen. Bernie Sanders: “Donald Trump Would Be A Disaster And An Embarrassment”

Sen. Bernie Sanders pens this op-ed for the LA Times wherein he implores his supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton and make sure Donald Trump gets nowhere near the presidency.

The conventions are over and the general election has officially begun. In the primaries, I received 1,846 pledged delegates, 46% of the total. Hillary Clinton received 2,205 pledged delegates, 54%. She received 602 superdelegates. I received 48 superdelegates. Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee and I will vigorously support her.

Donald Trump would be a disaster and an embarrassment for our country if he were elected president. His campaign is not based on anything of substance — improving the economy, our education system, healthcare or the environment. It is based on bigotry.

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I understand that many of my supporters are disappointed by the final results of the nominating process, but being despondent and inactive is not going to improve anything. Going forward and continuing the struggle is what matters. And, in that struggle, the most immediate task we face is to defeat Donald Trump.

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Former KKK Leader Says He Would Be Trump’s Biggest Supporter In Senate

David Duke

File this under “With friends like this, who needs enemies.”

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, currently running for Louisiana’s open Senate seat, told NPR’s Morning Edition that he would be Donald Trump’s biggest supporter in the Senate.

From The Hill:

“As a United States senator, nobody will be more supportive of his legislative agenda, his Supreme Court agenda than I will,” Duke said in an interview on NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“I’m 100 percent behind it. I have a long record of being in favor of protecting our borders from this massive immigration.”

Duke is an enthusiastic supporter of Trump, once calling him the “white knight” for “European American” interests.

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Trump’s Love Affair With The Polls Is Over

No “Happy Friday” for Donald Trump as two more national polls show Republican Donald Trump continues his precipitous drop in the race against Hillary Clinton.

About the best thing that can be said is the results of one survey indicate the Donald trails Hillary by only 9 points. (Sarcasm intended).

Via Huffington Post:

Clinton leads Trump by 9 points, 47 percent to 38 percent, in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey. While both candidates remain unpopular, the survey finds, Clinton’s image has improved “modestly.” A majority of voters say they have more trust in her to handle a crisis and to deal with foreign policy.

A McClatchy-Marist poll gives Clinton an even wider 15-point lead against Trump, 48 percent to 33 percent. The survey finds Trump ceding ground among traditionally GOP demographics, losing men to Clinton by 8 points and holding just a 2-point edge among white voters.

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New York Times Documents Coarse, Violent Language At Trump Rallies

The New York Times documents a year on the road with the Donald Trump campaign.

The Times notes the rough, violent language on display at Donald Trump rallies.

“Kill her.” “Trump that bitch!” “Build a wall — kill them all.” New York Times reporters have spent over a year covering Donald J. Trump’s rallies, witnessing so many provocations and heated confrontations at them that the cumulative effect can be numbing: A sharp sting that quickly dulls from repetition.

But what struck us was the frequency with which some Trump supporters use coarse, vitriolic, even violent language — in the epithets they shout and chant, the signs they carry, the T-shirts they wear — a pattern not seen in connection with any other recent political candidate, in any party.