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First Post-Orlando Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump By +12

Via Bloomberg:

A new Bloomberg Politics national poll shows Clinton leading Trump 49 percent to 37 percent among likely voters in November’s election, with 55 percent of those polled saying they could never vote for the real-estate developer and TV personality.

Most national polls in late May and early June showed a closer race, but they were taken before criticism intensified of Trump’s charge that a U.S. judge overseeing fraud cases against Trump University is biased because of the judge’s Mexican heritage. Fifty-five percent of likely voters in the new poll said they were very bothered by those comments.

“Clinton has a number of advantages in this poll, in addition to her lead,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer, who oversaw the survey. “Her supporters are more enthusiastic than Trump’s and more voters overall see her becoming a more appealing candidate than say that for Trump.”

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Dan Savage: “Donald Trump Is The Enemy Of The LGBT Community”

During an appearance on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes last night, LGBT activist/columnist Dan Savage was asked about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claim that he is an ally of the LGBT community:

“We’re not going to fall for it. And you can’t draw a clean line between the LGBT community and the Muslim community because there are LGBT Muslims in the United States and all over the world. Muslims are a part of the LGBT community, not distinct from it.

“LGBT people come from all races, all faiths, all ethnic backgrounds, all classes. And Donald Trump attempting to pit the queer community against the Muslim community is not going to fly. We don’t believe him.

“Donald Trump has pledged to undo marriage equality. Donald Trump is the enemy of the LGBT community just as he is the enemy of the Muslim community. And beating up on what is, in the United States, a vulnerable minority group isn’t the way that you impress other members of other vulnerable minority groups to win their support.”

Savage also weighed in on the possibility that the Orlando shooter might have been gay:

“Self-loathing violent closet case and radicalized religious extremist are not mutually exclusive categories. There are a lot of self-loathing queer people out there. Most of them are self-loathing because of religion, because of the zap religion put on their heads. So he could be both of those things.”

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Donald Trump: I’m Better For Gays Than Hillary

Clearly delusional, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump “thanked” the LGBT community for something, no one really knows.

He went on to say he would be better than Democrat Hillary Clinton for LGBT rights saying she would “threaten your freedoms and beliefs.”

All while filling his Twitter page with rainbow balloons…

Trump has said in the past that he opposes marriage equality and if elected president (oh my sides) would nominate SCOTUS justices who would overturn the Obergefell ruling.

He’s also flip-flopped on transgender rights saying at one point recently he supported trans rights then the next day saying “it should be left to the states.”

You can’t make this stuff up, folks.

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Donald Trump Gets Backlash On “Congrats” Tweet

Republican presidential candidate was the recipient of backlash today on Twitter when he apparently took time for a humble brag about “being right” about something.

Twitter didn’t take to his insensitivity.

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Hillary Slaps Back At Twitter Troll Trump

Miss Hillary is not going to be his whipping girl. Suh-nap!

The Trumpster got 17K retweets, Hillary got over 200K.

The Twitterverse was thrilled:

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Hillary Clinton Campaign Launches “RepublicansAgainstTrump.org”

Fresh off of being named the Democratic presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has launched a new website aimed at courting disaffected GOP voters.

Via Politico:

The website, republicansagainsttrump.org, was registered on May 27 and launched on June 2, according to domain registration records. The Clinton campaign only appears to have begun buying ads to promote the site more recently.

The ads promise potential supporters a “free ‘Republicans Against Trump’ sticker” if you pledge to oppose Trump in the fall.

“Donald Trump is not qualified to be president. He does not represent my beliefs as a Republican and, more importantly, my values as an American. He does not speak for me and I will not vote for him,” reads the pledge.

The small print, if a visitor scrolls to the bottom of the page, reads: “Paid for by Hillary for America.”

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Donald Trump: My Comments About Judge’s Mexican Heritage Were “Misconstrued”

According to MSNBC, Donald Trump now says his comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Mexican heritage were “misconstrued.”

In a written statement released by email, Trump defended Trump University and highlighted thousands of positive reviews of the school from former students, while also calling it “unfortunate” that his “comments have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage.”

“I do not feel that one’s heritage makes them incapable of being impartial, but, based on the rulings that I have received in the Trump University civil case, I feel justified in questioning whether I am receiving a fair trial,” Trump wrote.

You can read the full statement here.

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Meryl Streep Does Donald Trump Drag

Meryl Streep proved she can play any role – ANY – by appearing last night in Donald Trump drag.

From the New York Daily News:

The award-winning actress, 66, bellowed an inspired twist on Cole Porter’s “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” as the presumed Republican presidential nominee during the Public Theater’s 2016 Gala finale.

She fashioned her hair after Trump and let her bold red tie hang low while joining Tony-winner Christine Baranski on stage at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park for a duet from the musical “Kiss Me Kate.”

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Sen. Lindsey Graham Urges Republicans To Rescind Their Endorsements Of Trump

While not one prominent Republican has stepped up to defend Donald Trump’s racist “Mexican judge” attacks on Judge Curiel, Sen. Lindsey Graham has had enough.

Graham has withdrawn his endorsement of the Trumpster and is urging other Republicans to do the same:

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, another former primary rival of Mr. Trump’s, urged Republicans who have backed Mr. Trump to rescind their endorsements, citing the remarks about Judge Curiel and Mr. Trump’s expression of doubt on Sunday that a Muslim judge could remain neutral in the same lawsuit, given Mr. Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim noncitizens entering the country.

“This is the most un-American thing from a politician since Joe McCarthy,” Mr. Graham said. “If anybody was looking for an off-ramp, this is probably it,” he added. “There’ll come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary.”