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• Trump campaign fires Virginia chair after RNC protest

  10-10-2016 23:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's campaign on Monday fired its Virginia chair after he staged a controversial protest in front of the Republican National Committee, the latest flare-up between Republican Party establishment and Trump forces.
  
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• Looking to Vote? Twelve States Have Deadlines Tuesday

  10-10-2016 23:22 via nytimes.com
  It’s not too late. Here’s a handy state-by-state list, from red to blue and everything in between.
  
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• As Trump sputters, Clinton's campaign prepares for an even nastier race

  10-10-2016 23:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton and her top aides couldn't be happier that Donald Trump's campaign is imploding around him, but the last week has also made one thing clear for top Democrats: The more wounded the GOP nominee gets, the more nastier he will grow toward Clinton.
  
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• Pence: 'I am proud to stand with Donald Trump'

  10-10-2016 22:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Mike Pence gave a full-throated endorsement of his embattled running mate Monday afternoon, the first time he has publicly addressed Donald Trump's crude remarks caught on tape in 2005 since they were released three days ago.
  
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• High drama on debate night

  10-10-2016 22:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  First came the Montagues and the Capulets, then the Hatfields and the McCoys.
  
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• Trump won't say vulgar remarks reference 'sexual assault'

  10-10-2016 22:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed the vulgar comments he made about women on a 2005 videotape as "locker room talk," denying the acts he was describing on a hot mic was "sexual assault."
  
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• Listen To Bill Clinton's Radio Ad From 1996 Touting His Passage Of DOMA

  10-10-2016 22:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  During the 1996 presidential race, Bill Clinton's re-election campaign ran a controversial radio ad that touted his signing of the Defense of Marriage Act, his role in expanding the death penalty, and his support for a ban on late-term abortions with exceptions.
  
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• TV audience sharply down for second Trump-Clinton debate, despite tape furor

  10-10-2016 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jill Serjeant and Lisa Richwine NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The television audience for the second debate between White House contenders Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton fell sharply from their first, record-breaking encounter, despite the drama caused by a 2005 video of Trump boasting about groping women. Second presidential debates tend to attract smaller TV audiences but attention was high going into Sunday's face-off after the emergence of the Trump video prompted several Republican
  
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• WikiLeaks posts more John Podesta emails

  10-10-2016 20:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  WikiLeaks Monday morning posted an additional 2,000 emails that appear to be from the account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.
  
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• TV audience falls sharply for second Trump-Clinton debate

  10-10-2016 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Figures from the ABC, CBS, and FOX networks, and cable channels MSNBC, Fox News, CNN and Univision on Monday showed that the TV audience was down about 20 percent from the Sept. 26 debate, which attracted a record 84 million viewers. Second presidential debates tend to attract smaller TV audiences but attention was high going into Sunday's face-off after the emergence of a 2005 video of Trump making vulgar remarks about women prompted several Republican politicians to abandon him. The second deb
  
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• U.S. House Speaker Ryan to focus on protecting Republican congressional majorities: spokeswoman

  10-10-2016 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump on Monday suffered another political setback when U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan distanced himself from the Republican presidential candidate's troubled campaign. Ryan, according to someone familiar with a conference call held by the speaker and House Republican lawmakers, will not campaign with Trump in the run-up to the Nov. 8 elections and will not defend the Republican Party nominee. The source did not say whether Ryan intended to withdraw his support for Trump.
  
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• Top U.S. Republican Ryan distances himself from Trump White House bid

  10-10-2016 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Ryan, the top Republican in the U.S. Congress, said on Monday he would not defend Donald Trump nor campaign with him, plunging the Republican candidate's presidential bid deeper into crisis over his sexually aggressive remarks about women. Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives, also signaled he was preparing for Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the White House in the Nov. 8 presidential and congressional election. In an emergency conference cal
  
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• Trump to Ryan: Do not waste time fighting Republican nominee

  10-10-2016 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that House of Representatives' Speaker Paul Ryan, the party's top elected official, should "not waste his time" opposing the party's nominee. "Paul Ryan should spend more time on balancing the budget, jobs and illegal immigration and not waste his time on fighting Republican nominee," Trump said in a post on Twitter.
  
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• Debate star Ken Bone: My red sweater 'is more famous than me'

  10-10-2016 19:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ken Bone, the charming questioner from Sunday night's presidential debate who achieved instant Internet fame for his smart outfit and articulate question, revealed new details Monday on his wardrobe, politics and viral celebrity.
  
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• CNN electoral map: Pick your own electoral scenario

  10-10-2016 19:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Pick a map — based on CNN's, the 2008 or 2012 election results or start from scratch — and decide if Trump or Clinton will win the battleground states and the presidency.
  
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• Marsha Blackburn: Both candidates are flawed, but I'm sticking with Trump

  10-10-2016 19:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rep. Marsha Blackburn struggled to explain her support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday, choosing instead to focus on attacking Democratic nominee HIllary Clinton.
  
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• Ryan turns away from Trump

  10-10-2016 19:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan told fellow Republicans Monday he will no longer defend GOP nominee Donald Trump and will instead use the next 29 days to focus on preserving his party's hold on Congress.
  
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• Clinton's lead over Trump widens in poll taken after lewd tape

  10-10-2016 18:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by double digits in a new national NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Monday.
  
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• Team Trump wanted to put Bill Clinton accusers in family box

  10-10-2016 18:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A Commission on Presidential Debates co-chairman put the kibosh on plans Donald Trump's campaign had to seat in the Republican nominee's family box women who accused former President Bill Clinton of inappropriate sexual behavior, a source familiar with the dramatic pre-debate moments confirmed to CNN.
  
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• Ginsburg on Kaepernick protests: 'I think it's dumb and disrespectful'

  10-10-2016 18:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, never shy to weigh in on the controversies of the day, said she thinks "it's really dumb" for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and others to refuse to stand for the national anthem.
  
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• Paul Ryan distances himself from Trump

  10-10-2016 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of the U.S. House of Representatives distanced himself from Donald Trump on Monday as the Republican presidential candidate's campaign sank deeper into crisis over his sexually aggressive remarks about women. House Speaker Paul Ryan told an emergency meeting of fellow Republican lawmakers that he would neither defend Trump or campaign with him in the coming 30 days, the time remaining to the Nov. 8 presidential and congressional elections, but w
  
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• As of last week, Clinton's White House chances 95 percent: Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation

  10-10-2016 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Maurice Tamman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Even before Sunday night's vicious presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump was losing ground in many of the states he needs to win to capture the presidency, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation Project analysis released on Monday. The project estimates that if the election had been held at the end of last week, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had at least a 95 percent chance of winning enough states to reach the mi
  
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• Trump's mission: Make Clinton's life hell for the next month

  10-10-2016 17:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump issued an unmistakable threat to Hillary Clinton Sunday night: I am willing to cross any line to make the next 30 days of your life hell.
  
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• Would Trump be a dictator? Jail threat prompts comparisons

  10-10-2016 16:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has been called a lot of things in recent months. Now, after he threatened during Sunday's debate to jail Hillary Clinton if he is elected, some are comparing him to a dictator.
  
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• TV audience for U.S. presidential debate looks smaller than first: media

  10-10-2016 16:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The television audience for Sunday's second debate between White House contenders Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is unlikely to be as large as their first, record-setting encounter, according to preliminary ratings data cited by U.S. media. The Hollywood Reporter, CNN and Variety said on Monday that very early overnight ratings from Nielsen showed the TV audience was about 19 percent to 20 percent down from the Sept. 26 debate, which attracted a record 84 million viewers. Final fig
  
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• Trump vs. Clinton: The scorched-earth debate

  10-10-2016 16:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has one more chance to save his flailing White House campaign.
  
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• Trump may have stopped the bleeding, but not the Republican worrying

  10-10-2016 16:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump may have done just enough in Sunday’s presidential debate to keep his leaky presidential campaign afloat - and that may have put Republicans considering abandoning him in an even tougher position. Had Trump imploded, the flow of lawmakers and party luminaries who deserted him at the weekend over lewd comments he made about women on a videotape likely would have become a torrent, increasing demands for him to drop out of the race. Now, R
  
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• Nigel Farage: Trump like a 'silverback gorilla'

  10-10-2016 15:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Some Republican politicians may be abandoning Donald Trump over his derogatory and vulgar comments about women, but he still has a friend in UK politician Nigel Farage.
  
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• Trump threatens jail time, Clinton says rival's campaign is 'exploding'

  10-10-2016 15:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Donald Trump, defiant amid a tide of criticism of his sexually aggressive remarks about women, said Hillary Clinton would go to jail if he were president and attacked her husband for his treatment of women in a vicious presidential debate less than a month before the U.S. election. The Sunday night debate, the second of three before the Nov. 8 vote, was remarkable for the brutal nature of the exchanges between Trump, the Republican pres
  
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• Pence: ‘False to Suggest’ I Considered Leaving the Ticket

  10-10-2016 15:33
  
  After the revelations in the past 48 hours of this campaign, there were rumors swirling that Indiana Governor Mike Pence could simply withdraw as Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee and abandon the campaign. Pence took to the media this morning and firmly squashed the rumors saying this campaign has been a “privilege” of a lifetime. […]
  
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• Pence sticking with Trump

  10-10-2016 15:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will stick with Donald Trump through the election, following his debate performance Sunday night.
  
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• What's ISIS got to do with 'locker room talk'? Trump, Clinton debate foreign policy

  10-10-2016 15:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  How did Donald Trump defend his lewd and sexually aggressive comments against women in the second presidential debate? ISIS.
  
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• Holder: Trump like Nixon in threat to jail Clinton

  10-10-2016 14:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former US Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday night compared Donald Trump's threat to seek the prosecution of Hillary Clinton over her missing emails to actions taken by President Richard Nixon at the height of Watergate.
  
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• What Trump's, Clinton's body language at the debate revealed

  10-10-2016 14:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump paced and loomed behind Hillary Clinton during Sunday night's second presidential debate -- a decision possibly driven by stress and anxiety during the intensely bitter event, according to body language expert Janine Driver.
  
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• Congo opposition leader arrested over deadly anti-government protests

  10-10-2016 12:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An opposition leader in Democratic Republic of Congo was arrested late on Sunday for his role in anti-government demonstrations last month in which more than 50 people died, the government and his party said on Monday. Bruno Tshibala, the deputy secretary-general and spokesman for the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), Congo's largest opposition party, was arrested Sunday night at Kinshasa airport as he prepared to board a flight for Brussels, the UDPS said in a statement. Governmen
  
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• #MuslimsReportStuff trends after Trump's comments

  10-10-2016 11:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When Donald Trump told Muslims they should report what they see, he inspired a worldwide trending hashtag: #MuslimsReportingStuff.
  
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• Johnson: I'd be a continuation of Obama on ISIS

  10-10-2016 11:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Despite having positioned himself as a critic of US foreign policy in the Middle East, Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, said he would likely represent a continuation of President Barack Obama's efforts to contain ISIS.
  
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• Gary Johnson: I'd be a continuation of Obama on ISIS

  10-10-2016 11:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Despite having positioned himself as a critic of US foreign policy in the Middle East, Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, said he would likely represent a continuation of President Barack Obama's efforts to contain ISIS.
  
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• Donald Trump's mission: Make Clinton's life hell for the next month

  10-10-2016 11:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump issued an unmistakable threat to Hillary Clinton Sunday night: I am willing to cross any line to make the next 30 days of your life hell.
  
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• Not 'locker room' talk: Athletes push back against Trump's remark

  10-10-2016 10:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• Trump may have stopped the bleeding, but not the worrying

  10-10-2016 08:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump may have done just enough in Sunday’s presidential debate to keep his leaky presidential campaign afloat - and that may have put Republicans considering abandoning him in an even tougher position. Had Trump imploded, the flow of lawmakers and party luminaries who deserted him at the weekend over lewd comments he made about women on a videotape likely would have become a torrent, increasing demands for him to drop out of the race. Now, R
  
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• Takeaways from a debate that darkened politics

  10-10-2016 08:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump threatened to jail Hillary Clinton. He admitted paying no federal income taxes. He threw his running mate under the bus on foreign policy. Did he save his campaign?
  
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• Seven takeaways from the second presidential debate

  10-10-2016 08:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump threatened to jail Hillary Clinton. He admitted paying no federal income taxes. He threw his running mate under the bus on foreign policy. Did he save his campaign?
  
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• And the winner of the presidential debate is... Ken Bone

  10-10-2016 07:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  This morning, the pundits will natter on and on about who won the presidential debate. But we think we can safely deliver the verdict:
  
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• Trump threatened to jail Clinton if elected. These countries might do the same.

  10-10-2016 07:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump quipped during Sunday night's debate that if he were president, Hillary Clinton would be in jail.
  
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• Trump's body language during debate raises social media eyebrows

  10-10-2016 07:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump paced, frowned and physically loomed at times over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton during Sunday night's town-hall debate, prompting bewilderment and mockery from some on social media. The online reaction underscored the contentious tone of the encounter in St. Louis in which Trump and Clinton hurled insults at each other less than a month before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election. Twitter users seized on T
  
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• Trump vs Clinton: He calls her a devil, she says he abuses women

  10-10-2016 07:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A defiant Donald Trump on Sunday said Hillary Clinton would go to jail if he were president and attacked her husband for his treatment of women in a vicious presidential debate less than a month before the U.S. election. Through it all, Trump, 70, and Clinton, 68, both landed punches as they clashed over taxes, healthcare, U.S. policy in the Syria civil war and Clinton's comments that half of Trump's supporters belonged in a "basket of
  
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• Trump, Clinton spend much of debate insulting each other

  10-10-2016 07:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There was a moment in Sunday's U.S. presidential debate when Democrat Hillary Clinton was trying to fend off an attack from Republican rival Donald Trump about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. “It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Clinton said of her rival for the Nov. 8 election. “Because you'd be in jail,” Trump shot
  
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• Which candidate got more time at the 2nd presidential debate?

  10-10-2016 07:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump spoke longer than Hillary Clinton at the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis.
  
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• Clinton wins, Trump exceeds expectations, but few move

  10-10-2016 07:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton scored a second victory over Donald Trump in Sunday night's presidential debate, according to debate watchers in a new CNN/ORC poll. But even though he trailed Clinton overall, Trump far exceeded debate watchers' expectations. 
  
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