Said Brown: “The easy answer, as you all know, is that Harvard and Penn can release those records, she can authorize the release of those records, she can take a DNA test, she can release the records herself. There’s never been any effort.”
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Britain Backtracks as Panic Rises
New York Times: “Prime Minister David Cameron and the former London mayor Boris Johnson, members of the governing Conservative Party who were on opposite sides of the debate over Britain’s membership in the 28-nation bloc, both signaled on Monday that they hoped Britain could, while leaving the European Union, somehow maintain access to its signature achievement: the world’s largest common market.”
“But as the leaders of Germany, France and Italy met to discuss the fallout from the British referendum, there were no signs that the European Union would let Britain off the hook so easily.”
“The few countries that have been given access to the European free-trade zone without joining the bloc — notably, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland — all contribute to the European Union’s budget and accept its bedrock principle of free movement of workers, the very issues that angered so many of the Britons who voted to leave in Thursday’s referendum.”
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An Audition for Elizabeth Warren?
“After teasing a combined effort for weeks, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren joined forces here Monday for what was both a tag-team attack on Donald Trump and a recitation of their shared progressive policy priorities,” the Washington Post reports.
“The joint appearance — their first of the campaign — was viewed by many as an audition for Clinton’s running mate, a choice that would create an historic all-female ticket.”
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Democratic Campaign Managers Meet
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver had dinner last weekend in Vermont, the AP reports.
“They talk almost daily, text frequently and email often.”
“Now, as Sanders lingers in the presidential race, refusing to concede the nomination to Clinton even as he says he’ll vote for her on Election Day, the competing campaign managers have become a powerful political odd couple, responsible for engineering a graceful conclusion to a hard-fought Democratic contest.”
Clinton Trails By Just 8 Points In Texas
A new University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton by a margin of 41% to 33% in a head-to-head trial ballot match-up in Texas, with 19% preferring someone else, and 8% saying that they don’t yet know who they would vote for.
Romney Donors Staying Out of the Race
Of the 1,400 people who donated to Mitt Romney super PAC in 2012, only 29 gave to Donald Trump’s campaign, the joint fundraising committee he created with the RNC or the pro-Trump super PAC Great America PAC, according to a USA Today tally.
McDonnell Conviction Thrown Out
The Supreme Court vacated the corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell (R) in a unanimous decision, the New York Times reports.
McDonnell “was charged with using his office to help Jonnie R. Williams Sr., who had provided the McDonnells with luxury products, loans and vacations worth more than $175,000 when Mr. McDonnell was governor. The gifts themselves were legal, and the question in the case was whether they were part of a corrupt bargain in which Mr. McDonnell reciprocated by using the power of his office to help Mr. Williams.”
Rick Hasen: “The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling throwing out the conviction of Gov. McDonnell (while leaving open the possibility of a retrial on a narrower theory of the case) is sensible and courageous, and shows the continuing important influence of Justice Scalia in this area of the law. It is hard to write an opinion letting off the hook someone whose actions were as odious as Gov. McDonnell, in taking rolexes, funding for his daughter’s wedding and more from someone who wanted the governor’s assistance in marketing the equivalent of snake oil. But it was the right thing to do.”
Sanders Mulls Creating New Advocacy Group
Washington Post: “At the urging of his wife, Jane Sanders, he has been talking to his inner circle about launching a grass-roots organization to harness the energy of his supporters. Among aides, there is chatter about who might staff such an organization, which might resemble Democracy for America, the group that former Vermont governor Howard Dean launched following his failed 2004 presidential bid.”
The Sanders campaign claims 2.7 million people are on its donor list.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Law
“The Supreme Court has struck down Texas’ widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics in the court’s biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century,” the AP reports.
“The justices voted 5-3 Monday in favor of Texas clinics that protested the regulations as a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation’s second-most populous state.”
Trump Is In a Deep Hole
Rick Klein: “Live by the polls, die by the polls, kill the polls that give you bad news. As Donald Trump fights polling he views as unfair, the top line numbers in the new ABC News/Washington Post poll are the least of Trump’s problems. The poll shows that two-thirds of voters see Trump as biased against women and minorities, and two-thirds think his comments about the judge in the Trump University case were racist. Sixty-four percent see him as unqualified for the presidency, and 70 percent say the idea of Trump as president gives them anxiety.”
“Given those numbers, a 51-39 Hillary Clinton edge actually looks narrow. Clearly, there’s room for movement in either direction for Trump. But he’s dug himself a hole that suggests he could dip significantly lower before he’s done litigating polling quibbles.”
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Trump Predicts Break Up of European Union
Donald Trump told the Times of London that the European Union’s days are numbered.
Said Trump: “The people have spoken. I think the EU is going to break up. I think the EU might break up before anybody thinks in terms of Scotland. I really think that without the immigration issue [the EU] wouldn’t have had a chance of breaking up … the people are fed up, whether it’s here or in other countries. You watch: other countries will follow.”
Asked what he would do to curb the number of migrants entering southern Europe, he said: “I would not allow them in.”
Experts Say Trump Is Lying About His Fundraising Haul
“If it only took one email for Donald Trump to raise more than $3.3 million, just think of the possibilities for the future of his campaign,” the Daily Beast reports.
“Of course, the operative word here is “if”—as in, if Team Trump’s boast about raising so much, so quickly were true. It’s probably not.”
“Donald Trump’s fundraising operation has been riddled with rookie errors—it’s been unsophisticated, untested and very small throughout his presidential bid, leading digital marketing experts to question whether it would be possible to actually raise the extraordinary figures he claims to have raised in a single fundraising email he sent last week.”
Comparing Two National Polls
First Read looks at the two national polls out over the weekend:
“The biggest difference between the NBC/WSJ and WaPo/ABC polls? Our poll has Democrats with a four-point party ID advantage, while the WaPo/ABC poll has Democrats with a 12-point party ID edge. So when in doubt, average them out — and in the latest RealClearPolitics average, Clinton leads Trump by nearly seven points in a head-to-head matchup. And remember, seven points was the final margin of the 2008 Obama-McCain contest.”
Trump Explores Clinton’s ‘Legendary Lies’
Donald Trump launched a 10-part video series outlining what he calls “legendary lies” told by democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
Two Really Unpopular Candidates
NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll: “The most disliked of all is Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is viewed unfavorably by a full 60 percent of the electorate, while only 29 percent offer a positive rating of the GOP standard-bearer (-31 rating). Hillary Clinton is not far behind, with 33 percent of voters giving her a favorable rating compared to 55 percent who give her a negative rating (-22).”
“For the Republican Party, it’s 28 percent positive/ 48 percent negative (-20). The Democratic Party is slightly less unpopular at 37 percent positive and 43 percent negative (-6).”
Dick Morris Says He’s Advising Trump
Just published: Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary by Dick Morris.
Morris tells the Daily Caller that he sends “several” memos to Trump campaign staffers “each day” but has no interest in joining the campaign in any official capacity.
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