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Trump Not Paying His Top Campaign Staff

September 3, 2016 at 11:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump “has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10 top staffers, consultants and advisers, some of whom are no longer with the campaign,” Reuters reports.

“The New York real estate magnate and his allies have touted his campaign’s frugality, saying it is evidence of his management skills. His campaign’s spending has totaled $89.5 million so far, about a third of what Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign has spent. But not compensating top people in a presidential campaign is a departure from campaign finance norms. Many of the positions involved might typically come with six-figure annual paychecks in other campaigns.”

Rift Between Trump and RNC Widens

September 3, 2016 at 11:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The RNC had high hopes that Donald Trump “would deliver a compassionate and measured speech about immigration on Wednesday, and prepared to lavish praise on the candidate on the party’s Twitter account,” the New York Times reports.

“So when Mr. Trump instead offered a fiery denunciation of migrant criminals and suggested deporting Hillary Clinton, Reince Priebus, the party chairman, signaled that aides should scrap the plan, and the committee made no statement at all.”

“The evening tore a painful new wound in Mr. Trump’s relationship with the Republican National Committee, imperiling his most important remaining political alliance.”

State Poll Roundup: Saturday

September 3, 2016 at 8:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here are the latest state polls from the presidential race:

New Hampshire: Clinton 43%, Trump 32% (UNH)


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Clinton Crushing Trump With Latino Voters

September 2, 2016 at 2:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Latino Decisions poll finds Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 70% to 19% among Latino voters.

Clinton has a 68% to 29% (net +39) favorability rating while Trump has a 21% to 74% (net -53) favorability rating.

Quote of the Day

September 2, 2016 at 2:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Be very careful. I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data.”

— Colin Powell, quoted by Politico, in an email to Hillary Clinton in 2009, warning that if she was using a BlackBerry to “do business,” the emails could become “official records and subject to the law.”

Jill Stein Flies to Wrong City

September 2, 2016 at 1:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was scheduled to speak Columbus, Ohio but accidentally went to Cincinnati instead, the Columbus Dispatch reports.

“Yes. You read that correctly. About 100 people are waiting at Schaaf Lawn on campus. It’s unclear if they will all hang around while Stein drives up from Cincinnati, but pizzas are being ordered to thank people for their patience.”

“It’s also unclear how and why she flew into the wrong airport.”

State Poll Roundup: Friday

September 2, 2016 at 12:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Here are the latest state polls from the presidential race:

Virginia: Clinton 44%, Trump 43% (Emerson)

Iowa: Trump 44%, Clinton 39% (Emerson)

Schultz and Kissinger to Endorse Clinton?

September 2, 2016 at 10:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Secretary of State George Shultz suggested to Playbook that he was discussing issuing a joint endorsement of Hillary Clinton with Henry Kissinger.

Said Schultz: “We are going to do it together. It will have more impact.”

Shultz added that he was impressed by Clinton, noting a “deep knowledge of Mexico” he picked up on in a personal encounter.

Even Putin Is Sick of This Campaign

September 2, 2016 at 10:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Vladimir Putin blasted both Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s tactics on the campaign trail but refused to publicly take sides in a U.S. presidential race in which he’s been accused of secretly favoring the New York real estate billionaire,” Bloomberg reports.

Said Putin: “They’re both using shock tactics, just each in their own way. I don’t think they are setting the best example.”

He added: “All this should be more dignified.”

Downballot Republicans Already Dumping Trump

September 2, 2016 at 10:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

First Read: “More than two months before Election Day, it’s already happening: Downballot Republicans and top GOP leaders are dumping Trump. There was no public memo or major announcement in August — just actions…”

“But here’s the bad news: After Labor Day, almost every single Democrat in a House and Senate race will be tying their GOP opponent to Trump. So up and down the ticket, hundreds of millions of dollars in Democratic messaging will be ‘Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.’ And when there’s been that kind of disparity in messaging when one party is talking about one thing and the opposition is talking about everything else — see 2006 and 2008 (‘Bush, Bush, Bush’) or 2010 and 2014 (‘Obama, Obama, Obama’) — there’s been a wave. November is going to go one of two ways. One, this kind of GOP separation from Trump is going to work like we saw in 1996. Or two, the bottom is going to fall out for the Republican Party.”

Presidential Debate Moderators Announced

September 2, 2016 at 10:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“This year’s three presidential debates will be moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz, and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace,” according to CNN.

“The vice presidential debate moderator is Elaine Quijano of CBS News.”

For a good discussion of what to expect in the debates, see our conversation with Jim Lehrer.

Fox News Anchor Secretly Recorded Ailes

September 2, 2016 at 7:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Gabriel Sherman: “Taking on Ailes was dangerous, but Carlson was determined to fight back. She settled on a simple strategy: She would turn the tables on his surveillance. Beginning in 2014, according to a person familiar with the lawsuit, Carlson brought her iPhone to meetings in Ailes’s office and secretly recorded him saying the kinds of things he’d been saying to her all along… After more than a year of taping, she had captured numerous incidents of sexual harassment.”

From one recording: “I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago, and then you’d be good and better and I’d be good and better. Sometimes problems are easier to solve that way.”

Clinton Preparing for Possible Landslide

September 2, 2016 at 7:33 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Advisers to Hillary Clinton’s campaign have identified so many paths to an Election Day victory they are now focusing not only on the one or two battlegrounds that would ensure a win but on opening up the possibility of an Electoral College landslide,” Politico reports.

“Revealing a level of confidence Clinton’s inner circle has been eager to squash for weeks, outside advisers have now identified victories in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire as the path of least resistance, delivering for the Democratic nominee more than the 270 electoral votes needed to take the White House. And they are projecting increased confidence about her chances in Republican-leaning North Carolina, a state that could prove as critical as Ohio or Pennsylvania.”

For members: Clinton Could Lose Many Swing States and Still Win

Trump Changed Speech After Mexican President’s Tweet

September 2, 2016 at 7:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As Donald Trump arrived in Phoenix late Wednesday, fresh from a visit to Mexico City’s presidential palace, he had in his hands a big immigration speech that omitted the usual line that Mexico would have to pay for his proposed wall along the U.S. southern border,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Just after landing, though, Mr. Trump discovered that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto had tweeted that he had told the Republican presidential nominee during their private meeting earlier that day that his country would refuse to pay for the wall.”

“So Mr. Trump hurriedly inserted a new sentence in his immigration speech, and he soon boomed out from the podium his traditional declaration that the wall would be paid for by Mexico — adding, ‘They don’t know it yet but they’re going to pay for the wall.'”

Said Trump: “I had no choice.”

Melania Trump Files Libel Lawsuit

September 2, 2016 at 7:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Melania Trump filed a libel lawsuit Thursday against the publisher of the Daily Mail, contending that it published an article that contained ‘false and defamatory statements,’ including that she was once an escort,” the New York Times reports.

The Daily Mail published a retraction and apology after the lawsuit was filed.

Beware the Unskewers

September 2, 2016 at 7:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Harry Enten: “It’s easy to find fault with a poll, even from the best pollsters. Anyone passionately arguing that a poll is wrong because its sample has ‘too many [xx]’ or ‘too many of this group are voting for [xx]’ is probably wrong. As you dig into a survey’s crosstabs — looking at college-educated white men, for example, or Hispanics 65 years or older — you’re sacrificing sample size for specificity. The margins of error of subsamples can get huge. Further, most pollsters weight their results by demographics (such as age and race) and not attitudes (like party identification). They do so because historically this has produced the most accurate result. Picking apart individual polls is usually a bad use of time, and the people doing it tend to have a motive.”

Trump’s Script for Black Church Visit Leaked

September 1, 2016 at 7:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Instead of speaking to the congregation at Great Faith Ministries International, Mr. Trump will be interviewed by its pastor in a session that will be closed to the public and news media, with questions submitted in advance. And instead of letting Mr. Trump be his freewheeling self, his campaign has prepared lengthy answers for the submitted questions, consulting black Republicans to make sure he says the right things.”

“An eight-page draft script obtained by the New York Times shows 12 questions that Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, the church’s pastor, intends to ask Mr. Trump during the taped question-and-answer session, as well as the responses Mr. Trump is being advised to give. The proposed answers were devised by aides working for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee.”

Trump Hires Veteran Operative As Deputy

September 1, 2016 at 7:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“David Bossie, the veteran conservative operative who has investigated the Clintons for more than two decades, has been named Donald Trump’s deputy campaign manager,” the Washington Post reports.

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