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Meg Whitman: I will vote for, and donate to, Hillary Clinton
Meg Whitman, a major GOP donor and former California gubernatorial candidate, said Tuesday she would support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, making her one of the highest-profile Republican defections. "Donald Trump's demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character," Whitman said in a statement. "America needs the kind of stable and aspirational leadership Secretary Clinton can provide." Whitman, the president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, also said in an interview with...
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Voices From Donald Trump’s Rallies, Uncensored
Mr. Trump’s supporters often chant vitriolic, even violent slogans at his campaign events. New York Times reporters documented examples over several weeks.
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Donald Trump’s Tiff With Paul Ryan Symbolizes Growing Divisions in the GOP Over Corporate Power
Paul Ryan’s primary opponent says a vote for him is “a vote for every person who never got to go out for a steak dinner with lobbyists for the Chamber of Commerce.” By Zaid Jilani.
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‘It was everything’: The Republican Convention
“Trump had said, ‘it’s very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep,’ and for his introduction to Pence’s speech, he had entered through a backlit cloud of dry ice to Queen’s ‘We Are the Champions’, in the style of a World Wrestling ‘smack down.’” By Eliot Weinberger.
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Lawsuits and sex slaves — so much for post-primary unity in Missouri
The two governor candidates bickered throughout the campaign. By Kevin McDermott.
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5 Points On The Nightmare Paul Ryan Faces Even If The GOP Keeps The House
While Democrats are signaling they're playing to win back the House, most forecasters still see a flip of the lower chamber to be a long shot. But that doesn’t mean Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the other GOP leaders committed to steering the party away from the recent dysfunction have any reason to breathe easily. An election that preserves Republican control of the House but shrinks GOP’s margins significantly will exacerbate the challenges Ryan was already facing in navigating a fractured party.
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Where did Donald Trump get his racialized rhetoric? From libertarians.
According to Clinton — and many conservative intellectuals who oppose Trump — the conspiratorial, winking-at-racists campaign he has been running represents a novel departure from Republican politics. That’s not quite true, though. Trump’s style and positions — endorsing and consorting with 9/11 truthers, promoting online racists, using fake statistics — draw on a now-obscure political strategy called “paleolibertarianism,” which was once quite popular among some Republicans, especially former presidential candidate Ron Paul.
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How the Alt-Right Became the Party of Hate
It wasn’t a coordinated effort, and there is only one way to stop it. By T. A. Frank.
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Supreme Court Rejects Michigan Republicans who Fear Trump Effect, Keeping Practice of Straight-Ticket Voting
The Supreme Court , acting in a partisan election dispute triggered by the rise of Donald Trump , has turned down an appeal from Michigan Republicans who sought to eliminate straight-ticket voting for the first time in 125 years.
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Scott Walker responds to John Doe files leak: nothing to see here
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker broke his silence on Thursday over leaked documents obtained by Guardian US, which revealed his links to a complex network of conservative donors and the influence of corporate cash in the election process. In an interview with Milwaukee’s WTMJ 620, the Republican governor described as “baseless” the legal investigation into alleged campaign finance violations that produced the 1,500 pages of documents.
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Trump Declares War on Establishment Republicans
The shackles are off, Republican nominee says.
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Kansas Ends Bad Economic News by Not Reporting It
Republican Governor Sam Brownback canceled the regular updates that were supposed to show how tax cuts helped growth. By Barry Ritzholtz.
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Live from Trump Tower, it’s Trump TV
Voters are getting an early glimpse into what Trump TV might look like. By Jonathan Easley and Joe Concha.
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It Isn’t Just Donald Trump. The Bush Campaign Plotted to Reject Election Results in 2000
If Bush won the popular vote while losing in the Electoral College, his campaign planned a multi-front battle to contest the results. By Jon Schwarz.
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Meet the dapper white nationalist who wins even if Trump loses
Alt-right founder Richard Spencer aims to make racism cool again. By Josh Harkinson.
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Will this be the election that finally kills off the Democratic and Republican parties?
The nomination of two deeply unpopular candidates for president is aggravating and reinforcing a growing trend in the country away from the Democratic and Republican parties, which more and more voters see as out of touch with their lives and out of date in a new century. By David Lightman.
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The Republicans and Democrats failed blue-collar America. The left behind are now having their say
It is inversion time in America as the people formerly known as the happy middle class rally by the millions for a Republican billionaire who is in love with the idea of national decline. Donald J Trump is possibly the least qualified presidential candidate ever to be chosen by one of our big parties. He is a reality TV star who has never held a political office and has only a vague understanding of how the US government works – a real-estate tycoon who...
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What a liberal sociologist learned from spending five years in Trump’s America
A look at the “deep story” behind anti-government hostility in Louisiana. By Brad Plumer.
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The Election was Stolen: Here’s How...
Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives. Starting in 2013 — just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act — a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color… By Greg Palast.
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Immigration hardliner says Trump team preparing plans for wall, mulling Muslim registry
An architect of anti-immigration efforts who says he is advising President-elect Donald Trump said the new administration could push ahead rapidly on construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall without seeking immediate congressional approval. By Mica Rosenberg and Julia Edwards Ainsley.