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August 17, 2016
By Greg Sargent August 17 at 9:23 AM
The big news of the morning — that Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign and is doubling down on the narrow strategy that worked in the GOP primaries but is failing catastrophically in the general election — would appear to leave only two possibilities.
Either Trump is delusional, to the point of being entirely incapable of appreciating why he’s currently losing to Hillary Clinton. Or he has a diabolical plan to break apart the Republican Party and pocket a big chunk of it for himself, for post-election fun and profit. My money is on the former.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/08/17/trump-is-entirely-delusional-about-why-hes-losing-his-new-campaign-shakeup-proves-it/?utm_term=.72061c375b2d
Trump is entirely delusional about why he’s losing. His new campaign shakeup proves it.
Trump is entirely delusional about why he’s losing. His new campaign shakeup proves it.By Greg Sargent August 17 at 9:23 AM
The big news of the morning — that Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign and is doubling down on the narrow strategy that worked in the GOP primaries but is failing catastrophically in the general election — would appear to leave only two possibilities.
Either Trump is delusional, to the point of being entirely incapable of appreciating why he’s currently losing to Hillary Clinton. Or he has a diabolical plan to break apart the Republican Party and pocket a big chunk of it for himself, for post-election fun and profit. My money is on the former.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/08/17/trump-is-entirely-delusional-about-why-hes-losing-his-new-campaign-shakeup-proves-it/?utm_term=.72061c375b2d
August 17, 2016
By ZACH MONTELLARO 08/16/16 08:21 PM EDT
Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Tuesday called for Donald Trump to investigate his campaign manager after The New York Times reported that Paul Manafort was linked to millions in secret payments from a pro-Russia Ukrainian political party.
“I think Donald Trump ought to really investigate this and where his chief adviser, what his association with the Russians are,” the Illinois Republican said to CNN’s Jake Tapper.
Manafort blasted the Times after the report, denying he accepted any cash payments. The Trump campaign also publicly defended Manafort following the report.
Kinzinger tied the Manafort allegations to a larger trend within the Trump campaign he equated to an "affection" for the Russian government.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/gop-rep-calls-for-investigation-into-manafort-russian-ties-227090
(Republican) Rep. Kinzinger calls for investigation into Manafort-Russian ties
Rep. Kinzinger calls for investigation into Manafort-Russian tiesBy ZACH MONTELLARO 08/16/16 08:21 PM EDT
Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Tuesday called for Donald Trump to investigate his campaign manager after The New York Times reported that Paul Manafort was linked to millions in secret payments from a pro-Russia Ukrainian political party.
“I think Donald Trump ought to really investigate this and where his chief adviser, what his association with the Russians are,” the Illinois Republican said to CNN’s Jake Tapper.
Manafort blasted the Times after the report, denying he accepted any cash payments. The Trump campaign also publicly defended Manafort following the report.
Kinzinger tied the Manafort allegations to a larger trend within the Trump campaign he equated to an "affection" for the Russian government.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/gop-rep-calls-for-investigation-into-manafort-russian-ties-227090
August 17, 2016
Trump campaign chief linked to secret Kiev cash payments
Maxim Tucker, Kiev August 17 2016, 12:01am, The Times
Fresh details of alleged secret payments allocated for Paul Manafort by the pro-Russian party of Ukraine’s former president have emerged after 12 itemised regime accounting entries, totalling $7.61 million, were obtained by The Times.
The payments designated for the man who would later become Donald Trump’s campaign chief were detailed in the “black” accounting ledger of Viktor Yanukovych’s ousted regime.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/trump-campaign-chief-linked-to-secret-kiev-cash-payments-npsg79ccj
August 17, 2016
5:05 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein won’t be on Georgia’s presidential ballot this November after the state said the party had too few verified signatures on its petition.
The news comes a month after the Green Party submitted what it said was more than 1,600 pages of signatures by the state’s July 12 deadline. Party officials had not been sure of the number of signatures, but they estimated it had been more than 10,000.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/gen-politics/green-partys-jill-stein-nixed-georgias-presidentia/nsGtH/
Green Party’s Jill Stein nixed for Georgia’s presidential ballot
Green Party’s Jill Stein nixed for Georgia’s presidential ballot5:05 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein won’t be on Georgia’s presidential ballot this November after the state said the party had too few verified signatures on its petition.
The news comes a month after the Green Party submitted what it said was more than 1,600 pages of signatures by the state’s July 12 deadline. Party officials had not been sure of the number of signatures, but they estimated it had been more than 10,000.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/gen-politics/green-partys-jill-stein-nixed-georgias-presidentia/nsGtH/
August 16, 2016
Early Voting Limits Donald Trump’s Time to Turn Campaign Around
Early Voting Limits Donald Trump’s Time to Turn Campaign Around
By PATRICK HEALYAUG. 16, 2016
Advisers to Donald J. Trump keep reassuring Republicans that there is still plenty of time to rescue his candidacy — nearly three months to counter Hillary Clinton’s vast operation in swing states and get Mr. Trump on message.
The Trump team had better check the calendar.
Voting actually starts in less than six weeks, on Sept. 23 in Minnesota and South Dakota, the first of some 35 states and the District of Columbia that allow people to cast ballots at polling sites or by email before Nov. 8. Iowa is expected to have ballots ready by the end of September, as are Illinois and two other states.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/us/politics/early-voting-limits-donald-trumps-time-to-turn-campaign-around.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=nytpolitics&smtyp=cur
August 16, 2016
Updated by Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com Aug 16, 2016, 8:50a
On Monday, Donald Trump gave a speech billed as a major address on terrorism policy. It was nonsense, meant literally: not merely wrong but actually incoherent; a mishmash of logical fallacies, lies, and contradictions.
Over the course of a single speech, Trump managed to: completely contradict many of his most important past positions on foreign policy; reject nation building even while endorsing an indefinite occupation of Iraq; and make embarrassing factual errors about a whole host of topics ranging from NATO to the rise of ISIS.
Trump has been running for president for more than a year, and his foreign policy vision still doesn’t cross the basic threshold of “being logically coherent and grounded in actual facts.” It’s time to accept that the GOP’s nominee won’t change — that he really will never learn the most fundamental stuff you’d expect a presidential candidate to have mastered before he began his campaign.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/16/12489110/donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-nonsense
It’s time to accept that Donald Trump is never going to learn basic stuff about the world
It’s time to accept that Donald Trump is never going to learn basic stuff about the worldUpdated by Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com Aug 16, 2016, 8:50a
On Monday, Donald Trump gave a speech billed as a major address on terrorism policy. It was nonsense, meant literally: not merely wrong but actually incoherent; a mishmash of logical fallacies, lies, and contradictions.
Over the course of a single speech, Trump managed to: completely contradict many of his most important past positions on foreign policy; reject nation building even while endorsing an indefinite occupation of Iraq; and make embarrassing factual errors about a whole host of topics ranging from NATO to the rise of ISIS.
Trump has been running for president for more than a year, and his foreign policy vision still doesn’t cross the basic threshold of “being logically coherent and grounded in actual facts.” It’s time to accept that the GOP’s nominee won’t change — that he really will never learn the most fundamental stuff you’d expect a presidential candidate to have mastered before he began his campaign.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/16/12489110/donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-nonsense
August 16, 2016
The floundering Republican nominee packs his foreign policy speech with go-to half-truths and divisive policy ideas.
By ELI STOKOLS and NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 08/15/16 03:10 PM EDT Updated 08/15/16 06:47 PM EDT
Donald Trump again blamed President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the rise of ISIS. He questioned his opponent’s “physical stamina” to eradicate the terrorist group. And he again interspersed what his campaign hyped as a major foreign policy speech — his third to date — with falsehoods and half-truths, promising an end to nation building abroad by obscuring his past positions on the subject.
He criticized an Iraq invasion that, contrary to his own retelling, he previously called the “right decision.” He bashed a war in Libya and a government overthrow in Egypt, both of which he supported. He lamented putting boots on the ground in the Middle East and also that the U.S. did not keep more troops in Iraq to “take the oil.”
He criticized Clinton’s ties to governments of countries that deny women and gays broader human rights—and then again suggested how “nice” it would be to have improved relations with Russia, a country where gays are routinely persecuted. In speaking about the threat of homegrown terrorists, Trump again asserted — wrongly — that people saw bombs all over the San Bernardino shooter’s apartment.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-clinton-moral-clarity-227023
Trump's new normal
Trump's new normalThe floundering Republican nominee packs his foreign policy speech with go-to half-truths and divisive policy ideas.
By ELI STOKOLS and NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 08/15/16 03:10 PM EDT Updated 08/15/16 06:47 PM EDT
Donald Trump again blamed President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the rise of ISIS. He questioned his opponent’s “physical stamina” to eradicate the terrorist group. And he again interspersed what his campaign hyped as a major foreign policy speech — his third to date — with falsehoods and half-truths, promising an end to nation building abroad by obscuring his past positions on the subject.
He criticized an Iraq invasion that, contrary to his own retelling, he previously called the “right decision.” He bashed a war in Libya and a government overthrow in Egypt, both of which he supported. He lamented putting boots on the ground in the Middle East and also that the U.S. did not keep more troops in Iraq to “take the oil.”
He criticized Clinton’s ties to governments of countries that deny women and gays broader human rights—and then again suggested how “nice” it would be to have improved relations with Russia, a country where gays are routinely persecuted. In speaking about the threat of homegrown terrorists, Trump again asserted — wrongly — that people saw bombs all over the San Bernardino shooter’s apartment.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-clinton-moral-clarity-227023
August 16, 2016
Updated by Alex Abad-Santos @alex_abads alex@vox.com Aug 15, 2016, 2:20p
The hostile double standard that Gabby Douglas faces
Earlier this past week, there was a narrative that Douglas, who has represented the United States in two Olympics and devoted her life to these teams, is an unpatriotic, bad American.
The gist: Douglas didn’t put her hand over her heart when the national anthem was played during Team USA’s medal ceremony, and is therefore a terrible representative of America.
Here’s the double standard.
When the anthem was played during Michael Phelps’s medal ceremony for his win in the 200-meter butterfly, someone chanted "O!" — a tradition in Baltimore that celebrates the Baltimore Orioles (Phelps was born in the city). He began laughing, cracking up on the podium. Yet no one has accused Phelps of hating America.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/15/12476322/gabby-douglas-rio-olympics-racism
Rio 2016: Gabby Douglas’s Olympics experience fits the pattern of how we treat black female athletes
Rio 2016: Gabby Douglas’s Olympics experience fits the pattern of how we treat black female athletesUpdated by Alex Abad-Santos @alex_abads alex@vox.com Aug 15, 2016, 2:20p
The hostile double standard that Gabby Douglas faces
Earlier this past week, there was a narrative that Douglas, who has represented the United States in two Olympics and devoted her life to these teams, is an unpatriotic, bad American.
The gist: Douglas didn’t put her hand over her heart when the national anthem was played during Team USA’s medal ceremony, and is therefore a terrible representative of America.
Here’s the double standard.
When the anthem was played during Michael Phelps’s medal ceremony for his win in the 200-meter butterfly, someone chanted "O!" — a tradition in Baltimore that celebrates the Baltimore Orioles (Phelps was born in the city). He began laughing, cracking up on the podium. Yet no one has accused Phelps of hating America.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/15/12476322/gabby-douglas-rio-olympics-racism
August 16, 2016
Updated by Andrew Prokop @awprokop Aug 15, 2016, 1:50p
Donald Trump’s post-convention collapse has hurt him in the polls across the country. But it’s really hurt his numbers in some crucial swing states in particular — states that would be enough to give Hillary Clinton an Electoral College majority.
Now Trump is trailing in an average of post-convention poll results for every swing state from the past two cycles. That includes, of course, the traditional powerhouses of Florida and Ohio, where Clinton has taken single-digit leads.
But there are six states that have moved especially dramatically in Clinton’s direction.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/15/12455240/donald-trump-polls-today
Right now polls show Donald Trump losing every single swing state
Right now polls show Donald Trump losing every single swing stateUpdated by Andrew Prokop @awprokop Aug 15, 2016, 1:50p
Donald Trump’s post-convention collapse has hurt him in the polls across the country. But it’s really hurt his numbers in some crucial swing states in particular — states that would be enough to give Hillary Clinton an Electoral College majority.
Now Trump is trailing in an average of post-convention poll results for every swing state from the past two cycles. That includes, of course, the traditional powerhouses of Florida and Ohio, where Clinton has taken single-digit leads.
But there are six states that have moved especially dramatically in Clinton’s direction.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/15/12455240/donald-trump-polls-today
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