Heath Brown for The Monkey Cage: On Oct. 3, Latino Decisions released results of a poll of Latino voters, with fairly predictable results. Most respondents – 67 percent – rate Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton favorably, while 77 percent hold a … Continue reading
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The Fix: Seated next to Donald Trump at a pre-debate campaign event Sunday night, Juanita Broaddrick repeatedher charge that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978 — an accusation she has contradicted under oath and which the former president denies. Then, after the … Continue reading
Yoni Appelbaum in The Atlantic: You know,” Clinton later responded, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.” Trump couldn’t resist. “Because you would be in … Continue reading
Here at Politico. (My post on the options open to Trump and the Hail Mary is now at Slate). … Continue reading
By all accounts, Donald Trump’s Republican presidential campaign is imploding, with the latest revelations from a leaked 2005 “Access Hollywood” taping revealing not only Trump’s disrespect for women but a bragging about what amounts to a sexual assault. (Why anyone … Continue reading
Last July, my great research assistant, Zach Krowitz, helped put together this memo on the filling of vacancies on the presidential ballot. … Continue reading
Ned Foley: As I write this on Friday night October 7, there is renewed talk of GOP leadership disavowing Trump. True, Trump will still be on the ballot that we citizens cast. But suppose the GOP leadership publicly announces that … Continue reading
Wikileaks released some private speeches of Clinton’s that she’d been refusing to release. And this, not really different from her public position, was in the tidbits: … Continue reading
Statement from DHS and ODNI: The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on … Continue reading
Adam Smith: For the Bernie voters still deciding who to vote for in November, an outside candidate like Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson may seem appealing. But crucially, Johnson doesn’t agree on this key tenet of Bernie political revolution. In fact, … Continue reading
CPI: In March, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was vehement: Super PACs are a “disaster” and “very corrupt.” With his opponent, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, gazing expressionlessly at him from the next podium during a Republican primary debate, … Continue reading
NYT: The vast and cash-rich Koch political network is intensifying efforts behind preferred Republican candidates in the few crucial races that could decide Senate control. For the first time, some political groups under the umbrella of the billionaire conservative donors … Continue reading
Release: The Campaign Legal Center today filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission alleging that three super PACs – one supporting Hillary Clinton (Correct the Record) and two supporting Donald Trump (Rebuilding America Now and Make America Number 1) – … Continue reading
Advisory opinion. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
Ellen Aprill and Lloyd Mayer have written this oped for TaxProf. It begins: As the debate between the Vice Presidential candidates Wednesday night made clear, Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns remains an important campaign issue. The extraordinary … Continue reading
CPI reports. … Continue reading
Eisen and Painter NYT oped: As ethics counsel to the current president and his predecessor, we scrutinized their tax returns before they were released every year. We also worked with our colleagues to review many tax returns of presidential nominees … Continue reading
Bauer blogs, and reformers won’t like it. … Continue reading
WSJ reports. … Continue reading
WaPo: Super PACs seeking to influence the 2016 elections have collected more than $1 billion, a record haul driven by jumbo-sized contributions from rich donors on both sides of the aisle. Just 10 mega-donor individuals and couples contributed nearly 20 percent of … Continue reading
The Hill: “There is nobody that loves the vets more or respects the vets more. They’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on false commercials, and it’s a disgrace. So what we’ll do, I guess we’ll sue them. Let’s sue … Continue reading
Lexington Herald Leader: Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin urged a group of preachers to embrace political speech at the pulpit by telling them not to fear a federal law that prohibits candidate endorsements by tax-exempt churches. … Continue reading
The latest: Simply called “GoVoteBot,” it interacts with users in real time on Facebook Messenger. The bot was designed to be non-partisan, simply supplying information to users without attempting to sway their vote. R/GA and the Ad Council worked with … Continue reading
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. … Continue reading
BuzzFeed: Despite the many questions raised over new documents allegedly leaked from the servers of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0” continued to insist Tuesday that the documents were real, and that they were a … Continue reading
Real Clear Politics: That check is one of at least several donations to suggest Trump used his private foundation, funded by outside donors, to launch and fuel his political ambitions. Such contributions, if they were made solely for Trump’s benefit, … Continue reading
Paul Blumenthal for HuffPo describes the deregulatory spiral. … Continue reading
Earlier I noted that Sheldon Adelson was giving only $5 million to a Trump Super PAC, only a small fraction of what he spent helping Gingrich then Romney in 2012. But now Teddy Schleifer reports the amount is likely to … Continue reading
WonkBlog: Federal regulators are seeking a $14 billion fine from Deutsche Bank, Trump’s top lender, to settle claims that the bank issued toxic mortgages amid the housing crisis. German media have suggested the bank has sought a state bailout that could … Continue reading
Lynn Vavreck for NYT’s The UpShot: These descriptive differences are negligible compared with differences relating to politics and policy. The YouGov data reveal that undecided voters are much less likely to have positions on issues driving the campaign. On the … Continue reading
Matea Gold: The Republicans’ central Senate super PAC is plowing $21 million more into six key races in the coming weeks as the fight for control of the chamber moves to states more hospitable to GOP candidates. The Senate Leadership Fund, a … Continue reading
Greg Sargent: The “sex tape” angle here is sucking up all the attention. (Apparently, sex sells.) That appears to be a reference to reports about a steamy love scene that Machado filmed in 2005, though without further clarification, it’s hard … Continue reading
NYT: More than two-thirds of the Democrats’ cash went to a dozen presidential battlegrounds critical to any Clinton victory. The biggest beneficiaries were Florida, which has taken in close to $3.5 million, and Pennsylvania and Ohio, which have each received … Continue reading
Fascinating Jonathan Martin read for the NYT. … Continue reading
Another Fahrenthold special. … Continue reading
News from Encinitas, CA. … Continue reading
TIME reports: The leaders of the U.S. government, including the President and his top national-security advisers, face an unprecedented dilemma. Since the spring, U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have seen mounting evidence of an active Russian influence operation targeting the … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
Ben Jacobs for The Guardian: Trump also introduced a new conspiracy theory to the campaign on Wednesday night when he accused Google of somehow colluding with Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “Google search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton,” … Continue reading
Vogel: Donald Trump’s campaign was desperate to change the subject after his shaky debate performance on Monday, and it found just the story to do it — a record fundraising surge that Trump says was powered by small donors, proving … Continue reading
NYT: The vast majority of millennials were not old enough to vote in 2000, when Ralph Nader ran as the Green Party nominee and, with the strong backing of young voters, helped cost Vice President Al Gore the presidency. “Ralph … Continue reading
Debra Saunders: The political press corps has known Bob Stern as the straight-arrow president of Los Angeles’ Center for Governmental Studies who helped Jerry Brown create the Fair Political Practices Commission in 1974. Since the center closed its L.A. offices … Continue reading
Kathay Feng and Trent Lange SacBee oped: California has led the way in a parade of democratic reforms in the wake of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that set back voting rights and clean elections. But two campaign finance reform bills … Continue reading
The opinion is here. As I’ve written, I strongly disagree with this ruling because I think the ban is narrowly tailored to prevent vote buying and coercion. And there are lots of ways to express oneself besides a photo of … Continue reading
New Mexico in Depth reports. … Continue reading
Bloomberg BNA: A federal appellate panel ruling that limits disclosure requirements for groups sponsoring political ads will stand, as the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said it will not review the panel’s ruling (Van … Continue reading
Will love to see if this pans out. Well it looks like this has NOT panned out. … Continue reading
Have at it. … Continue reading
Release. … Continue reading