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Malcolm wrote:Pennsylvania election official responds.

TPRJones wrote:

Malcolm wrote:Pennsylvania election official responds.

I'm disappointed. I was hoping for something more like "if Trump loses Pennsylvania it won't be because of cheating, it'll be because he's a festering orange blister on the ass of American politics."

Do you have a thing that turns Drumpf to Drumpf?

TPRJones wrote:

Do you have a thing that turns Drumpf to Drumpf?

What? Oh. Heh. Yes.

But you can easily see how the worst-case scenario is firmly on the table for Trump and Republican down-ballot candidates, where the bottom falls out from GOP turnout. Consider:
- Trump is getting only about 80 percent of the Republican vote, whereas candidates typically finish at about 90 percent of their party’s vote or above.

- Furthermore, the Republicans missing from Trump’s column tend to be high-education, high-income voters, who typically also have a high propensity to vote.

Republicans and Trump have a substantial ground game deficit, with Clinton and Democrats holding a nearly 4-1 advantage in paid staffers.

Trump’s rhetoric that the election is rigged could discourage turnout among his own voters.

"It's the most entertaining campaign ever and the essence of American politics is entertainment."

The view of one 19-year-old Chinese student watching the US presidential race from Beijing.

He's not the only one laughing. Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump wins on 8 November, the Chinese Communist Party believes it is already a winner.

For decades it has said that American democracy is a sham, rigged by and for a narrow elite. Now the Republican candidate for the White House says the same.

For decades Beijing has smarted under American disapproval for locking up political enemies. Now Donald Trump says "crooked Hillary" should be in jail, and that he "can't wait to begin the purge of liberals from America".
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"The race to the bottom will make people rethink the value of democracy," commented one Chinese state-owned newspaper. Another said the presidential race had become "an unprecedented joke".

The attorneys go on to argue that Trump’s statements on the campaign trail are irrelevant to the case and “highly prejudicial,” and would only seek to “inflame the jury.”

“Nah,” Brewer told the Boston Globe, in regards to whether Latinx [just wtf?] voters could be the key to tipping Arizona, which has become a toss-up state in the 2016 election, into the Democratic column. “They don’t get out and vote. They don’t vote.”

While Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is headlining her last fundraiser Tuesday night in Miami, her campaign has scheduled 41 other events between now and Nov. 3 featuring high-profile surrogates such as her daughter, Chelsea, running mate Tim Kaine and the entertainer Cher, according to a schedule sent to donors this weekend.

Steven Mnuchin, Trump's national finance chairman, said in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday that Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee between the party and the campaign, held its last formal fundraiser on Oct. 19. The luncheon was in Las Vegas on the day of the final presidential debate.

But the RNC gets only 20 percent of the money that Trump raises online in conjunction with the party, while the vast majority of the big checks contributed to Trump Victory are routed to the party.

Leisher wrote:So a violent sociopath attacks an inanimate object because he doesn't have access to the real person and we're supposed to celebrate that?

Alhazad wrote:

Leisher wrote:So a violent sociopath attacks an inanimate object because he doesn't have access to the real person and we're supposed to celebrate that?

I gladly celebrate that there are people out there who want to harm Trump.

GORDON wrote:Yeah.

Was thinking about making a general Facebook announcement to my friend list that the best part of the end of the election season is that I can begin to forget that for 75℅ of my friends and family, their personal meaningless politics are more important to them than their interpersonal relationships.

I gladly celebrate that there are people out there who want to harm Trump.

Leisher wrote: It's funny that all this violence and aggression comes from the peaceful, tolerant, morally and intelluctually superior left, while the gun loving, war loving, morons on the right aren't celebrating violence against someone who simply has different beliefs.

Vince wrote:

Alhazad wrote:

Leisher wrote:So a violent sociopath attacks an inanimate object because he doesn't have access to the real person and we're supposed to celebrate that?

I gladly celebrate that there are people out there who want to harm Trump.

I can't stand the guy, but this is indicative of something dark inside.. I wish him no harm. He's doing enough of that to himself. As long as he isn't in a position to cause harm to others.