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He’s completely playing on an emotional level – and so beautifully. I mean, it’s one of the reasons why I just can’t do that old character anymore, because he’s doing it better than I ever could, because he’s willing to drink his own Kool Aid and manufacture and distribute it, because he’s got all the cash. … I’m not the first person to say this, but I completely agree that he’s my old character with $10 billion.
— Stephen Colbert, saying Donald Trump is playing his old character better than he ever could, The Hill reports.
$32 million
Amount Carson Enterprises has brought in through the end of September — “more than any other 2016 Republican candidate,” according to Politico. “That fundraising prowess continues, even as [Ben Carson’s] poll numbers decline. His campaign manager Barry Bennett said Thursday they raised about $20 million since the beginning of October, matching their extraordinary summertime pace. Speaking fees over a nearly two-year period raked in $4.3 million. And his nonprofit continues to raise money.”
A liberal Democrat would say Barack Obama has been a pretty influential president. He got Dodd-Frank, the stimulus, the deal with Iran. All these things that they were able to get done, they’d look at it and say, ‘This guy’s been pretty consequential.’
— Sen. Marco Rubio, quoted by the New York Times, embracing the comparison many make between him and Obama.
We had roughly 20 minutes with him on Monday, and it was like watching a computer algorithm designed to cover talking points. He said a lot, but at the same time said nothing. It was like someone wound him up, pointed him towards the doors and pushed play. If there was a human side to senator, a soul, it didn’t come across through… Marco Rubio is a man so stuck on script it doesn’t even matter when the cameras are off.
— Erik Eisele, reporter for the Conway Daily Sun.
15
Number of states that will likely gain or lose House seats after the 2020 census, the Wall Street Journal reports, according to a new U.S. Census release of state-by-state population changes. “If those trends hold up, 15 states would gain or lose districts after the 2020 census. The biggest gains would come to Texas, which is projected to clinch three more House seats, and Florida, a gainer of two seats. Arizona, North Carolina, Colorado and are all poised to grab one seat after 2020. … Nine states are projected to lose districts: Alabama, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia.”
I really deplore the tone of his campaign, the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people, and his going after groups of people with hateful, incendiary rhetoric. Nothing really surprises me anymore. I don’t know that he has any boundaries at all. His bigotry, his bluster, his bullying have become his campaign. And he has to keep sort of upping the stakes and going even further.
— Hillary Clinton, quoted by the Des Moines Register, on Donald Trump.
