North Korean Leader Takes Cue from Trump on Rhetoric

The year 2015 was a year of gigantic struggle recorded with significant events and eye-opening successes and a year of victory and glory that strikingly demonstrated the dignity and might of socialist Korea. … But if invasive outsiders and provocateurs touch us even slightly, we will not be forgiving in the least and sternly answer with a merciless, holy war of justice.

— North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, quoted by USA Today reports.

Republican Likely Voters Well Behind Dems for 2016

9 points

Difference in the percentage of Republicans likely to vote in the 2016 election versus Democrats, compared with a 6-point deficit in the year leading up to Barack Obama’s 2012 victory, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. Key finding: “While the American electorate has become more diverse the last three years, the party’s support among Hispanic likely voters and younger likely voters has shrunk significantly.”

Trump’s Ghostwriter Not a Supporter

I’ll tell you what really bugs me about him, where it really ripped it with me and Trump was the stuff he said about McCain. McCain suffered severely, and I had a son who did two tours in Middle East during the last war and we had kids from here who went over there and some of them got hurt. They ain’t gonna be the same.

— Dave Shiflett, the ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s 2000 book, “The America We Deserve,” said he’s not voting for the billionaire real estate mogul, BuzzFeed reports.