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All I know is one of the worst people on God’s green earth was just instituted as the chairman and CEO of the Trump campaign. And if you are, as I am, not wanting to see Hillary Clinton in the White House, you need to seriously, seriously be concerned about that.
– Dana Loesch, right-wing radio host, referring to Stephen Bannon, head of the racist website Brietbart.com and now chair of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
9,276
With 325 fewer lobbyists registered in the second quarter of 2016 than in the first, this marks the biggest single-quarter drop in four years and puts the number of registered lobbyists at the lowest point OpenSecrets has ever recorded. Since 1998, the total number of lobbyists has never dipped below 10,000, but that figure has been falling ever since it peaked at nearly 15,000 in 2007 and this quarter’s decrease puts it at just more than 9,700.
42% to 40%
A Bloomberg Politics/Morning Consult poll found registered voters with money in the market narrowly pick Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, by 2%, as they believe he who would be better for their holdings. But that’s down from a Trump advantage of 50% to 33% when a similar survey was taken in June.
Well, possibly I do, but, you know, I am who I am. It’s me. I don’t wanna change. Everybody talks about, ‘Oh, well you’re gonna pivot, you’re gonna’ — I don’t wanna pivot. I mean, you have to be you. If you start pivoting, you’re not being honest with people.
— Donald Trump, in an interview with WKBT-TV, on whether he needs to change after facing an onslaught of bad polls.
62% to 22%
A new Washington Examiner/Echelon Insights poll of Washington, D.C., insiders finds Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 40 points.
