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They’re both using shock tactics, just each in their own way. I don’t think they are setting the best example. … All this should be more dignified.
— “Vladimir Putin, blasting both Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s tactics on the campaign trail while refusing to publicly take sides in a U.S. presidential race in which he’s been accused of secretly favoring the New York real estate billionaire,” Bloomberg reports.
This year’s three presidential debates will be moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz, and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. The vice presidential debate moderator is Elaine Quijano of CBS News.
I just didn’t think that a modern American party was capable of suicide. I thought that something would happen, that somebody would think of a way to stop this. And they couldn’t. I think that they wanted to but they couldn’t. … And most of the Republicans that I talk to, which are quite a few, they are not so much worried about losing the election as I think they are about losing an entire generation. No one knows how much damage that Trump is going to cause the Republican Party beyond 2016. It is really something, to watch a party just march right over a cliff, and no one can stop them.
— Political strategist James Carville, telling Vanity Fair that the Republican party is committing suicide.
$143 million
Amount Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign raised in August for her campaign, the DNC and state parties, according to CNN.
2,271
Number of words in an online non-disclosure agreement in which potential Donald Trump campaign volunteers “promise they won’t compete against or say anything bad about Trump, his company, his family members or products – now and forever,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
534,000
New voters were added to Florida’s rolls this year. “Democrats say more than 180,000 are Democrats and nearly 156,000 are Republicans. Less than 4 percent of the nearly 63,000 new African-American voters are Republican, and just 16 percent of the new Hispanic voters are Republican,” reports Tampa Bay Times.
52%
Of voters say the Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson should join the first presidential debate and 47% say Green Party nominee Jill Stein, should be included as well, according to a new Morning Consult poll. Key finding: Overall, a large majority of voters (66%) say they are likely to watch the first presidential debate.
Here’s a sobering sign of the state of our politics: It’s becoming very plausible that Donald Trump, despite running one of the worst presidential campaigns in modern history, could lose the presidential race by the same Electoral College vote margin as Mitt Romney. A campaign that doesn’t believe in television ads, offers insults instead of policies, and lacks a full-fledged campaign staff, could end up performing nearly as well as a high-character candidate who ran a respectable losing campaign against President Obama.
$6 million
Amount Priorities USA, Hillary Clinton’s top super PAC, is spending on TVads targeting Latino and African-American voters, CNN reports. “The super PAC has joined with The Latino Victory Project, El Super Pac Voto Latino and People for the American Way’s Latinos Vote! to air more than $3 million worth of Spanish language TV and radio ads in Florida and Nevada, the groups announced on Wednesday.”
