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We’re losing our country. Look at the Super Bowl salute to the Black Panther cop killers. It’s time to stand up and vote for Donald Trump for president and vote for me, David Duke for the U.S. Senate.”
— A new robocall from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
7 points
A new Monmouth poll finds Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump nationally by 46% to 39%, followed by Gary Johnson at 7% and Jill Stein at 2%. Last month’s poll showed Clinton ahead by 13 points.
7.2%
Amount traffic fatalities rose in the United States in 2015, Reuters reports. “That runs counter to five decades of decreases. Cheaper gas, leading to more miles driven may be partly to blame. The last time U.S. traffic fatalities rose at a greater rate was in 1966, when they went up 8.1 percent. That was two years before the federal government required seat belts in cars.”
It’s a very complicated subject…It’s some mysterious triumph of lacquering and weaving and taxidermy that really cannot be understood.
— Comic strip artist Garry Trudeau, describing Donald Trump’s hair, and his depiction thereof in his cartoon, “Doonesbury.”
After long and careful consideration and work on my marriage, I’ve made the decision to separate from my husband.
— Huma Abedin, quoted by ABC News, after husband and ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) was caught in yet another sexting scandal.
I think the assessment was that Donald Trump would try and do some things to appeal to the middle of the electorate, to appeal to suburban college-educated women. He’s not. I mean, basically, we have a psychopath running for President. I mean, he meets the clinical definition, okay?
— Former Obama campaign chief David Plouffe, citing Trump’s “grandiose notion of self-worth, pathological lying, lack of empathy and remorse,” in an interview on NBC News.
Dear America: Maine here. Please forgive us – we made a terrible mistake. We managed to elect and re-elect a governor who is unfit for high office. He has a gruff exterior and blunt way of talking that some of us find refreshing, but he has shown again and again that he governs by grudge, and uses his power to beat up on people who cannot fight back.
83%
Of Donald Trump’s voters would use the word ‘evil’ to describe Hillary Clinton. Among Clinton voters, 66% describe Trump as ‘evil,’ according to an Economist/YouGov poll.
The only way you can be comfortable about Trump’s foreign policy, is to think he doesn’t really mean anything he says. That’s a pretty uncomfortable place to be in.
— Former Bush adviser Paul Wolfowitz, in an interview with Der Spiegel, while suggesting he might vote for Hillary Clinton.
5
Number of minutes it took Donald Trump’s personal physician to write “a letter declaring Trump would be the healthiest president in history … while a limo sent by the candidate waited outside his Manhattan office,” NBC News reports. “The letter was written and released in December but has drawn fresh scrutiny in recent days as Trump’s allies have questioned Hillary Clinton’s health, despite a letter from her doctor that said she has no serious issues.”
