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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.
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.”
My worship for him is like the people of North Korea worship Dear Leader — blind loyalty. Once he gave that Mexican rapist speech, I’ll walk across glass for him. That’s basically it. Unlike the crazy Cruz supporters, I’ll criticize him, and I have, but it’s all minor stylistic stuff. We all want to shoot him at various times.
— Ann Coulter, quoted by Bloomberg’s Josh Green. on her support of Donald Trump.
$31 million
Amount of free advertising Fox News host Sean Hannity has given Donald Trump’s campaign, according to an analysis by liberal watchdog Media Matters.
Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election. It’s because it’s become socially desirable, if you’re a college educated person in the United States of America, to say that you’re against Donald Trump.
— Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway telling the UK’s Channel 4 that Donald Trump is actually winning the election, but every poll is wrong because Trump voters are undercover.
The main difficulty Trump faces in dispelling the impression that he is a racist is that Trump is, in fact, a gigantic racist.
$7.7 million
Amount Donald Trump’s campaign has spent through July on Trump-branded products, including reimbursements to Trump-named surrogates, the Washington Post reports.
12
Age of Weston Imer, who runs the Jefferson County operation for the Trump campaign “in one of the most important counties in swing state Colorado,” KDVR-TV reports.
