1. Trump’s wild endgame
“Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day,” Donald Trump tweeted. “Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive!”
Summary
Watchdog groups declared Trump’s words to be dangerous. Others pointed out that Trump always cries “rigged”. He said the GOP primaries – which he won – were rigged … that the 2012 election was rigged … that the Emmys were rigged against his reality show …
Trump’s surrogates contradict him
2. White House dismisses Trump
Asked if he was concerned by Trump’s charge, press secretary Josh Earnest said: “Not at all. Neither is Mike Pence, who is the second highest ranking official in the Trump campaign. Neither is [House speaker] Paul Ryan.”
New Hampshire women abandoning Trump
'This is what losers do'
Look, Donald Trump’s campaign is spiraling. He is desperately trying to shift attention from his own disastrous campaign. He knows he’s losing and is trying to blame that on the system. This is what losers do.
– Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook
3. Clinton triples lead in Monmouth poll
Clinton held a 12-point lead on Trump, 50-38, in a new Monmouth national poll of likely voters. That was triple her lead of four points as gauged by the same poll just three weeks ago. Clinton led by seven points in polling averages.
4. Clinton looks to expand map
The Clinton campaign announced $2m in new spending in red-state Arizona and $1m in Missouri and Indiana. They’re also spending in Georgia, Nebraska and Maine.
5. Melania: ‘They started’
Melania Trump told Fox News that Bill Clinton’s past was fair game. “They’re asking for it. They started,” [sic] she said. “From the beginning of the campaign putting my, my picture from modeling days. That was my modeling days and I’m proud what I did. I worked very hard.”
6. Chafee regrets call for metric system
“I was saying, should I put it in or not?,” former presidential candidate, governor and senator Lincoln Chafee recalled of shaping his campaign around a call to adopt the metric system. “My wife said, no, it will be misunderstood. And she was right.”
... and another thing:
You’re telling me the candidate who snorted his way through the first two debates accused the other candidate of taking drugs? That’s a curious development.
– Press secretary Josh Earnest, on Trump’s call for drug testing before the next debate
... and another thing:
You'll just be that guy with the weird hair. #Melanianade pic.twitter.com/Jd5d09PnJ4
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) October 16, 2016
