1. Trump Kong pounds keyboard
Actual presidential nominee Donald Trump started his day with a blistering Twitter attack on House speaker Paul Ryan (“very weak and ineffective leader”), John McCain (“very foul-mouthed”) and other Republicans.
... Tiger ... blood?
It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
2. One-way war
Republican leaders, for their part, were mainly mum. Senate majority leader (for now) Mitch McConnell opened remarks in Kentucky by saying, “If any of you are here to ask me about Donald Trump, please leave now.”
3. A debate over ‘assault’
A day after multiple surrogates argued that Trump’s remarks about touching women’s genitals without consent did not constitute sexual assault, the White House said, yes, they did.
'Repugnant'
The president found the tape as repugnant as most Americans did. There has been a pretty clear statement by people all along the ideological spectrum that those statements constituted sexual assault. That’s why many people I believe have concluded that those statements are worthy of sharp condemnation.
– Press secretary Josh Earnest
4. Gore to Florida: ‘Your vote counts’
Campaigning with Hillary Clinton, former vice-president Al Gore told Florida voters, “Your vote really, really counts – you can consider me as exhibit A of that.” “You won! You won! You won!” the crowd chanted in reply. A faint smile crossed Gore’s face, and then it was gone.
5. Wikileaks dumps more Clinton emails
A new tranche of John Podesta emails revealed discussion among Clinton aides of how to handle Bernie Sanders (“Message needs to be more positive, upbeat, hopeful”), how to walk back Clinton’s comments about Aids at Nancy Reagan’s funeral, and more.
EXPOSED: Podesta creamy risotto trick
LEAKED: Wikileaks hack reveals John Podesta's secret to creamy Risotto pic.twitter.com/A5dW4mG9c6
— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) October 11, 2016
...and another thing:
Nice sweater @kenbone18. U should get it in blue. Come to the crib and smoke 1 wit Tha Dogg
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) October 11, 2016
...and another thing:
How did we let a TV entertainer come so close to the presidency, asks a culture on its 2nd day of celebrating a guy who wore a red sweater
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 11, 2016
...and another thing:
Cotton and Grassley do 22 push-ups to commemorate the # of veterans who commit suicide every day pic.twitter.com/8tjELDcI4R
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) October 11, 2016
