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Scott Bixby, Tom McCarthy and Claire Phipps

Clinton sets sights on red states with Arizona speech – as it happened

Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Arizona State University in Tempe.
Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Arizona State University in Tempe. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

Today in Campaign 2016

Obama criticises FBI: we don’t operate on innuendo – video
  • Barack Obama criticised the way the FBI revealed a new investigation of emails possibly linked to Hillary Clinton’s private email servers, a move that has rocked the US presidential election in its final stretch. “I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo,” Obama told the online outlet NowThisNews. “We don’t operate on incomplete information. We don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made.”
  • Clinton, addressing a rally in traditionally red Arizona, told supporters the “state is in play for the first time in years”. In front of a crowd of 15,000 – one of the largest of her campaign – she lambasted Trump’s attacks on Muslims, Latinos and women and said she wanted to be the first Democratic candidate since Bill Clinton in 1996 to win the state.
Clinton during a campaign rally in Tempe, Arizona.
Clinton during a campaign rally in Tempe, Arizona. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
  • A key confidante of Trump’s provided new details about the “mutual friend” of Julian Assange who served as a back channel to give him broad tips in advance about WikiLeaks’ releases of emails to and from key allies of Clinton’s. Roger Stone, a longtime unofficial adviser to the Republican presidential nominee, was briefed in general terms in advance about the sensitive and embarrassing leaked Democratic emails by an American libertarian who works in the media on the “opinion side”, he told the Guardian in an interview.
  • A woman who is suing Trump for allegedly raping her as a child abandoned a plan to speak publicly today, citing death threats. The woman, known by the pseudonym Jane Doe, hid from media who were invited to her lawyer’s Los Angeles office for a press conference in which she was expected to reveal her identity. “Jane Doe has received numerous threats today as have all the Trump accusers that I have represented,” attorney Lisa Bloom told a room full of frustrated reporters. “She has decided she is too afraid to show her face. She has been here all day, ready to do it, but unfortunately she is in terrible fear. We’re going to have to reschedule. I apologize to all of you who came. I have nothing further.”
  • In an interview with a New Hampshire radio station, New Hampshire senator Kelly Ayotte declared that she would not want her 12-year-old daughter in the same room as either Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump or former president Bill Clinton. “I wouldn’t want my daughter in the room with any of them,” Ayotte responded, according to CNN. “But, the point of this, that, uh, you know, why would I want my daughter in the room with them? You know, and this isn’t about my daughter. I love my daughter and um, you know, obviously being a mom is a very important to me.”
David Duke is escorted from tonight’s debate.
David Duke is escorted from tonight’s debate. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP
  • In a Louisiana senate debate, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was asked about an article on his website that made numerous and repeated references to “CNN Jews” in a story about a leaked video that showed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women. “Well, lemme tell you something – we have to start talking openly about any subject,” Duke said, “and there is a problem in America with a very strong, powerful, tribal group that dominates our media and dominates our international banking.”

The Clinton camp are certainly on their Twitter game this evening (she was born in Chicago, to be fair):

And Clinton wins the Twitter race. Perhaps Trump is having an early night.

Hillary Clinton, soothsayer (note the date):

In the night’s other news, the Chicago Cubs won the world series. No tweets from either candidate yet – can they be far off? – but confirmation that at least one of them was watching:

Reports have said the Clinton crowd tonight topped 15,000, which is impressive given the competition for attention tonight. Will no one think of the journalists?

Here’s FiveThirtyEight’s latest totting-up of the polls:

And here’s Guardian US’ Mona Chalabi on whether the polls really are tightening – and whether it matters anyway:

And with that Clinton is finished, giving her time to catch the end of the world series game, which is still going on:

“We are on the path to one of the biggest turnouts in history … let’s make that the story of this election,” she says.

“I don’t want any of us to wake up next week and think ohhhhhh.” (This is probably a sentiment shared by many people of whatever political stripes.)

“This state is in play for the first time in years!” Clinton tells the crowd.

The last Democrat to win here, she says, “was my husband in 1996 – one of the many reasons Bill and I love Arizona.”

We have a real chance to turn this state blue again.

Clinton swings back to climate change.

She says she has a plan to boost renewable energy and help communities prepare for the effects of climate change.

Unlike Trump, she doesn’t think it’s a hoax.

I think there was a brief mention of tackling climate change there. More than in the debates, I guess.

Just as controversially, Clinton claims making lists is “maybe a women’s thing”. (Not this woman: I’m more of a “random collection of Post-Its” person.)

Updated

Clinton says she respects the choice of people who are voting for Trump. The election isn’t rigged. It’s a choice they make.

All I ask is that you really think about the kind of person he’s shown himself to be.

Oh, and he doesn’t pay his taxes, she says.

Tonight’s tactic? Focus on Trump’s digs, jibes and bigotry, it seems:

Trump doesn’t see Latinos as Americans, Clinton says.

There are huge boos when she mentions Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his influence on Trump.

How would the Muslim ban work, she mock-wonders: a religious test at the border?

He brags about doing things to women without their consent – just imagine what that could mean to girls and women … how it will affect our boys to have a president who talks and behaves like that?

It’s essentially a roll call of people Trump has mocked, offended or proposed to ban or deport.

That’s who Donald Trump is, but it’s not who we are, she adds.

Clinton is asking her supporters to imagine Trump taking the oath of office next January. They’re a bit reluctant. Perhaps they don’t think this is a fun game.

Does America want a president, she asks, who

praises adversaries like Vladimir Putin and picks fights with our allies and even insults the pope?

Trump would be “competely out of his depth”, she goes on.

Heaven forbid, [he] might even start a real war instead of just a Twitter war.

Clinton wants to know if the crowd is ready to vote next Tuesday (at this stage, you’d have to hope so).

She says America deserves a candidate they can vote for, not just someone to vote against.

Clinton gives a shoutout to former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords:

She turned an evil deed … into a clarion call for us to stand up against that kind of behaviour.

Clinton is on stage – she’s a bit (a lot) late.

Hillary Clinton has yet to take the stage in Arizona but has just tweeted her condemnation of an earlier arson attack on a historic black church in Mississippi:

Authorities have said the attack on Hopewell church is being treated as a hate crime after investigators determined it had been intentionally burned. “Vote Trump” was also spray-painted on the building.

No one was injured in the blaze.

Associated Press reports that Mike Pence has defended an arrangement that sees his key aide continuing to earn $23,000 a month as Indiana’s sole lobbyist to Washington while also travelling with the vice-presidential nominee as a paid worker on his campaign during working hours:

The dual, simultaneous employment of Joshua Pitcock is unusual. Legal and ethics experts contacted by the Associated Press said the government lobbyist should be subject to the same ethics rules as rank-and-file state employees, which generally prohibit such double-dipping. A separate prohibition against moonlighting bans Indiana state employees from accepting outside employment or undertaking activities that are not compatible with their public duties, would impair their independence or judgment, or pose a likely conflict of interest.

The governor’s office said Pitcock is exempt from most such rules because the Pence administration treats Pitcock as an independent contractor. It considers his contract for “professional services” different than contracts for “personal” services, which treat contractors as employees.

Pence defended the arrangement late Wednesday. “The arrangement that the state of Indiana has with a firm in Washington DC has been a great, great success for our state,” he told television station KDVR in Denver in an interview. “That individual and his team have worked very effectively advocating Indiana’s interest. But it’s an individual firm, an individual contractor.”

Pence said there was no conflict of interest. “He’s not a state employee and so he’s entitled to have other clients and I’m grateful to have his support and assistance for the state of Indiana,” he said in the interview.

Pitcock continues to collect monthly lobbying fees – a total of nearly $1m since Pence won election in 2012 and took office in 2013. Since August, after Pitcock also began working as Pence’s policy director for the election, Trump’s campaign has paid Pitcock’s firm $32,374 for event consulting, according to the latest financial records from the Federal Election Commission. Pitcock told AP that he refunded to Trump’s campaign $15,612, which he described as an overpayment caused by an accounting error.

Pitcock said he was working diligently for both his employers and there was no conflict or violation of state employment rules.

“My firm has a contract with the state of Indiana to perform certain duties related to federal affairs, including lobbying,” Pitcock said in a statement. “Those duties have been and continue to be performed fully and completely. I am not a state employee. My firm’s contract with the state does not preclude working with other clients.

“The Donald J Trump for President campaign engaged my firm for services related to federal policy for the vice-presidential nominee. There is no conflict in performing services for both clients.”

Perhaps the Trump hotels are all booked out:

Hillary Clinton arrives in Arizona

This is Claire Phipps picking up the live blog from Scott Bixby, just as Clinton’s plane touches down in Arizona, neatly enough.

Clinton is – rather later than expected – shortly to speak at Arizona State University in Tempe, in a state Democratic candidates don’t typically tend to view as a key target less than a week before election day.

Read more about why Clinton fancies her chances in turning Arizona blue here:

Watch: David Duke has a fiery exchange with a debate moderator.

For the first time there are as many millennials eligible to vote in the US election as there are baby boomers, and nearly half of them might vote for a third-party candidate. Paul Lewis and Tom Silverstone travel to Tucson, Arizona, to explore why large numbers of young people appear poised to sit out the election or vote for either Gary Johnson or Jill Stein.

Generation ‘meh’: the battle to win millennial voters

David Duke’s version of post-debate relaxation:

Donald Trump, talking to himself in Pensacola:

We are going to win the White House. We’re gonna be nice and cool, nice and cool. Stay on point, Donald, stay on point. No sidetracks, Donald. Nice and easy. Niiice. Because I’ve been watching Hillary the last few days. She’s totally unhinged. We don’t want any of that.

In his closing statement, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke declared that white Americans are “getting outnumbered and outvoted in our own nation” and decried his opponents’ connections with special interests.

“The best way to tell who’s an insider,” Duke said, “is look at their campaign’s bank account. I’m the only candidate on this stage that hasn’t taken a penny in Pac money, a penny in special interest money.”

“Why is that?” Duke asked rhetorically. “Because I stand up for you. The Black Lives Matter movement stands up for the murder of police officers - I defend you. I defend police officers, I defend this country from the radicals who are destroying America.”

“We’re getting outnumbered and outvoted in our own nation, and we have to stand up for our children’s future.”

David Duke, on the supreme court:

I will be Donald Trump’s most loyal advocate... I hope he wins.

Outside the Dillard College auditorium in which the Louisiana senate debate is currently taking place, the anti-David Duke protest is getting heated.

The college, which is historically black, had agreed to host the debate before Duke’s polling numbers barely qualified him to participate. The debate’s sponsors elected to hold the event in an empty auditorium without an audience for fear of protests and violence in the venue.

Interrupting a line of questioning after another candidate called him a “white supremacist,” Republican US senate candidate and former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan denied that he is a white supremacist.

“That’s a typical attack that I get by the media - I’m not a supremacist, I believe in equal rights for all!” Duke protested, saying that he was only against “special rights” for minorities. “We have a media that puts out hate propaganda against white people!”

Duke is, for the record, a white supremacist.

David Duke: Hillary Clinton 'should be getting the electric chair'

In Louisiana, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was asked about an article on his website that made numerous and repeated references to “CNN Jews” in a story about a leaked video that showed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women.

“Well, lemme tell you something - we have to start talking openly about any subject,” Duke said, “and there is a problem in America with a very strong, powerful, tribal group that dominates our media and dominates our international banking.”

“That’s the reality of it, and if we don’t understand that and face that, then we can’t deal with problems. I’m not opposed to all Jews,” Duke insisted, “but I’m against Jews or anybody else” whose loyalties lie “outside the United States.”

Pressed on what his conspiracism had to do with the religion of reporters, Duke doubled down.

“It’s got everything to do with it!” Duke said. “A good example is the fact, if you take a look at Trump and the neocons. We have a cabal in this country that literally controls the foreign policy in this country,” Duke continued, before going on a tirade about Hillary Clinton’s record on Syria.

“The lady should be getting the electric chair, getting charged with treason.”

At the historically black college where the Louisiana senate debate is currently being held, white supremacist and former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke lashed out at the moderator for asking him about his conviction for tax fraud.

“You’re not even giving me a chance!” screamed Duke, when he attempted to avoid answering the question. “You’re not even giving me a chance!”

After calming down, Duke eventually addressed the question.

“Yes, the federal government targeted me,” Duke said. “I’ve got the tax form that was sent to me, they audited me, and they determined that I overpaid my taxes by $6,000! But you don’t know that, they don’t know that!”

Duke continues, saying that anybody who “tells the truth about what’s happening to this country” is “gonna be a target of the media, just like Donald Trump!”

Back to Donald Trump in Pensacola:

“We’re all leaders - we’re all leading this together,” Trump said, concluding his address. “Just think about what we could accomplish in the first one hundred days of a Trump administration.”

“We will eliminate every unnecessary, job-killing regulation. We will cancel the illegal Obama executive orders,” Trump continued. “We will rebuild our military and take care of our great veterans. We are going to provide school choice and bring an end to Common Core - bring our education local, We will support the great men and women of law enforcement.”

“People can dispute, people can argue, but they love this country,” Trump said, in a rare bid for unity. “She’s the candidate of yesterday - we are the movement of the future.”

“I’m asking you to dream big,” Trump concluded, “We’re gonna win - we’re gonna win.”

Trump’s exit is met with an array of fireworks and a blasting rendition of the national anthem.

As Donald Trump campaigns in Pensacola, former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and current Republican senate candidate David Duke is facing off against his opponents for Louisiana’s open US Senate seat.

Despite urging by the moderator for the debate to not devolve into a referendum on Duke’s candidacy, the white supremacist has already been attacked by multiple other candidates.

“Yeah, I’m the bad guy because I defend the people who made this country great,” Duke said sarcastically. “You must respect the people who built this great nation and we shouldn’t face mass discrimination. That’s not a bad guy.”

Woman accusing Donald Trump of raping her at 13 cancels plan to go public

A woman who is suing Donald Trump for allegedly raping her as a child abandoned a plan to speak publicly this afternoon, citing death threats.

The woman, known by the pseudonym Jane Doe, hid from media who were invited to her lawyer’s Los Angeles office for a press conference in which she was expected to reveal her identity.

Lawyer Lisa Bloom, representing the woman accusing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of sexual misconduct in 1994, when she was 13 years old.
Lawyer Lisa Bloom, representing the woman accusing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of sexual misconduct in 1994, when she was 13 years old. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

Instead her attorney, Lisa Bloom, cancelled the event in a brief, apologetic statement to a phalanx of cameras.

“Jane Doe has received numerous threats today as have all the Trump accusers that I have represented. She has decided she is too afraid to show her face. She has been here all day, ready to do it, but unfortunately she is in terrible fear. We’re going to have to reschedule. I apologize to all of you who came. I have nothing further.”

Hours earlier Bloom, a prominent attorney, stoked such anticipation with the announced press conference that her firm’s website crashed. With just six days to the election and polls showing a tightening race the stakes could scarcely be higher.

The anticlimax was the latest twist to the explosive and so far unsubstantiated claim that the Republican presidential nominee raped Doe in 1994 when she was 13 years old.

We take a break from Donald Trump’s rally in Pensacola to fact-check him:

Speaking in Pensacola, Florida, an unusually tieless Donald Trump - perhaps ready to cool his heels after his third campaign rally of the day - told the assembled audience of supporters and journalists that his campaign is a movement “about taking our government back.”

“You think Hillary’s gonna restore honesty to government? I don’t think so.”

Trump was greeted with a prolonged “Lock her up!” chant.

Donald Trump campaigns in Pensacola, Florida

Watch it live here:

Ted Cruz to campaign for Donald Trump

We have apparently been transported to the land of Rand McNally, where they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people, because Texas senator Ted Cruz has announced that he will campaign on Donald Trump’s behalf in the final week of the presidential campaign.

Tomorrow, Cruz will make appearances at two events on behalf of Trump, who called Cruz’s wife ugly and suggested that Cruz’s father conspired to assassinate John F. Kennedy. Cruz will join Mike Pence, Trump’s running mate, in Prole, Iowa, and in Portage, Michigan, tomorrow, news that Pence’s press secretary has called “exciting.”

After the bruising primary, Cruz punk’d Trump at the Republican national convention in July by refusing to endorse him onstage, instead urging Republicans to “vote your conscience.”

Cruz later endorsed Trump.

Clinton's 'October surprise' helps Trump in polls – but will it affect election day?

The race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appears to be getting even closer with just six days left before the election. An average of six different polls shows that Clinton is now just 1.7 percentage points ahead of Trump. But there’s still a lot of variation – one poll finds that Clinton is three points ahead, another finds that she is six points behind Trump. Both surveys were conducted after news that the justice department had obtained a warrant to investigate an aide to Clinton’s emails, before which her lead was already shrinking.

A polling station worker helps a woman as she votes during early voting in Chicago.
A polling station worker helps a woman as she votes during early voting in Chicago. Photograph: Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images

That variation between polls isn’t surprising – it can be explained by the fact that different polls speak to different people. For example, the LA Times poll which has consistently found that Trump has more national support, includes one 19-year-old black male respondent who consistently said he’ll vote for the Republican nominee. That one individual has a disproportionate impact because of a statistical process called weighting (where one respondent can end up representing hundreds of thousands of voters).

So, are current polls a good reflection of what will happen on election day? Historically, the answer is “not bad”, although they will probably be a much better indicator by the morning of 8 November rather than now. Clinton’s email scandal will probably go down in US political history as an “October surprise”, a last-minute news event that can cause a shift in public opinion. Those surprises – which have included Lyndon Johnson’s announcement of a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam in 1968, and the news of a drunk-driving charge for George W Bush in 2000 – typically don’t affect final outcomes all that much though, as the chart below shows. It compares polling a week before from election day and the morning of with the final voting outcome.

The only snag is the electoral college system. In 2000, it wasn’t just ABC and the Washington Post that predicted a Bush win – polling averages also showed the Republican three points ahead of Al Gore. Though both candidates ended up with 48% of the popular vote, that’s only after rounding. The actual result was Gore-Bush, 48.4%-47.9%. Bush ultimately became president because the distribution of those votes worked in his favour – he collected 271 of the 538 electoral college votes (270 are needed to win).

A white nationalist has apologized for robocalls in Utah calling independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin a “closet homosexual”.

Evan McMullin.
Evan McMullin. Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP

William Daniel Johnson is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and self-described white nationalist who was originally meant to be a delegate for Donald Trump at the Republican national convention.

On Monday, Johnson announced that he was putting out an automated call to Utah voters attacking McMullin, an independent conservative candidate who has become the unexpected frontrunner in the heavily Mormon state, according to recent polls.

“My name is William Johnson. I am a farmer and a white nationalist,” the robocalls said. “I make this call against Evan McMullin and in support of Donald Trump. Evan McMullin is an open borders, amnesty supporter.

“Evan has two mommies. His mother is a lesbian, married to another woman. Evan is okay with that. Indeed Evan supports the supreme court ruling legalizing gay marriage,” it continued. “Evan is over 40 years old and is not married and doesn’t even have a girlfriend.”

The call concluded: “I believe Evan is a closet homosexual. Don’t vote for Evan McMullin. Vote for Donald Trump. He will respect all women and be a president we can all be proud of.”

In an email to reporters Wednesday, Johnson said that he had disabled the robocalls and would not be sending them elsewhere.

“I am sorry for the mean-spirited message and I humbly retract its contents,” Johnson said.

“I sent the robocalls out because Utah is a strong family-values state and America and the west is gripped by an extreme and fatal malady: failure to marry and have children. The white birth rate is so astonishingly low that western civilization will soon cease to exist. I felt that Evan McMullin typified that perfidious mentality.”

He said that Donald Trump’s campaign had repudiated his robocall, and added that “many people from Utah and beyond have excoriated me for it as well.”

“Just as Donald Trump has issued a heart-felt apology for his past locker room talk, I too issue a heartfelt apology for this robocall. I should not have sent out. I am truly sorry,” he said.

Updated

Press conference of woman accusing Donald Trump of rape cancelled

Lisa Bloom, the attorney who purports to represent an unnamed woman who is suing Donald Trump for allegedly raping her when she was 13 years old has cancelled a press conference scheduled this evening, declaring that the woman known as Jane Doe has “received numerous threats today” and that she has decided that she is “too afraid to show her face.”

“We’re going to have to reschedule,” Bloom said at the press conference in Los Angeles. “I apologize to all of you who came. I have nothing further.”

The scene inside the conference room:

Ahead of news from a California law firm that will hold a press conference at 6pm ET with a woman who is suing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for allegedly raping her when she was a child, here’s Jon Swaine on the lawsuit’s history:

Donald Trump
Donald Trump Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Lawsuits accusing Donald Trump of sexually assaulting a child in the 1990s appear to have been orchestrated by an eccentric anti-Trump campaigner with a record of making outlandish claims about celebrities.

Norm Lubow, a former producer on the Jerry Springer TV show, has previously been involved with disputed allegations that OJ Simpson bought illegal drugs on the day Simpson’s wife was murdered, and that Kurt Cobain’s widow had the Nirvana frontman killed.

Court filings in California and New York against Trump, purportedly on behalf of a woman using the name Katie Johnson, have in recent weeks alleged that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee raped Johnson when she was 13. Trump vehemently denies the allegations.

A publicist using the pseudonym “Al Taylor” is acting as a representative for Johnson, and has been shopping around to media outlets a video of a woman who wears a disguise while recounting the allegations against Trump. “Taylor” said in telephone calls last month that he was seeking $1m for the tape. Jezebel has published a segment of the videoalong with a detailed account of how the allegations against Trump were being pushed to reporters.

A telephone number and an email address used by “Taylor” have also been used by Lubow, according to three sources who have worked with them. A longtime associate of Lubow also told the Guardian that Lubow used the identity “Al Taylor”.

“Taylor” told the Guardian that he helped the alleged victim Johnson put together her first lawsuit against Trump, which was filed in California earlier this year. “She is a friend of mine,” he said, declining to make her available for interview.

He then became threatening when asked more about his motivations in seeking the money for the video and about his true identity. “Just be warned: we’ll sue you if we don’t like what you write,” he said. “We’ll sue your ass, own your ass and own your newspaper’s ass as well, punk.”

In 2011, “Al Taylor” claimed to cable news channels and gossip websites that he was negotiating a $1m deal for an exclusive TV interview with Casey Anthony, who was acquitted in a high-profile trial in Florida of killing her young daughter. Anthony’s attorneys denied the claims and the interview never took place.

Louis CK backs Clinton: 'I'm excited for the first mother in the White House'

Comedian Louis CK threw his support behind Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton during an interview on Conan last night.

Louis CK backs Clinton: ‘I’m excited for first mother in the White House’

The comedian touted Clinton’s credentials, saying he would take Clinton as president “over anybody.” He also said he was excited for the “first mother in the White House,” joking that moms get more accomplished than dads.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte: 'I wouldn't want my daughter in the room' with Trump or Bill Clinton.

In an interview with a New Hampshire radio station, New Hampshire senator Kelly Ayotte declared that she would not want her 12-year-old daughter in the same room as either Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump or former president Bill Clinton.

“Let’s fast forward four years and your daughter’s 16 years of age,” posed host Keith Hanson, according to CNN. “Would you have wanted your daughter to hear the conversation that Donald Trump had engaged in with a reporter from Access Hollywood on that bus?”

Ayotte, sounding uncomfortable, responded that “I think we all know the answer to that.”

“Would you want your 16-year-old daughter in a room with Bill Clinton?” Hanson doubled down.

“I wouldn’t want my daughter in the room with any of them,” Ayotte responded. “But, the point of this, that, uh, you know, why would I want my daughter in the room with them? You know, and this isn’t about my daughter. I love my daughter and um, you know, obviously being a mom is a very important to me.”

Ayotte, who called Trump a “role model” in a debate one week before the release of a taped 2005 conversation between Trump and a television host in which the candidate bragged about sexually assaulting women, recently recanted her support for her party’s nominee, declaring that “I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women.”

Speaking in Orlando, Florida, to a sweltering audience, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump decried Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as “the candidate of yesterday,” calling himself and his supporters “the movement of the future.”

“Just think about what we could accomplish in the first 100 days of a Trump administration,” Trump said, to a weak “Trump! Trump! Trump!” chant.

“We are going to have the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan - and Hillary wants to increase your taxes by an unbelievable amount. We’re already the highest-taxed country in the world,” Trump continued, incorrectly.

“We’re going to rebuild our military and take care of our great, great veterans - they’re not being taken care of,” Trump vowed. “We’re going to support the men and women of law enforcement. We will save the Second Amendment, which is, as you know, under tremendous siege. We will point justices to the united States supreme court who will uphold the constitution of the United States.”

“We have all these people telling us what to do - politicians, they know nothing,” Trump continued. “The media is a part and one of the vital cogs in the rigged system in which we live. They’re a big fat cog. And they never show the crowds, they never show what’s happening.”

Donald Trump campaigns in Orlando, Florida

Watch it live here:

Wrapping up his address to college-aged voters in North Carolina, President Barack Obama urged the audience that “Each of you could swing an entire precinct for Hillary if you vote” - or swing it for Donald Trump if they don’t

“If you don’t vote, then you’ve done the work of those who would surpass your vote without them having to lift a finger!” Obama said. “Come on!”

“North Carolina, I’m asking you today what I asked of you eight years ago - I’m just asking you to believe,” Obama continued. “I’m asking you to believe in your ability to bring about change. I am not on the ballot, but I’l tell you what: fairness is on the ballot! Equality is on the ballot! Justice is on the ballot! Our democracy’s on the ballot right now! And Hillary gives you the chance to advance our democracy!”

“Stand up and reject cynicism! Stand up and reject fear! Choose hope! Choose hope! Choose hope! Vote! And if you do, we will elect Hillary Clinton the next president of the United States!”

President Obama: 'It’s not often that you can shape the arc of history'

Speaking in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, President Barack Obama told a young audience of Hillary Clinton supporters that they have the chance to “shape the arc of history” by helping elect Hillary Clinton and downballot Democrats.

“Nobody likes gridlock, but I wanna be clear about something: gridlock is not some kind of mysterious fog that just descends on Washington,” Obama said. “It’s not like a monster movie.”

“Gridlock is what happens Republican politicians, like [North Carolina senator] Richard Burr, decide not based on the merits, not based on what’s good for their constituents, but out of political calculation to oppose anything that’s good for the country because it will benefit their political opponents,” Obama said.

“If you think ‘Vote for Gridlock’ is a good slogan, then you should for for Republicans,” Obama continued, but to protect his administration’s legacy, “then I need you to vote for Democrats up and down the ticket! I need you to vote for Hillary Clinton!”

“There’s a lot in this election season that can give you reason to be cynical, but right now I just want you to know: All of you, it’s in your power to reject the divisive, mean-spirited politics that would take us backward. That’s not how it has to be. That’s not how it’s always been.”

“You have a chance to shape history - what an amazing thing that is!” Obama said. “If Hillary wins North Carolina, she wins. And that means that when I said the fate of the Republic rests on you, I wasn’t joking! But that shouldn’t make you fearful - that should make you excited. It’s not often that you can shape the arc of history!”

Speaking to a college-aged group of Hillary Clinton supporters in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, President Barack Obama told the crowd that “the most important office in America is the office of citizen.”

“America depends on you! You, all of you!” Obama said. “America has never been about what one person says he’ll do for us. I never said, ‘Yes, I can,’ I said, ‘Yes, we can.’”

“In a big democracy like this, a diverse country like this, it all comes down to what the people say,” Obama continued. “Our democracy doesn’t work if we spend all our time just demonizing one another.”

“Progress requires compromise, even when you’re right,” Obama admitted, “but we should try to conduct ourselves with basic honesty and decency and big-heartedness, because what’s what our moms and dads taught us, and they were onto something big.”

Hillary Clinton may not be “flashy,” President Obama said in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but she knows her stuff:

She’s not flashy - she’s not going around spending all the time giving big stem-winders. And as a consequence, she’s under appreciated here at home,” Obama said. But, he continued, “she is tough, and when things don’t go her way, she doesn’t whine, and she doesn’t complain, and she doesn’t blame other suggesting everything is rigged.

President Obama: The Republic is at risk if Donald Trump is elected

Speaking to Republicans who feel duty-bound to vote for Donald Trump, President Barack Obama said that partisanship should not obscure the duty to support a candidate who won’t break the country.

“We have to stop thinking that his behavior is normal, that it’s within the bounds of what has been, up to this point, the normal in our political discourse,” Obama said of Trump. “I have to tell you, this office, it’s about who you are and what you are and it doesn’t change after you occupy the office - it just magnifies it.”

“If you disrespect women before you’re in office, you will disrespect women while you’re in office. If you accept the support of Klan members,” Obama continued, “then you will tolerate that support when you’re in office.”

“I am obviously a partisan Democrat, I understand that - but we’re not Democrats or Republicans first, we’re Americans first! And there are certain standards of behavior that we should expect out of our leaders!” Obama said. “I ran against John McCain, I ran against Mitt Romney - I thought I would be a better president. But I never thought that the Republic was at risk if they were elected.”

President Barack Obama, speaking in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, urged college-aged voters to look past “the noise” of a historically ugly campaign to focus on the task at hand.

“I want you to push away the noise for a second and just focus on the choice you face in this election,” Obama said. “If you push all that away, this choice actually could not be simpler. It could not be clearer. It really couldn’t.”

“The guy that the Republicans nominated - even though a bunch of ’em knew they shouldn’t nominate him - the guy they nominated who many of the Republicans he’s running against said he was a con artist and a no-nothing and wasn’t qualified to hold this office, this guy is temperamentally unfair to be commander in chief, and he is not equipped to be president,” Obama continued.

“This should not be a controversial claim! It really shouldn’t!” he said, sounding exasperated. “It’s strange how over time what is crazy gets normalized, and we just kinda assume, ‘Well, he’s said a hundred crazy things, so the hundred-and-first thing we don’t even notice.’”

President Barack Obama, speaking to a college-age audience in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, declared that “I love me some North Carolina!” to a raucous crowd. “Even the people who don’t vote for me are nice!”

After promising to hug the people shouting “I love you!” on the way out, Obama said that first, “we have to focus on some business.”

“As I’ve traveled across all 50 states, as I’ve gone to big cities and small hamlets, what I have always seen is what makes America great, and that is its people. I have seen you - Americans of every faith, every race, every party - who know that we’re stronger together,” Obama said, invoking Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogan. “That’s the America I know. That’s the America I love. And there is only one candidate in this race who has devoted her entire life to lifting up that better America. And that candidate is Hillary Rodham Clinton!”

“She’s the right person at the right time,” Obama continued. “The fate of the world is teetering, and you, North Carolina, are going to have to make sure that we push it in the right direction.”

President Barack Obama campaigns in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Watch it live here:

A California law firm has announced in a press release that a woman who is suing Donald Trump for child rape will speak later today.

The Guardian’s Jon Swaine has reported on the accusation:

Lawsuits accusing Donald Trump of sexually assaulting a child in the 1990s appear to have been orchestrated by an eccentric anti-Trump campaigner with a record of making outlandish claims about celebrities.

Norm Lubow, a former producer on the Jerry Springer TV show, has previously been involved with disputed allegations that OJ Simpson bought illegal drugs on the day Simpson’s wife was murdered, and that Kurt Cobain’s widow had the Nirvana frontman killed.

Court filings in California and New York against Trump, purportedly on behalf of a woman using the name Katie Johnson, have in recent weeks alleged that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee raped Johnson when she was 13. Trump vehemently denies the allegations.

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Here’s Jon Stewart talking about doing Twitter battles with Donald Trump, in a clip from a standup set flagged by Vulture:

(h/t @holpuch)

Four new Quinnipiac University polls of battleground states, now:

  • FLORIDA: Clinton 46 - Trump 45, Johnson 2
  • NORTH CAROLINA: Clinton 47 - Trump 44, Johnson 3
  • OHIO: Trump 46 - Clinton 41, Johnson 5
  • PENNSYLVANIA: Clinton 48 - Trump 43, Johnson 3

The pollster sees Clintong “clinging” to a small lead in Pennsylvania, Trump ahead in Ohio and North Carolina and Florida “too close to call.”

Head-to-head matchups among likely voters show:

  • Florida: Clinton at 47 percent to Trump’s 45 percent;
  • North Carolina: Clinton at 48 percent to Trump’s 46 percent;
  • Ohio: Trump at 47 percent to Clinton’s 44 percent;
  • Pennsylvania: Clinton leads Trump 50 - 44 percent.

We’ve had a bit of trouble with that Obama live stream – currently a James Taylor live stream. “Shower the people you love with love.” Try this one:

Here’s an unexpected guest at Barack Obama’s North Carolina event: James Taylor. He’s singing, of course, Carolina in my Mind:

Both campaigns book ads for World Series finale

Game 7 of the World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians will happen tonight. Many people will watch the game on TV. And both the Trump and Clinton campaigns will be appealing to those people with televised ads, CNN reports:

The Trump campaign has booked three commercial spots on the nationwide broadcast of Wednesday night’s Cubs-Indians matchup, a campaign spokesman said.

And Clinton’s campaign has booked four spots, according to a source at Fox, the network broadcasting the game.

Chicago Cubs’ Addison Russell watches his grand slam against the Cleveland Indians during the third inning of Game 6 of the Major League Baseball World Series Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, in Cleveland.
Chicago Cubs’ Addison Russell watches his grand slam against the Cleveland Indians during the third inning of Game 6 of the Major League Baseball World Series Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, in Cleveland. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

Who are you rooting for? Here’s FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver having fun back in May. Joke’s on him – the presidential election’s in six days, not eight!

Deborah Ross, the Democratic senate candidate in North Carolina, is introducing Barack Obama in Chapel Hill:

Obama to end campaign in New Hampshire

What we wouldn’t pay for a glimpse at the Clinton campaign’s model battlefield. They’ve moved the POTUS figurine from Florida to Ohio yesterday to North Carolina today – and for the grand finale, the night before the election, they’ve got him going to New Hampshire, the Clinton campaign has just announced.

Maybe because New Hampshire doesn’t have no-excuse early / absentee voting? Meaning people vote there on Election Day itself. The president has been taking care of the early voting states meanwhile.

More polling crack (craic?) is on its way. Whatta Wednesday:

Clinton responds to Louis CK

Comedian Louis CK told Conan O’Brien he would take Hillary Clinton “over anybody.” He says he’s sold on Clinton. And in part not because she’s a woman so much as because she’s a mom.

“I have no problem anybody votes for Trump,” says CK (?). But.. “what’s more important in the president than that you can shit all over them? ... This guy, every time he gets criticized, everything stops and he makes everybody pay...

“Hillary Clinton, she can take abuse!”

The riff culminates with CK exhorting people to vote.

(@lgamgam)

More map talk...

That would give Trump a 269-269 tie, which given Republican control of the House of representatives (which would break such an electoral tie) likely amounts to a win.

Give Trump Maine’s second district and he’s at 270, in this scenario:

There are quite a few weak links in that scenario for Trump. What’s the weakest – North Carolina, Florida, Nebraska’s second district – or Nevada?

Here’s Nevada journalism dean Jon Ralston on the early vote in the silver state:

Bottom line: The next three days are huge, starting with today when Hillary Clinton comes to try to juice the early vote in Vegas. Remember the last day (Friday) is always the biggest. If the Dems can add 10,000 votes to their lead, they will feel pretty good. If they add 20,000, which would bring it to the same number as the end of 2012, it’s big trouble for Trump and Senate hopeful Joe Heck, and we can start talking about a mini-wave at least.

Wisconsin senate race close – poll

Marquette U law school also polled the senate race in Wisconsin, long thought to be one of the easiest Democratic pickups, as popular former senator Russ Feingold, the only US senator to vote against the original USA Patriot Act, appeared to be shellacking Republican incumbent Ron Johnson.

HuffPost Pollster’s average has Feingold up by five points. Marquette sees a one-point race:

Losing Wisconsin would make the Democratic path to control of the senate considerably more steep. The Marquette poll could be yet further indication that Trump is not having the sandbag down-ballot effect that Democrats have been hoping for, the best demonstration of which is incumbent senator Rob Portman’s strong performance in the polls in Ohio. And in some places, such as Missouri, there is an opposite dynamic: Trump leads big in the polls, but the incumbent Republican senator, Roy Blunt, is in a tight reelection battles.

In short it’s hard to decode how Trump is impacting downballot races nationally. Republican incumbent senators Kelly Ayotte (NH), Pat Toomey (PA), Richard Burr (NC) and Marco Rubio (FL) will have to wait for Tuesday...

(Republican incumbent Mark Kirk appears on track to performing every bit as badly as Trump in Illinois.)

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The Guardian’s Dan Roberts points out that the poll evenly straddled the release of Comey’s letter Friday:

The Marquette poll supports the notion of the Democratic nominee having the below firewall map (and when will we know more from Colorado?):

How’s your map shaping up? What’s Clinton’s weakest link? Does Trump have a chance in North Carolina? Florida?

Wisconsin poll: reactions

Clinton up six points in Wisconsin – poll

A new edition of the respected Marquette University law school poll of Wisconsin likely voters finds that Hillary Clinton leads by six points among likely voters in the state.

Poll was conducted Oct. 26-31. Margin of error is +/-3.3 percentage points for the full sample. #mulawpoll

541 likely voters interviewed Weds and Thurs, 157 on Friday, 557 Sat, Sun and Mon. #mulawpoll

Margin of error is larger for results pegged to specific days of polling, Franklin says. #mulawpoll

Simultaneously, Monmouth University finds that Clinton maintains a four-point, 48-44 edge on Trump in Pennsylvania. That’s down from her 10-point lead in the same poll last month. Democrat Katie McGinty was up three points on incumbent Republican senator Pat Toomey in the Monmouth poll.

Are you a poll worker? Tell us about it

With 8 November just around the corner – and early voting already underway – we want to hear from the volunteers who will give up their election day to help America vote.

Are you acting as a poll worker for the US presidential election? Tell us about your experiences, using the form below:

“For those millions who continue to believe women should have the right to make their own healthcare decisions, Hillary Clinton is the best – and only – choice,” writes Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards in a new first-person piece for the Guardian:

During the third debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump a couple weeks ago, Clinton gave the most powerful defense of reproductive rights ever from a presidential candidate.

“I will defend Planned Parenthood, I will defend Roe v Wade, and I will defend women’s rights to make their own healthcare decisions … I do not think the United States government should be stepping in and making those most personal of decisions,” she said.

Most Americans agree. According to a CNN a focus group, this moment was the most favored of the entire debate. That is because seven out of 10 Americans support Roe v Wade, and a majority of voters, including half of Trump supporters, agree that Planned Parenthood shouldn’t be defunded. And yet, reproductive health is not only on the line but on the ballot this election.

Read the full piece here:

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Here comes that new Marquette poll of Wisconsin... (set to release at 1.15pm ET). FiveThirtyEight’s Harry Enten predicts Clinton by two points):

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Bon Jovi to rock Florida for Clinton

New Jersey-born rocker Jon Bon Jovi will perform at a get-out-the-vote event for Hillary Clinton in Florida on Saturday, the campaign advises.

Bon Jovi with Richie Sambora in the early Bill Clinton years.
Bon Jovi with Richie Sambora in the early Bill Clinton years. Photograph: Clayton Call/Redferns

Bon Jovi will perform in St. Petersburg, a swing-state town outside Tampa on the Gulf Coast. Clinton running mate Tim Kaine will be there too – on harmonica? (?!)

April 2016 Bon Jovi.
April 2016 Bon Jovi. Photograph: Andy Kropa/AP

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Obama on FBI: 'we don't operate on leaks'

The president has delivered backhanded criticism of the FBI for its conduct of various inquiries into the email hygiene of Clinton and those around her.

“We don’t operate on incomplete information,” Obama said in an interview with NowThis News, written up in the New York Times. “We don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made.”

Obama continued:

When this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the F.B.I., the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that she had made some mistakes but that there wasn’t anything there that was prosecutable.”

Trump tells his supporters to “pretend we’re down”:

Trump also says he’s doing great in Pennsylvania:

It’s getting Biblical out there:

“I love that sign, ‘Blacks for Trump,’ I love that sign,” Trump begins.

He predicts victory in Florida.

That was fast. Here’s Trump now onstage in Miami. Scroll back a block for a live video stream.

Here now in Miami is RNC chairman Reince Priebus in Miami introducing Trump.

“Who here wants four more years of a Barack Obama-style government?” Priebus asks.

The crowd boooos.

Have you taken your Florida medicine yet today? Here’s the start of longtime Democratic operative Steve Schale’s update for Wednesday morning:

So one more thing I keep getting asked, so, Steve, what is the secret to winning Florida? I am going to let you in on a little secret to quote one of my favorite GOP operatives, Kevin Sweeny, the secret is, there is no secret. Florida is a collection of lots of pockets of voters. It is all about managing the margins in those places, expanding the electorate where it helps you, and playing defense. This is not the kind of place where you can say definitively, if X happens, candidate Y will win or lose. It is more like building a mosaic with many different colored tiles.

I’ll address the issue that popped up yesterday with African American turnout later, but keep the above in mind when we get to it.

And please don’t ask me about the guy on MSNBC who said HRC is up 28% with GOP and up 8% statewide. She isn’t. I do think she is slightly ahead, but not like that guy said. And no, I don’t want to argue his methodology, or why he might be right. He isn’t. Cool?

So where are we today, besides close?

Read the full piece here.

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What is that thing for?

Clinton makes closing argument with Latino voters

Hillary Clinton has released a new video ad calling on Latinos to vote big on November 8. The ad, titled 27 Million Strong, is narrated by veteran actor Jimmy Smits (who played the president on the West Wing).

Personally, I think it’s one of the best campaign ads by the Clinton campaign so far, as it adds more fuel to the Latino fire.

27 million strong

If Clinton gets to the White House, Hispanics will be a major reason why, as her support by this community appears to be stronger and more intense, including Arizona, where she is today. Before this year’s elections, it was predicted that Latinos would not really cause any kind of an important role until 2020 and 2024.

But Trump has changed all that.

Case in point: One Arizona, a coalition that helps develop Latino involvement and community development in the state, have registered 150,000 new voters for this election.

Clinton up in Michigan – poll

A new poll of Michigan voters by the Institute for public policy and social research at Michigan state university has Clinton... up by 20 points in a head-to-head race with Trump. The state is not much polled; HuffPost Pollster’s average has Clinton up by about six points there

Twenty points is a lot. The Clinton camp announced late Tuesday that the candidate would hold a rally in Detroit Friday night, leading to speculation that the campaign saw signs of needing to shore up support in Michigan.

Clinton to 'all the young boys': 'show respect'

By the time Hillary Clinton arrived at her final rally of one of her longest days on the trail, it was already after dark.

“This is so much fun,” she said, taking the stage in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 10pm, the crowd of nearly 4,000 vibrating with energy. “It’s really late. I could be here all night.”

Ft Lauderdale by night.
Ft Lauderdale by night. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

In her remarks, Clinton again upbraided Trump for his treatment of women.

“When I listen to what he says, and how he talks about women, and what he has bragged about doing to women –I want all the girls in America to know: You are valuable. You should feel good about yourself. Don’t let somebody like this bully tell you otherwise,” she said, her voice rising over the cheers of the crowd.

Then she turned to address the boys.

“I want to say to all the young boys,” Clinton said, raising a clenched fist for effect. “Show respect. Because that shows you’re a real man.”

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Bill Clinton, Kaine cancel Des Moines event

Bill Clinton and vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine have canceled an event in Des Moines, Iowa, at which they were to appear today with musician Ben Harper, the Clinton campaign has announced.

Clinton has two additional events in Iowa today, while Kaine has one.

Click through below for our latest coverage of the killing of two police officers overnight in the Iowa capital:

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David Fahrenthold, the Washington Post reporter who has exposed questionable conduct by Donald Trump’s foundation, points readers to a thread in which tax professor Philip Hackney notes that Trump may have violated laws against self-dealing and may owe taxes on certain transactions related to his foundation:

2. Charitable orgs r either public charities or private fdn; @realDonaldTrump has a private foundation @Fahrenthold

3) @realDonaldTrump @Fahrenthold While public charities must focus on acomplishing charitable goals, PFs are strictly regulated

4) @realDonaldTrump @Fahrenthold Congress does not trust PFs because one wealthy person controls them & might abuse them

5) @realDonaldTrump @Fahrenthold An excise tax applies 2 PFs where they engage in almost any transaction w founder - self dealing its called

7) @realDonaldTrump @Fahrenthold PF cannot lease from founder it cannot loan money to founder, it cannot buy things for founder

8) @realDonaldTrump @Fahrenthold When PF buys painting it must find charitable purpose to further

9) @realDonaldTrump @Fahrenthold Storing a painting at founder’s private business is no char pur, it is self dealing; tax is owed

Trump adviser reveals how Assange ally warned him about leaked Clinton emails

A key confidante of Donald Trump has provided new details about the “mutual friend” of Julian Assange who served as a back channel to give him broad tips in advance about WikiLeaks’ releases of emails to and from key allies of Hillary Clinton.

Roger Stone, a longtime unofficial adviser to the Republican presidential nominee, was briefed in general terms in advance about the sensitive and embarrassing leaked Democratic emails by an American libertarian who works in the media on the “opinion side”, he told the Guardian in an interview.

Stone claims his American source, whom he declined to identify, has met with Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, in London and is a “mutual friend” of Stone and Assange. The WikiLeaks source, Stone said, is not tied in any way to the Trump campaign but has served as a back channel for Stone, who is an outside adviser to the Republican presidential candidate, allowing the adviser to tweet and comment very broadly prior to some key WikiLeaks disclosures.

Read further:

Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House, which, in any case, is almost over. Hillary Clinton has rallies in Arizona and New Mexico today, while Donald Trump is making three Florida stops.

Barack Obama heads back out on the trail again today on Clinton’s behalf, with a rally planned in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Tim Kaine, Bill Clinton and the musician Ben Harper are scheduled to appear together at a rally in Des Moines, where two police officers were shot dead overnight (see further below). The National is playing a concert on Clinton’s behalf in Cincinnati.

Key state polls

We’re expecting three quality polls to be released today in three battleground states. Monmouth University has a poll of Pennsylvania coming out, Marquette University law school will release a poll of Wisconsin and MRGMichigan will release polling in that state.

Obama sees sexism at work

President Obama urged voters in Columbus not to be fooled by Trump’s claims of working-class sympathies. He also suggested that Clinton was the victim of sexism. “Hillary Clinton is consistently treated differently than just about any other candidate I see out there,” he said, according to an NBC News report. “There’s a reason we haven’t had a woman president ... This notion that it’s somehow hard to choose? It shouldn’t be.

“To the guys out there,” Obama said, “look inside yourself and ask yourself: if you’re having problems with this stuff, how much of it is that we’re just not used to it?

“When a guy is ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard, well that’s OK, but when a woman suddenly does it, suddenly you’re all like, ‘Well, why’s she doing that?’ I’m just being honest.”

Obama tells Ohio: don’t be bamboozled by Trump

Two police officers killed in Des Moines

Two police officers were shot and killed in apparent ambush-style attacks in the Des Moines area overnight, prompting a warning of a “clear and present danger” to other officers in and around the city in Iowa. Police have named the suspect as Scott Michael Greene, a 46-year-old white man from Urbandale.

Thanks for reading and please join us in the comments.

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