Politics

How the Election Is ‘Rigged’ — And How it is Not

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has aroused new controversy by declaring that the 2016 presidential election is “rigged.” On the one hand, that is both an irresponsible statement, and also a potentially self-destructive one. On the other hand, it may be true.

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Washington Post/ABC News Poll: Statistical Tie in Presidential Race

Bucking the trend of recent national polls that showed Hillary Clinton pulling into a solid nationwide lead over Donald Trump, and the media consensus that his campaign just experienced Armageddon, the latest poll from ABC News and the Washington Post says the race is a statistical tie, with Clinton leading by only four points in a poll with a four-point margin of error.

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CBS News/YouGov Utah Poll: Trump Leads by 17 Points

While several recent polls from Utah have suggested Donald Trump is recapturing his lead there, an astounding new survey from CBS News and YouGov finds him with a 17-point lead over Hillary Clinton, far beyond what other polls suggest.

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Wikileaks: Clinton Team’s Sick Reaction to San Bernardino Terror Attack

As part of Sunday’s new WikiLeaks drop, an email chain shows that immediately upon receiving the news that the gunman responsible for the San Bernardino terrorist shooting that left 14 people dead and 22 injured had an Islamic name, top Clinton officials were unhappy and Hillary Clinton chairman John Podesta suggested it would be “better” if a person with an American name had done the shooting.

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Kaine: No Apology Necessary for Clinton Team’s Mockery of Catholicism

On Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week,” Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said there is no apology necessary in the case of the hacked emails of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s director of communications Jennifer Palmieri discussing Catholicism

Wikileaks—Clinton Insider Calls Chelsea a Back (and Front) Stabber: ‘Apple Doesn’t Fall Far’

Doug Band, a co-founder of the Clinton Global Initiative and a top Clinton insider, accused Chelsea Clinton of backstabbing – specifically, of giving “a kiss on the cheek while she is sticking a knife in the back, and front” – in a January 2012 email sent to top Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta, and top aide, Cheryl Mills. “As they say, the apple doesn’t fall far,” Band added.

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Glenn Greenwald: WikiLeaks Emails Show Media’s ‘Serious Impropriety’

Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” journalist Glenn Greenwald said the WikiLeaks emails from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s staff shows a pattern of “serious impropriety” of media collusion with the Clinton campaign. When asked if the leaks show journalist impropriety,

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Maureen Dowd: ‘It’s Sad’ Hillary Clinton Is So Scripted

Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said it was “sad” how scripted Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is. Dowd said, “It’s hard because the crazy transgressions of Donald Trump kind of relatively speaking make

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Woodward: ‘Majority of the People Distrust’ Hillary

Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton email scandal isn’t about Trump, but that it is “about her” and that there are questions of distrust. Woodward said, “Watergate was

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Billboards Against Communism Appear in New York’s Times Square

Many people, especially in America, are under the mistaken impression that communism is a dead issue in the world today. But the folks at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation want to remind us all that one in five human beings still live under this oppressive system and they have just launched a billboard campaign in New York’s Times Square to do just that.

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Giuliani: ‘Dead People Generally Vote for Democrats’

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Democrats are more likely to engage in voter fraud than Republicans. Giuliani said “Dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans.” He added, “I’ve found

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