High Anxiety, Clinton Clings to Lead
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Vol. 5, No. 311
E Minus 2: National anxiety is increasing as voters for both presidential candidates talk over dinner about what country they would move to if the opposition wins the election. The 2nd Amendment crowd is worried that Hillary Clinton will try to “grab” their guns, as though that’s anywhere close to a realistic possibility. The Clinton people fear being represented in the world by a bombastic amateur.
One man tweeted, “Everybody saying they will move out of the country if Trump gets elected. Your mom will be elated to finally have the basement back”
Out on the campaign, Secret Service agents rushed Donald Trump off a stage in Reno, Nev., yesterday, when a man rushed through the crowd toward the candidate. The man was escorted away and Trump returned to the stage.
CNN’s Brian Stelter reported, “Then there’s this: When CNN producer Noah Gray ventured out into the crowd to try to film the suspect, he was harassed by several Trump rallygoers. On tape, you can hear them telling Gray ‘get the fuck out,’ ‘no news media,’ etc. He was also shoved repeatedly …”
Trump continues to go it mostly alone with events today in Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. His Veep candidate Mike Pence is out there, too, but they are lacking the star power of Hillary Clinton’s lineup. Beyoncé is not a Trump woman.
Clinton is campaigning today in Cleveland with basketball great LeBron James while operatives that range from her husband and daughter to Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are spread across the country. The singer Cher is appearing at a fundraiser in Miami, which won’t exactly bring out the youth vote.
While Trump is trending upward, The NY Times average of polls still has Clinton leading in the states that could win her the election. Pennsylvania, up 4.7; North Carolina, 3.5; New Hampshire, 2.2; Florida, 1.5. Nationally, according to the Times number crunchers, Clinton leads, 45.5 percent to 43.1. Keep in mind, 37 million people have already voted, and the Times reports a surge in Hispanic votes, a sure boost for Clinton.
The Insider: Trump mouthpiece Rudolph Giuliani bragged to Fox News that he knew for weeks that the FBI was preparing to drop another email bomb on Hillary Clinton. “I had expected this for the last, honestly, to tell you the truth, I thought it was going to be about three or four weeks ago,” Giuliani said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. Giuliani, who was a federal prosecutor before he was mayor of New York, said he got his info from former FBI agents, which begs the question, who was leaking inside information to them. “All I heard were former FBI agents telling me that there’s a revolution going on inside the FBI and it’s now at a boiling point,” Giuliani said.
Crime Blotter: Investigators in South Carolina say that a man accused of kidnapping a woman and keeping her as a sex slave has confessed to killing seven people, three of them on his own 95-acre property. Kala Brown, 30, who had been missing since Aug. 31, was found chained inside a metal container. The body of her boyfriend, 32-year-old Charlie Carver, was found on the property.
The local sheriff says Todd Kohlhepp, 45, led them to two other bodies on his property and told them that back in 2003 he shot and killed four people inside a South Carolina motorcycle shop.
Permawar: The Islamic State is fighting back with suicide bombs and coordinated attacks inside the city of Mosul as Iraqi forces push into the city. CNN reported that one of their news teams was pinned down for 24 hours with an armored column that was under attack from both ends in tight city streets.
Satellite Images show that ISIS fighters have built concrete barricades and earth berms to block routes to the center of the city. Iraqi Lt. Col. Saad Alwan told Al Jazeera “We’re facing fierce resistance, they’re digging trenches and using car bombs.”
The Wood: Reporting a story that Hillary Clinton used to order her maid to print out State Department emails, the headline on today’s NY Post screams “MOP SECRET.”
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