Today In 2016: The Weird Trump Reality Show That Never Made It To TV
Welcome to Today In 2016, your daily digest of all things election. Today: President Obama probably wasn't telling the whole truth about Hillary's emails, Trump's long lost reality show, and the liberal activist who worked with Breitbart.
Today's Headlines
Clips Surface Of Weird Trump Reality Show That Hit The Cutting Room Floor [Jezebel]
Newly Released Recordings Reveal Donald Trump's Love Of Fighting And Obsession With The Media [The New York Times]
Hacked Emails Show Clinton Campaign Scramble After President Obama Claimed He Didn't Know About Hillary Clinton's Private Email [The Hill]
The Trump Campaign Used $300,000 To Buy Copies Of His Own Book [The Huffington Post]
Breitbart Coordinated With Liberal Activist To Troll GOP Primary Events [Politico]
The Long And Short Takes
The Trump Meme Mastermind
Mike Cernovich is a lawyer turned blogger turned social media star. What began as a blog response to a rape allegation that was made against him, spiralled into the creation of a white-male identity politic — one that sees political correctness and feminism as unfairly stifling of essential liberties. Now, rather than argue through logic, pen, and paper he prefers Twitter, photoshop, and Impact font. After gaining a massive following, Cernovich has become Trump meme royalty.
Donald Trump Is Markedly More Conservative Than His Supporters
Donald Trump's candidacy has been purported to be propelled by the highly conservative alt-right, but a recent poll of his supporters shows that the majority of Trump supporters are much more liberal than he is on the issues. From gay marriage to climate change, most Trump supporters seem to fall left of their candidate, except on two standout issues — guns and the minimum wage.
[Vox]
Hot Air
Trump's Phony Poll Bologna
Yesterday, Republican strategist Sean Spicer insisted to Anderson Cooper that Donald Trump is "winning where it counts." Cooper pushed back saying that even if Trump won all the battleground states he wouldn't have enough electoral votes to win the presidency. This brought Cooper to Donald Trump's recent assertions that only "phony polls" are showing him as behind. Despite only one recent poll showing Trump even tied with Clinton, Spicer insisted that that single poll was more accurate than the massive amount of previous polls showing a Clinton lead:
Poll Positions
Latest Polling Average
Clinton: 45.3%; Trump: 39.9%; Johnson: 6% [Real Clear Politics]
Latest Odds
Clinton: 85.5%; Trump: 14.5% [FiveThirtyEight]
Clinton: 93%; Trump: 7% [New York Times]
Clinton: 99%; Trump: 1% [Princeton Election Consortium]
That's all folks, now go fill your brains with trashy reality TV (only a slight step below this election) until tomorrow.
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