As Clinton Battles Pneumonia, Writers Rally With Established Data On Trump Voters #Truth

Hillary Clinton has pneumonia, doctor says Politico

Hillary Clinton's doctor Lisa Bardack said in a statement Sunday that she saw Clinton when she returned home in Chappaqua after the Democratic nominee left a 9/11 memorial ceremony due to what her campaign said was overheating.

"Secretary Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies. On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia," her doctor, Lisa Bardack, said in a statement released to the press. "She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule. While at this morning's event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely."

There is no word on whether the Democratic candidate will still fly to California tomorrow. According to a senior adviser, the campaign is evaluating her schedule and need for rest. 

April 2016 Reuters/Ipsos Poll of 7,800 People on Racial Attitudes New York Magazine

The poll surveyed about 1840 Clinton supporters, 1370 Trump, 970 Cruz and 650 Kasich on attitudes related to race. The Trumpsters are far out front, followed by Cruz supporters. Kasich supporters are in some cases less opinionated negatively about race than Clinton supporters.

Data Reveals Hillary Clinton Was Right About Donald Trump's 'Deplorable' Supporters Huffington Post

A May PPP survey of Trump supporters found that 54% think President Obama is a Muslim, only 13% think he's a Christian. 59% think President Obama was not born in America, with only 23% thinking that he was. 

Just 42% of Trump supporters think Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural causes with 24% thinking Scalia was murdered and 34% being unsure. 

On the topic of gay marriage, a recent Pew poll found that 52% of Trump supporters oppose it, in spite of the Supreme Court ruling.  

The same research found that 69% of Trump voters -- compared to 51% of Cruz voters and 40% of Kasich supporters believe that immigrants are a burden to the country by taking jobs, housing and health care.  By contrast, only 17% of Clinton voters and 14% of Sanders voters agreed with this negative view of immigrants. 

Hillary Clinton Was Politically Incorrect, but She Wasn't Wrong About Trump's Supporters The Atlantic

One way of reporting on Clinton’s statement is to weigh its political cost, ask what it means for her campaign, or attempt to predict how it might affect her performance among certain groups. This path is in line with the current imperatives of political reporting and, at least for the moment, seems to be the direction of coverage. But there is another line of reporting that could be pursued—Was Hillary Clinton being truthful or not?
Much like Trump’s alleged opposition to the Iraq War, this not an impossible claim to investigate. We know, for instance, some nearly 60 percent of Trump’s supporters hold “unfavorable views” of Islam, and 76 percent support a ban on Muslims entering the United States. We know that some 40 percent of Trump’s supporters believe blacks are more violent, more criminal, lazier, and ruder than whites. Two-thirds of Trump’s supporters believe the first black president in this country’s history is not American. These claim are not ancillary to Donald Trump’s candidacy, they are a driving force behind it.
When Hillary Clinton claims that half of Trump’s supporters qualify as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic,” data is on her side. One could certainly argue that determining the truth of a candidate’s claims is not a political reporter’s role. But this is not a standard that political reporters actually adhere to.

Trump Loves Schlafly, Champion of Anti-Feminist, Anti-Gay, Anti-Anything Progressive in American Values

Trump takes aim at Clinton's lead among women Politico

Donald Trump said on Saturday that Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who led the defeat of America's Equal Rights Amendment and numerous campaigns against gay rights, was "a truly great American patriot" who championed the American underdog and people like himself.

"Believe me, Phyllis was there for me when it was not at all fashionable. Trust me," Trump told the crowd honoring her. "Her legacy will live on every time some underdog outmatched and outgunned, defies the odds, and delivers a win for the people."

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has fielded a team of women in Ohio to court women voters.

"Katrina Pierson, his often irreverent spokeswoman, emerged with Lara Trump, the candidate’s daughter-in-law, Omarosa Manigault, a reality TV star-turned-campaign director of African American outreach, Lynne Patton, a vice president at the Eric Trump Foundation, and YouTube stars Diamond and Silk.

“We are not politicians, we are civilians,” Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, told a mostly female crowd lunching on cold cuts and potato salad in a fluorescent-lit room. “We really don’t have any idea what we’re doing, except we said, ‘We’ve got to go out and tell people what a great guy Donald Trump is.”'

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 11, 2016

Washington Post poll: Clinton ahead by 5 The Washington Post

Clinton's lead: Steady but not certain Politico

CIA director rebuts Trump's claim on intelligence briefing Politico

Matt Lauer's Pathetic Interview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Is the Scariest Thing I've Seen in This Campaign by Jonathan Chait New York Magazine

Trump Favors Regime Change in Iran, Says He'll Attack Them Over Rude Gestures New York Magazine

 

America's Founders Worried About The Appeal of Trump Style Thug Leadership

Facebook co-founder donates $20 million to defeat Trump Politico

Dustin Moskovitz, who joined Mark Zuckerberg in co-founding Facebook before going on to found Asana has committed $20 million -- with his wife Cari Tuna -- to elect Democrats this fall. "The polarization in America today has yielded a race that is about much more than policies and ideas," Moskovitz wrote in his essay titled "Compelled to Act.", published on Medium. "It has become a referendum on who we want to be -- as individuals, as a nation and as a society." 

The $20 million will be divided among the Hillary Victory Fund, the DSCC, and the DCCC, the League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund and For Our Future PAC. 

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and the Thug Theory of Leadership The Daily Beast

The Founding Fathers warned about the danger of this “strongman” school of leadership since the earliest days of our democracy. Alexander Hamilton cautioned “There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.”
“Noise and impudence” is certainly one way to describe The Donald’s campaign style. Its nationalist, know-nothing appeal is emotional. Especially in times when people feel out of control—for example, when the forces of globalization are shaking every old tribal certainty—some folks gravitate to the guy who is strong and wrong. They are soothed by tough-guy theatrics that divide the world into us against them. They take comfort in the bully because they believe he’s got their back. Of course, bullies are scared and self-interested creatures themselves and they have no friendships, only interests.
John Adams argued, “without the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation… every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.” But humility, patience, and moderation are emotionally unsatisfying for people who need to feel the overwhelming force of power to believe its real.

Donald Trump has successfully exhausted our ability to be shocked VOX

Indeed, what Donald Trump said at Wednesday night's poorly-moderated by Matt Lauer Commander-in-Chief Forum was shocking. But as Matthew Yglesias makes clear, we are not shocked. If President Obama had said one-third of the statements made by the Republican candidate, Washington would be in the throws of impeachment proceedings. 

Yet, Trump rolls along down the campaign trail, with his vice presidential running mate Mike pence also praising the leadership skills of Russia's Vladimir Putin. Simply stated, the fast-moving Trump train should be running off the rails, but it defies the laws of physics on every turn. 

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 9, 2016

Stephen Colbert calls Matt Lauer a complete disgrace to journalism VOX

Trump's shot at top brass rankles military circles Politico

Hillary Clinton's Patriotism The New Yorker

Polls: Trump and Clinton deadlocked in Florida, Ohio Politico

The Hillary Clinton email story is out of control Washington Post

AP deletes Clinton Foundation tweet Politico

Super-PAC Works to Elect Hillary Clinton One Community at a Time Mother Jones

On the One Hand, the Media's Coverage of the Trump-Clinton Forum Was a Disaster Slate