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GOP ads give Democrats anti-Donald Trump playbook

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“Bimbo. Dog. Fat pig,” disgusted women say, looking straight into the camera. Another explains, “Real quotes from Donald Trump, about women.” Flip the channel. “I know words. I have the best words,” Trump says. That commercial proceeds with a 30-second, bleeped-out tour of his coarsest comments. Both ads — and dozens more that portray Trump as a selfish, deceptive buffoon — are sponsored by fellow Republicans trying to derail the political outsider from capturing their party’s presidential nomination. But these…

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Pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC releases holiday-themed “12 Days of GOP Christmas”

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‘Tis the season … for holiday-themed political attacks. In the spirit of the holidays, Correct the Record, a rapid-response operation supporting Hillary Clinton, launched a “fun and festive” carol – the GOP’s 12 Days of Christmas. Based on the 12 days of Christmas, the web-based parody offers a dozen of the Republican Party’s “most out-of-touch, out-of-date moments” just ahead of the Republican presidential debate Tuesday evening. “While the American people are excited about voting in next year’s presidential election,” the…

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Bill Clinton opening fundraising spree for wife’s campaign

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Former President Bill Clinton is going on a fundraising swing reminiscent of his presidential campaigns of the 1990s. But this time he’s doing it for his wife. Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s presidential campaign has scheduled more than a dozen December events featuring the former president as her team prepares for an end-of-year finance deadline ahead of the first contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. The fundraising blitz, Bill Clinton’s most aggressive stretch of the year, shows how Hillary Clinton’s campaign can…

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ADLF files ethics complaint against Marco Rubio

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The American Democracy Legal Fund (ADLF) has filed a complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics against Marco Rubio for potential violations of Senate ethics rules as well as federal law. In a letter to Senate Ethics Chairman Johnny Isakson from Georgia and Vice Chairwoman Barbara Boxer from California, ADLF says that, based on news reports, they believe Rubio has violated: (1) 31 U.S.C. § 1301(a), which provides that official resources made be used only for the purposes for…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.15.15 — Bernie Sanders does Liberty University

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No, Hillary Clinton is not losing the race for the Democratic Primary, not if you take the Real Clear Politics average of the national spread between her and Bernie Sanders. She’s up overall by 21 percentage points. But in the first in the nation voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire? It’s a completely different story. A CBS/YouTube poll taken over the weekend has him up by 10 points over Clinton in Iowa, and a stunning 22 percent in N.H. In one of…

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