Having noted a Politico article with Speaker Paul Ryan mentioned in a litany of media articles today, all spinning the same narrative, we decided to dig directly to the sourcing and find out what CBS (here), The Hill (here), and Politico (here), were actually selling.

“Ryan: Trump could win, but I’m not ‘betting’ on it” (politico)

“Paul Ryan on Donald Trump victory: “I’m not a betting man“” (CBS)

It took a little scouring, but the audio of a 30 minute interview between Glenn Thrush and Paul Ryan was located. (embedded below)
Having listened to the interview the articles outlined above are intensely dishonest about the construct of the interview and the subject of Ryan’s commentary surrounding candidate Donald Trump.  The media is so dishonest – brutally so. (more…)

Candidate Donald Trump released a new social media video on Monday (via instagram) using audio of Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick who have accused President Clinton of sexual assault.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFwTioiGhQj/
Candidate Hillary Clinton has been called an “enabler” by both Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick who have also asserted Hillary began a smear campaign against them to protect the political future of her husband.

Much is being made of this meeting today between Senator Bob Corker and Donald Trump.  Some have speculated this is a potential meeting because Corker is a possible vice-presidential candidate….  Absolutely WRONG.
Corker is meeting with Donald Trump as an “ambassador from the Wall Street legislative architects”.

Refer to all of those prior discussion and research posts about Wall Street not understanding who Donald Trump is, and what his intentions are toward their legislative endeavors.   They do not understand what he means by “America First”; they are actively trying to figure it out.  Please also reference the prior discussions on economic shifts over the past three decades and the “hidden economy”.    All these factors are converging.
Senator Bob Corker is one of the Corinthian Chair holders along with McConnell, Hatch, Cornyn, Cochran, et al.   In this meeting Corker was acting as an ambassador of sorts, an intermediary, from the Wall Street legislation team.   Corker is researching, probing, trying to determine “the play” and potential risk. (more…)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich discusses the current state of the U.S. presidential race and the pending Hillary Clinton -vs- Donald Trump match up:

President Obama is visiting Vietnam today and paused for a picture with communist party President Tran Dai Quang in front of a bust of Ho Chi Minh.
Perhaps it’s just me, but given the nature of the diplomatic relationship this specific optic seems rather inappropriate.

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This portends rather nicely:

… […] “Republicans have been accused in the past, and some degree rightfully so, of not tearing the bark off of our opponents and this year Donald Trump has made it very clear we are going to be aggressive,” and do what it takes to win, Spicer explained.

Senator Jeff Sessions appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss the state of the GOP primary, republican party nominee Donald Trump, and the state of the race:

A Segment was available yesterday, but today we get the full Jake Tapper interview with Bernie Sanders on CNN where Bernie states his support for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz primary opponent her removal from DNC.

There’s a whole lot of good news and ‘splodey head angst in the latest ABC/Washington Post national poll (full pdf below). The poll sample size of 1005 includes a mix of 33% Democrat, 27% Republican and 35% Independent. Democrats over sampled by eight points, (D+8).
However, even with the sample skew (D+8) Donald Trump still beats Hillary Clinton 46% to 44%, and Trump is crushing Clinton with Independent voters 48% to 35%.

In addition to the overwhelming 13 point polling lead among independent voters, the same poll shows that 20% of Bernie Sanders supporters will vote for Donald Trump.
Also, very optimistically presented in the poll data is the exact percentage of Mitt Romney Voters (Never Trumpers) we predicted back in March that would defect to Team Clinton, 6%.   Conversely, when the race switches from the primary to the General Election 8% of Clinton primary voters will vote Trump. (more…)

Candidate Donald Trump recorded a video that was played at the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference: