It cannot be overstated just how far the preferred corporate media narrative is disconnected from reality. The real battle is for your mind.

The institutional media goal is to grind down Trump/Pence supporter enthusiasm (which is massive), and artificially inflate the narrative of enthusiasm for Clinton/Kaine (which does not exist).  Within the reality we find the disconnect outlining the “rigged system”.
Tim Kaine goes to Miami-Dade, a regional geography with millions of registered Democrat voters, to deliver a rally speech and less than 50 people show up:
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Governor Mike Pence ran the gauntlet against the Sunday TV talk circuit today:
NBC – Chuck Todd:

WE ARE WINNING – The signs are increasingly everywhere. 2.6 million individual small donations to Trump in September, that’s yuge.

The media is shifting their attack Trump approach – to attack Trump supporters. This is a key ‘indicator’ which tells us the media attempts to destroy their original target is not having the necessary effect. Historically, when this happens the media shift and begin trying to frame a narrative against the supporters of their target.
It has always been thus. Remember their playbook: Isolate, Ridicule, Marginalize…

….Fourteen million citizens and private ballots picked Donald Trump, 20 TV executives have decided to destroy him…

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RED SEA – (CNN) The Navy destroyer USS Mason [Guided Missile Destroyer] fired countermeasures in the Red Sea on Saturday after it detected what it believed were incoming missiles.

Officials Saturday night were uncertain about what exactly happened, if there were multiple incoming missiles or if there was a malfunction with the radar detection system on the destroyer.
“We are aware of the reports and we are assessing the situation. All of our ships and crews are safe and unharmed,” one US defense official told CNN.  The USS Nitze and the USS Ponce were sailing nearby. (more…)

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Back in March CNN held a Town Hall event with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.  Jake Tapper and Roland Martin were moderators.   It is now confirmed that CNN’s Donna Brazile had an advance copy of at least one of the questions for Hillary Clinton and gave Clinton a heads’-up so she could prepare – FULL BACKSTORY –

Now Jake Tapper is clutching his pearls, shocked – SHOCKED, that Donna Brazile would leak the questions. He said so on WMAL (Listen Below):
https://audioboom.com/boos/5160226-wmal-interview-jake-tapper-10-13-16
Additionally, in ’93 Jake Tapper was the Press Secretary for Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law, representative Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky. (more…)

The last straw in a long road fraught with tenuous relationships was last week when Ohio establishment GOPe Chairman Matt Borges joined CNN to rail against Donald Trump.   Even as Team Trump gathered a large tent of support, Borges and the Kasich team continued the sketchy undermining the Trump campaign all year….. Enough eventually became Enough – Donald Trump’s Ohio campaign manager on Saturday renounced its relationship with Borges:

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Donald Trump’s Ohio campaign manager on Saturday renounced its relationship with the Ohio Republican Party’s top official, laying bare the long-simmering tensions over Trump’s candidacy within the state GOP.
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The second Trump rally of the day takes place in Bangor, Maine at Cross Insurance Center. Live stream coverage of the event is scheduled for 3:00pm EDT:
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1 – Alternate Live Stream #2