The supporters of Candidate Donald Trump have crushed all historic fundraising records for small (under $200/per) “grass roots” donations.  Over 2.1 million individual small donations in 3 months.
For perspective Hillary and Bill Clinton’s small donor base is 2.3 million, as accumulated over their political lifetimes.   Donald Trump has amassed a group of 2.1 million small donor contributors since July – 3 months ago – the date of his first email request.

Do you hear that rumble in the background?  Yeah, that’s the sound of the Monster Vote!

(Via Politico)  Donald Trump has unleashed an unprecedented deluge of small-dollar donations for the GOP, and one that Republican Party elders have dreamed about finding for much of the last decade as they’ve watched a succession of Democrats — Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and, to a lesser extent, Hillary Clinton — develop formidable fundraising operations, $5, $10 and $20 at a time. (more…)

According to the collaborative work of researchers for Advertising Age, Hillary Clinton is spending over $145 million on TV and Radio Ads.  Donald Trump’s total is a little over 4 million.  Team Clinton is burning 36 times more money than Team Trump.

(Via AdAge) To put all this another way, of the $149,912,723 millon in booked TV and radio spending through election day for these three presidential candidates, $145,299,727 is being spent by the Clinton campaign combined with pro-Clinton PACs. (link)

(LINK)  Another reason for the media to hate Trump.  He’s not filling their bank accounts.

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

UPDATE 1:30am – Explosion in New Jersey terminal while bomb squad robot was inspecting a backpack containing “numerous devices”. It was NOT a controlled detonation. Thankfully no-one was hurt, area previously evacuated.

#BREAKING video shows moment bomb robot accidentally detonated device found @ Elizabeth NJ train station. @PIX11News pic.twitter.com/xfO97F2ebm

— Anthony DiLorenzo (@ADiLorenzoTV) September 19, 2016

According to New York Senator Marty Golden, media and eye witnesses, five men dressed in Arab garb have been stopped, and detained, by the FBI.

FBI took several individuals into custody on the Belt Parkway in the area underneath the Verrazano Bridge, with a possible connection to the bombing last night in Chelsea (link)

Eyewitnesses report several NYPD officers in swat gear armed with rifles had a vehicle stopped on the Belt Parkway.
Five men were then taken in custody after the FBI called for NYPD backup. The men were believed to be headed to the airport, The New York Post reported.
(more…)

See kids, this is what happens….
Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson appeared on CNN at 11:30 this morning to discuss current events including last nights’ bombing in New York (Chelsea), and the Jihadist stabbing in Minnesota.
29 people were wounded in the New York bomb blast, and 9 people were injured in the stabbing attack.  However, apparently no-one told Gary Johnson – as he remarked:

…”well, first of all, just grateful that no-body, er, got hurt”…

This is almost,.. almost, too much winning.

According to Egyptian news media President Fattah al-Sisi will meet republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for the first time during his visit to New York for a scheduled U.N. General Assembly meeting.

Dear readers, we cannot adequately encapsulate the incredible potential, what is entirely possible, in our future if these two leaders can unify their demonstrably effective goals.  We’ll expand on that, but first, here’s the breaking news:

EGYPT – President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is expected to meet US republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the sidelines of his visit to New York, state news agency MENA reported.

Al-Sisi will arrive in New York on Sunday afternoon to attend the 71st debate of the United Nations (UN) general assembly.

(more…)

• Why did CNN specifically broadcast the Congressional Black Caucus dinner in Washington DC yesterday?
• Why did President Obama and Hillary Clinton make the decision to attack Donald Trump at this dinner?
• Why did Hillary Clinton’s campaign make a specific decision to resurrect the worn out Obama birtherism narrative?
• Why did Pastor Faith Timmons plan to ambush candidate Donald Trump during a speech in Flint Michigan?

The reason for those and many more obvious racial political strategies can be found within the following report: “Black voters are turning from Clinton to Trump in new poll”

[…]  Donald Trump is gaining support among African-American voters — whose enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is eroding, a tracking poll released Saturday revealed.

Trump saw a 16.5 percentage-point increase in backing from African-American voters in a Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California tracking poll, up from 3.1 percent on Sept. 10 to 19.6 percent through Friday.

(more…)

Against the backdrop of a looming monster vote, and with the media beginning to discuss the “enthusiasm gap”, it can be challenging to get real reports not filtered and spun through the prism of the mainstream media. Subsequently, a deplorable in Ohio wanted to check out the reality:

How much actual enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton exists today in Ohio?

To find the answer, one deplorable supporter went to a scheduled 1:00pm Hillary Clinton outreach event (door knocking) in Delaware Ohio. Here’s the result:

Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway hits the Sunday talk show circuit:
CBS John Dickerson – Face The Nation: