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 †

Tonight Donald Trump is holding a second campaign rally of the day in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  The venue is the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Cedar Rapids Convention Complex, and the rally begins at 8:00pm (local CT), 9:00pm EDT:

Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1 – Alternate Live Stream #2

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Open Discussion Thread for anything surrounding the DNC Philadelphia Convention.  Hillary Clinton has been working toward this campaign night for 16 consecutive years:

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We are not, repeat NOT, going to exhaust unnecessary energy in the next 10 days to deconstruct the insufferably predictable media-agenda-polls that are looming on the near horizon.

The corporations who have a vested interest in manufacturing the Potemkin village have their collected pollsters armed with fresh paint to create the optics of a “historic” surge in polling upon the conclusion of the Democrat National Party Convention in Philadelphia.

This paint job has been planned for weeks, if not months.

You can count on a manufactured corporate-media pretense to deliver a carefully scripted narrative giving Hillary Clinton a post convention bounce around 10 to 15 points (+/- 3).

What’s coming is so intensely predictable, that if they don’t do it – we’ll actually eat a plain rice cake.

There may be a few scientific polling outcomes that are not connected to the tentacles of the media; we’ll look for those.

However, polling from:  CNN/ORC (Turner), ABC (Disney), NBC (Mark Murray), Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch), Monmouth (Patrick Murray), FOX News (Daron Shaw), Reuters, CBS (David Rhodes), and PPP (Happy Liberals), are g-u–a-r-a-n-t-e-e-d to be manufactured for maximum political value.   ie. Painting the Potemkin Village. (more…)

Today is the final day for the Democrat Coronation of Hillary Clinton.  Candidate Donald Trump released the following campaign message:

At Hillary Clinton’s convention this week, Democrats have been speaking about a world that doesn’t exist. A world where America has full employment, where there’s no such thing as radical Islamic terrorism, where the border is totally secured, and where thousands of innocent Americans have not suffered from rising crime in cities like Baltimore and Chicago.

In the Democrats’ fantasy world, there is no problem with Hillary Clinton maintaining an illegal, exposed server full of classified information that could have been hacked by any foreign enemy, and in which Hillary Clinton risked prison time to delete 33,000 emails that were simply about yoga and wedding planning. In this world, there is no Hillary Clinton disaster in Syria, Libya and Egypt, ISIS doesn’t merit a mention, Iran isn’t on the path to nukes, convention stages don’t need American flags, and our great men and women of law enforcement, our police, do not need to be honored. (more…)

Hillary Clinton faces a general election problem almost identical to the problem Ted Cruz faced in the 2016 republican primary: ‘the need to avoid personal exposure‘.

Any random visibility of Hillary Clinton leads to an increased acceptance that she is fundamentally inauthentic.  More exposure leads to diminished support.  In essence, ‘who‘ Hillary Clinton is becomes the greatest risk to her own candidacy.  It’s a weird dynamic.

As a direct consequence the campaign staff, and those who are charged with retention of a false image, cannot allow Hillary Clinton to face situations where she (they) are not in full control of the optics and outcomes.   Today, when faced with questions about Hillary’s lack of accessibility by the media the campaign manager laughed off any possibility:

(The Hill) […] Speaking at a luncheon hosted by The Wall Street Journal, campaign manager Robby Mook (above right) burst out laughing when asked if Clinton would hold court with members of the media before Election Day.

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Candidates Donald Trump and Mike Pence are focusing on two states today, Michigan and Iowa, with two campaign events in each state.  Governor Mike Pence is in Michigan (Grand Rapids 3pm, and Novi 7pm), while Donald Trump is in Iowa (Davenport 4pm, and Cedar Rapids 8pm).

Donald Trump’s first rally of the day is in Davenport, Iowa at the Adler Theater.  His event begins at 4:00pm EDT.

Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream

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Donald Trump interview with Brian Kilmeade discussing the current race and the ‘controversial’ statements made about Russia, the convention, etc.

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During a flight between Pennsylvania and Ohio candidate Donald Trump hosted an AMA Reddit –See Here– A social media engagement opportunity for people to write in questions to the popular site Reddit, and have candidate Donald Trump answer them directly:

It was the largest AMA in Reddit’s history: (more…)

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.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.