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News Trump May Have a Second Career After Elections, but What About His Far-Right Supporters?
On October 26, less than two weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump took time out from campaigning to officially open a new hotel of his in Washington. It’s an unusual way to spend several precious hours as they dwindle down, which is what makes the move a strong signal that Trump is already thinking hard…
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Fast Forward Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Gives $35M to Hillary Clinton and Demcrats
Democrats might have found their white knight — a Jewish billionaire who came out of nowhere to write eight-figure checks for their candidates and causes. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has forked over $35 million to Hillary Clinton and allies. But party officials fear he might dump them once the threat of Donald Trump is off…
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Israel News Donald Trump Hopes Jerusalem Event Will Shore Up Support From Jews — and Evangelicals
Donald Trump will address supporters by video message at a restricted Republican gathering in Israel this week, but there is no sign that the event will succeed in turning around his flagging support among American Jews or even evangelical Christian backers of Israel. According to Marc Zell, head of Republicans Overseas Israel, Trump and Michael…
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News WATCH: Trump Backers Hurl Actual Nazi Slur at ‘Lying Press’
When Pat Buchanan ran for president more than two decades ago, attacking gays, feminists, liberals, single mothers in his famous “Culture War” speech, the late political humorist Molly Ivins joshed that the address sounded better “in the original German.” In this strange election season, her quip has traveled the distance from ribbing to reality. For…
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Fast Forward Bill Clinton Warns of Trump, Urges Florida Jews to Get Out and Vote
No one knows tikkun olam, or “repairing the world” like Bubba, right? Former President Bill Clinton invoked that spirit — and something much more scary — to urge Florida Jews to stick to their Democratic Party roots and vote en masse for Hillary Clinton. He connected Hillary Clinton’s call for a more inclusive country, embodied…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Newspaper Is First To Endorse Trump
Donald Trump got his first major newspaper endorsement Sunday — and it’s hardly a surprise given its owner. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which was purchased last year by Jewish Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, ran an editorial endorsement calling voters in Nevada, one of the key swing states in the upcoming elections, to vote Trump. “History…
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Fast Forward David Duke Makes It to Primetime for Louisiana Senate Debate — at Black College
After Wednesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, it might have seemed that we wouldn’t see the likes of it for a long time. But two weeks from now, Louisiana white supremacist and long-shot Senate candidate David Duke will take the debate stage with five of his rivals. After the story broke Thursday, Duke…
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The Schmooze Stressed Out Over the Election? There’s a (Meditation) App For That.
If you’ve found yourself constantly Googling election news, having anxious “what if?” conversations with friends and watching the debates in a miserable ball from your couch — rest assured, you’re not alone. More than half of Americans feel their well-being has been affected by this election cycle, according to a survey by the American Psychological Association….
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