| Hang tight, swing state residents -- things are about to ramp up over the next few weeks. Yesterday's poll numbers showed tight races in Ohio and North Carolina, while national polls showed everything from a nationwide pro-Clinton trend (Hillary up by 6, per Reuters/Ipsos) to a pro-Trump trend (Donald back up by 1, per Rasmussen Reports) to a flat 3-point lead for Clinton (Economist/YouGov). The next Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton debate is this Sunday, with average undecided voters asking half the questions in a town-hall format. Can Trump rebound? Does Clinton make it two in a row? And will anyone remember this week's VP debate by Monday morning? |
| In which we talk about the VP debate for a third straight day |
| The least-watched debate in 16 years managed to hang around the news cycle for another day, following reports that it was the least-watched debate in 16 years. Only 37 million Americans tuned in to watch Mike Pence and Tim Kaine, which barely topped the Dick Cheney-Joe Lieberman vice presidential debates in 2000. While the VP debates are generally less watched than the presidential showdowns, the contrast between Tuesday night's debate and the record-breaking viewership of Clinton-Trump debate was unprecedented. |
| Still, several groups tried to capture momentum from the debate and its aftermath. In Nevada Wednesday, Trump touted Pence's performance. "That was my first hire," Trump told the crowd in Henderson, just outside of Las Vegas. "America got to look firsthand at my judgment." Still, some pundits and politicos argued that rather than defend his running mate, Pence was instead setting himself up for his own presidential run in 2020. |
| The VLAction Network, meanwhile, is using Pence's "you whipped out that Mexican thing again" line to encourage Latinos to register to vote via their new URL, www.thatmexicanthing.org . "Donald Trump has made this election about us," said VL Action Network President and CEO Maria Teresa Kumar. "And now it's become about defining who is American. Latinos need to show up and represent, so we can change the conversation to make it about what counts - the issues." |
| How to annoy Silver Staters in one easy step |
| Nevadans (this author included) get weirdly hostile about how to pronounce the state's name -- for reference, natives pronounce it "Nev-AD-da," where non-Nevadans tend to pronounce it "Nev-AH-da." So even in front of a friendly audience Wednesday in Reno, the crowd began shouting at Trump when it sounded like he was "correcting" the pronunciation. |
| "You know what I said? You know what I said? I said when I came out here, I said, 'Nobody says it the other way. It has to be Nev-AH-da.' Right?" he said. "And if you don't say it correctly - and it didn't happen to me, but it happened to a friend of mine and he was killed." |
| Proponents of Nev-AH-da often refer to the name's Spanish roots, which ... OK, fine, that's true. But that's only one of the approximately 12 different ways we're mangling the original Spanish. Picking one mistake out of a sea of mistakes is like hearing someone say "race relations would be much better if the Confederacy was still around" and chiming in with "um, I think you mean race relations would be much better if the Confederacy WERE still around." |
| Awkward times coming soon in the Fox News cafeteria |
| Wednesday night, Fox News' Megyn Kelly criticized both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for seeking out friendly interviewers and softball questions, specifically calling out Trump's appearances with her colleague Sean Hannity. Kelly said Clinton makes sure "she is not in a place where she feels uncomfortable or anything unexpected could come at her, which is why she sat for a half an hour with Mary J. Blige, the singer, which is why she did Entertainment Tonight this evening. |
| "And Donald Trump, with all due respect to my friend at 10 o'clock, will go on Hannity, and pretty much only Hannity, and will not venture out to the unsafe spaces these days, which doesn't exactly extend the tent." Hannity fired back on Twitter, accusing Kelly of being a Clinton supporter, which is just about the biggest insult you can hurl on the Fox News campus. |
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| Donald Trump visited International Christian Academy in Las Vegas Wednesday, prompting one first-grader to announce to no one in particular, "I want to touch his hair because it's orange." |
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