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House Speaker Paul Ryan told fellow Republican lawmakers Monday he will not defend Donald Trump and will focus only on maintaining GOP control of both houses of Congress. But the House speaker has not pulled his endorsement of Trump, a Ryan spokeswoman told NBC News. "The speaker is going to spend the next month focused entirely on protecting our congressional majorities," she said. Ryan hinted that he may think the presidential race is out of reach for Trump, telling lawmakers on a call that he wants to ensure Democrat Hillary Clinton does not get a blank check with Congress, according...

Even before The Washington Post reported on a 2005 recording of Donald Trump making crude comments about exploiting his celebrity to sexually assault women, Hillary Clinton's campaign was on the upswing. Her strong performance in the first presidential debate had pushed her national polling numbers up fairly quickly. Not as quickly as after the party conventions, mind you, but even before a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released on Monday, she led by about five points. Then the new poll came out. As always, one poll could be an outlier. This poll has a relatively high margin of error of...

Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, which bills itself as the largest Christian University in the world, told WABC radio host Rita Cosby that Mr. Trump’s caught-on-tape comments are indefensible, but said that he thinks the release of the tape was planned to give Republicans an excuse to “slither out” of supporting the GOP presidential nominee. “I think it was timed,” Mr. Falwell said. “I think it might have even been a conspiracy among establishment Republicans who have known about it for weeks and who tried to time it to do the maximum damage to Donald Trump, and I...

The poll, conducted on Saturday and Sunday but before the second presidential debate, shows Clinton with 46 percent support among likely voters in a four-way matchup, compared to 35 percent for Trump. Clinton up by 11 points in 4 way race, up 14 in 2 way race.

The son of the Moral Majority founder and the president of Liberty University told WABC radio host Rita Crosby shortly after Sunday’s presidential debate that Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) and other Republican leaders used the recently released lewd tape of Donald J. Trump to execute a push against the GOP nominee for president. “I think this whole tape… video tape thing was planned, I think it was timed, I think it might have even been a conspiracy among establishment Republicans who have known about it for weeks and who tried to time it to do the maximum damage to...

NBC has announced Billy Bush has been suspended indefinitely from the Today show over his lewd comments with Donald Trump that were recorded on a hot mic. Today executive Noah Oppenheim announced Bush's ban in an email to the show's team on Sunday night. 'Dear TODAY Family - I know we've all been deeply troubled by the revelations of the past 48 hours,' the statement read. 'Let me be clear - there is simply no excuse for Billy's language and behavior on that tape. NBC has decided to suspend Billy, pending further review of this matter. 'If any of you...

Apparently, Donald Trump made some very crude comments over the weekend.Oh, wait … he uttered those comments privately over eleven years ago.Isn’t it against the law to record such private conversations in the first place? I am waiting for the Trump campaign to launch their next lawsuit … against Billy Bush. Another thing: Why are we learning about these crude comments from eleven years ago -- now? What do they have to do with this momentous and compelling Presidential campaign this year? This is another example of journalistic malpractice. If the entertainment or news media really feared Donald Trump and...

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Saturday told party officials to redirect funds away from nominee Donald Trump to down-ballot candidates, according to an official informed of the decision. In practical terms, the party will be working to mobilize voters who support GOP House and Senate candidates regardless of their position on the presidential race. That means the RNC will push Floridians who support both Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to vote. Before today, the RNC wouldn’t have sought to turn out Clinton voters, leaving split-ticket voters for Senate campaigns to target. (Snip) On top...

By - Associated Press - Sunday, October 9, 2016 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is calling on Donald Trump to step down as the party’s presidential nominee for his recently released comments about women. Haslam issued a statement Sunday calling on Trump to remove himself and clear the way for Trump running mate Mike Pence to face Democrat Hillary Clinton next month. “I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter,” Haslam said. “None of us in elected office are perfect, but the decisions that are made in the Oval Office have too many...

In the history of politics, in our nation, no one has been more abusive towards women than Bill Clinton. and then she viciously attacked those same women.....

A few minutes into Sunday’s debate Donald Trump’s decade-old crude sexual banter with a reporter from an entertainment show was mentioned by the CNN moderator. Donald again apologized for the comments, and Hillary immediately pounced on Trump’s misogyny, throwing in his alleged racism and Islamophobia. To his credit, Trump ignored her slurs and attacked her record. When Democrat loyalist Martha Raddatz pressed on, Trump let loose with a powerful contrast with Bill’s record of abuse––which Hillary side-stepped.

Trump - 45.8 (+0.3) Clinton - 42.7 (-0.6)

Trump 48.5 (+0.3) Crooked 42.6 (-0.6) October 3-9, 2016 http://cesrusc.org/election/

To any number of Americans, the lewd, three-minute tape, and the Republican candidate’s halfhearted apologies, were the final straw. The 2008 Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and 35 other party leaders publicly rejected his candidacy. But not Kelly Glenn. I met Ms. Glenn, who helps run her vast family ranch along Arizona’s border with Mexico, on a recent reporting trip exploring Mr. Trump’s ideas about immigration, and she was one of several Trump supporters I called over the weekend to see how the tape was playing. “Shame on him,” she said. “The fact he has no control...

Full Title: Donald's great escape: Trump’s all-out attack on the Clintons for their sexual past as he says Bill abused women and Hillary ‘attacked those women viciously’ – and she responds by calling him a liar and a racist ... He [Trump] had Clinton playing defense for most of the 90-minute clash, saying she would be 'in jail' if he ran the Justice Department – a reference to her classified email scandal – and declaring that she had 'tremendous hate in her heart' when she branded 'half' his supporters as 'deplorables.' He even bested her on her recollection of her...

Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-latest-poll-figures-hillary-clinton-second-tv-presidential-debate-a7352971.html

Trump down 1.7 points. Clinton up .4. The other 1.3 points moved to the 3rd party candidates.

A video of Donald Trump making lewd sexual comments prompted plenty of party stalwarts to abandon the GOP nominee, but Republican voters aren’t ready to leave their man behind: Only 12 percent of Republicans say Trump should drop out of the race. Overall support for Donald Trump dropped just one point in a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll taken immediately after the 2005 Access Hollywood video leaked. Trump would get 38 percent of the vote if the election were held today, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would get 42 percent. The poll is the first national survey to test voters’ opinions after the...

See what a difference selective media coverage makes to your perception? At least Trump was only talking. How many women were actually used, molested, raped, their lives ruined by three Democratic Presidents that continue to be portrayed as heroes? And Clinton's still doing it, hanging around pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his Orgy Island, but Big Media won't cover that. Or the 800-lb. gorilla that is Hillary's long list of documented lying, lawbreaking, and contempt for the public. No, moral outrage is only reserved for Republican candidates.

Why is this such a huge issue? We should keep track of the turncoats.