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President Trump arrived in western Pennsylvania on Saturday night for one of his favorite presidential tasks: delivering a long, free-association speech at a political rally.
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“Hey, didn’t we surprise them with women during the election? Remember? ‘Women won’t like Donald Trump,’ ” he said, mimicking cable news pundits. “I said, ‘Have I really had that kind of a problem? I don‘t think so.’ But: ‘Women won’t like Donald Trump. It will be a rough night for Donald Trump because the women won’t come out.’ We got 52 percent. Right? Fifty-two.

“And I’m running against a woman! You know it’s not that easy,” Trump said.

That figure, 52 percent, is clearly incorrect. [...]


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In other words, Trump’s celebration of how well he did with women appears to have been, in fact, a celebration of how well he did with white women, somehow skipping over that critical modifier. What’s more, Trump’s was the worst showing for a Republican among white women since 2000, when George W. Bush barely edged out Al Gore.
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A military parade requested by US President Donald Trump will take place on 11 November - Veterans' Day - in Washington DC, the Pentagon has confirmed.

In a memo, it said tanks would not be involved to help limit damage to roads.

Mr Trump had asked the military to organise a showcase back in January.

He had reportedly been impressed by a Bastille Day parade in Paris last year, and declared: "We're going to have to try and top it."

The Pentagon said the parade will travel from the White House to the Capitol, and will feature a "heavy air component at the end".

It will include "wheeled vehicles only", and will focus on the work of US military veterans through the ages, starting with the American Revolutionary War.

US military parades are usually only used to mark victory at the end of a war.

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has said the planned parade demonstrates the "president's affection and respect for the military".

But Democrats have compared it to the military spectacles favoured by autocratic nations.

"What an absurd waste of money!" tweeted Representative Jim McGovern when the idea first emerged.

The White House's budget chief has said the event will cost taxpayers up to $30m (£21m).

The District of Columbia Council, Washington's legislative body, aired its disapproval last month with a tweet reading, "Tanks but no tanks!"

Silhouettes of First World War soldiers appeared in sites across the UK this morning as part of a fundraising campaign for the charity Remembered.

The Tommies will appear at four sites across the country this morning (see gallery above). and will tour the country until Armistice Day (11 November). Members of the public are being encouraged to buy their own 10-inch versions to remember their own relatives, a century on from the end of the Great War.

The charity, founded last year, has the goals of commemorating the war dead, educating the public and in particular younger generations about the WWI, and raising funds for those suffering from PTSD and other legacies of combat. Remembered's patron is former British Army chief of general staff Lord Dannatt.

This seems incredibly vulgar and tacky.

Trump received votes from people who had voted for Obama.

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From the looks of it, [Bannon] envisions a world where non-whites had better know their place

In an interview with American broadcaster NBC News that aired Saturday, Putin also suggested that some of the 13 Russian nationals indicted by the United States may not be ethnically Russian.

“Maybe they are not even Russians, but Ukrainians, Tatars or Jews, but with Russian citizenship, which should also be checked,” he said.

So last September, a reporter asked Hans von Spakovsky — one of the leaders of the conservative push to hype voter fraud — whether he was the sender of an email that said putting Democrats or mainstream Republicans on Trump’s voter fraud commission would lead to its “abject failure.”

Von Spakoskvy denied it. “I don’t know anything about that,” he said.

Hours later, it was revealed that von Spakovsky had indeed sent the email. He later claimed, implausibly, that he was confused because the reporter had phrased her question imprecisely.

And now, Tierney Sneed reports, the whole embarrassing episode is being entered into evidence to impeach von Spakovsky’s credibility as a witness in the trial over Kansas’s strict voter registration law. Including the transcript of the reporter’s audio recording, in which von Spakovsky falsely denies sending the email.

At Pennsylvania rally, Trump endorses himself