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Joe HendersonOctober 19, 2016

Game-changer? Or victory lap? That’s two potential outcomes for tonight’s third, and final, presidential debate. The first one applies to Donald Trump. If he fails to change the election narrative in his last head-to-head face off with Hillary Clinton, his White House aspirations likely are finished (if they aren’t already). Clinton, ahead in the polls, […]

Martin DyckmanOctober 13, 2016

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“Once to every man and nation “Comes the moment to decide “In the strife of truth with falsehood “For the Good or Evil side ….. “Then it is the brave man chooses, “While the coward stands aside” American poet James Russell Lowell wrote those words in 1844 during the intensifying crisis over slavery. They speak […]

Associated PressOctober 10, 2016

In a bitter debate filled with fire and insult, Hillary Clinton declared that Donald Trump‘s vulgar comments about women reveal “exactly who he is” and prove his unsuitability to be president. Firing back, he accused her of attacking women involved in Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs and promised she would “be in jail” if he were […]

Larry GriffinOctober 8, 2016

Tom Rooney, the Republican representing Florida’s 17th congressional district, now says he will not support GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump after offensive comments made about women came to light Friday. In the widely-panned comments captured on a 2005 video, Trump and talk show host Billy Bush can be heard bragging about kissing and groping women, with Trump claiming women […]

Phil AmmannOctober 8, 2016

Former Gov. Jeb Bush joined scores of Americans outraged by vulgar comments made by GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in a 2005 video uncovered this week by The Washington Post. “As the grandfather of two precious girls, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump’s reprehensible comments degrading women,” the once-presidential candidate tweeted […]

Associated PressOctober 7, 2016

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Hillary Clinton is responding to a video of rival Donald Trump making lewd comments about women in 2005. The Democratic presidential candidate said on Twitter, “This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president.” Trump issued an apology after the video emerged of him making sexually charged comments. He called it “locker room […]

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Joe Henderson: Predicting Donald Trump in final debate is risky business

Martin Dyckman: Cowards who stand aside

90 minutes of fire: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton trade charges, insults

Tom Rooney says he won’t support Donald Trump for president after offensive comments surface

Jeb Bush: ‘No apology can excuse’ Donald Trump’s vulgar comments

Hillary Clinton says video of Donald Trump is ‘horrific’