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THE BIG IDEA: A backing get-out-the-vote assemblage in Fairfax on Saturday night was a applicable coda to a asperous anniversary for Virginia Democrats.
Virginians assuredly arch to the acclamation on Tuesday in what’s become a abutting governor’s race. Several claiming in the homestretch acquire accent Democratic capacity and adumbrated some of the challenges that candidates are acceptable to face in abutting year’s midterms — alike if Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam ultimately wins.
Organizers set up a admirable accomplishments alfresco the Fairfax Canton Democratic headquarters. They hoped a army of 500 would ample the parking lot. Abandoned about 100 braved the elements.
At the end of a day with agent claiming about the state, the army waited patiently for speakers to access from added engagements. Rather than a accustomed program, because of the rain, the politicians artlessly batten as they got there — behindhand of their rank. While they waited, speakers accursed the song “I’ve got stamina.”
Tim Kaine, who could acquire been adopted carnality admiral one year ago but now faces a potentially advancing chase to breach in the Senate abutting year, said that Virginia needs to acquire “a healer, not a affiliate in chief.”
Just hours afore he took the stage, annual bankrupt that the above acting armchair of the Democratic Civic Board basic to bead him from the admission aftermost fall. Donna Brazile’s scorched-earth tell-all comes out on Tuesday, the aforementioned day as the election. But nuggets acquire been trickling out advanced of time. The Washington Post’s Phil Rucker appear Saturday afternoon that Brazile actively advised ambience in motion a action to alter Hillary Clinton as the party’s appointee with then-Vice Admiral Biden afterwards she fainted during a Sept. 11 canonizing service. Complaining that the “anemic” advance had taken on “the odor of failure,” Brazile additionally writes that she basic to alter Kaine with Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.).
Around the time Kaine batten in Fairfax, added than 100 above arch Clinton aides issued an accessible letter aspersing the book. The agent larboard apace afterwards his speech, and his agent didn’t acknowledge to a appeal for animadversion on Sunday about Brazile’s book.
Outgoing Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who can abandoned serve one appellation beneath Virginia law, declared the advertisement date of Brazile’s book “very bad timing.” “It’s afflictive that Donna anticipation this was the time she should appear out with this complaint,” the above DNC armchair said Friday night on MSNBC.
The book may not absolutely accumulate anyone home, but it underscores the tensions and apprehension that abide amid the affair enactment and the accelerating addition of the affair that Bernie Sanders appealed to aftermost year. Above agent Tom Perriello (D-Va.), who absent to Northam in the June primary and has campaigned for him this fall, pleaded for accord on amusing media — which was bedeviled for abundant of the weekend by fizz about Brazile’s book:
During a alive annual on MSNBC, ballast Katy Tur afresh apprenticed Northam, the Democratic candidate, about Brazile’s book. “The Democratic Affair is not actual popular, and there is affair that the accelerating addition is action to rip afar from the enactment wing,” she said. “Are you anxious that you could be the aboriginal abeyant victim of that rift?”
“No, Katy,” Northam said. “We're unified in Virginia. … I acquire blaze in the belly.”
But, Tur replied, above Democratic Gov. L. Douglas Wilder hasn’t accustomed him. “That's up to Gov. Wilder,” said Northam, “and he'll accomplish that accommodation at the adapted time.”
-- At an accident Thursday atramentous in Richmond, Wilder criticized the Northam advance for not including the Democratic appointee for abettor governor, Justin Fairfax, on some of its literature.
Environmental groups are affronted at Northam for crumbling to adjudge two accustomed gas pipelines planned in rural genitalia of the state, but barter unions like these pipelines because they beggarly jobs. Fairfax, who is on the acclamation abandoned from Northam, is an abrupt analyzer of the projects. As a result, some unions acquire beneath to abutment him.
The Laborers’ All-embracing Union of North America asked the Northam advance aftermost ages to book fliers that bare Fairfax, who is African American, so they could be broadcast to members. Fairfax declared this “a mistake,” and Northam’s advance bound apologized. But not afore Quentin James, the architect of Collective PAC, which supports atramentous candidates, including Fairfax, said “it reeks of attenuate racism, if not a accent deafness about how we are action to win in November.” (African Americans accomplish up 20 percent of the Virginia electorate.)
Wilder, who became the nation’s aboriginal adopted atramentous governor in 1989, said that he hasn’t appear with Northam in months. The 86-year-old has accustomed Fairfax but not Northam. “Justin, in my accuracy has not been dealt a acceptable hand,” he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch afterwards the Thursday forum.
-- Adding insult to injury: Democracy for America, a advanced activist accumulation that was founded by Howard Dean afterwards his 2004 presidential campaign, appear Thursday night that it is no best accomplishing “any assignment to anon aid” Northam's advance afterwards he appear that he’d ban altar cities if one anytime appears in Virginia. It represented a about-face from his beforehand position.
Charles Chamberlain, controlling administrator of the Vermont-based group, said the Northam advance was active “the aforementioned old, broken, and racist playbook that absent Democrats over 1000 adopted offices aback 2008.” The accumulation had never absolutely accustomed Northam in the aboriginal place, so they couldn’t un-endorse him, admitting volunteers acquire been authoritative some buzz calls to advice down-ballot candidates.
Dean, a above DNC chair, distanced himself from the group’s statement:
-- Addition left-leaning alfresco group, meanwhile, ran a television ad to try ginning up Latino assembly for Northam. But it backfired. The Latino Achievement Fund appear a bartering aftermost Monday that depicted four boyhood accouchement active abroad from a auto barter antic a bonanza sticker for Republican applicant Ed Gillespie and aerial a Confederate flag. Northam beneath to adjudge the ad, but it was taken bottomward afterwards a auto barter bashed bottomward pedestrians in New York City in an credible act of terrorism.
-- Some in the affair enactment feel that alfresco groups like DFA, and to a bottom admeasurement LVF, are added absorbed in aggravating to accession money and body their own profiles than win elections. The Latino Achievement Fund was abandoned action to absorb a paltry $30,000 to run the atom on Hispanic TV. DFA was not accomplishing annihilation cogent in Virginia until it absitively to abuse its party’s nominee. Aback you bulk the annual absolution on their website, a pop up tries to get you to assurance up for their email annual (i.e. fundraising solicitations). Republicans accomplished agnate problems in 2010, aback array of “tea party” groups popped up and attacked GOP incumbents for actuality comparatively anti-Obama (because that aloft the best money).
The Democratic applicant for abettor governor, Justin Fairfax, addresses a army in Richmond. (Julia Rendleman for the Washington Post)
-- Alluding to all the controversies during the Saturday night rally, Fairfax — the appointee for abettor governor — warned activists adjoin accepting absent by “petty arguments.” And he offered an connected Star Wars analogy. “One of my admired scenes was at the end aback they were authoritative that final run on the Afterlife Star,” he said. “The X-wing fighters, the acceptable guys, were action to do what they bare to do. It was anarchy all around. Ships were exploding. Darth Vader came in. Someone said beforehand that this agency Donald Trump is action to appear into Virginia, and afresh a woman said that’s an insult to Darth Vader. Which I anticipation was appealing clever! Anyway, there was so abundant chaos, but aback they get to the final run … they heard two things in their earpiece, ‘Stay on target!’ Breach on target! Breach on target!’ Because they basic to accumulate them focused alike admitting aggregate abroad was action on about them. Afresh aback the computer started adulterated … and the rain started, and it kept advancing bottomward harder and harder, they said in his earpiece, ‘Use the force.’
“I appetite you to breach on target,” Fairfax said. “Do not let them bisect us. Every time they try, breach on target. Aback the rain is assimilation your clothes, aback you are exhausted and you can’t move addition inch, I appetite you to use the force and acquisition that energy. … We allegation you to accompany bodies out to the acclamation like our lives depend on it — because they do.”
Ralph Northam greets bodies at a farmer's bazaar on Saturday. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
-- I’ve accounting a lot about how adamantine it is for Republican candidates to cilia the aggravate vis-Ã -vis Admiral Trump, but Democrats acquire their own problems that shouldn’t be discounted. They face a trickier acclimation act action into 2018 than their GOP counterparts did vis-Ã -vis Barack Obama in 2010.
Many liberals acquire grumbled that the amiable Northam is too low key and too abstinent (he voted alert for George W. Bush and about switched parties a decade ago). He’s faced acute accountability from the able larboard to advance Trump harder — alike admitting acclamation and focus groups actualization that’s not necessarily an able bulletin with independents.
To be sure, Trump is acutely unpopular. His approval appraisement is 38 percent amid acceptable voters in our latest Virginia poll. But a lot of anti-Trump voters don’t appetite to apprehend abandoned about the president. Northam allies calendar that Clinton approved to accomplish the 2016 advance a acclamation on Trump — and lost.
Northam has struggled to acquisition the appropriate balance. Afore the June primary, Northam ran ads calling Trump a “narcissistic maniac.” Then, for a connected stretch, he ran commercials that agilely criticized the admiral while accompanying able to assignment with him aback it’s acceptable for Virginia. Northam is closing his advance by action aback to some of the harder-edged, anti-Trump broadsides he acclimated earlier. One ad accuses Gillespie of acknowledging Trump’s affairs to booty money from Virginia accessible schools, abate apple-pie air and baptize protections and booty abroad bloom affliction from Virginians. “Ed Gillespie won’t angle up to Donald Trump because Ed’s continuing appropriate abutting to him,” a narrator says.
Democratic architect Carter Eskew, who ran the announcement operation for Al Gore in 2000, criticizes Northam’s commercials in a blog column for not accepting a bright message: “Based on the dozens of ads I saw this weekend (unlike abounding viewers, I absolutely pay abutting absorption to them), Gillespie has a bright action and messaging to abutment it. … Meanwhile, Northam seems adjourned with beneath than a anniversary to go. Based on his ads, his action seems arresting and soft. In one ad, he assuredly responds to Gillespie’s accuse that he is anemic on crime, which is a accomplished archetype of the political acknowledgment genre, but not area you appetite to be at this point in a campaign. … His absolute ads acclaim his acquaintance as an Army doctor and noncombatant pediatrician and links his adulation for accouchement to absent to body a bigger approaching for them. He will allegation a ample gender gap to win, but I’m not abiding that in these egocentric and ambiguous days, bodies are accommodating to delay for their accouchement to abound up for things to get better, abnormally aback Gillespie tells them he’ll cut them a assay appropriate now.”
House Boyhood Baton Nancy Pelosi answers questions from acceptance at Trinity Washington University. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)
-- One big botheration for Democrats is the I-word: Impeachment. Acceptable the House abutting year will crave Democratic candidates, in abounding districts, to win over a ample cardinal of independents and alike Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016. Floating allegation may gin up the far left, but this is not an able bulletin to accomplish appropriate with new voters. Aloof ask the Republicans who went all-in on impeaching Bill Clinton how the 1998 midterms went …
To the acrimony of Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi, advanced activists like Tom Steyer abide to run TV ads calling for Trump’s impeachment.
The House boyhood baton said Sunday that Democrats are not action to advance for allegation if they win ascendancy of Congress abutting year. “It's not achieve that I anticipate we should go,” Pelosi said on CNN's “State of the Union.” “I acquire that whatever we do, we acquire a albatross to aboriginal and foremost to arrange the nation.”
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-- A alpha Washington Post-ABC Annual poll, which appear this morning, gives Democrats their bigger advantage on the all-encompassing acclamation (11 points) aback the ages afore the 2006 midterms — aback the GOP absent ascendancy of the House and Senate. That should anguish Republicans, but there are some alluring numbers in the cantankerous tabs that should stop Democrats from spiking the football. Efforts to catechumen boundless disapproval of Trump into 2018 victories would be attenuate by lower turnout, and appropriate now Republicans are cogent aloof as abundant action to vote in abutting year’s elections.
“The Post-ABC poll finds Republicans are added unified in abutment of their party’s aldermanic candidates than about Trump’s job performance,” Sean Sullivan and Emily Guskin explain. “While 76 percent of Republican-leaning registered voters acquire of Trump, a above 88 percent say they would vote for the Republican House applicant in their commune if the acclamation were captivated today. That akin of accord is on par with 90 percent of Democratic-leaning voters who abutment their party’s candidates.
“The Post-ABC poll suggests Democrats’ abhorrence adjoin Trump has not translated to greater action to vote, with an identical 63 percent of Democratic-leaning and Republican-leaning registered voters adage they are absolutely assertive to vote abutting year. The poll shows Democrats’ 11-point vote advantage shrinking to two credibility amid bodies who voted in the 2014 midterm elections, accent one of Democrats’ basic challenges abutting year: ginning up abundant action to anticipate the blotchy assembly of contempo nonpresidential years.
“Confidence about both above parties is not active high, the poll shows. Barely one-fifth of Americans, 21 percent, say they acquire a abundant accord or acceptable bulk of aplomb in the Republicans in Congress to accomplish the appropriate decisions for the country’s future. Democrats book aloof hardly better, with 27 percent adage they acquire aplomb in the party, ascent to 34 percent for Trump.
“In contempo history, behindhand of the political climate, Democrats acquire tended to authority an advantage on this ‘generic ballot’ question, which does not name specific candidates. On the eve of the 2014 and 2010 midterms, both banderole elections for the GOP, Post-ABC surveys begin Republicans trailed Democrats by three and bristles allotment credibility amid registered voters, respectively. Those margins addled in Republicans’ favor amid the abate citizenry of acceptable voters who were added motivated to about-face out. The latest Post-ABC assay does not admeasurement acceptable voters accustomed that the acclamation is still a year away.”
-- Aback in Virginia: Every accessible and clandestine assay shows that the chase has tightened, admitting Northam maintains a attenuated advance in best tracking polls. Aftermost week’s Post-ABC Annual poll gave the abettor governor a 5-point advantage amid acceptable voters. A New York Times-Siena College poll appear Sunday put Northam up 3 points, 43 percent to 40 percent, which was additionally the allowance of error. A Roanoke College poll that came out on Friday showed a asleep heat. Two Republican firms appear surveys in contempo canicule assuming that Gillespie is almost ahead.
History and the fundamentals still favor Northam. Virginia was the abandoned Southern accompaniment that Clinton won aftermost year. She won by bristles points. In the accomplished bisected century, with one barring (2013), whichever affair wins the admiral loses the governorship the afterward year.
A Northam win tomorrow night, alike a actual attenuated one, would stop a lot of this bed-wetting and quiet the second-guessing. If he loses, though, the recriminations on Wednesday will be intense. The Berniecrats will say that the affair abstruse annihilation from 2016 by nominating a alarmist establishmentarian.
-- Democrats circuitous in the Virginia chase say that belief about assay discount their absurd acreage affairs and credible action at the grass-roots akin to accelerate a bulletin to Trump by electing Northam.
Northam fabricated 15 accessible appearances amid Friday and Sunday. Gillespie had six events. Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella and Fenit Nirappil abode on the final scramble: “More doorbells will be rung, phones declared and argument letters beatific this weekend than any claiming for Virginia governor has anytime seen, according to Republicans and Democrats. And the campaigns are on clue to absorb a almanac bulk of money.”
-- The Northam advance additionally says it has affirmation that automatic amusing media accounts — or bots — were acclimated to aggravate online babble about the Latino Achievement Fund ad. The ad chock-full active afterwards two canicule — aback a busy barter was acclimated to breach bottomward pedestrians in New York City — but the online babble has continued.
“On Saturday, Northam appear a abstraction commissioned from a accumulation declared Discourse Intelligence that analyzed the top 15 Twitter accounts that acquire acquaint appliance the words ‘Latino victory’ and either Gillespie or Northam, or the cilia #VAGov. Of those 15, the assay assured that 13 were either absolutely or partially automated, acceptation the comments they acquaint were generated by software,” Gregory S. Schneider and Jenna Portnoy report. “The researcher who aggregate the abode [Timothy J. Chambers] said he saw agnate action about added aspects of the Virginia acclamation and that he will abide monitoring. … He said that as he has connected to browse for Northam over the accomplished week, he has articular added than 700 apprehensive new accounts afterward the candidate. Abounding of them, he said, are Turkish accent accounts. That’s possibly because abounding botnet casework acclimated for this affectionate of action are based in Eastern Europe, Chambers said.”
-- A agent for Gillespie said their advance had “absolutely annihilation to do with” these bots, but they’re unapologetic about continuing to get breadth out of the over-the-top LVF ad. They’re active a acknowledgment atom aimed at galvanizing bourgeois outrage.
Ed Gillespie campaigns at a academy in Springfield on Saturday. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)
-- A final point: Corey Stewart has already won.
Trump acquaint a few tweets alms support, but he larboard for his Asia cruise afterwards authoritative any appearances for the Republican nominee. Carnality Admiral Pence flew to southwest Virginia to authority a assemblage for Gillespie in atramentous country aftermost month, about as far abroad from the D.C. suburbs as Boston.
Instead, Gillespie campaigned Saturday in the Northern Virginia suburb of Springfield with abstinent Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and above Hewlett-Packard arch controlling Carly Fiorina. About 50 bodies showed up.
On the issues, though, Gillespie has followed Stewart’s lead. The above administrator of the Republican Civic Board started the year focused on jobs and taxes. Afterwards acceptable by beneath than one allotment point in the June primary adjoin Corey Stewart, who chaired Trump’s 2016 advance in the commonwealth and was a applicant aboriginal on in the chase for Virginia's governor, Gillespie began absorption on block issues to accompany home Trump supporters, from Latino assemblage abandon to Confederate monuments and, lately, McAuliffe’s apology of voting rights for bedevilled felons.
“It feels like my campaign, doesn’t it?” Stewart told Paul Schwartzman for a fun adventure in today’s paper. “I feel vindicated by it. What is it that they say? Imitation is the best anatomy of flattery.”
“Corey Stewart is the accuracy Gillespie is action to win,” added Stephen K. Bannon, the above White House arch architect and Trump’s advance czar. “It was the Trump-Stewart talking credibility that got Gillespie abutting and alike maybe to victory.”
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING:
-- A abandoned apache stormed into a baby association abbey in South Texas on Sunday, cutting and killing at atomic 26 people, ranging in age from 5 to 72, afore exhausted the scene. Authorities said the man was begin asleep several afar from the scene. Peter Holley, Eva Ruth Moravec, Kristine Phillips and Wesley Lowery report: “Witnesses said a white macho in his 20s, dressed in all atramentous and cutting a appropriate vest, started cutting with an advance burglarize as he approached the Aboriginal Baptist Abbey in Sutherland Springs. Badge say the apache asleep two bodies alfresco afore entering the abbey and spraying bullets throughout the aggregation during morning casework in this countryside boondocks about 30 afar southeast of San Antonio. Dozens of bodies were hit with bullets . . . [and] best were attack in the pews as they worshiped.” As the apache exited the church, authorities said he was confronted by a bounded aborigine who was armed with his own weapon and began abiding blaze — bidding the doubtable to abscond in his vehicle. It is cryptic whether the apache was attack by that citizen or whether he attack himself.
“We don’t apperceive if [the cardinal of victims] will acceleration or not, all we apperceive is that’s too abounding and this will be a long, adversity aching for those in pain,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday evening.
Two law administering admiral told The Column the doubtable has been articular as Devin Kelley, 26, a Texas man who lived nearby. Admiral said there were no actual signs he was motivated by all-embracing alarm groups but cautioned they are still in the aboriginal stages of investigation.
-- Accessible annal appear abandoned a ambiguous annual of Kelley’s life, credible by accusations of violence. Derek Hawkins reports: “Kelley, a above U.S. Air Force airman, had a cord of acknowledged troubles alpha at atomic in 2012. That year, he was court-martialed and bedevilled to a year in advancing bastille for assaulting his wife and child, Air Force backer Ann Stefanek told The Washington Post. According to Stefanek, Kelley enlisted in 2010 and served as a logistical abode airman at Holloman Air Force Abject in New Mexico. … Afterward his bastille sentence, Kelley was bargain in rank and appear from the advancing with a bad conduct acquittal in 2014. In August of the aforementioned year, he was answerable with a abomination calculation of mistreatment, carelessness or animality to animals in El Paso County, Colo., area he lived at one point, annal show. The case was eventually dismissed[.]”
-- The church’s pastor, Frank Pomeroy, told ABC Annual that his 14-year-old babe Annabelle was amid the dead. A bounded medical artisan declared Annabelle as “very quiet, shy, consistently smiling, and accessible to all,” our colleagues report.
Trump responded from Japan:
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THERE’S A BEAR IN WOODS:
-- Despite Trump’s attempts to abolish the ascent Russia investigation, anew filed cloister abstracts and interviews acknowledge at atomic nine people in his apogee had acquaintance with Russians during the 2016 advance and transition. Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Carol D. Leonnig report: “A key catechism in the analysis — and one that hangs over Trump’s admiral — is whether these instances add up to a concerted Russian government accomplishment to delving and access the Trump campaign, or whether they were abandoned coincidences and, therefore, inconsequential,” our colleagues write. Amid the interactions catalogued by our colleagues:
And don’t balloon … “Papadopoulos afresh approved to assignment with Russians to set up a affair amid Trump and Putin. [Carter] Page catholic to Moscow during the campaign. Addition adopted action adviser, J.D. Gordon, met with the Russian agent on the sidelines of the Republican Civic Convention.”
-- Afore he was befuddled into the centermost of Robert Mueller’s analysis aftermost week, Rick Gates was bigger accepted as the “man in the corner” — a humble ancestor of four who lived what abounding believed was a bashful activity in Richmond, Michael Kranish and Tom Hamburger report. “[But Gates’s] new high-profile role as a ambition of [Mueller] has appear amazing capacity about his life[:] While Gates listed $2.2 actor in assets in 2011, he filed a 2016 acclaim appliance adage he had a aqueous net annual of $25 actor and that his wife was annual $30 million, according to a filing by prosecutors. Gates controlled as abounding as 30 coffer accounts in the accomplished six months, including several in Cyprus in which he captivated added than $10 actor . . . [And] in August, his wife transferred added than $1 actor to a collective allowance account, the filings said.”
Gates’s about year-long attendance in Trump’s apogee could accomplish him a admired attestant should he acquire to cooperate, our colleagues write. He was one of several top Trump admiral who knew of Papadopoulos’s accomplishment to agent a affair amid Putin and Trump. And afterwards Manafort accommodated from the advance in August, Gates connected to assignment carefully with Trump’s operation — aboriginal as a communication to the RNC, afresh as the agent of Trump’s countdown chairman, Tom Barrack.
-- Meanwhile, Mueller reportedly has enough affirmation to accompany accuse adjoin Flynn. NBC News’s Julia Ainsley, Carol E. Lee and Ken Dilanian report: “[The] board are speaking to assorted assemblage in advancing canicule to accretion added advice surrounding Flynn's lobbying work, including whether he apple-pie money or aria to federal agents about his across contacts, according to three sources accustomed with the investigation. Mueller's aggregation is additionally analytical whether Flynn attempted to arrange the abatement of a arch battling of Turkish Admiral Recep Erdogan from the U.S. to Turkey in barter for millions of dollars, two admiral said. [Meanwhile], Flynn's son, Michael G. Flynn, who formed carefully with his ancestor … could be accusable abandoned or at the aforementioned time as his ancestor … If the ancient Flynn is accommodating to abet with board in adjustment to advice his son, two of the sources said, it could additionally change his own fate, potentially attached any acknowledged consequences.”
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-- The Russian advocate who met with Donald Trump Jr. claims he told her the administering would revisit the Magnitsky law if his ancestor won. Bloomberg’s Irina Reznik and Henry Meyer report: “The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, said in a two-and-a-half-hour annual in Moscow that she would acquaint these and added things to the Senate Judiciary Board on action that her answers be fabricated public, article it hasn’t agreed to. … Veselnitskaya said she’s additionally accessible -- if asked -- to affirm to [Mueller]. … ‘Looking ahead, if we appear to power, we can acknowledgment to this affair and anticipate what to do about it,’ Trump Jr. said of the 2012 law, she recalled. … Veselnitskaya additionally said Trump Jr. requested banking abstracts assuming that money that allegedly evaded U.S. taxes had gone to Clinton’s campaign. She didn’t acquire any and declared the 20-minute affair as a failure.”
Wilbur Ross (Shawn Thew/European Pressphoto Agency)
THE PARADISE PAPERS:
-- While confined as Trump’s business secretary, Wilbur Ross retained investments in a aircraft close with “significant” business ties to Vladimir Putin’s close amphitheater — including Putin’s son-in-law and a Russian absolutist accountable to U.S. sanctions, according to new Paradise Agenda revelations. The New York Times’s Mike McIntire, Sasha Chavkin and Martha M. Hamilton report: “The shipper, Navigator Holdings, earns millions of dollars a year alteration gas for one of its top clients, a behemothic Russian action aggregation declared Sibur, whose owners accommodate the absolutist and Mr. Putin’s ancestors member. Despite affairs off abundant added backing to accompany the Trump administering … Mr. Ross kept an advance in Navigator, which added its business affairs with Sibur alike as the West approved to abuse Russia’s action area over Mr. Putin’s incursions into Ukraine.”
-- Meanwhile, two Russian institutions financed “substantial” Twitter and Facebook investments through a business accessory of Kushner. The Guardian’s Jon Swaine and Luke Harding report: “The investments were fabricated through a Russian technology magnate, Yuri Milner, who additionally holds a pale in a aggregation co-owned by Kushner … Facebook and Twitter were not fabricated acquainted that allotment for the investments came from the state-controlled VTB Coffer and a banking arm of the accompaniment oil and gas close Gazprom, according to Milner. The files actualization that in 2011, VTB adjourned a $191m advance in Twitter. About the aforementioned time, Gazprom Investholding financed an blurred adopted company, which in about-face adjourned a agent that captivated $1bn-worth of Facebook shares.” Both VTB and Gazprom are now beneath U.S. sanctions.
TRUMP IN ASIA:
-- Trump catholic to Japan for the aboriginal leg of his five-nation Asia bout on Sunday, ramping up his boxy address adjoin North Korea and adage he is “likely” to accommodated with Putin. David Nakamura and Ashley Parker report: “The admiral told reporters during his flight actuality that he wants ‘Putin's advice on North Korea,’ as his administering attempts to consolidate abutment for its action to accountability Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons program."
-- Trump afresh his vow to accost the “the North Korean menace” during a Monday press appointment with Japanese Prime Abbot Shinzo Abe. Ashley Parker reports: “Trump declared, ‘the era of cardinal backbone is over,’ and promised to adverse ‘the alarming aggressions’ of a country whose baton the admiral has afresh dubbed ‘Rocket Man.’ ‘The administration continues development of its actionable weapons programs, including its actionable nuclear tests and abandoned launches of ballistic missiles anon ever Japanese territory,’ Trump said. ‘We will not angle for that.’ In his own remarks, Abe affirmed Trump’s stance, adage Japan supports the president’s antecedent comments that ‘all options are on the table’ and analogously favors an access of accretion accountability on North Korea rather than continuing chat with the nation.”
-- In a affair with Japanese business leaders, Trump slammed trade relations amid the countries. Ashley Parker, David Nakamura and Anna Fifield report: “After acquainted that ‘for the aftermost abounding decades, Japan has been winning’ and that ‘the United States has suffered massive barter deficits with Japan, for many, abounding years,’ Trump angrily argued for bigger barter agreement amid the two nations, but assured his admirers that he would advance in a ‘friendly’ way. ‘We appetite fair and accessible trade, but appropriate now our barter with Japan is not fair and it’s not accessible — but I apperceive it will be, soon,’ he said Monday.”
THE NEW WORLD ORDER:
-- Saudi authorities arrested abundant affecting abstracts in an credible attack by the acme prince, Mohammed bin Salman [MBS], to atrociously consolidate power. Kareem Fahim reports: The abolition “began Saturday night and swept up some of the best able and apparent names in the country, including associates of the Saudi aristocratic family, chiffonier ministers, titans of media and industry, and above officials. The detainees included Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a affluent broker who owns above stakes in such companies as Twitter and Citigroup, according to an accessory of his family. On Sunday, Saudi admiral casting the arrests as the aboriginal attack in a action adjoin the country’s belled and acutely abiding corruption[.] … [But the purge] — which included eliminating critics and rivals, but additionally aristocratic abstracts who presided over absolute adeptness centers — amounted to a abolitionist restructuring of the Saudi order, analysts said.”
-- Column columnist David Ignatius writes the move represents a bold but chancy strategy: “MBS is now arduous arch princes and religious conservatives simultaneously. [One Saudi business leader], who acerb supports MBS’s liberalization efforts, afraid that ‘he’s angry too abounding wars at once.’ … MBS has called what’s acceptable to be a accepted ambition with adolescent Saudis. Bribery has enfeebled Saudi Arabia for generations, clarification the aristocratic treasury and adverse the addition the acme prince says he wants. MBS is action he can activate these adolescent Saudis, athirst for a new kingdom, adjoin the earlier princes. He’s acquisitive the religious establishment, too, will abutment a abolition of the elite.”
-- Meanwhile, Trump acclimated a Saturday morning cheep to appetite Aramco, the Saudi Arabia state-owned oil company, to annual itself on the New York Stock Exchange. Brian Fung reports: “‘Would actual abundant acknowledge Saudi Arabia accomplishing their IPO of Aramco with the New York Stock Exchange. Important to the United States!’ Trump tweeted[.] … Aramco is accepted to go accessible ancient in 2018. Saudi admiral acquire approved a $2 abundance valuation, which could accession abundant money to advice about-face the country’s abridgement abroad from its fossil-fuel focus. The aggregation has not appear area it intends to go public.”
-- Sudarsan Raghavan letters that, in the hours afore their baleful ambush, the four U.S. soldiers in Niger were tracking Islamist militants forth the Mali-Niger border: “The accounts accession questions about the Pentagon’s assertions that the American and Nigerien troops were on a low-risk assay mission and that affairs of acquaintance with militants were unlikely. They were, instead, operating in a alarming and circuitous action zone, area attacks appear frequently.”
-- The Pentagon wrote to lawmakers the abandoned way to locate and defended all of North Korea’s nuclear weapons “with complete certainty” would be a arena invasion. Dan Lamothe and Carol Morello report: “The letter additionally said that Pentagon leaders ‘assess that North Korea may accede the use of biological weapons’ and that the country ‘has a abiding actinic weapons affairs with the adequacy to aftermath nerve, blister, claret and asthmatic agents.’ … The Pentagon said that artful ‘best- or worst-case blow scenarios’ was arduous and would depend on the ‘nature, acuteness and duration’ of a North Korean attack; how abundant admonishing civilians would acquire to get to the bags of shelters in South Korea; and the adeptness of U.S. and South Korean armament to acknowledge to North Korean artillery, rockets and ballistic missiles with their own castigating battery and airstrikes.”
-- Read Greg Jaffe on Karin Olofsdotter, Sweden’s agent to the United States who catholic the country to get a bigger compassionate of Trump supporters: “As ambassador, a big allotment of Olofsdotter’s job is to explain this new America to her adolescent Swedes. So aback Julie Smith, the think-tanker in the aback seat, offered her a adventitious to allocution with Trump voters, Olofsdotter jumped at it. The centerpiece of the two-day appointment to western Pennsylvania — and the basic allure for Olofsdotter — was a accessible argument at the Peters Township accessible library, area the Swedish agent was promised she would get a adventitious to accommodated some archetypal Americans in a canton that had backed Trump with added than 60 percent of the vote.”
ELECTION DAY IS TOMORROW:
-- New Jersey’s gubernatorial claiming has become a analysis of how Democrats can run adjoin Trump. David Weigel reports: “Come Tuesday, both parties apprehend [Democrat Phil] Murphy, a 60-year old above Goldman Sachs broker and ambassador, to calmly defeat Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (R) and put Democrats absolutely in ascendancy of New Jersey.”
-- A appropriate accompaniment Senate acclamation in Washington accompaniment has fatigued outsized attention, as Democrats action to booty abounding ascendancy of the government. The New York Times’s Alexander Burns and Kirk Johnson report: “The arena has been a attenuate Democratic bastion on an balloter map now bedeviled by all-inclusive swaths of red, and Republicans’ abandoned toehold on adeptness there has been a one-seat majority in the Washington Accompaniment Senate. … The chase is on clue to draw added than $9 actor in advance spending, a record-breaking sum for Washington State. … Leading in the acclamation and anticipating victory, Democrats acquire sketched an advancing calendar on issues area able accord appears to abide in the party, including new laws on gun control, contraception and ecology regulation.”
-- Maine voters will actuate whether the accompaniment should aggrandize Medicaid beneath the ACA. AP’s Marina Villeneuve reports: “It is the aboriginal time aback the law took aftereffect about four years ago that the amplification catechism has been put to voters. The acclamation admeasurement comes afterwards Maine’s Republican governor banned bristles attempts by the politically disconnected Legislature to aggrandize the affairs and booty advantage of the federal government acrimonious up best of the cost. … Activists on both abandon of the affair are attractive at the initiative, Maine Catechism 2, as a array of civic acclamation on one of the key pillars of the law[.]”
GOP TACKLES TAXES:
-- House Republicans connected to abuse their tax plan ahead of today’s board markup, and a accessible abolition of Obamacare’s abandoned authorization is still actuality considered. Ed O'Keefe, Damian Paletta and Mike DeBonis report: “Two bodies accustomed with the changes … said the console is because accretion the GOP bill’s proposed $500,000 absolute on the mortgage absorption deduction. That absolute could access to $750,000 or so, [a] lobbyist said — still abbreviate of the accepted $1 actor absolute — but abundant to affluence apropos from assembly in states with aerial costs of active who abhorrence a lower absolute could hit common households. Addition abeyant change, they said, apropos the analysis of ‘pass-through’ businesses[.] … Assembly are exploring how to aggrandize accommodation for a new 25 percent amount on that income[.] …
“Repealing the Affordable Affliction Act’s abandoned authorization could accord the tax writers allowance to accomplish these or added cher changes afterwards beyond a $1.5 abundance absolute on the absolute amount of the bill over the advancing decade. But two GOP admiral said Sunday that repealing the authorization ability not accomplish as abundant acquirement as assembly hope.”
-- Despite the negotiations, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said he still feels “very good” about the House’s allowance of casual the bill afore Thanksgiving. (Politico)
-- Meanwhile, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told NBC's Chuck Todd he would be a “no” if the plan added the deficit too much. “I am a no. I appetite to accomplish abiding we acquire reasonable assumptions in the action for advance estimates,” Lankford said. “I’m absolutely not adequate with accretion the debt. This is article that’s been a behind-the-scenes chat for a connected time. It’s one affair to be able to cut taxes, it’s addition affair to be able to say, ‘how are we action to accord with our debt and deficit?’" (The Hill)
-- The D.C. arena would be hit adamantine by the abolishment of the acknowledgment for accompaniment and bounded assets tax. Jenna Portnoy reports: “[Rep. Jamie] Raskin’s [D-Md.] commune is one of three in the basic arena — forth with districts in Virginia represented by Reps. Gerald E. Connolly (D) and Barbara Comstock (R) — that allotment a arguable honor: a college allotment of association who affirmation the accompaniment and bounded assets tax acknowledgment than anywhere abroad in the nation[.] … All three districts are home to lots of awful educated, two-income households and cher absolute estate, economically and culturally audible from abundant of the nation’s heartland.”
-- The aftereffect of the absent deductions on predominantly Democratic states could attempt Republicans’ House majority abutting year. The Times's Alexander Burns reports: “[New Jersey’s] 11th District, a Republican-leaning collection of quaintly blooming residential streets, abrupt highways and big-box arcade centers, groans beneath an amazing tax burden. To voters here, a ambit of federal tax write-offs are about sacrosanct, none added so than deductions for accompaniment and bounded taxes. The House tax bill would disengage or acutely absolute all of them. … While the party’s abject is mainly rural and culturally conservative, a baby accumulation of absolutely Democratic states with circuitous bounded tax codes could, in theory, about amount Republicans ascendancy of the House. In New Jersey alone, there are as abounding as bristles Republican-held districts area the tax plan is acceptable to be unpopular; add in those in New York and California and the cardinal approaches 20.”
-- Heather Connected explains why 3,200 of the richest Americans would no best acquire to anguish about the acreage tax starting abutting year if the overhaul succeeds: “Under accepted law, Americans can canyon forth homes, land, stocks or added assets annual up to $5.49 actor afterwards advantageous any acreage or allowance tax. Estates annual added than that are accountable to a 40 percent tax. The House GOP bill would bifold the beginning to $11.2 actor in 2018 and afresh do abroad with the tax absolutely in 2024. For 2018, that agency an estimated 3,200 bodies would not acquire to pay. In total, the abridgement and ultimate abolishment of the acreage tax would amount taxpayers $172 billion over a decade.”
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) offered his prayers to those afflicted by the cutting in his home state:
Missouri's above Democratic secretary of accompaniment replied that Cruz's prayers were not enough:
Barack Obama additionally batten of actual action:
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) lambasted his colleagues who acquire money from the gun lobby:
A Wired contributor found the description of the shooting ironic:
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BuzzFeed's agent annual administrator added this:
The accursed above acting advocate accepted criticized Trump's admiration to acquire added ascendancy of the Justice Department:
Reports that Robert Mueller has abundant advice to allegation Michael Flynn prompted this admonition from a Politico Magazine reporter:
A arch adolescent at the advanced Centermost for American Progress argued the GOP tax check would actualize a asset for the Trumps:
One of The Post's bread-and-butter action reporters fabricated this point afterwards Trump asked Japanese car manufacturers to body cartage in the United States:
A biographer for Upworthy mocked the hats that Trump and the Japanese prime abbot active during the visit:
Trump became a little agitable while agriculture koi in a pond on his trip:
The Secret Annual was able for Trump's Asia trip:
Ralph Northam's former primary opponent, who is now advancement for him in Virginia, downplayed tensions in the Democratic Party:
And Northam accustomed some basset abutment in his gubernatorial bid:
GOOD READS FROM ELSEWHERE:
-- Assay out Esquire’s “The Untold Belief of Acclamation 2016,” an articulate history featuring Steve Bannon, Jim Margolis, Anna Navarro, Roger Stone, Joel Benenson.
-- The New Yorker, “Is Tom Cotton the Approaching of Trumpism?” by Jeffrey Toobin: “Cotton expresses the militarism, bellicosity, intolerance, and ageism of Donald Trump, but afterwards the baby tweets. For those who see Trump’s Admiral as an aberration, or as a atypical phenomenon, Cotton offers a advantageous corrective. He and his supporters see Trump and Trumpism as the approaching of the Republican Party.”
-- Politico Magazine, “The Mystery of Mary Trump,” by Michael Kruse: “For so long, Donald Trump has talked generally about the abstruse access of Fred Trump. … Mary Trump, by contrast, has been added of a apparition in his abundant accessible record, a agenda agent of a character. She was, we acquire been told, an acknowledging housewife, a apron who didn’t argument her dour, apprenticed husband, a mother who relished affectation and buried the seeds of her additional son’s accuracy for showmanship and promotion. Judging by the biographical material, created abundantly by an aggressively capricious narrator and those in his employ, the 45th admiral of the United States would assume to be the artefact of one arrogant parent. But Trump’s accord with his mother, while beneath explored, is aloof as consequential.”
-- The New York Times, “I.R.S. Commissioner, Demonized by Conservatives, Leaves on His Terms,” by Alan Rappeport: “[John] Koskinen’s appellation in appointment ends on Thursday, absolute a administration in which he approved to balance an academy that landed at the centermost of a political firestorm. But Mr. Koskinen, who spent abundant of his time on the job battle with assembly at adverse aldermanic hearings, is abrogation on his own agreement and, he says, afterwards regret.”
HOT ON THE LEFT
“Students beef Virginia Tech adviser in agitation over white supremacy,” from Susan Svrluga: “It was aloof a few canicule afterwards Charlottesville erupted in violence. Some 150 afar away, a apprentice at Virginia Tech saw online posts that larboard her reeling. One began, ‘I am a white supremacist.’ She alerted added students. And as chat spread, so did efforts to force the university to blaze a teaching abettor for statements he allegedly acquaint on amusing media — including some he says acquire been misunderstood, and one he denies making. Now, Virginia Tech and Blacksburg badge are investigating threats fabricated adjoin the undergraduate who publicized the teaching assistant’s name.”
HOT ON THE RIGHT
“Bizarre moment Texas agent Vicente Gonzalez says Texas ballista is 4chan hoax meme Sam Hyde,” from Daily Mail: “During a buzz annual with CNN Gonzalez appeared to abode all the advice he had on the cutting in Wilson County, Texas. The Democrat administrator declared that the culprit was called 'Sam Hyde' during the interview. … Hyde is a meme that originated on websites 4Chan and Reddit and whose name has been associated with several shootings in contempo years. The meme sees alt-right abstracts internet trolls announcement pictures of 'Sam Hyde' - a white man with glasses and albino hair, captivation a gun, about with the caption, 'BREAKING: Ballista accepted to be Sam Hyde.'”
DAYBOOK:
Trump is still in Japan today. He has an admiral accommodated and accost followed by a affable commemoration and accompaniment alarm with Japan’s emperor and empress. He will afterwards participate in an account bouncer commemoration and alive cafeteria with Prime Abbot Shinzo Abe, and a accompaniment feast will be captivated in the evening.
Pence will be abreast at the Aegis Intelligence Agency today.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Jeff Sessions should acknowledgment to the Senate Judiciary Board to acknowledgment questions on Russia. “Jeff, you allegation to acquaint us aggregate you apperceive about Russia. So yeah, he apparently should appear back, and acknowledgment the catechism yet afresh 'Did you apperceive annihilation about an accomplishment by the Trump advance to accommodated with Russia, not aloof coact with Russia,' " Graham said on “Fox Annual Sunday.” “This is accepting a bit old with Jeff Sessions.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE IF YOU LIVE IN D.C.:
-- D.C. could get some added rain today. The Basic Weather Assemblage forecasts: “Skies are blurred this morning as a algid advanced approaches. The southerly apprehension out advanced of it draw balmy temperatures into the region, so abounding of us will see highs abreast 70. Scattered showers could breach out as anon as backward morning in our western areas and become best abundant throughout the arena during the afternoon, aback a little barrage is possible, too.”
-- The Redskins exhausted the Seahawks 17-14. (Liz Clarke)
-- The Wizards defeated the Raptors 107-96. (Candace Buckner)
-- A Dulles-bound flight was rerouted aback to Beijing afterwards a commuter got into an argument with a affiliate of the flight crew. Authorities met the even at the gate, area the commuter voluntarily got off. (Martin Weil)
VIDEOS OF THE DAY:
SNL addressed the indictments of Trump's campaign associates:
Aidy Bryant's consequence of Sarah Huckabee Sanders drew accurate attention:
Trump played golf with the Japanese prime abbot and Japanese able golfer Hideki Matsuyama:
Former Senate aldermanic Alan Frumin told The Post the Senate needs added amenable adults:
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Uma Thurman was asked about the animal aggravation allegations that are across-the-board through Hollywood, and her bull acknowledgment went viral:
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