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Report: Trump leaning towards nominating John James for UN ambassador post

WASHINGTON - President Trump is leaning towards nominating former Michigan U.S. Senate candidate John James as United Nations ambassador.

Politico reports the White House is in discussions with James about the vacant post.

James, 37, is a businessman and Iraq War veteran who ran against Sen. Debbie Stabenow in the 2018 election.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert announced Saturday she had withdrawn from consideration as UN ambassador, keeping the position open.

The State Department said Saturday that Trump will make an announcement about a new nominee soon.

Trump, who sounded out the idea of selecting James with trusted advisers around Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, is "very impressed by him ... and sees him as a rising star," the source said.

James had previously interviewed with Trump for a role in the administration and was seen as a top prospect for the UN job when the position was offered to Nauert. 

https://www.clickondetroit.com/michigan-politics/report-trump-leaning-towards-nominating-john-james-for-un-ambassador-post

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John James responds to swastika in Senate ad: 'We should have caught this error and we didn't'

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(WXYZ) - Michigan's Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, John James, addressed supporters Monday regarding the appearance of a Nazi swastika in his televised Senate campaign ad. 

"I was taught by excellent leaders, the best of which being my mom and dad, to do the right thing – even when it's hard," James is heard saying in Facebook live video posted Monday on the candidate's official page.  

"I need to fess up and admit this was a terrible error on our part," he goes on to say. "We should have caught this error and we didn't – no excuse." 

James and his campaign came under fire Monday when footage on a Senate campaign ad showed a school hallway with the swastika pinned to a school bulletin board. The ad, which has since been pulled from Youtube, shows stock footage of a school hallway. It can be viewed here on ShutterStock.com.

James' Campaign Manager, Tori Sachs, responded in a statement Monday evening saying,

"After becoming aware of the image, John James showed his honor and integrity by holding a public press conference live [links.johnjamesforsenate.com] in his campaign office to take responsibility for the error, saying it was something he and his team should have caught before airing. This campaign doesn't need to be lectured by a 43-year career politician on the history of evil. John James is the son of slaves and his family has overcome racism. After John James raised twice as much as Stabenow in the last quarter, cut her lead in half to single digits and defeated her in two debates, Stabenow finally realizes she is in for the political fight of her life."

View John James' full response to the ad on his Facebook page below: 

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Trump’s Michigan Director Running To Be Next State GOP Chair

LANSING (AP) – The Michigan director for Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign is running to lead the state Republican Party.

Scott Hagerstrom announced his bid Friday. Current chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel is planning to run again but is also under consideration by Trump to head the Republican National Committee.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/11/18/trumps-michigan-director-running-to-be-next-state-gop-chair/#.WC9j8v13_4Q.facebook

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THE MAN WHO LEAKED TRUMP’S AUDIO TAPE, REPUBLICAN PARTY DISGRACED

There is a reason that he has attacked him. Liberty University president Jerry Falwell, Jr. suggested that some of the GOP elites were the people that released the tapes in the first place! It makes sense considering that none of them were supporting Trump and only offered their support begrudgingly.

That suggestion is more true than ever! One of Speaker Ryan’s top advisors is behind the leaks, according to several rumors. Mike Cernovich on Twitter tweeted at Dan Senor asking him for a comment. “@dansenor Writing about #BillyBush tapes, hearing your wife (ex NBC) got a hold of tapes and you pushed the story for your boss. Comment?”

https://conservativedailypost.com/the-man-who-leaked-trumps-audio-tape-republican-party-disgraced/?utm_source=Email&utm_campaign=12_October&utm_medium=Aweber

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The RNC Has Reportedly Closed The Door On Donald Trump, And Withdrawn Funding

The Wall Street Journal reports that the devastated RNC has allegedly now taken its money out of the Trump campaign, and will now be using it for other candidates down ballot.

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.

http://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2016/10/08/rnc-reportedly-closed-door-donald-trump-withdrawn-funding/

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Chaos in GOP: Calls grow for Trump to drop out of race

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the third ranking Republican in the Senate, on Saturday became the latest GOP official to call on Trump to withdraw.

“Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately,” Thune tweeted.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/300005-chaos-in-gop-calls-grow-for-trump-to-drop-out-of-race

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Ayotte: I will not vote for Trump

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) on Saturday said that she will not vote for Donald Trump following leaked audio of Trump in 2005 vulgarly discussing groping women.

"I will not be voting for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton and instead will be writing in Governor Pence on Election Day," she wrote in a statement. 

I will not vote for Donald Trump. Read my statement here: pic.twitter.com/F8zajgDZpg

— Kelly Ayotte (@KellyAyotte) October 8, 2016

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/299990-sen-ayotte-i-will-not-vote-for-pence-over-trump

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Mia Love: I can’t vote for Trump

Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) says she can no longer support Donald Trump in the wake of leaked audio revealing the GOP presidential nominee speaking vulgarly about groping women.

His behavior and bravado have reached a new low," Love said Saturday, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. "I cannot vote for him."

 

Love joins other prominent Utah Republicans in disavowing Trump in the wake of the leaked tapes. Gov. Gary Herbert and Rep. Jason Chaffetz both unendorsed Trump late Friday night.

 

And Sen. Mike Lee, who never endorsed Trump, on Friday posted a Facebook video calling on Trump to leave the GOP’s presidential ticket.  

 

Several other GOP lawmakers unendorsed Trump and urged him to end his presidential run Friday night and Saturday morning as well.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/299993-mia-love-i-cant-vote-for-trump

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Pence: 'Cannot defend' Trump lewd remarks

GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence on Saturday said he was “offended” by obscene comments that his running mate Donald Trump made in a video from 2005 that surfaced Friday.

“As a husband and father, I was offended by the words and actions described by Donald Trump in the eleven-year-old video released yesterday,” the Indiana governor said in a statement.

“I do not condone his remarks and cannot defend them.”

Pence added that he was “grateful” for Trump’s apology and that he is praying for the mogul’s family, adding that he is looking forward “to the opportunity he has to show what is in his heart when he goes before the nation tomorrow night” in a presidential debate.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/299999-pence-cannot-defend-trump-lewd-remarks

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Pence drops out of Ryan campaign event

GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence will no longer attend a campaign event on Saturday with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), according to reports.

Ryan was originally scheduled to appear with Donald Trump, but Trump was dropped from the event in the wake of the Washington Post publishing leaked audio of Trump making vulgar comments about women in 2005.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/299992-pence-drops-out-of-ryan-campaign-event#.V_kh19nUguM.facebook

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All Eyes On Ryan After Trump's Predatory Comments About Women Surface

Update 9:23 PM: Friday evening, Speaker Paul Ryan issued a brief statement in which he said he was "sickened" by Trump's comments on the 2005 videotape and that Trump "is no longer attending tomorrow's event in Wisconsin," a reference to the GOP unity event at which both men were scheduled to appear. If there was ever a moment to run, this would be it.

On Friday, the Washington Post revealed that Trump had made a series of predatory and vulgar remarks about how he tried to seduce women while filming with Billy Bush of "Access Hollywood" in 2005. The revelation came just hours before House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) was scheduled to appear for the first time with his Republican presidential nominee—in his own backyard, no less.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/all-eyes-on-paul-ryan-trump-predatory-comments

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Hitler Finds Out Trump Supports Amnesty

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Trump Disobeys Louisiana Governor to Bravely Deliver Play-Doh to Flood Victims (VIDEO)

Another classic Trump Troll.

 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump defied the wishes of Louisiana Governor Edwards today to briefly participate in unloading Play-Doh off of a supply truck while being surrounded by media.

Governor Edwards, currently responding to some of the worst floods in his state since Hurricane Katrina, had previously said of Trump in a statement that “We welcome him to Louisiana but not for a photo-op. Instead we hope he’ll consider volunteering or making a sizable donation to the LA Flood Relief Fund to help the victims of the storm.”

http://usuncut.com/news/trump-disobeys-louisiana-governor-bravely-deliver-play-doh-flood-victims-video/

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Grand Traverse GOP denounces Governor Milliken

Grand Traverse County Republicans have voted to no longer recognize Gov. William Milliken as a Republican. Party delegates passed the resolution at a convention in Grand Traverse County on Thursday night.

Milliken, a longtime Traverse City resident who is the longest serving governor in Michigan history, announced that he was endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton for president last week.

http://interlochenpublicradio.org/post/grand-traverse-gop-denounces-governor-milliken

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Dozens of Republicans to urge RNC to cut off funds for Trump

More than 70 Republicans have signed an open letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus urging him to stop spending any money to help Donald Trump win in November and shift those contributions to Senate and House races.

The letter comes as a number of Republican senators and high-profile GOP national security officials have come forward saying they cannot vote for Trump.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/republicans-urge-rnc-cut-funds-trump-226918#ixzz4H4j86O58 

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GOP Platform Proposes To Get Rid Of National Parks And National Forests

The Republican platform committee met this week to draft the document that defines the party’s official principles and policies. Along with provisions on pornography and LGBT “conversion therapy” is an amendment calling for the indiscriminate and immediate disposal of national public lands.

The inclusion of this provision in the Republican Party’s platform reflects the growing influence of and ideological alliance between several anti-park members of the GOP and anti-government extremists, led by Cliven Bundy, who dispute the federal government’s authority over national public lands.

“Congress shall immediately pass universal legislation providing a timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal government to convey certain federally controlled public lands to the states,” reads the adopted language. “We call upon all national and state leaders and representatives to exert their utmost power and influence to urge the transfer of those lands identified.”

The provision calls for an immediate full-scale disposal of “certain” public lands, without defining which lands it would apply to, leaving national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, and national forests apparently up for grabs and vulnerable to development, privatization, or transfer to state ownership.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/15/3798652/gop-platform-national-parks/

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GOP bigwig flees the party – and leaves ‘misogynist bigot’ Trump a devastating letter on her way out

A longtime Jeb Bush adviser has served notice to the GOP that she is no longer a member due the rise of Donald Trump as the face of the Republican Party.

In a scathing letter read on CNN, Sally Bradshaw, who co-authored an RNC report showing what went wrong in the 2012 election said she would hold her nose and vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton if the election is close, stating, “This election cycle is a test.”

“As much as I don’t want another four years of  Obama’s policies, I can’t look my children in the eye and tell them I voted for Donald Trump,” she wrote. “I can’t tell them to love their neighbor and treat others the way they wanted to be treated, and then vote for Donald Trump. I won’t do it.”

“But we are at a crossroads and have nominated a total narcissist — a misogynist — a bigot. This is a time when country has to take priority over political parties. Donald Trump cannot be elected president,” she wrote, noting his attack on the family of a war hero was the last straw. “Donald Trump belittled a woman who gave birth to a son who died fighting for the United States. If anything, that reinforced my decision to become an independent voter.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/gop-bigwig-flees-the-party-and-leaves-misogynist-bigot-trump-a-devastating-letter-on-her-way-out/

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The Daily Show at RNC Convention: When was America great?

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RNC Convention Kicks Out Anti-Hate Protester

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