| | | | Trump questions Clinton's 'mental and physical stamina' | | Donald Trump made his latest attempt to refocus the presidential campaign on matters of policy today in Youngstown, Ohio, asserting that rival Hillary Clinton lacks the temperament, judgment and "mental and physical stamina" to win the fight against ISIS. It was part of a plan that includes "extreme vetting" and ideological tests for immigrants, CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.
Trump vs. history: Trump repeated the debunked claim that he's opposed the Iraq war "from the beginning," and got other elements of Middle Eastern history wrong too, per The Associated Press. Another odd episode: Rudy Giuliani -- who was mayor of New York City during the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- introduced Trump by claiming the United States didn't face "any successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks" here before Barack Obama took office.
Has Trump given up on black voters? The New York Times' Jonathan Martin and Yamiche Alcindor report he "has not held a single event aimed at black voters in their communities, shunning the traditional stops at African-American churches, historically black colleges and barber shops and salons that have long been staples of the presidential campaign trail."
Biden: No nuclear codes for Trump. Hitting the campaign trail with Clinton for the first time in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Vice President Joe Biden said because of Trump, the threat to US soldiers in Iraq has "has gone up a couple of clicks." At one point, Biden noted there is an aide who follows him at all times with the nuclear launch codes should it be necessary for him to use them if Obama were not able to. "He is not qualified to know the code!" Biden said of Trump. More from CNN's MJ Lee and Dan Merica. | | Evan McMullin, the former CIA operative and House aide who's running for president as an independent Donald Trump alternative for conservatives, qualified for the ballot in Utah -- a reliably-red state where Trump could be in trouble. (Part of McMullin's bio: He's a Mormon who attended BYU.)
How did McMullin do it? He needed 1,000 qualified signatures and submitted 1,083 today, Utah deputy director of elections Justin Lee told CNN's Tom LoBianco. | | Manafort named in Ukrainian probe into secret cash | | From CNN's David Wright: Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been named in an investigation by Ukrainian authorities looking at whether he and others received millions in illegal payments from Ukraine's former pro-Russian ruling party, according to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Manafort pushed back on the news that began with a blockbuster from The New York Times' Andrew Kramer, Mike McIntire and Barry Meier on work in Ukraine. In a statement today, he said: "The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional. It is well known that I do work in the United States and have done work on overseas campaigns as well. I have never received a single 'off-the-books cash payment' as falsely 'reported' by The New York Times, nor have I ever done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia."
And if you missed it last night ... here's the passive-aggressive tweet of the century from Corey Lewandowski, the fired ex-Trump campaign manager (and Manafort rival) who's now a paid CNN contributor: | | State to turn over more Clinton emails | | The State Department has agreed to provide the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch with all official emails sent or received by Hillary Clinton that were recovered from her private email server by the FBI investigation.
The agreement was announced in a court filing. The State Department's attorneys will provide a proposed production schedule next week, and has not said whether it will release these emails to the public, as it did with the nearly 55,000 pages of work-related emails Clinton provided last year. More from CNN's Laura Koran. | | Is Evan Bayh still a Hoosier? | | Democratic Indiana Senate hopeful Evan Bayh says he "never left" his home state. But CNN's Manu Raju found public records showing otherwise. He found Bayh repeatedly listed his two multimillion dollar homes in Washington as his main places of residence -- not the $53,000 condo he owns in Indianapolis. And often when Bayh registered his address -- whether it was on an Alaska fishing license, a donation to Hillary Clinton or on the deed to his beachfront property in Southern Florida -- he listed Washington as his home.
Even when Bayh returned to Indianapolis last summer for an Indiana Democratic Party dinner, he stayed at a JW Marriott just 12 miles away from his condo. A source with Indianapolis Power and Light said Bayh's monthly electric bills averaged less than $20 per month since 2012, suggesting little -- if any -- use at his Indiana condo.
More on Bayh's residence: He "moved his namesake charitable foundation's address in 2011 to the Washington D.C. K Street law firm he joined shortly after leaving the Senate," BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski reports. | | | Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson's latest on-air controversy involves alleging that reporters "literally beat" Trump supporters into submission. ... Video of Trump talking immigration in a heated deposition could soon become public. ... RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is weighing staying in the job after the 2016 election. | | | Get the Nightcap, a comprehensive summary of the most important political news, delivered to your inbox daily. | | | | | |
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