| | | | Ecuador cuts Assange's Internet amid Clinton releases | | Breaking tonight: Ecuador's foreign ministry published a statement saying it "exercised its right" to "temporarily restrict access to some of (WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's) private communications network within its embassy in the United Kingdom." The statement says the temporary restriction would not prevent WikiLeaks from "carrying out its journalistic activities." CNN's Julia Jones and Evan Perez have the story.
Release of Clinton's hacked emails stymied: This news comes after the group has released thousands of emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Those emails show some inner turmoil about negative campaigning against Democratic primary opponents -- and it seems to be Bill and Hillary Clinton themselves who are on the nastier side of the debate, writes CNN's Jake Tapper. Check out Neera Tanden's take on the Democratic nominee: "Hillary. God. Her instincts are suboptimal." | | "This was an act of political terrorism." -- Mike Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, while visiting a local North Carolina GOP office that was firebombed over the weekend. | | | Obama to Trump: Stop 'whining' | | President Barack Obama unleashed on Donald Trump's claims of a rigged election, casting them as potentially corrosive to American democracy and insisting the Republican presidential nominee was griping about an invented conspiracy. "You start whining before the game's even over?" Obama said during a news conference in the White House Rose Garden, adding that Trump's claim is "not based on facts."
Many RNC members are buying Trump's rigged election talk, reports Politico's Kyle Cheney. "I do believe that there are elements that will try to rig the election on varying degrees of scale and this will certainly affect the outcome in varying degrees," Peter Goldberg, an RNC committeeman from Alaska, told Cheney.
State of play: A University of Houston poll shows Trump with trouble in reliably red Texas, where he leads just 41% to Clinton's 38%. Clinton leads by 8 points in Wisconsin, a St. Norbert College poll finds. And the Democratic nominee is up 7 points in Nevada, Monmouth finds.
With friends like these... The chairman of a pro-Trump super PAC, Ed Rollins, said on Laura Ingraham's show that Trump winning would take a "miracle comeback here, which would take a miracle at this point." | | | The Democratic National Committee had to apologize today after one of its pro-Hillary Clinton buses dumped human waste on a highway in Gwinnett County, Georgia. A DNC spokesman called it an "honest mistake," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. | | Debate prep: The eve of the last showdown | | Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will meet in Las Vegas for their third and final debate of the 2016 contest tomorrow night.
What the candidates are doing: Clinton arrived in Las Vegas this afternoon. She's expected to do some last-minute prepping at her hotel. Trump, meanwhile, is on the trail and blasting Clinton for largely staying behind closed doors. Here's what he told supporters today in Colorado Springs, per The Hill's Jonathan Swan: "You know what the debate prep is? It's resting. It's lying down, going to sleep."
Big-name guests: Meg Whitman, the Hewlett-Packard CEO and former Republican California gubernatorial candidate, and Mark Cuban, the outspoken billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, will both be Clinton's guests at the debate. Meanwhile, Trump is countering with a ghost from Clinton's past: Patricia Smith, the mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith, who has accused the former secretary of state of "murdering" her son. More on the guests from CNN's Dan Merica and Daniella Diaz.
Here's one out of left field: Trump has invited President Barack Obama's Kenyan-born half-brother Malik, The New York Post's Richard Johnson reports. "I look very much forward to meeting and being with Malik," Trump said. "He gets it far better than his brother." (The siblings do not have a close relationship.)
Westward expansion: The cavalry behind Hillary Clinton's late push to turn Arizona blue is arriving: Bernie Sanders is in Arizona tonight. Chelsea Clinton will be there tomorrow. And Michelle Obama will campaign there Thursday. That's in addition to $2 million on Arizona's TV airwaves. Look tomorrow morning for my story on whether Clinton can actually win Arizona. | | | Donald Trump was famous in the primary for reading polls at his rallies. Now? "I don't believe the polls anymore," he says. ... Bruce Springsteen says he doesn't think Trump would go quietly if he loses. ... Trump is calling for term limits for members of Congress. | | | Get the Nightcap, a comprehensive summary of the most important political news, delivered to your inbox daily. | | | | | |
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