The October Surprise is that there's a surprise every day of October.
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) October 7, 2016
There’s at least one Republican had a happy evening…
Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the world.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 8, 2016
Oh, yes, I’m sure he is very disappointed in his party’s nominee, and saddened that the party of Lincoln has been reduced to such dire straits. But on the other hand, there’s a spark in his cybernetic heart where he hugs the thought And you guys dumped on ME for being a yuuuge loser!…
What’s on the agenda today, apart from popcorn for everybody?
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I just asked a Trump campaign official if it were even possible for Trump to resign. "As far as I know, we are stuck with him," he told me.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) October 8, 2016
Another top Trump campaign official to me when asked if Trump might resign: "Dude: get a grip."
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) October 8, 2016
How in the world a man like #Trump came to represent the Republican Party, many of whose voters so care about "family values"?
— Mustafa Akyol (@AkyolinEnglish) October 8, 2016
Because a plurality of Republicans were willing to put their racial resentments before everything else in which they claim to believe https://t.co/FlhfeLMTPR
— (((Jamie Kirchick))) (@jkirchick) October 8, 2016
The audio isn't "vulgar language." The Howard Stern clips were vulgar language. This is a different thing.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 7, 2016
Will one single Republican walk away from Trump over this video?
Spoiler Alert: No— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) October 7, 2016
That Trump statement looked like it was filmed by ISIS
— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) October 8, 2016
Can you imagine the holy fucking nightmare of being speechwriters trying to negotiate that "apology" with Trump? I bet it took all 10 hours.
— Billmon (@billmon1) October 8, 2016
Shorter Trump video: "I intend to re-litigate this during the debates."
Offscreen: Conway opens a bottle of Flintstone Chewable Xanax— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 8, 2016
In his video Trump signaled the beginning of 30 days of scorched earth political combat. That's not really an apology either.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 8, 2016
RYAN: If you're gonna lecture me about dignity–
HILLARY: You lost that already. Just calling to let you know: you're gonna lose the House.— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) October 8, 2016
@realDonaldTrump You should use the mic from the Billy Bush interview for the next debate. It works really really well.
— (((Chris Moon))) (@ImChrisMoon) October 7, 2016
remember that this is the sack of shit insisting we can't let immigrant men in because they'll assault women
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) October 7, 2016
Weird. You'd think this would be a good time to release the whitey tape, but still nothing…
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 8, 2016
Trump spoiler alert: There's worse stuff out there.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) October 8, 2016
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