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Gale Anne Hurd talks Season 7, and the ludicrous ideas NBC had when first pitched the show years ago - they wanted it to be a zombie procedural.

A ton of musicians are appearing - either as musicians, actors or both, we don't know - in TP 2017, including lead Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder and The Veils frontman Finn Andrews. These two songs are (allegedly) going to be featured in the show, with Andrews referencing Laura Palmer when discussing the second song: I think they're both great, myself. And yes, Julee Cruise is back from the original show.

Nobody who matters in this election takes that idiot seriously. He's yet another disaster for Trump.

Most of the polling has her up by a lot. It's the more skewed samples that make it look close, and Nate Silver is kind of anal about factoring them in a bit too much sometimes.

I doubt that very much. Nate Silver often over-compensates on the polling, but he knows Trump has been crashing out for months. It won't be close, but the media will pretend it is in an attempt to goose their ratings. "Under 80%" for a day, if that, is nothing to get all concerned about. People got all scared of Romney over nothing for similar reasons, and Obama had that shut down by 10 PM. And actually, I believe Hillary is the one campaigning more, and running very effective ads. If you look at the last few months of coverage and reporting, it's Trump who has virtually no ground game, constantly has no public events on his schedule each week until the last minute, keeps changing and pulling out of events (like last week) and seems to have absolutely no stomach for or interest in campaigning anywhere but venues that are either close to his home or solidly red. He only just made a national ad buy. All he has is rallies which make him feel good. As the GOP has often clucked about, there's very little actual campaigning. Because he doesn't want to, and he doesn't like spending money.

Politico says it's too late for Trump.

Classy of him:

So apparently he's the mad scientist from Independence Day. Breitbart's landlord is a Muslim businessman.

Steve Bannon - in addition to the domestic violence incident - may have committed voter fraud. And failed to pay his taxes.

The bitchy tweets from GOP/right wing loyalists who despise Trump are always incredibly entertaining:

No, I don't agree. At this point most white voters are against Trump. More will blanch at these graphic details. Trump's clumsy actions over the last week have been a blundering attempt to calm them, and this buries that. The order for a lot of the media though was to try and keep this a race, so a lot of shows tried to deflect from the speech by asking if Hillary 'went too far' calling Trump a racist and tying him directly to these people, which is so offensive and stupid. But that didn't get much traction and they got huge pushback, especially from Republicans like Andrew Weinstein, a former Dole campaign manager who got antisemitic death threats online recently. When he told his story on Hardball he basically horrified and silenced Chris Matthews, who was trying to push the 'too far?' frame. It's not going to fly - the story instead for the day was her hanging Trump with this and these people, and it's going to keep coming. Again, I honestly think most of the media wants Trump to lose. But the thing to remember is that there's a glib amorality to too many people at the networks where their cash flow and rarefied world keeps them well-insulated from the real-world consequences of so much of this stuff - instead, they view it as a simple ratings game, and figure Trump can't win but is great entertainment, plus they still need their numbers so they have to kabuki it and play up any angle to keep him propped up like "Weekend at Bernie's", like suggesting Hillary 'went too far' even if many at the networks surely know she didn't. Plus most of them just don't like her, so there you go. Crazy old Jennifer Rubin at the Post said Hillary's speech was genius and that her party (the GOP) had to own it because a Republican should have made it months ago. She is right.

Everyone should watch all of this. She was on fire and when you have well-known Republican pundits calling it probably the best speech of her political career - in which she ends it by shaming the GOP establishment - that says something. Trump, of course, is already melting down over it. Again.

Ann Coulter - touring with her new book calling Trump the anti-immigration savior - is humiliated as he rolls out his confused, disastrous flipflop on immigrants on Day 1 of her tour. Josh Marshall covers Trump's latest disastrous week, and this isn't even counting the Bannon domestic abuse reveal or Hillary's devastating speech.

Who's next?

Hillary's also doing Morning Joe tomorrow, which is smart IMO. Take the fight directly to the portion of the media most desperate to feed a fading false equivalency and try to keep the horse race going. It's not working, but it hasn't stopped a lot of the cable outlets from struggling to push it this week in the hopes of reviving the race and numbers, despite the public vocally deciding that the Clinton Foundation isn't really a story ('but the optics!' the media keeps whining, even as their latest hope for Both Sides Do It slips away). Faced with her they'll buckle.

Hillary attacks Trump's link to the alt right. Great speech.

Glenn Beck, of all people, is on Lawrence O'Donnell tonight decrying Trump, and airing a call from a listener who not-so-subtly hints that he'll kill Trump if Trump goes back on building a wall. For someone whose brief national ascent nearly turned him into the latter-day Father Coughlin (who Beck name-checks here while discussing Trump, amusingly enough), it's a little amazing to see someone as nutty as Beck calling Trump a bridge too far.

David Duchovny speaks briefly on the intense confidentiality measures taken with the new series.

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McCain could be doing real good out there, and we know he objects to Trump on moral grounds as well as political ones. Sadly, the good man and war hero in him have too often been overshadowed by the petty grudgekeeper and score-settler - particularly when it comes to Barack Obama, who he never got over having to face in an election and losing to.

Reuters has Clinton up by 12.

84% on a daily nowcast. I'm not exactly shook.

This morning in the 2016 presidential election:

Uh... he didn't make Airplane!

I didn't realize Nathalie Emmanuel's role in the last Fast & Furious film was now recurring - those deceptively bombastic movies don't get enough credit for being multi-cultural franchise pix that retain the massive casts as a family. She's in the upcoming film which means she's a lifer now. I'm glad for her.