The Tap: Saturday, October 15, 2016
The Tap covered election news, public policy, and other noteworthy events from February 2016 to February 2022.
Review of the day
The excerpts below were compiled from issue #39 of The Tap, which was published on October 22, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.
Federal
- Donald Trump’s campaign cut ties with Ohio GOP state chairman Matt Borges. Trump’s state director in Ohio, Robert Paduchik, said in a letter, “Chairman Borges does not represent or speak for the candidate and he no longer has any affiliation with the Trump-Pence campaign.” Borges has reportedly been critical of Trump since the release of a 2005 tape of the Republican nominee making lewd comments about women. In an interview shortly after the tape’s release, Borges said that he was unsure if he would vote for Trump and called his comments in the tape “indefensible.” Ohio is a key battleground state in the 2016 presidential election. An average of polls in Ohio from September 18 to October 15 shows Trump in a statistical tie with Hillary Clinton. No Republican candidate for president has ever won a general election without winning Ohio.
- In response to reports that the FBI had prevented a plot to bomb a Kansas apartment complex whose residents were Somali immigrants, Hillary Clinton said in a statement, “I applaud law enforcement for detecting and disrupting a highly disturbing terror plot in Kansas, in which men were allegedly planning an elaborate attack directed at Muslim Americans, including directing four car bombs at an apartment complex housing more than 100 men, women, and children. This plot is an affront to all Americans. We all must stand firm in fighting terror and rejecting hateful and divisive rhetoric–and we must do it together."
State
- U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders rallied crowds in California to support Proposition 61. The initiative addresses prescription drug prices and, if approved, would regulate drug prices by requiring state agencies to pay the same prices that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pays for prescription drugs. In his statements, Sanders called the pharmaceutical industry “a major health hazard to the American people” and urged that it was time to “stop the greed, stop the lying, stop the profiteering. Stop charging the American people, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.” Proposition 61 is one of the ballot measures supported by Sanders’ nonprofit advocacy group, Our Revolution.
- Click here to read about the major influencers of California’s ballot measures in 2016.
Preview of the day
There were no items for this day in issue #38 of The Tap, which was published on October 15, 2016. See the "Review of the day" tab for more information.
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