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Trump’s lurid tape just made Evan McMullin relevant

Long the thought that came after the afterthought of the 2016 presidential campaign, independent conservative Evan McMullin now has a chance to make his mark in the race — thanks in large part to a leaked tape of Donald Trump talking about sexual assault.

Trump’s lewd tape appears to be cutting into his standing among social conservatives, nowhere more so than in Utah, where the Mormon faith holds sway and tolerance for the latest revelation of Trump’s lasciviousness has pushed his already strained relationship with state Republicans past the breaking point.

Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 9 in Pennsylvania

With Donald Trump’s campaign struggling to stay afloat nationally under the weight of yet another round of controversy, a new Bloomberg poll puts Hillary Clinton 9 percentage points ahead of the Manhattan billionaire in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania.

The former secretary of state leads Trump 51 percent to 42 percent among likely Pennsylvanian voters in a head-to-head matchup between the two candidates.

RNC TV ad spending for Trump: $0

The Republican National Committee insists that it’s doing everything in its power to elect Donald Trump, but as Trump gets clobbered on the TV airwaves by his well-funded Democratic rival, the RNC has been conspicuously absent.

A POLITICO analysis of campaign finance records reveals that the committee has not spent anything on commercials boosting Trump since he emerged as the party’s likely nominee.

Labor unions and Tom Steyer to spend $60 million to mobilize progressive voters for presidential and down-ballot races

For Our Future, a progressive super PAC, has raised $60 million to continue work toward its goal of mobilizing 9.5 million African American, Latino and millennial voters in several battleground states before Election Day.

The super PAC is focusing on personal contact with voters, funding grass-roots groups to knock on doors rather than buying up radio and television airtime, in Florida, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Don­ald Trump’s pub­lic bromance with Vladi­mir Putin might not rank among his top prob­lems na­tion­ally this week, but in a few key swing states it’s cre­at­ing an­oth­er small crisis for his cam­paign.

Donald Trump’s campaign is “pulling out of Virginia,” a move that stunned staff in the battleground state, three sources with knowledge of the decision told NBC News.

The decision came from Trump’s headquarters in New York and was announced on a conference call late Wednesday that left some Republican Party operatives in the state blindsided. Two staffers directly involved in the GOP’s efforts in Virginia confirmed the decision.

Donald Trump planted a kiss on a rally sign that he took from a woman at one of his Florida events on Wednesday, and expressed bewilderment that some women aren’t backing him.

“I see all these ‘Women for Trump’ signs. I love this,” Trump said. “I see hundreds of women for Trump, then I see a poll. ‘He is not doing well with women.’ I don’t know.”