With a new multi-million contract, the largest position of influence she has ever held amid the professional political class, and replete with a custom upper-west side makeover, Donald Trump’s new Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway brings further clarity toward her objectives with the Trump campaign.

During an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Mrs. Conway discusses her impression of voters she has no historic reference for or relationship with. Contrasted against the DC beltway cocktail class, and country club republicans, Conway describes meeting “the Trump movement“, in affectionate -albeit cutesy condescending- terms.

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Senator Jeff Sessions appeared on Fox and Friends this morning for an interview.  Topics included the current presidential race and Donald Trump’s immigration proposal(s):

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Candidate Donald Trump will be holding a campaign rally today in Manchester, NH at The Radisson Hotel – Manchester, in The Armory Ballroom. Live Stream coverage begins at 1:00pm EDT:

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When the discussion of possible ransom payments to Iran surfaced, everyone was wondering why the U.S. State Department sent pallets of assorted cash currency, totaling $400 million to Iran on January 17th 2016.   The same day the hostages were released.

On August 4th President Obama held a press conference to discuss the controversy and denied it was a “ransom payment” (see video).  Specifically, to answer the question of “why cash“, President Obama said:

[06:05] “and the only bit of news that is relevant on this, is the fact that we paid cash.  Which brings me to my last point.

The reason that we had to give them cash is precisely because we are so strict in maintaining sanctions, and we do not have a banking relationship with Iran, that we couldn’t send them a check; and we could not wire the money.

And it is not at all clear to me why it is that cash, as opposed to a check or a wire transfer has made this into a news story”. [06:46]

However, two days later, January 19th 2016, the U.S. Treasury wired Iran 13 individual payments for $99,999,999.99 , each with an independent MICR, totaling $1,299,999,999.87.

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Sean Hannity aired the second part of the Donald Trump Town Hall in Austin Texas to discuss immigration policy.  Here’s day #2 video segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li_SegeQPWc

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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

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For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Hillary Clinton called in to CNN’s Anderson Cooper program tonight for a brief interview.

After claiming the appearance of “lots of smoke, but no fire” regarding the pay-to-play scheme during her tenure as Secretary of State, Secretary Clinton refused to answer the question about Colin Powell calling her “a liar“.

When Cooper asked Secretary Clinton why she was not available to the press and has not held a press conference her response was: “Stay tuned there will be a lot of different opportunities for me to talk to the press.”

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On Fox News with Megyn Kelly WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange discussed the process and timing for the release of thousands more documents relating to the U.S. election:

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Speaking to a boisterous crowd of over 10,000 supporters in Jackson Mississippi, candidate Donald Trump introduced Nigel Farage the leader of the U.K. Independence party – who led a campaign culminating a successful exit of Great Britain from the corruptocrats and corporatist elites within the European Union:

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