October 13, 2016 11:53 AM UTC

Get More Smarter on Thursday (October 13th)

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Missed Friday the 13th by that much! It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show.

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► Donald Trump faces a growing flood of accusations of sexual misconduct from women he has dealt with over the years, as a Bill Cosby-style logjam beaks loose:

New allegations of Donald Trump groping women are sending the Republican nominee’s floundering campaign into a tailspin, with precious few days left for the billionaire to try to salvage his presidential bid.

Already struggling under the weight of the 2005 tape in which Trump can be heard describing in vulgar terms how his celebrity status allowed him to sexually assault women with impunity, the Republican nominee’s campaign pushed back against the new charges by questioning their timing and the motivations of the accusers.

The Trump campaign’s damage control effort has kicked into high gear after more women offered independent allegations that the real estate mogul had groped them or attempted to force himself on them. Two such accusations were published in The New York Times, including one from a woman who said Trump groped her breasts and attempted to put his hand up her skirt on a first-class flight to New York in the early 1980s.

► Meanwhile, one of Trump’s most loyal remaining surrogates, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, is hit with a criminal summons in the Bridgegate scandal.

► And Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani is sorry for falsely claiming Hillary Clinton was absent from New York after 9/11.

► In Pueblo yesterday, Clinton tore into Trump’s deepening crises:

“It’s not only women that he has disrespected. He’s insulted practically everybody,” she said, calling on voters to “reject the dark and divisive and hateful campaign that is being run by my opponent.”

► The latest polls say that’s exactly what’s happening.

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Trump returns to Colorado next Tuesday with a quick rally stop in Grand Junction.

► Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib dismissed Trump’s “locker room talk,” saying Trump might “fit in” in the Broncos locker room.

“Trump may fit in if he came in here, who knows?” Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib said in a locker room video posted by 9NEWS.

Talib, who this offseason suffered what police concluded was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his leg, told the Denver TV station that the Broncos “talk about everything” in the locker room.

We and a lot of female Broncos fans hope the boys keep the sexual assault talk, you know, to a minimum.

► Sen. Michael Bennet, in addition to outpolling challenger Darryl Glenn by a wide margin, is raising cash by the millions–cash more likely to go toward future elections at this point than 2016’s mostly-over campaign.

► As part of the unlikely coalition of grassroots right and left opposing Amendment 71, the right-wing Independence Institute is touring a wooden “Trojan Horse” around the state to warn about the consequences of “Raising the Bar.”

► The Colorado Statesman’s Ernest Luning has a good story about political mailers–hits, misses, and head games.

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► When it comes to the recent story about “dead voters” in Colorado, don’t believe the hype.

► Can you survive on minimum wage? State progressive leaders are trying in support of Amendment 70, and it’s not going very well.

ICYMI

► They probably wouldn’t anyway, but DO NOT send your kid to school in a clown suit this Halloween.

► The ACLU takes on the Colorado Springs PD over racial profiling.

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