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Election Briefs: Trump belittles latest accuser

Trump belittles latest accuser

NEW YORK • Mr Donald Trump has disparaged the latest woman to accuse him of touching her inappropriately, dismissing her as a "porn star" and saying sarcastically: "Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before." The accuser, adult film actress Jessica Drake, said Mr Trump groped and kissed her without her permission in 2006.

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Tweet revenge from Obama

NEW YORK • President Barack Obama has trolled Mr Donald Trump's prolific use of Twitter to settle scores, reading aloud a "mean tweet" from the Republican on a late-night show. In response to the tweet that "President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!", he said: "At least I will go down as president."

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Millennials voting with their feet

BOSTON • The negative tone of this year's White House race is souring young Americans, turning some away, just as the millennial generation has become as large a potential bloc of voters as the baby boomers.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that Americans aged 18 to 34 are slightly less likely to vote for president this year than their comparably aged peers were in 2012.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on October 26, 2016, with the headline Election Briefs: Trump belittles latest accuser. Subscribe