Meryl Streep's Drag King Persona is Donald Trump (Video)

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Hillary Clinton Makes History as First Woman to Claim Democratic Presidential Nomination: WATCH

Telling a crowd in Brooklyn, NY, “we are all standing under a glass ceiling right now,” Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for President.

“Thanks to you we’ve reached a milestone,” said Clinton to a thunderous crowd.”[It’s the] first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee.”

Clinton spoke as results from primaries in six states unfolded. She was declared the winner in New Jersey’s and led Bernie Sanders, who won North Dakota, in South Dakota, New Mexico, and Montana. Polls had yet to close in California.

Clinton also took aim at her Republican opponent: “Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander in chief”

She congratulated Bernie Sanders on his campaign and spoke about her mother, who was born on the day the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, passed the Senate.

“I wish my mother could be here…I wish she could see her daughter become the Democratic nominee.”

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CNN’s Trump Supporter Jeffrey Lord Defends Donald Trump’s Racism for 20 Minutes: WATCH

CNN’s Donald Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord spent 20 minutes defending Trump’s racism to the rest of the cabler’s panel. Media Matters calls this “the worst segment of the entire election” and they’re probably right.

Trump, as you may have heard, said that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a fraud case against Trump University, can’t be impartial because of his Mexican heritage.

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Hillary Clinton Declares 'History Made'

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the first woman to head a major party’s ticket, has added to her delegate count.

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Why the Latest Amber Heard Revelation Is Relevant

The bisexual actress was once arrested for domestic violence against her girlfriend — why this matters has nothing to do with Johnny Depp.

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Hillary Clinton’s Historic Night Shatters Barriers, Marks Milestone for Equality in America

HRC hailed Hillary Clinton’s historic win, following news of her victory in the New Jersey primary and reports that she has secured enough delegates to become the first woman nominated for president by a major party.

“Hillary Clinton made history tonight in more ways than one,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “As the first woman to secure the nomination of a major political party, she has shattered barriers that have persisted since this country’s founding. She has also laid out the most ambitious agenda for LGBTQ equality that our nation has ever seen from a presidential candidate. With Donald Trump threatening to roll back all the progress our community has made under President Obama, the stakes for millions of LGBTQ Americans couldn’t be higher in this election — and our choice on November 8 couldn’t be clearer.”

The Human Rights Campaign endorsed Hillary Clinton in January at an event in Des Moines, deployed staff to organize in early states like Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina and following those states, mobilized members and supporters across the country.

Secretary Clinton has made LGBTQ equality a pillar of her campaign and unveiled the most robust and ambitious LGBTQ plan any candidate for president has ever laid out. She has vowed to fight for the Equality Act — a bill that would finally offer explicit, clear, and permanent non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people at the federal level — and her detailed LGBTQ policy platform specifically calls for dropping the ban on open transgender military service, outlawing dangerous “conversion therapy” for minors, ending the epidemic of transgender violence, and supporting HIV prevention and affordable treatment, among other proposals that would advance equality and support the LGBTQ community.

Clinton’s agenda and record of achievement starkly contrasts against Donald Trump, who has vowed to roll back and block LGBTQ equality at every turn. Trump has vowed to appoint Supreme Court justices who would roll back nationwide marriage equality, has said he would sign a bill that would bring Kim Davis-style discrimination to all 50 states, and sided with Pat McCrory in his vile maneuver to write anti-LGBTQ discrimination into state law. Trump has also vowed to repeal President Obama’s executive orders. Beyond Trump’s hateful opposition to LGBTQ equality, he has attacked, belittled and maligned anyone and everyone he considers different. The LGBTQ community is as diverse as our nation, and includes  women, immigrants, Muslims, people of color, people living with disabilities, asylum seekers and others Trump has attacked for political gain.|

With 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide, HRC is planning an unprecedented organizational effort to register and mobilize the nation’s pro-equality majority, and elect pro-LGBTQ candidates up and down the ballot. In 2016, HRC expects that the pro-equality vote will be larger, stronger, and more energized than at any point in history.

Exit polls show that in 2012 at least six million LGB Americans voted in an election decided by less than five million votes. Today, in key states like Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida, the population of LGBTQ adults is greater than the average margin of victory in the last three presidential elections.

Polling done by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for HRC shows that a 55 percent majority of voters are less likely to support a candidate for president who opposes allowing same-sex couples to marry. This majority includes Independents, married women and white millennials — all groups which voted Republican in the 2014 midterm elections.

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