Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein “Here we go again,” President Donald Trump told the Associated Press, as he equated Saudi Arabia’s apparent complicity in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi with the allegations that surfaced against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Indeed we do. It capped a day and a series of news cycles where Trump returned to some of the wildest off-the-cuff comments we’ve seen during his time as president. He also chose to tweet offensive nicknames at both an accuser and a potential rival — both of them women. Stormy Daniels and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are pushing back, as they have every right to do. Khashoggi, of course, cannot do the same — though Trump’s inclination to believe the Saudis will draw its own pushback. It means, again, that Trump is fighting on terrain that he — and maybe, ultimately, he alone — is comfortable occupying. Trump doesn’t seem to pay a political price for excusing inexcusable behavior, or going to the gutter more generally. So far in his political career, there’s no one that can be said of other than Trump. It all may mark just more noise 20 days out from the midterms. But it’s a campaign-season reminder that when Trump goes low … he can always go lower. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks Election Day is actually more like "Election Month." As of today, the first day of early voting in Tennessee and North Carolina, voters can cast ballots in 20 states through early voting programs. In four of those states, vot... Link to the full article to read more