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ALLENDALE, MI - NOVEMBER 07: Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at Grand Valley State University on November 7, 2016 in Allendale, Michigan. With one day to go until election day, Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Hillary Clinton would dominate a hypothetical race for mayor of New York City against incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio if she were to run as an independent, according to a Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday.

The poll found that 49 percent would back Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, while only 29 percent would support de Blasio, a Democrat.

Clinton, a resident of Chappaqua, New York, north of the city, has never indicated that she would want to run for elected office again.

Forty-five percent said they approve of de Blasios job while 46 percent said they disapprove. Forty-nine percent even said that de Blasio doesnt deserve to be reelected and 42 percent said he does deserve it.

In a Clinton-de Blasio matchup, 61 percent of Democrats said they would support Clinton compared to 29 percent for de Blasio and she would lead among independents, with 45 percent support.

The survey also found that while de Blasio would lead among Republicans, Clinton would lead among men, women, black, white and Hispanic voters.

The poll comes after the New York Post wrote in an editorial earlier this month that, New York City needs Hillary Clinton to run for mayor.

The survey polled 1,138 voters between Jan. 11 and 17 with a 3.6 percentage point margin of error.

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A New York lawyer appealed to President Obama Wednesday in an opinion piece to pardon former-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and others who may be potential targets of an investigation into the use of the private email server.

Robert Begleiter, a partner at Constantine Cannon LLP and former assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York, wrote in The Daily News that the Constitution permits a president to pardon someone who has not been charged with a crime.

President-elect Donald Trump has said he has no intention of investigating Clinton, despite the familiar chant by supporters at his primary rallies, Lock her up. He even refered to her as Crooked Hillary.

I dont want to hurt the Clintons, I really dont, Trump told editors at The New York Times shortly after the election. She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways, and Im not looking to hurt them at all. The campaign was vicious.

Begleiter wrote that he wishes Trump well as president, but said it would be a gamble in the event Clinton ever criticized Trump during his presidency. He called it sideways to believe that a person who accepted a pardon is admitting guilt.

He wrote that a pardon for Clinton could, in the words of Alexander Hamilton, restore tranquility to the commonwealth

John Crudele, a financial columnist with The New York Post, wrote that Obama is the most forgiving president in U.S. history, and commuted the sentences of 1,000. He theorized that Obama likely does not personally like Clinton very much and the email scandal put him in an embarrassing situation.

But the best reason for not giving a pardon is simple: Obama doesnt really know what kind of trouble Hillary might be in. And she would have to admit to things she might not be ready to reveal to get completely out of trouble, he wrote.

Edmund DeMarche is a news editor for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @EDeMarche.

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Tonight, Tucker Carlson took onAlex Mohajer, a Huffington Post contributor who says that Hillary Clinton is the "legitimate president."

In a piece published over the weekend,Mohajer wrote, "Hillary Clinton is the rightful president-elect of the United States."

He pointed to Clinton's win in the popular vote, Russian meddling in the election, President-elect Donald Trump's alleged ties to Moscow, and FBI Director James Comey's public comments on the bureau's investigationinto Clinton's emails.

"Calling for judicial intervention and a new election, no matter how outlandish or uncharted, is our civic duty,"Mohajer concluded in the piece.

Tucker saidMohajeris alleging things - like collusion between Trump and Comey - that he has no way of knowing.

"The idea that people take a crackpot like you - who would throw something out there with no evidence - is distressing," Carlson said. "And shame on the Huffington Post for printing your garbage."

Mohajersaid that Tucker isn't actually listening to his argument because he's too focused on "partisan squabbling."

"You ran a partisan group during the election!" Tucker fired back. You're a Democratic political operative!"

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In 1993, video game developer Midway published the first edition of NBA Jam. The basketball arcade game was ported to home consoles, stretched across sequels and spinoffs, lost in pop culture obscurity, rebooted, and most recently ported onto smartphones, where it occasionally bubbles onto Top 100 sales charts. Which is to say, NBA Jam has surprisingly sturdy legs for a goofy sports game.

Today, we get the latest tribute to the series: a tweaked ROM that updates the game with a more modern roster.

NBA Jam 2k17, which was spotted by Kotaku, adds modern NBA players, as well as Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Kanye West, and Harambe, represented as a pixelated man with a weird gorilla head. Sure, its great to have access to players like LeBron James and Steph Curry, but Harambe like NBA Jam itself is determined to outlast us all. Im not saying the meme is totally played out, but it certainly is resilient.

The ROM is currently available on Hogs with a Blog and includes includes 30 NBA teams, 117 NBA players, and some nice graphical tweaks. Youll need an SNES emulator to play it. Considering this game isnt approved by the NBA or Electronic Arts (the current owner of the NBA Jam IP) its safe to say the legality of this ROM is suspect, though one could argue its a damn fine parody of the original NBA Jam and the Jock Jams culture it released on an unsuspecting public.

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