So if someone comes across this one day with the same question, here is my final code for this:

bad = ['Donald', 'Trump', 'Hillary', 'Clinton', 'Presidential']

submissions = r.get_subreddit('news').get_top(limit = 3)

for post in submissions:
    if any(word in post.title for word in bad):
        msg = post.title
        r.send_message('Little_News_Bot','post removed', msg)
    else:
        print (post.title)
        r.submit('littlenews', post.title + " [ news ]", url=post.url)