September 17, 2016
Neither presidential candidate has offered a compelling vision on national security, former Defense Secretary Bob Gates writes in a scathing Wall Street Journal op-ed — but Donald Trump is “beyond repair.” Gates, who ran the Pentagon under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is critical of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, citing her advocacy for […]
September 17, 2016
It was five years ago today that hundreds of activists descended on New York City’s Zuccotti Park, 5 blocks from the New York Stock Exchange, to “Occupy Wall Street”— a blunt but effective idea that resonated far wider that their original numbers would ever suggest. The organizers were shrouded in mystery. Their goals were vague. […]
September 17, 2016
I was a stranger in a strange land—even though I was an American in the United States of America. That’s what it felt like recently as I was jogging through Surfside Beach, South Carolina, a mostly white area known for its beachfront homes, and stopped on a sidewalk for a few moments to turn my […]
September 17, 2016
Continuing our POLITICO feature, where we dig into the latest polls and loop in other data streams to tell the story of the 2016 campaign. Here are five numbers that mattered this week. Donald Trump closed to within a hair of Hillary Clinton in the race for president this week, and younger voters are a […]
September 17, 2016
It’s no coincidence Donald Trump rolled out his child care proposal this week in suburban Philadelphia, with his daughter Ivanka by his side. To win Pennsylvania, the GOP nominee must remain competitive in the populous suburbs that ring the state’s largest city. Recent polls suggest he’s not even close. And unless Trump can boost his […]
September 16, 2016
Donald Trump once called President Barack Obama’s rapprochement with Cuba “fine” and said that, though he would’ve cut a better deal, “50 years is enough” for the U.S. embargo. But during a Friday rally in Miami, Trump sounded very much like every other Republican presidential nominee promising to keep a hard line on Cuba as […]
September 16, 2016
Donald Trump on Friday evening waded into a 2nd Amendment controversy on a day dominated by “birtherism” headlines, when he called on Hillary Clinton’s security detail to disarm so we can “see what happens to her.” “She wants to destroy your Second Amendment,” he said at a Miami rally. “I think what we should do […]
September 16, 2016
MIAMI — Donald Trump channeled his inner Jean Valjean Friday night, taking the stage at a Miami rally with fresh introduction music from “Les Misérables” in front of a digital banner bearing the words “Les Deplorables” and a photo-shopped image from the musical. And it wasn’t long before he sounded more like Javert, raising the […]
September 16, 2016
Donald Trump on Friday morning dangled an enticing offer — he would be making a “big statement” in just a few hours about the Barack Obama birther conspiracy that helped launch his political career. The media took the bait. The cable networks offered wall-to-wall coverage of Trump’s plane taxiing at Reagan National Airport (cozying near […]
September 16, 2016
Obama alumni savaged Donald Trump on Friday for sticking by his claim that Hillary Clinton started the so-called “birther movement” — even though Trump finally dropped his own claims that Obama was born in Kenya. The White House press secretary shrugged off the reversal, saying that President Barack Obama “doesn’t much care” about getting an […]