September 15, 2016
Donald Trump has opened up an eight-point lead over Hillary Clinton in the battleground state of Iowa, according to a Monmouth University poll of likely voters released Thursday. Matched against Clinton, as well as Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green nominee Jill Stein, Trump received 45 percent support in the latest survey, up one point […]
September 15, 2016
Donald Trump took credit for the public’s lack of trust in the media, and called out a New York Times reporter, saying that he should have been fired. Speaking to New York Post columnist Fred Dicker on his WGDJ-AM radio show on Thursday, Trump said of a recent Gallup poll showing public confidence in media […]
September 15, 2016
Executives from The Guardian said today there will be cuts at the British news organization’s U.S. operation, announcing a 30 percent reduction in headcount across the board. In a meeting with newsroom staff, Guardian Media Group CEO David Pemsel called the changes a “course correction.” Eamonn Store, the CEO of The Guardian’s U.S. operations, told […]
September 15, 2016
Ideas really don’t come along that often. Already in 1840, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that in America, “ideas are a sort of mental dust,” that float about us but seldom cohere or hold our attention. For ideas to take hold, they need to be comprehensive and organizing; they need to order people’s experience of themselves […]
September 15, 2016
September 15, 2016
Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled his campaign’s economic plan, declaring in a speech at the New York Economic Club that it would deliver a jolt to the economy and create 25 million new jobs over the next decade. “Over the next 10 years, our economic team estimates that under our plan the economy will average […]
September 15, 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he believes Donald Trump should release his tax returns, gently suggesting that the GOP nominee ought to divulge his personal finances as Ryan did when he ran for vice president. Ryan noted at his weekly press briefing that he released his own tax returns when he was Mitt Romney’s […]
September 15, 2016
Donald Trump Jr. said Wednesday that the media protected the Democratic National Committee as it sought to force Sen. Bernie Sanders from the primary race earlier and added that “if Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now.” Trump’s comments came during an appearance on a Philadelphia talk radio station, […]
September 15, 2016
Donald Trump’s polling momentum in the battleground state of Ohio continued with a Suffolk University poll of likely voters out Thursday, showing the Republican nominee with a three-point edge over Hillary Clinton, consistent with other recent surveys showing him in the lead. Among the 500 likely general election voters surveyed between Monday and Wednesday, 42 […]
September 15, 2016
Donald Trump’s speech on economic policy got off to a rocky start Thursday, as the famously unscripted candidate was forced to revert to his notes when a teleprompter loaded with his speech apparently failed. “We’re having a lot of fun on the campaign and on the trail. I just wanted to say that—and it’s always […]