September 15, 2016
After a summer of doom-and-gloom predictions that the Senate was all but lost, Republicans are in the midst of an upswing that’s put them in better position to hang on than at any point since the 2014 midterms. The GOP has hit a gusher of money from outside groups, forcing Democrats to shift their campaign […]
September 15, 2016
Glenn Beck’s dreams of building a dominant conservative media empire are faltering amid a tangle of lawsuits, financial challenges, plunging on-line readership, firings and political feuds. Beck, who in his days as Fox News host was among the leading voices of the anti-establishment right, invested heavily to parlay that influence into a wide-ranging media enterprise […]
September 15, 2016
MIAMI — The nation’s biggest battleground state should have buried Donald Trump’s White House hopes. With Florida’s booming Hispanic population, Trump’s harsh immigration rhetoric sounded like political suicide. In a state where TV ads drive the electorate, Trump penny-pinched on air time. And though organization is a must here, Trump had no field offices for […]
September 14, 2016
Ivanka Trump was challenged to rectify her father’s 2004 statement that pregnancy was an “inconvenience for a business” with his newly unveiled family leave plan in a contentious interview with Cosmopolitan Wednesday. Donald Trump, with Ivanka by his side, unveiled the plan Tuesday, elaborating on his proposal to make child-care tax deductible for individuals making […]
September 14, 2016
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) have reached a tentative compromise to postpone a vote to impeach the IRS commissioner, sources familiar with the talks told POLITICO. Under the terms of the emerging deal, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen would testify before the Judiciary panel next week, and […]
September 14, 2016
CANTON, Ohio — After seeding the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton is in failing health, Donald Trump has been judiciously avoiding the topic of her bout with pneumonia. But before a racuous crowd here Wednesday night, he veered off the teleprompter several times–and, at one point, tiptoed right up to the topic his advisers have […]
September 14, 2016
Even as the Clintons are touting plans to distance themselves from their foundation and limit its fundraising if Hillary Clinton is elected president, they’re planning one last glitzy fundraising bash on Friday to belatedly celebrate Bill Clinton’s 70th birthday. The fundraiser is being held at the Rainbow Room, a fine-dining restaurant on the 65th floor […]
September 14, 2016
Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, was home working Sunday evening when Huma Abedin called with an urgent request: Could the former president drop his upcoming meetings in Washington, and take over for his pneumonia-felled wife on the campaign trail. The answer was, of course, yes: The former president filled in at three fundraisers […]
September 14, 2016
House conservatives’ push to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen looks to be in jeopardy, as a handful of centrist Republicans prepare to join Democrats to oppose the effort. But with the House Freedom Caucus making a full court press to save the impeachment effort, and moderate Republicans still marshaling support, the outcome is by no […]
September 14, 2016
NEW YORK — In a political season marked by non-stop scandals, gaffes and self-inflected wounds, the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump paused on Wednesday to focus on the health of the 68-year-old woman and 70-year-old man fighting for the White House. Just days after it took Clinton’s team 48 hours to disclose a […]