October 3, 2016
MIAMI — In a sign of the “uncomfortable” spot Donald Trump has put them in, the Miami Republican leaders who support a hard line on Cuba don’t want to talk about a news story detailing how one of the GOP presidential nominee’s companies helped violate the U.S. embargo of the communist island. So Hillary Clinton […]
October 3, 2016
Republican GOP Sen. Marco Rubio’s lead over Democrat Patrick Murphy in the closely watched U.S. Senate race has more than doubled since late August, according to a poll released today by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. The poll of likely voters found Rubio ahead of Murphy, 47-40 percent, a seven-point margin, with 5 percent backing Libertarian […]
October 3, 2016
Hillary Clinton is scheduled to travel to Ohio Monday to deliver an economic-themed address in a key battleground state. In visits to Toledo and Akron, the Democratic nominee plans to condemn “in-it-for-yourself” corporations, according to a Clinton campaign official, targeting Wells Fargo, Mylan Pharmaceuticals and the Trump Organization. The Democratic nominee will also lay out […]
October 3, 2016
Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway will emerge from the 2016 campaign as a winner, regardless of the result on Election Day, thanks to her unique relationships with a succession of overlapping committees and mega-donors. As Conway’s profile has soared during the 2016 campaign, her small Washington-based polling firm has collected nearly $1.9 million and […]
October 3, 2016
As Speaker Paul Ryan kicks off his final nationwide campaign sprint to protect his House majority, his October itinerary has a few unusual additions: campaign stops for Senate Republicans. The one-time vice-presidential nominee will use his star power to help raise money and stump for some of his closest friends in the Senate facing competitive […]
October 3, 2016
Archiving video. Compiling tweets, appearances at rallies, and statements of support. Building files of everything that Republican candidates for governors’ mansions down to statehouse sets have done or said in support. Newly confident in Hillary Clinton’s November prospects, Democrats are now plotting a post-Election Day campaign against individual Republicans for nominating—and sticking by—Donald Trump. “We […]
October 3, 2016
When Barack Obama announced plans to crack down on federal subsidies to companies like Sallie Mae — calling them a “big racket” — one Democrat quietly helped the lender make its case to keep billions in taxpayer money flowing: then-Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. Early in Obama’s first term, email records reviewed by POLITICO show that […]
October 3, 2016
When Barack Obama announced plans to crack down on federal subsidies to companies like Sallie Mae — calling them a “big racket” — one Democrat quietly helped the lender make its case to keep billions in taxpayer money flowing: then-Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. Early in Obama’s first term, email records reviewed by POLITICO show that […]
October 3, 2016
Michael Che and Colin Jost — co-anchors of SNL’s Weekend Update, the grand-daddy of fake TV newscasts — think Donald Trump is a lot of things. He’s a flim-flam artist, a racial flamethrower, a selfish jerk who hasn’t done a thing for anybody but himself, a guy who shouldn’t be allowed near the Oval Office […]
October 3, 2016
Before he ran his campaigns as a sunny-side-up conservative driven by a deep Christian faith, Mike Pence sounded a lot like Donald Trump. Way back in 1990, Pence ran a House race in which he broke Indiana politics’ rules of decorum, leveled insults and personal attacks, and cut a racially charged television commercial aiming to […]