October 1, 2016
NOVI, Michigan — As Donald Trump’s campaign works to drive a sharper message down the home stretch, the GOP nominee is increasingly invoking the specter of a conspiracy by big corporations, media companies and donors to elect Hillary Clinton. The warnings, coming in scripted and sometimes personal attack lines in nearly every recent speech, are […]
October 1, 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. The reviews are in: Donald Trump lost the first presidential debate. But he might not sink too far in the polls because […]
October 1, 2016
Last year, back when polls favorable to Donald Trump were still being dismissed and skittish GOP candidates shied from confronting the blustery mogul, one group took him on directly. The Club for Growth, the deep-pocketed interest group that is feared by Republicans who come into its cross hairs for supporting tax or spending hikes, began […]
October 1, 2016
America’s diplomats are shuddering at the notion that Donald Trump, if elected president, will send unqualified cronies around the world as ambassadors, exporting his bombastic style to sensitive jobs that represent the face of the United States. As the presidential election draws closer, many career diplomats are uncertain about their future should the Republican presidential […]
September 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton is looking to glam up her endorsements come October. On October 17, the candidate’s campaign will partake in “Broadway for Hillary,” a star-studded fundraising event that will feature performances from numerous A-list celebrities including Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Neil Patrick Harris, Helen Mirren and Lin-Manuel Miranda, star of the critically-acclaimed “Hamilton,” according to […]
September 30, 2016
Leaked audio of a conversation between Hillary Clinton and donors during a February fundraising event shows the Democrat nominee mocking Bernie Sanders supporters as “children of the Great Recession” who are “living in their parents’ basement.” Speaking at a Virginia fundraiser hosted by former U.S. ambassador Beatrice Welters, Clinton laments in a clip released by […]
September 30, 2016
Donald Trump is sliding in the initial polls conducted after his poor performance this week in the first presidential debate, falling behind Hillary Clinton nationally and in key battleground states after he had closed the gap over the past six weeks. Clinton has expanded her national lead in the first spate of post-debate polls conducted […]
September 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton is “evil,” Gary Johnson is always “high” and it’s game on against Sen. Elizabeth Warren, according to former baseball star Curt Schilling. The six-time all-star Major League pitcher told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto Friday that he’s “serious” about mounting a 2018 challenge to unseat Warren in Massachusetts, while deriding Johnson and Clinton’s current […]
September 30, 2016
Donald Trump’s campaign made its latest pitch for women voters on Friday, releasing a new TV ad featuring his daughter, Ivanka, outlining his plans for a childcare tax credit and paid maternity leave. The ad, titled “Motherhood,” opens with the 34-year-old entrepreneur and Trump company executive saying that being a mother is the most important […]
September 30, 2016
A federal judge gave a green light to the Obama administration’s hotly contested plan to cede oversight of the Internet to the international community. In a ruling issued Friday, Judge George Hanks Jr. denied a request from four Republican state attorneys general to temporarily halt the transition just hours before the handoff was scheduled to […]