September 30, 2016
The scandal of Hillary Clinton’s “home brew” email server, as it is played out over more than a year and a half, has served as a Rorschach test for her supporters and opponents. In her critics’ eyes it’s just another example of the Clinton family taking ethical shortcuts and playing by their own set of […]
September 30, 2016
When Donald Trump confronted revelations that he used money from his charitable foundation to settle private legal disputes and purchase portraits of himself, a tireless army of tweeters went to work to keep the focus on Hillary Clinton’s foundation instead. Then Trump stumbled on a debate question about why he refuses to release his taxes, […]
September 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton performance in this week’s presidential debate — and the subsequent fallout — is fueling a surge of confidence about her prospects in the battleground states that will decide the election. That’s according to The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of swing-state activists, strategists and operatives. Virtually all Democrats and nearly half of Republicans […]
September 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton has pulled 7 percentage points ahead of Donald Trump in Michigan in the first statewide polls conducted after Monday night’s presidential debate. The Detroit News-WDIV-TV poll released late Thursday shows the Democratic nominee leading Trump by seven points in both a head-to-head matchup as well as a four-way contest between the two major […]
September 29, 2016
Jeb Bush said Thursday it was “inappropriate” for the news of his father’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton to come out in the way it did, according to an interview with an NBC reporter. “I thought it was a little inappropriate for a person to overhear a frail, 92-year-old man in a private setting at a […]
September 29, 2016
The United Nations News Centre — the official U.N. news service — tweeted, then quickly pulled, a post that called for “8 million Americans abroad” to “stop Trump.” The tweet, published at 9:14 p.m. ET on Thursday, urged American expats to share a voter registration tool on the website of the activist organization Avaaz that […]
September 29, 2016
The son of former President Ronald Reagan publicly griped on Thursday about Donald Trump’s inability to pivot like a “professional politician,” writing that the GOP candidate “doesn’t know when it’s time to just shut up.” In a blog post, Michael Reagan, the oldest living child of the former president and Republican icon, lamented that Trump […]
September 29, 2016
In his self-described “nerdy” style, former Florida governor Jeb Bush addressed a group of Harvard students on Thursday evening, delivering remarks laced with equal parts wonkish policy chatter and commentary on a presidential election cycle gone off the rails. Bush offered his diagnosis of the current state of politics and discussed what he thinks needs […]
September 29, 2016
Donald Trump on Thursday denied doing business in Cuba following a report accusing the Republican nominee of violating the U.S. embargo on the island. “I never did business in Cuba. There’s this guy who has very bad reputation as a reporter. You see what his record is, he wrote something about me in Cuba,” Trump […]
September 29, 2016
In its 34-year history USA Today has not endorsed a candidate in a presidential election. Only once have they “disendorsed” a candidate, and that was former KKK leader and white supremacist David Duke in 1991 when he ran for governor of Louisiana. That changed on Thursday when the USA Today editorial board “disendorsed” Donald Trump. […]