September 25, 2016
KENDALL, Fla. — Tim Kaine isn’t playing the lowered expectations game for Hillary Clinton ahead of the first presidential debate. The Democratic vice presidential nominee all but guaranteed a win by his running mate on Monday in New York, predicting Clinton will shine and Donald Trump will fumble when asked about specifics, the Trump Foundation […]
September 25, 2016
Northwest Florida’s likely next congressman, Republican state Rep. Matt Gaetz, is under fire for using Sunday’s boating death of Miami Marlins pitcher José Fernández to bash the football players protesting the national anthem. “To all who will kneel during the anthem today — just remember how José Fernández risked his life just for the chance […]
September 25, 2016
Donald Trump once promised to be the “neutral guy” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and said he didn’t want to assign fault in the never-ending conflict. Trump struck a very different tone on Sunday, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would recognize an undivided Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital and squarely blaming the Palestinian […]
September 25, 2016
The top House Democrat overseeing military issues began urging lawmakers Sunday to back President Barack Obama’s veto of legislation to allow 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for any alleged role in the attacks. It’s still almost a certain bet that Congress will override Obama’s veto Friday of the Justice Against Sponsors […]
September 25, 2016
The beginning of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump included statements that would have ended the campaign of any other politician. Has an announcement speech ever looked so much like a flashily produced political suicide? Did he really just call a key part of the electorate criminals and rapists? Ever since his blunt, racially divisive […]
September 25, 2016
Monday night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be a battle of facts—and, perhaps more likely, half-facts and flat-out lies. Both candidates, after all, have called out for being exceptionally untrustworthy in a profession that’s not known for its uprightness. At the New Yorker, David Remnick has said of Clinton, “[She] has had […]
September 25, 2016
DULUTH, Ga. —Tim Kaine leaned down to speak to a young Latina here in a hushed voice, nodding seriously as she spoke. The two hugged and she walked away, eyes watery and struggling to gather her thoughts. “I told him I’m going to vote for him and Hillary,” said Monica Navarrete of Lawrenceville, Georgia, in […]
September 25, 2016
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine said Monday night’s presidential debate will allow voters to really see “whether there’s depth, whether there’s substance, and whether there’s candor and truthfulness” in what Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump say. “In a 90-minute format, not 20-second sound bites, there’s a real opportunity to hear somebody say something and then […]
September 25, 2016
Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Sunday that Carter Page, whose nebulous ties with Russia are under scrutiny, is not connected to the Trump campaign. “He’s certainly not part of the campaign I’m running,” said Kellyanne Conway on Sunday to host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Conway also said of Page: “I have […]
September 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton has secured another Bush administration endorsement. Donald P. Gregg, national security adviser to George H.W. Bush during his tenure as vice president, said he believes Clinton would be an “extremely good president.” “We now have a person at the top of the Republican ticket who I believe is dangerous, doesn’t understand the complex […]