September 25, 2016
Mike Pence insisted Sunday that Gennifer Flowers — who claimed to have an affair with Bill Clinton before his presidential run — would not be attending Monday’s debate, despite Donald Trump’s invitation. “Gennifer Flowers will not be attending the debate tomorrow night,” he told Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace speaking of the event slated for […]
September 25, 2016
September 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s relationship to the truth is solid — but her most brazen misrepresentations come when she’s talking about herself. In the lead-up to the first presidential debate of the general election, POLITCO subjected every statement made by both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — in speeches, in interviews and on Twitter — to our […]
September 25, 2016
As August ended, a new Donald Trump emerged. Coached by his third campaign management team, he stayed on message, read from a teleprompter, and focused on policy. It lasted about a month. After he lied on Sept. 16 that he was not the person responsible for the birtherism campaign to delegitimize Barack Obama’s presidency, POLITICO […]
September 25, 2016
Eight years after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, a vast majority of the country is pessimistic about any significant expansion of the economy over the next decade, according to a POLITICO-Harvard poll. The survey commissioned by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that 51 percent of Americans […]
September 25, 2016
HIllary Clinton and Donald Trump are virtually tied heading into their first debate, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News national poll. Among likely voters in a four-way race, 46 percent would choose Clinton and 44 percent would back Trump, while 5 percent prefer Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and 1 percent support the Green Party’s […]
September 25, 2016
In 1964, when the New York Titans first moved from Manhattan to Shea Stadium, in Flushing, Queens, many wanted to rename the team the “Borros,” a play on “Boroughs.” The name was supposedly nixed because the front office was worried the franchise would be caricatured as “jackasses,” and so the New York Jets were born. […]
September 25, 2016
In the early evening of December 26, 1941, Secret Service agent Harry E. Neal stood alone on the platform at Washington’s Union Station and watched the train disappear into the darkness. It was 6:50 p.m. and the temperature had slipped into the 30s. For the first time in two days, he breathed a little easier. […]
September 25, 2016
President Barack Obama’s third term? Sure, Hillary Clinton will take it, if that’s what it takes to get African-Americans and millennials to show up on Election Day in the numbers her campaign now thinks she needs to defeat Donald Trump. After months of carefully wording her speeches and answers to praise Obama while stressing her […]
September 25, 2016
Donald Trump has lavished attention on the Philadelphia suburbs over the last two weeks, and for good reason: Perhaps more than in any other battleground state, Trump has struggled to unite Pennsylvania Republicans around his candidacy. A new Muhlenberg College/Morning Call poll released Saturday suggested Trump’s focus might be working: 85 percent of self-identified Republicans […]