September 24, 2016
The editorial board of the New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton on Saturday, urging the newspaper’s readers to vote for the former secretary of state as the person best suited to confront “bigoted, tribalist movements and their leaders on the march” across the globe. “In the Middle East and across Asia, in Russia and Eastern […]
September 24, 2016
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign is planning for what it says will amount to $140 million worth of advertising from now until Election Day. The total, if executed, would include $100 million in television airtime and $40 million in digital ads, according to senior communications adviser Jason Miller. The plan represents a new approach for […]
September 24, 2016
IT’S THE WEEKEND. It’s going to be 77 degrees in Washington today. Enjoy it. The National Museum of African American History and Culture has its opening festivities today. Living Colour, Public Enemy, and The Roots are all performing. And Hillary Clinton has postponed a trip to Charlotte at the mayor’s behest. She cited “very stressed […]
September 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton will spend the week following her first debate with Donald Trump barnstorming key battleground states alongside a team of heavyweight Democratic surrogates, according to a campaign release Friday. Vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, first lady Michelle Obama, President Bill Clinton, vice president Joe Biden and Clinton’s daughter Chelsea will join her on the […]
September 24, 2016
From the minute that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton open their mouths at the debate on Monday night, they’re going to be relentlessly fact-checked — by each other, by the media, and of course, by POLITICO. But at this point in the year, they’ve already stretched the truth enough times that we can do better […]
September 24, 2016
LAS VEGAS — Barack Obama’s best swing state in 2008 has become one of his party’s biggest problems in 2016. Obama won a smashing double-digit victory in Nevada eight years ago, and he held the state by a comfortable 7-point margin in 2012, as the heavily Hispanic state became a poster child for demographic change […]
September 24, 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. It’s true that, on balance, Donald Trump’s voters are more enthusiastic about voting this fall. But it’s also true that the Trump […]
September 24, 2016
BURLINGTON—In mid-July, after Bernie Sanders endorsed his former rival, Hillary Clinton, for president, he and his wife Jane returned home to Vermont amid talk that he had ignited a political revolution and altered the course of the Democratic Party. On the street where Sanders lives, dozens of signs lined the lawns of his neighbors: “Thank […]
September 24, 2016
In a stunning reversal, a large majority of Republicans are repudiating their party’s traditional support for free trade, and falling sharply in line with nominee Donald Trump’s insistence that trade costs Americans more jobs than it creates. Meanwhile, Democrats, whose representatives in Congress have traditionally been far more skeptical of trade deals — and largely […]
September 23, 2016
A lawyer for Hillary Clinton told a House committee Friday the panel won’t be receiving some information it subpoenaed about security arrangements for Clinton’s server. Clinton attorney David Kendall sent a letter to House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) saying that the panel’s subpoena to Florida-based computer security company SECNAP went too far by […]