September 23, 2016
A politics-filled Emmys ceremony. A shocking Bush endorsement. And Ted Cruz’s surprise tweet to Trump. How well have you been following this week’s political news? Take POLITICO’s quiz to find out, then share your result and compare scores on Twitter by tagging @POLITICO with the hashtag #PoliticoQuiz.
September 23, 2016
With red lips, blue eyes and big blond hair, a former newscaster and lounge singer named Gennifer Flowers had talked to a supermarket tabloid about how she had been presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s mistress for 12 years. It was up to his wife to fix it. So on Sunday, January 26, 1992, on 60 Minutes […]
September 23, 2016
It was just over a year ago, at a nationally televised debate, when Donald Trump chided Jeb Bush for speaking another language on the campaign trail. “This is a country,” Trump said standing at the lectern next to Bush, “where we speak English, not Spanish.” The crowd at the Ronald Reagan presidential library applauded. Ever […]
September 23, 2016
Karen Dunn is polite, precise and barely more than five feet tall — but after Barack Obama’s dreadful first debate against Mitt Romney in 2012, she got up in the face of the leader of the free world. “You need to punch him in the mouth!” said Dunn. And Obama did – delivering a powerful, […]
September 23, 2016
Democrats are confident the rising salience of terrorism and police shootings of African-Americans this week will benefit Hillary Clinton. Republicans, meanwhile, believe overwhelmingly that Donald Trump will win the terrorism argument but are less confident that he’ll react in a measured way to the recent protests in North Carolina. That’s according to The POLITICO Caucus […]
September 23, 2016
MESA, Ariz. — Mike Pence took aim at Bill Clinton on Thursday, saying “character matters to the presidency.” “I’m old enough to remember back in the last Clinton administration where America really had a debate over whether character mattered to the presidency,” the Republican vice presidential nominee told a few hundred people at Living World […]
September 23, 2016
When Donald Trump looks out at the crowd during his upcoming presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, Mark Cuban plans to make sure he sees at least one unfriendly face. The bombastic billionaire who’s been an outspoken critic of the Republican nominee will be sitting front-row when the two opponents square off for their first televised […]
September 22, 2016
President Barack Obama on Thursday stressed the need for a “thoughtful” and “peaceful” resolution in Charlotte, in his first comments addressing three days of protests over the fatal police shooting of an African-American man. “The way we change the system requires to be able to reach out and engage the broader American community and that […]
September 22, 2016
A day after autocratic Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he had “no doubt” Donald Trump would make a strong leader, the Republican nominee returned the favor, praising Sisi as a “fantastic guy.” Sitting down with Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs, Trump touted the “chemistry” the two politicians shared during a special meeting on the sidelines […]
September 22, 2016
North Carolina GOP Rep. Robert Pittenger said protesters in Charlotte are motivated by racism rather than anger over the fatal police shooting of Keith Scott, an African-American man. “The grievance in their mind is the animus, the anger,” Pittenger said during an interview with the BBC. “They hate white people because white people are successful […]