September 20, 2016
Donald Trump should apologize for pushing the “unseemly” birther conspiracy regarding where President Barack Obama was born, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham indicated Tuesday. Trump last week explicitly acknowledged that Obama was born in the U.S., though he went on to blame Hillary Clinton for igniting the so-called “birther” controversy despite no evidence and refused […]
September 20, 2016
When is the first general election presidential debate? The first general election presidential debate of 2016 will be held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on September 26. What time is the debate and how long is it? The debate will start at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time and run for 90 minutes without commercial […]
September 20, 2016
Cash-strapped Senate Democrats just got some good news: A $1 million donation from Sen. Patty Murray. The Washington senator and No. 4 Democratic leader made the transfer from her flush campaign account to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, announced by leaders in a party lunch. The infusion follows $3 million in transfers from Sen. Chuck […]
September 20, 2016
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence called the outrage surrounding a social media post from his running mate’s son “remarkable,” especially when compared to Hillary Clinton’s proposals on immigration and national security. Donald Trump Jr. posted an image to Twitter on Monday night with a bowl of Skittles and the message “If I had a […]
September 20, 2016
MIAMI — Mike Fernandez, the billionaire heavyweight Republican donor who says he’s voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton because he loathes Donald Trump, says he’s ready to spend as much as $2 million to an unspecified nonprofit to help register new Hispanic voters in Florida and turn them out in the election. In giving the money, […]
September 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that Donald Trump’s rhetoric is treasonous and a recruiting tool for the Islamic State is beneath someone who’s running for the U.S. presidency, the Republican presidential nominee said Tuesday. “Her claim that my opposition to radical Islamic terrorism is a recruiting tool — what? How does that have to do with…” Trump […]
September 20, 2016
MIAMI — Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 5 points in the newest Florida poll of likely voters, the latest in a series of topsy-turvy surveys that show the race shifting left, right and center by the day. Monmouth University’s survey showing Clinton up 46-41 percent over Trump comes a day after a New York […]
September 20, 2016
Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO John Stumpf at a public hearing Tuesday he should resign in the wake of an unauthorized customer-account scandal, return the money he made while the activity went on, and face a Justice Department investigation for possible criminality. “It’s gutless leadership,” Warren said of Stumpf’s response to […]
September 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday ridiculed Donald Trump’s nonprofit amid allegations that the Republican presidential nominee used its funds to settle litigation. “Clearly the Trump Foundation is as much a charitable organization as Trump University is an institute of higher education,” Clinton deputy communications director Christina Reynolds said in a statement, likening the Trump Foundation […]
September 20, 2016
The “horrible” shooting death of an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Friday is “just unbearable and needs to be intolerable,” Hillary Clinton said Tuesday. Speaking to radio host Steve Harvey, Clinton anxiously contrasted herself and her opponent, Donald Trump. “Oh my gosh, can I have the whole hour?” Clinton said when asked what […]