September 20, 2016
Six months after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, my then girlfriend (now wife), Liz, and I first arrived in St. Bernard Parish as volunteers. There we met a World War II veteran named Mr. Andre who like many of his generation had been proud and independent his whole life, never needing assistance and certainly never […]
September 20, 2016
There’s one state where Donald Trump’s ground game appears to be a model of efficiency, rather than a ramshackle operation lacking organizers and field offices: Israel. As part of an effort to target what the Israeli chapter of Republicans Overseas says are as many as 300,000 U.S. citizens living there — many of them registered […]
September 20, 2016
Gov. John Kasich is in open conflict with Donald Trump and national party leaders, but rank-and-file Ohio Republicans have forged their own tenuous truce with their nominee. The accord has transformed Ohio into one of Trump’s best bets to recapture a state that voted twice for Barack Obama. Resistance to Hillary Clinton is helping fuel […]
September 20, 2016
House Republicans already struggling to protect their historic majority this fall are confronting a multimillion-dollar shortfall in their campaign budget — driven partly by Freedom Caucus members and other hard-line conservatives who are boycotting the GOP’s campaign arm. A bloc of conservatives is refusing to transfer cash to the National Republican Congressional Committee, convinced the […]
September 20, 2016
John McCain has made 3 million voter contacts in Arizona. Rob Portman marshaled 500 college interns to make phone calls and knock on doors in Ohio. And Pat Toomey barnstormed 26 Pennsylvania counties this summer in a bus plastered with the words “security, prosperity, independence.” Then there’s Richard Burr. Republicans are privately fretting that the […]
September 20, 2016
MIAMI — Donald Trump’s campaign has struggled for institutional support from the Miami GOP, but its shying away from Republican, scandal-plagued former Congressman David Rivera. Allies of Rivera — who has weathered multiple state and federal corruption investigations and a Florida ethics commission fine — listed his name as a “special guest” on an invite […]
September 19, 2016
Former President George H.W. Bush is bucking his party’s presidential nominee and plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, according to a member of another famous political family, the Kennedys. Bush, 92, had intended to stay silent on the White House race between Clinton and Donald Trump, a sign in and of itself of […]
September 19, 2016
NEW YORK — There’s at least one Muslim country that Donald Trump has “great respect” for. The Republican presidential nominee Monday showered Egypt’s increasingly autocratic ruler, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, with kind words during a special meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. Trump, who has called for a ban on immigration from […]
September 19, 2016
PHILADELPHIA—Juliette Comfer, a pink-haired freshman at Temple University, was wild for Bernie Sanders. Now she’s mild for Hillary Clinton. “I don’t love her, but our views are aligned,” she said before Clinton made a pitch for millennial votes at her school on Monday. Orion Tucker, a junior with a nose ring and a hipster goatee, […]
September 19, 2016
One of Donald Trump’s sons compared the complexity of the Syrian refugee crisis to a bowl of Skittles on Monday evening. Donald Trump Jr. tweeted an image Monday, which had a Trump-Pence logo, that said: “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a […]