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In this photo taken Kathryn Ferro with Americans for Prosperity, accompanied by Stephen McGee, left, speaks with a voter in Bensalem, Pa. The Republican door-knockers are busy selling Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, and they never mention Donald Trump.
Ronald Reagan won a historic landslide victory in the 1984 election, taking 49 of 50 states. But he failed to win the vote of a young Republican businessman in New Mexico whose willingness to go against the political grain has made him this presidential campaign's X-factor.
It shouldn't come as a surprise, but being a Washington insider isn't something that candidates brag about. At a time when voters in both parties are sick of the status quo, trading on one's influence is a huge political problem.
Although it's still dwarfed by the Republican and Democratic parties, the Libertarian Party has seen a 28 percent increase in voter registrations since the May primary. The number of registered Libertarians is on pace to top 10,000 before the Nov. 8 election, and a state senator who recently joined the party is using her experience as a former GOP political activist to teach its members how to campaign.
So now Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, seems to want business owners to be taxed the same as working Kansans . Funny how she rears her head only after the primary elections showed voters are upset with the GOP.
The August primary already is having a positive impact: The Legislature is expected to hold hearings and vote next session on Medicaid expansion - and it could pass. It remains to be seen whether Gov. Sam Brownback will loosen his opposition to expansion - or whether the loss of more of his allies in the Nov. 8 general election is needed to help change his priorities.
Donald Trump's latest unsubstantiated salvo against rival Hillary Clinton charges she might have been on drugs during their last debate and challenges her to join him in undergoing a pre-debate drug test ahead of their third and final clash. The unfounded claim that the Democratic nominee needed pharmaceutical help took some attention away from whether voters would believe the women who claim that Trump sexually assaulted them or instead accept the Republican's flat denials.
Several scenarios have been promulgated to replace Donald Trump on the presidential ballots, a near impossible task because ballots have been printed and mail-in voting already has commenced in many states. There is an alternate - albeit highly unlikely - approach.
Donald Trump has claimed the US presidential contest is rigged against him, vowed to jail his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton if he is elected and also suggested she was on drugs during their last debate. Donald Trump has claimed the US presidential contest is rigged against him, vowed to jail his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton if he is elected and also suggested she was on drugs during their last debate.
As he fell further behind in polls and battled allegations of sexual misconduct in recent days, Donald Trump moved to darker corners. He sketched out conspiracies involving global bankers, casually threatened to jail his political opponent, and warned in increasingly specific terms that a loss by him would spell the end of civilization.
"Of course I do not condone Mr. Trump's comments from 11 years ago. I know that this is what the media will choose to focus on instead of the issues or the avalanche of discrediting information about Hillary Clinton's corruption, or her negligence while in office that cost the lives of Americans in Libya and allowed confidential emails to be hacked.
Re: "Jeffress' words evoke dark history -- We must speak the truth in the language of Christianity and of love, Joshua J. Whitfield says," Oct. 1 Viewpoints. Lifetime Southern Baptists, we have become increasingly disturbed and embarrassed by Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress' continued support of Donald Trump.
Patriot Majority USA issued a statement earlier this week claiming Gov. Mike Pence - and Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate, is using the Indiana State Police to suppress African-American voters. "This is not only voter suppression at its worst, it is an insult to all of the honest troopers in the state police, and to law-enforcement officials across the country, who disapprove of wasting precious crime-fighting resources on partisan witch hunts that further harm relations between police officers and minority communities," said Craig Varoga, President of Patriot Majority USA.
Donald Trump took to Twitter Saturday morning to go after Hillary Clinton and the media, and to claim again that the presidential race is looking like "a rigged election." This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary! Trump is denying stories in which some women have accused him of sexual misconduct.
The legacy of Donald Trump's casino empire disappeared from Atlantic City with last week's closing of the Trump Taj Mahal, but donations he made years ago are factoring into a New Jersey congressional race. Incumbent Republican Rep. Frank LoBiondo received donations from Trump more often than any other current member of Congress over a 10-year span ending with his final donation in 2007.
It was a slow day at the salon Connie Litzner manages in the Upper Peninsula town of St. Ignace, the perfect time to ask 59-year-old conservative what she thinks about the wild presidential race. She was torn.
Donald Trump gestures as he reads from a teleprompter during a speech in Virginia Beach, Va., Monday, July 11, 2016. It is not true that the 2016 presidential election is being rigged in any meaningful sense of that word.
The Dodge County Sheriff's Office says Friday night at about 8, a car hit 25-year-old Kyle Dais on WIS 175 in the township of Theresa. Dais was taken to the hospital, he's expected to be okay.