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Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday, calling him a "weak and ineffective leader" and saying Ryan and other Republicans were hurting his bid for the White House by holding back their support. The stinging attacks deepened the party's dramatic rift over the former reality TV star, who has seen a string of Republican defections after a video surfaced on Friday showing him bragging crudely to a reporter in 2005 about groping women and making unwanted sexual advances.
In one of the most divisive elections in history, there's one thing most of us can agree on: Ken Bone is the man. The undecided voter posed an actual, policy-related question on energy at the second presidential debate Sunday night, and the internet has loved him ever since.
Republicans are bracing for a rough time keeping control of the Senate, and a new Roll Call assessment of the races shows they have reason to worry. They evaluated the challengers and offered a new list Tuesday.
The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call on Tuesday ranked Missouri Democrat Jason Kander as the top candidate likely to change control of the U.S. Senate. Kander, 35, is looking to upset incumbent Sen. Roy Blunt, a 66-year-old Republican who has served nearly two decades in Congress.
Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris on Tuesday downplayed House Speaker Paul Ryan's all but concession of the presidential race. I think the news media blew this all up out of proportion," Harris, a supporter of Donald Trump, told C4.
In this Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, file photo, incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte listens to a question during a debate with Democratic challenger Gov. Maggie Hassan by New England Cable News at New England College in Henniker, N.H. Ayotte's decision to drop her support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is getting a mixed response from voters, but even some who disagree with her are still backing her re-election efforts. Get Boston Globe's Political Happy Hour newsletter , your afternoon shot of politics, sent straight from the desk of Joshua Miller.
Wikileaks emails show Hillary Clinton's staff thought Mario Rubio was the new Obama - and didn't see Donald Trump as a threat at all The staff hardly took notice of Donald Trump at first - but eventually came to hope he would get the nomination, fearing Rubio would be harder to beat A new batch of Wikileaks emails highlighting Hillary Clinton's campaign were released last week and show that the first GOP candidate the Democrats saw as a threat wasn't Donald Trump but Marco Rubio. At 43, the Florida Senator was the youngest Republican in a crowded field of 17 candidates and was seen by Clinton's advisers as similar to Obama, who bested Clinton in 2008 with his calls for a move away from the old guard politicians.
What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign's theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making America great again was the shriek "Lock her up!" This presaged his Banana Republican vow to imprison his opponent.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence emerged Monday after a weekend out of the public eye reaffirming his relationship - awkward as it may seem - with Donald Trump. After canceling a weekend campaign appearance and leaving Trump alone to deal with a video of sexually predatory remarks, Pence was campaigning again - and praising Trump's Sunday debate performance.
"The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. ... The United States of America should be prepared to use military force, to strike military targets of Bashar Assad regime."
Democrat Colin Van Ostern is going after his Republican rival in the New Hampshire governor's race, Chris Sununu, for his support of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Van Ostern's campaign accused Sununu of standing by Trump as other Republicans fled in the wake of the release of a 2005 video Friday capturing Trump making sexual predatory comments about women.
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump points at Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as he speaks during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. less Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump points at Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as he speaks during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, ... more Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a campaign stop at the the Rossford Recreation Center in Rossford, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016.
Congress says he won't defend Donald Trump nor campaign with him, plunging the Republican candidate's presidential bid deeper into crisis over his sexually aggressive remarks about women. Paul Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives, also signalled he was preparing for Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the White House in the November 8 presidential and congressional election.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump passed one of his most important tests of the second presidential debate Monday by getting full-throated support from running mate Mike Pence, who shut down talk of quitting the ticket despite his disapproval of Trump's remarks about women. "Donald Trump stepped up," Pence said on Fox News.
In the run up to Sunday's presidential debate on the campus of Washington University, the school estimates some 3,000 people registered to vote on campus. That's just one indication of how much enthusiasm and activism welled up among the students of the private St. Louis university.
AUGUST 09: House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks at his Primary Night press conference, August 9, 2016 in Janesville, Wisconsin. Ryan defeated Republican challenger, Paul Nehlen for the first district primary election.