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Virginia Republicans have chosen a primary rather than a convention as a way to elect statewide candidates in 2017. The State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia narrowly voted Saturday to have a primary for the first time since 2005, scoring a win for the party's establishment wing.
Bill Archer and Martin Frost; Secretary of State James Baker III; Commerce Secretary Don Evans; Education Secretary Margaret Spellings; and Bush White House advisers campaign and a weak bench on the Democratic side, it's unlikely Texas talent will flood the executive branch in 2017 - no matter It matters, Sarver says, because of how directly the spending of the federal government affects the state - and the problems that could emerge with a lack of high-level federal advocates. "It could have a direct correlation on things like appropriations, on base closures, and getting facilities like NASA, and other things that are directly related to job and opportunities for Texas."
Over the last couple days The Washington Post has published two stories touching on defrocked and disgraced Roger Ailes' role advising Donald Trump. In one he is part of a group counseling Trump toward more moderate , less sharp-edged stands versus another group led by early Trump endorser, Sen. Jeff Sessions and Steve Bannon who are pressing Trump to stick to his hardline positions.
Republican Rep. Mike Coffman met Saturday with former presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina at an event to talk about expanding business opportunities for women. Coffman and the former CEO of Hewlett Packard both appeared at the Working Women Event & Panel at CSU Global Campus in Greenwood Village.
Donald Trump warned Saturday of a "war on the American farmer," telling a crowd in Iowa that rival Hillary Clinton "wants to shut down family farms" and implement anti-agriculture policies. Trump's speech at the annual "Roast and Ride" fundraiser for Republican Sen. Joni Ernst came just hours after Clinton received her first national security briefing as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Money matters in politics, and Kenosha County residents are part of the process, donating $1.2 million to federal candidates and political action committees since the start of the current two-year election cycle. Major Republican donor Richard Uihlein, who owns Uline, a Pleasant Prairie-based packaging and shipping supplies distributor, skewed the data for Kenosha County with a massive $1 million donation to a political action committee backing Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential bid.
At the Bulloch County Democratic Gala, U.S. Senate candidate Jim Barksdale, center, and campaign political director Lacey Morrison talk with Ed Sprole, left, a former Bulloch resident who is now vice chair of the Bryan County Democratic Party.
Trump delivers hard-edged immigration speech in Iowa Trump's appearance follows a week in which he indicated a possible "softening" of his immigration stance. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2bOE1su Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump welcomes the family of Sarah Root, who was killed by immigrant in the United States illegally, onto the stage at Joni Ernst's Roast and Ride Aug. 27, 2016.
Donald Trump warned Saturday of a "war on the American farmer," telling a crowd in Iowa that rival Hillary Clinton "wants to shut down family farms" and implement anti-agriculture policies.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks with residents as he tours a flood-affected area in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday, August 23. The Red Cross said the catastrophic flooding is the worst to hit the state since Hurricane Sandy four years ago. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump meets with the Republican Leadership Initiative at Trump Tower in New York on Thursday, August 25. To his right is former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson.
S.E. Cupp appeared on CNN shortly after Hillary Clinton's speech utterly ripping Donald Trump and the alt-right to shreds. Suffice it to say, she and others were very unhappy about the fact that Clinton rightly used Trump's own words and deeds to make her case.
Sen. John McCain Saturday memorialized Kayla Mueller, the U.S. aid worker who had been held captive by Islamic State terrorists for 18 months before she was killed by Jordanian airstrikes, as someone who was "moved to sacrifice her own comforts and security to help strangers, to love them." "The way Kayla chose was the way of love; to love and to be loved," the Arizona Republican said at the opening and dedication of the "Kayla's Hands Playground" at a public park in her hometown of Prescott, Ariz.
With 73 days left until the November election, strategizing the daily movements of Donald Trump and Mike Pence - from their campaign stops to their fundraisers - would seem to be key for the GOP duo in their comeback bid to cut into Hillary Clinton's lead in the polls . But after a week in which Trump questionably spent days in Austin, Texas, and Jackson, Mississippi, the schedules of the running mates are under scrutiny with new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway indicating that the newly installed brass would not have made the same decisions.
Katie Dodson is pictured with her dog Griffin in her home n Norman, Okla., Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. Kelli Dodson says her 12-year-old daughter, Katie, would benefit from the higher potency of medical marijuana.
Republican Donald Trump has told conservative evangelical pastors in Florida that his presidency would preserve "religious liberty" and reverse what he insists is a government-enforced muzzling of Christians. The same afternoon, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine praised another, more liberal group of black church leaders in Louisiana for their "progressive values that are the values of Scripture," and he urged them to see Hillary Clinton as a kindred spirit.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Thursday, July 21, 2016.
Greg Buisson has a contract with the Jefferson Convention and Visitors Bureau and was a political consultant to Mike Yenni during Yenni's campaign for Jefferson Parish president. Crimefighters of Louisiana Inc. was called out for another endorsement of a candidate with whom it shares a media consultant, according to CityBusiness .
Republican Donald Trump has told conservative evangelical pastors in Florida that his presidency would preserve "religious liberty" and reverse what he insists is a government-enforced muzzling of Christians. The same afternoon, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine praised another, more liberal group of black church leaders in Louisiana for their "progressive values that are the values of Scripture," and he urged them to see Hillary Clinton as a kindred spirit.