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A surprising number of people who donated to former Republican primary candidates are jumping ship to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton rather than giving money to her rival, Donald Trump. Donors who contributed $200 or more to the campaigns of Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Chris Christie, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are overwhelmingly more likely to also have donated to Clinton than Trump, according to a New York Times report .
Get ready for a shock, folks, but Paul Ryan , who was consistently well ahead of his Republican primary challenger for weeks won reelection! This was a fairly obvious fact to everyone, but Donald Trump 's brief flirtation with Paul Nehlen last week stirred up a media frenzy and got Ryan's challenger some media attention .
Ryan easily handled upstart Paul Nehlen in a primary that drew more attention after Nehlen got a Twitter embrace from Donald Trump. But Trump eventually endorsed Ryan.
What is the campaign strategy for the two political parties? Clues can be had from the responses to a question I asked about a dozen dignitaries of each party at their conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
The Rio Olympics are in full swing: Michael Phelps is back to winning races in the pool, Simone Biles is running up the score in the gym and Hillary Clinton is advertising with eyes on doing just as well on... Hillary Clinton wants to get as close as possible to Michael Phelps and Simone Biles. So she's spending more than $13 million on political ads at the Olympics - while Donald Trump is sitting on the sidelines.
Speaker Paul Ryan successfully fought off a Republican primary challenger to retain his seat in Wisconsin's 1st congressional district Tuesday night. The Associated Press called Ryan's victory over Paul Nehlen at 8:30 p.m. The primary race went from an afterthought to a national story after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump withheld an endorsement of Ryan on August 2 and complimented Nehlen for running a "good campaign."
Caught between the anti-globalist tirades of their presidential standard bearer and their state's close trade ties with Mexico, Texas congressional Republicans are straddling a tricky political line when it comes to talk of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Donald Trump says he will go "after places that no other Republican goes after," but can he compete in those states? Ticking off lists of states throughout the GOP primary process, the Republican nominee said he would flip the electoral map on its head, threatening to win in even the most reliably Democratic states, like California and Washington. But he still has spent no money on general election television ads across the country, and polls show no signs yet of a changing tide in deep blue states.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that gun rights activists could act to stop his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton from nominating liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices, igniting yet another firestorm of criticism just as he sought to steer clear of controversy. "If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks," Trump said at a rally.
For a potential president Donald Trump, the rocky relationship he has with some Republican leaders " the ones he once refused to endorse, and those who have held back their kind words " could spill over into his first term at the White House. Here's a look at some of the key Washington players who haven't offered a ringing endorsement of the GOP nominee " and how their lack of support could affect the celebrity businessman's time in office.
JANESVILLE, Wis. - House Speaker Paul D. Ryan reveled in the aftermath of his commanding and expected primary victory Tuesday against Paul Nehlen, a Donald Trump-inspired opponent, by ordering cheese curds and beer for his supporters.
Donald Trump said Tuesday that Second Amendment advocates might find a way to stop Hillary Clinton from rolling back gun rights if she's elected, setting off a political firestorm as Democrats quickly accused him of encouraging violence against his opponent. Speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, the Republican nominee said incorrectly his general election opponent wants to "abolish, essentially, the Second Amendment."
After a punishing week for his campaign and internal rumblings over its direction, Indiana governor and Republican nominee for vice president Mike Pence was defiant and nothing short of optimistic in a Lancaster town hall event on Tuesday. In front of a crowd of supporters at the Lancaster Host Resort and Conference Center, Pence portrayed a wholly unified front as his campaign looks to galvanize the GOP base in this, a conservative stronghold in a crucial swing state.
According to an analysis by NBC News , the Democratic presidential nominee's campaign has spent $52 million on television ads, many of which have been concentrated in the battleground states that will be critical in determining the outcome of the election. Gary Johnson The Hill's 12:30 Report GOP lawmaker voting for Johnson leaves local Republican Party Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 2 in North Carolina MORE , have outspent Trump, the GOP nominee.
"[Trump] does not embody the values that have made me a lifelong Republican," former MGM CEO Harry Sloan said in a statement, according to Politico . "He is unprepared and temperamentally unfit to be our president," he said of the GOP presidential nominee.
Hillary Clinton will call on Congress Tuesday to return to Washington to pass a funding measure to fight the mosquito borne virus. Clinton, according to aides, will call on Republican leaders to bring Congress back into session to either craft a bipartisan compromise bill to provide funding for fighting the disease or to pass legislation that stalled before lawmakers left Washington for a seven-week recess last month.
Congressman Chris Collins today announced $184,871 in federal funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for the Genesee County Airport, located in Batavia. The grant will assist the Genesee County Airport in funding the full reconstruction and rehabilitation of 3,400 feet of existing runway.
For the past year, every effort by Republican leaders to topple Donald J. Trump has met with embarrassing failure. Yet, according to published reports, jittery insiders have been considering still other ways of detaching the Trump brand from the party of Lincoln.
Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race has grown to double digits, according to a new poll. Clinton now leads Trump by 10 points - 51 percent to 41 percent - among American adults who say they are registered to vote in the new NBC News/Survey Monkey poll released Tuesday.