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Portland should follow its current policy and charge for police and other services provided when presidential campaigns visit the city, according to a report released Tuesday by the city's auditor.
Gov. John Kasich says the state probably will challenge a federal judge's ruling that put ahold on an effort to defund Planned Parenthood in Ohio. "I'm not for funding Planned Parenthood.
Delegates listen to speeches in the main hall at the National Libertarian Party Convention, on Friday in Orlando. ORLANDO - Upstairs, Bill Weld was the presumptive vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party, powering through interview after interview.
How many times did we hear Ohio Gov. John Kasich say with absolute certainty that Donald John Trump would not be the Republican nominee for president this year? On Thursday, that absolute certainty crumbled into dust as the New York real estate billionaire announced he now has the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination in Cleveland in July on the first all-important ballot. Gov. Kasich finished in fourth place in the delegate count with just 160, behind second place finisher Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida who despite dropping out of the race before Mr. Kasich, finished with more.
In downtown Columbus Thursday, a new study based on years worth of work shows millions of federal tax dollars intended for high-performing charter schools have actually gone to some of Ohio's worst. More problematic was the news that many millions went to other charter schools that never even opened.
Brash U.S. billionaire Donald Trump on Thursday hit the number of delegates needed to grab the Republican Party nomination, as some experts predict that he will be a competitive candidate in the presidential race. The development comes on the heels of Trump's recent surge in the polls, as he for the first time is running neck-in-neck with likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton .
A raft of polls in recent days has shown a sharply tighter presidential race , with Hillary Clinton 's lead over Donald Trump shrinking to just a couple of points. Those polls have generated a lot of questions: Just how reliable is polling this far in advance of an election? What's causing the polls to shift? Can Trump actually win? Nope.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won Washington state's presidential primaries Tuesday, although only Trump gained delegates. Washington ignores its Democratic primary results, instead allocating delegates through a Democratic caucus, which Bernie Sanders won in March.
Donald Trump will move closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with an expected win in the Washington primary. Trump became the presumptive nominee earlier this month with a decisive win in Indiana that forced his remaining rivals out of the race and ended months of talk about the potential of a contested convention.
Vacant-housing demolition took up 90 percent of Ohio's request, but critics say asking for more mortgage-assistance funds would have ensured the entire application was viewed more favorably by the federal government. As the days passed, Ohio's application for upward of $250 million in federal housing money asked for more of the money to be devoted to vacant-housing demolition and less for mortgage assistance.
As New York Republicans went to the polls for their primary April 19, some opponents of Donald Trump clung to the hope that Ted Cruz, or perhaps John Kasich, might deny Trump a few delegates in some of the state's congressional districts. One reason for that hope was New York's highly restrictive voter registration rules, which required party-changers to register as Republicans many months earlier in order to be eligible to vote in the GOP primary.
German magazine Der Spiegel sparked international controversy in February when it published an editorial under the headline "Donald Trump is the world's most dangerous man". Within three months of the publication of the article, Mr Trump has defied critics and pundits to become the presumptive Republican candidate in the US presidential election this November.
After hearing from Governor Rauner and Congressman Adam Kinzinger , the state convention got down to business - with the first order of business electing their National Committeeman and Committeewoman. DeMonte told those gathered that she's working on party efforts to defunding Planned Parenthood, stop the overreach of Title 9 - likely reference to Obama's recent transgender bathroom order - and an effort to stop Christian genocide worldwide.
Donald Trump poured more than $7.5 million of his own money into his presidential campaign in April, bringing his total personal investment to more than $43 million since he declared his candidacy, new campaign finance reports filed late Friday show. The billionaire businessman, who swatted away 16 Republican rivals and relied heavily on wall-to-wall media coverage of his outsized personality and often inflammatory remarks, reported spending about $56 million during the primary, which lasted until his final two rivals, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich , dropped out of the race at the beginning of May. In April alone, Trump spent nearly $9.4 million, according to his monthly filing with the Federal Election Commission.
Though he was the presumptive nominee after the withdrawal of his last opponents, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in early May, Trump was still short of the confirming delegate count until Thursday. The new strain was confirmed by Department of Defense researchers in an alarming study published Thursday.
Donald Trump is within 76 delegates of clinching the Republican nomination for president with his win in the Oregon primary. With no one else left in the race, the only question is which state will put him over the top.
Mitt Romney won't launch a third-party presidential campaign of his own and has stopped trying to recruit somebody else to do it. The 2012 Republican nominee had attempted to recruit a challenger to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Swing state Ohio saw its voters sway in the presidential primary, with more than three times as many Democrats casting Republican ballots compared with the number of GOP party switchers, according to new data being released Wednesday from the state's election chief.
Republican John Kasich is not giving up on his goal of a federal balanced budget amendment, a tool the Ohio governor says is ever more important as the U.S. national debt ticks toward $20 trillion. "The issue is not a partisan issue," Kasich told The Associated Press in an interview.