Donald Trump bullish as race tightens

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview here that he remains unwilling to say that President Barack Obama is born in the United States, that he is more bullish than ever on his chances to win, and that he is not exploring the launch of a new media company in case he loses the race. Trump also made a far-from-subtle push - in the interview and in a letter from his doctor released Thursday - to be seen as vigorous and healthy as his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, returned to the campaign trail after being treated for mild pneumonia.

Trump says Clinton’s “deplorables” remark is disqualifying

Donald Trump criticized Hillary Clinton for her characterization that half of his supporters belonged in "a basket of deplorables," denouncing the comment as "an explicit attack on the American voter" and suggesting that it makes her unfit for the presidency. No stranger to making his own sweeping negative characterizations of large groups of people, Trump nonetheless deployed the remark Monday as the foundation for a new campaign theme.

Trump says he just took a physical, will release results shortly

Trump says he took physical, hopes Clinton 'gets well' and back on the trail Candidate says health is a campaign issue after Clinton's collapse Check out this story on dailyworld.com: http://usat.ly/2cSYDSK Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives at September 11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum on September 11, 2016 in New York City. In the wake of Hilary Clinton's disclosure that she has been diagnosed with pneumonia, Donald Trump said Monday that he has recently had a full medical exam and he will release the results shortly.

Trump condemns Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ label on his backers

Republican Donald Trump is condemning Hillary Clinton's remark that half of his supporters could be put in a "basket of deplorables" and dismissing her admission she was wrong, saying the Democrat had committed "the worst mistake of the political season." "For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans," Trump said Saturday in a statement rejecting her effort to walk back her remarks.

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Basket Of Deplorables,’ In Full Context Of This Ugly Campaign

The latest to fall into that trap is Hillary Clinton. The Democratic nominee, at a New York fundraiser Friday night with liberal donors and Barbra Streisand, said "half" of Trump supporters fit into a "basket of deplorables," while the other half are people who feel the government has let them down and need understanding and empathy.

Trump supporters a ‘basket of deplorables.’ Is this Clinton’s ’47 percent’ moment?

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told the country what she really thinks about many Donald Trump supporters when she lumped "half" of them into a xenophobic, homophobic, racist, and sexist "basket of deplorables" on Friday. Although she cautioned her comments were "grossly generalistic," the blunt commentary at a New York City fund-raiser specifically targeted the nebulous alt-right movement that Mr. Trump has courted, whose philosophical leaders in a press conference this week outlined their plans for an ethno-state where Jews might or might not be welcome.

On the eve of the 15th anniversary of 9/11, the Aleppo gaffes show we have learned nothing

The foggy aftermath of Gary Johnson's "What is Aleppo?" gaffe revealed how little U.S. policymakers know about ISIS The 2016 campaign story of the week seemed to be Gary Johnson's blunder during an MSNBC interview when he shockingly asked, "What is Aleppo?" That story, though, is really only the tip of the iceberg. The real story is the response to his gaffe.

How Clinton and Trump aim their minority outreach speeches at multiple audiences

Top left, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ; right, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ; bottom, the White House south facade. On Thursday, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton went to Charlotte, N.C.'s Johnson C. Smith University, a historically black university with financial challenges of debated origin .

Gary Johnson: “I feel horrible” about whiffing on Aleppo

It is deeply weird to me that political media spent the better of the morning seriously weighing whether this marginal candidate had done meaningful damage to his marginal campaign by spacing on the name of a city in a country whose civil war most Americans aren't paying attention to. And there's no better expression of that weirdness than the clip below, in which Mark Halperin breathlessly badgers Johnson about it in vintage "what about your gaffes?!" fashion.

Donald Trump hasn’t paid 10 top staffers

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10 top staffers, consultants and advisers, some of whom are no longer with the campaign, according to a review of federal campaign finance filings. Those who have so far not been paid, the filings show, include recently departed campaign manager Paul Manafort, California state director Tim Clark, communications director Michael Caputo and a pair of senior aides who left the campaign in June to immediately go to work for a Trump Super PAC.

Thomas Paine and George Washington Disagreed – And They Were Both Patriots

With no intention of talking about the Sean Hannity situation and making it a back-and-forth between the two, Glenn felt compelled to say a few more things on radio Thursday morning. "There is a lesson to be learned here, and I want to show you that this is exactly the time that I have been, hopefully, preparing people for, including me," Glenn said.