8/06/2016
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Category Archives: Mitt Romney
Clinton drawing record cash from Silicon Valley despite techies’ cool embrace
Four years ago, Meg Whitman burned the midnight oil raising money for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, while Johnvey Hwang volunteered 100-hour weeks building apps for Barack Obama. Eight years after left-leaning technology executives and workers first threw their enthusiastic support to Obama, a new alliance has formed to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.
Why a meaningful shift in the Trump-Clinton race might be at hand
Hillary Clinton has a large and perhaps growing lead in the nation and in many of the predominantly white battleground states where Donald Trump was thought to have his best shot, according to a wave of new surveys released in the past two days. Three national surveys - from Fox, NBC/WSJ and Marist/McClatchy - showed Clinton ahead by big margins: 10, 9 and 15 percentage points.
Tim Mullaney: Should Trump be howling about the ‘bad’ economy?
By now, the finest GOP minds of our generation - stop laughing - are destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, howling for Donald Trump and close pals to talk about anything - please dear God! - but how Gold Star parents and their dead Bronze Star-winning son are really planted double agents of Al Qaeda or the Muslim Brotherhood, or Just Big Meanies to Master Donald. Donald Trump criticized Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state at a rally in Florida on Wednesday, saying that her policies led to instability in many parts of the world.
Volunteer for House District 40 candidate allegedly secretly recorded opponent
A volunteer for a Democrat running for a Clackamas County seat in the Oregon Legislature faces criminal charges for allegedly recording the Republican candidate talking politics with him in a private campaign office. Ethan Tatum showed up to Republican Evon Tekorius' Oregon City office on July 16 and asked to take part in her "Super Saturday" campaign event, said campaign manager Ben Carpenter.
Meg Whitman will support Clinton for president
Donald Trump Meg Whitman will support Clinton for president Trump spokeswoman: Khan 'proponent of Sharia Law' Khan slams Trump's Purple Heart comments: 'You did not serve' MORE "I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her," Whitman told The New York Times on Tuesday . Whitman, who ran for governor of California in 2010, said she doesn't agree with Clinton on many issues, but noted that the Democratic nominee would "be a much better president than Donald Trump."
Fact Check: Trump Worried About a ‘Rigged’ Election
FactCheck.org is a non-partisan non-profit organization that will hold candidates and key figures accountable during the 2016 presidential campaign. FactCheck.org will check facts of of speeches, advertisements and more for NBC.
Republican Strategist Who Warned GOP They Need Latinos Quits The Party Over Trump
A longtime adviser to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush - and the co-author of the Republican National Committee's infamous 2012 " autopsy report " that focused on making inroads with Latino voters - has left the Republican Party. She cited the nomination of Donald Trump, who she calls a "misogynist" and a "bigot," as her reason.
Trump is the first modern Republican to win the nomination based on racial prejudice
Republicans have long been the party of racial conservatism. Since at least the 1960s , the GOP's policies, rhetoric, and voters have been less supportive of minorities than have the Democrats'.
Trump’s Complete Reversal On Romney’s Tax Returns
Mitt Romney, flanked by Donald Trump, speaks at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, where Trump endorsed Romney. In an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump blames Mitt Romney's 2012 loss to Barack Obama on Romney's decision to release his tax returns.
Gaffe Track: Trump Can’t Tell Kaine From Kean
Every presidential campaign is full of unpredictable twists and turns. After a brief moment where it looked like the nation might slouch into a Bush-Clinton rematch, the 2016 election is taking its place in that line of strange journeys.
Gaffe Track: Trump Fires Back at Khizr Khan, Citing His ‘Sacrifices’
Every presidential campaign is full of unpredictable twists and turns. After a brief moment where it looked like the nation might slouch into a Bush-Clinton rematch, the 2016 election is taking its place in that line of strange journeys.
In Cleveland, GOP has its ‘come to Trump’ moment
There's always been a disconnect between what pundits and political insiders hear when Donald Trump speaks and what rank-and-file Republicans hear. But when Trump gave his acceptance address on the last night of the GOP convention in Cleveland last week, the opinion gap was absolutely vast.
How the Obama Revolution Could Hurt Hillary Clinton
As Bernie Sanders slowly loses control of his "political revolution, " Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night shows he is still wrestling with his. If Bernie Sanders has started a grassroots crusade for genuine progressive reform, Obama's revolution was more personal: for millions of Americans who supported him in 2008 and 2012, the act of voting became an act of love.
Evan Vucci – Pool/Getty ImagesMany 2012 Republican promises come true under Obama
But, ironically, in the 46 months since the Republican National Convention in Tampa, many of the economic promises made by Republicans actually came true under the Democratic president. It's a narrative that has proven difficult for the Obama administration -- and Hillary Clinton -- to capitalize on.
Donald Trump, Twitter and the art of the exclamation point
This week is Trump Week at The Intersect: a five-day examination of Donald Trump's consistently fascinating and occasionally unsettling Internet presence. From the murky depths of 4chan to the viral heights of YouTube, we'll be looking at the people who have made Trump not only a political phenomenon but also a digital one.
Trump accepts GOP nomination tonight; but first, a Twitter war with Ted Cruz
On the day he claims the presidential nomination of Abraham Lincoln's political party, Donald Trump has started things off with social-media missiles fired against the embarrassed losers still refusing to back him. The prelude to the prime-time moment where he will accept the Republican nomination included tweeting at the people who have withheld endorsements of him - a group that includes the two president Bushes, nominee Mitt Romney, the popular governor of the state hosting the convention, and the No.
Donald Trump will win, says Michael Moore
Drawing groans from the crown on "Real Time with Bill Maher," the Oscar-winning, left-leaning filmmaker said "I think Trump is going to win." "I'm sorry to have to have to be the buzzkill here so early on, but I think Trump is going to win, I'm sorry," Moore said.
Ted Cruz quickly becomes news at GOP confab
Television viewers got the moments of excitement they craved from the convention. They had everything to do with antagonism - not excitement - for presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Ted Cruz loudly booed off stage after delivering anti-Trump message at RNC
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz spoke at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night without endorsing the party's nominee, Donald Trump, and exited the stage to loud boos from the crowd. Most of Cruz's speech seemed well-received by the crowd at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, but once it became clear that the former 2016 presidential candidate would not endorse Trump, the crowd started booing.