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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump narrowed his deficit to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to 7 percentage points from 15 points late last week, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The party officially nominated Trump on Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.
Standing on a stage before hundreds of Republican delegates Tuesday night, Gov. Chris Christie took his turn to talk not as a nominee or vice presidential pick, but as another in a line of speakers there to support Donald Trump and attack Hillary Clinton. Christie worked to turn the Quicken Loans Arena into a courtroom washed in red and blue, laying out what he said was the case against Clinton, the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie delivers remarks before presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks in Virginia Beach, Virginia U.S. July 11, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron There's the usual role for a governor leading his state's delegation to the nomination conclave.
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Voters have seen images of Melania Trump but Monday night was the first time most heard the potential first lady speak. The voice they heard was an impassioned one from a wealthy model and housewife thrown into the national spotlight to deliver a speech at the Republican nominating convention.
The Republican National Convention started off with a bang - or a debacle, according to your point of view. Donald Trump must hope that Day 2 hews a little closer to the script.
Few people were covered under President Barack Obama's health care law when the GOP held its last convention in 2012. Now, Donald Trump's plan to replace the program would make 18 million people uninsured, according to a recent nonpartisan analysis.
The headline speakers over four nights will include no less than a half-dozen members of the Trump clan, as the Republican party hopes to sand off some of the rough edges on its unpopular candidate with the loving touches of family. The sextet's performance starts Monday.
White evangelical voters who are put off by Trump's misogyny, racism or astonishing business ethics won't be swayed by the addition to the ticket of a conservative Midwesterner fleeing from his own political problems. And the millions of Christian conservatives who aren't put off? Trump has already won their devotion: He had them at "Hell, no."
Donald Trump's support among one of the fastest growing demographics in the country has plunged to one of its lowest points yet. A new poll released Sunday, from NBC, the Wall Street Journal, and Telemundo, found that 76% of registered Latino voters supported Clinton, compared to just 14% who reported supporting Trump.
Massachusetts delegates to the Republican National Convention are navigating choppy political waters as they trek to Cleveland to select Donald Trump as the GOP's presidential nominee.
Normally a presidential nominating convention takes on all the trappings of a coronation, at least until Clint Eastwood shows up to stage a seance with an empty chair. Four years ago, the Republicans were in hot and sticky Tampa to crown Mitt Romney as their standard-bearer, who was easily defeated by President Barack Obama.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney along with vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan wave on stage after accepting the nomination during the final day of the Republican National Convention on August 30, 2012 in Tampa, Fla. As delegates, grassroots activists and party insiders converged on Cleveland ahead of next week's Republican National Convention , a last-ditch attempt to throw Donald Trump 's nomination for president into jeopardy fizzled, but the attempted power play was more about a shadow campaign for the 2020 presidential election than anything else, ABC News has learned.
Dan Senor, a respected Republican strategist who served as a senior adviser to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, suggested on Friday that Donald Trump's vice presidential pick once found the real estate mogul's politics repulsive. In a tweet just hours after Trump announced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate , Senor said he found the choice perplexing considering the two had previously shared a distaste for the candidate.
Cleveland is 53 percent black, 33 percent white, 10 percent Hispanic/Latino and 3 percent Asian, according to the 2010 Census. Cleveland is one of the poorest cities in the U.S. The median household income is just under $25,000, or about half the median income statewide.
For all the talk about 2016 being a wildly unusual election cycle, it's looking a whole lot like 2012. When it comes to how religious and non-religious voters appraise candidates, the prospective Clinton-Trump matchup resembles the Obama-Romney choice, the Pew Research Center found in a new poll, the results of which it announced Wednesday.
The NAACP says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has declined an invitation to address the group's upcoming convention, flouting established precedent and highlighting anew the GOP standard-bearer's struggle to attract support from nonwhite voters. NAACP president Cornell William Brooks told CNN Tuesday that Trump had declined the group's invitation to speak at the Cincinnati gathering, scheduled from Saturday through Wednesday.
Write something critical of Donald Trump and prepare yourself for on onslaught of angry emails complaining: "Well, yeah, sure, but what about that crooked liar Hillary Clinton?" Conversely, pen a negative piece about Clinton, and just as reliable as a returning Capistrano swallow, you can rest assured of getting a full froth of: "Well, yeah, sure, but what about that nutball Donald Trump?" as if there is a perfectly balanced 50-50 equivalency of craziness on the campaign trail. As we approach the Democratic and Republican conventions this month, the national political discourse has devolved into a vigorous debate over which candidate to hold the highest office in the land is less of a conniving, duplicitous dolt than the other camp.
In 2013, Gallup found that 89 percent of Republicans were non-Hispanic whites. The density of whites in the Democratic party was lower, at 60 percent; the portion of the party that is non-Hispanic black was about a fifth.