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There's a very good reason that political hacks and the hacks who love them like to insist that elections all come down to turnout: Elections all come down to turnout. For a salient recent example, we can peek over the Atlantic at the results of the British referendum on leaving the European Union.
Fiery and measured in turn, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton offered drastically different proposals Monday for stemming the threat of terrorism and gun violence that have Americans on edge following the deadly weekend attacks at a gay nightclub in Orlando. There's a very good reason that political hacks and the hacks who love them like to insist that elections all come down to turnout: Elections all come down to turnout.
The so-called #NeverTrump movement has not come up with a candidate to stop Donald Trump's run for the White House, but a new group is trying to make sure that if they do, that candidate will have a place on ballots nationwide. John Kingston, a longtime Republican donor and ally of Mitt Romney, has put up seed money for a new group called Better for America to get a spot on ballots for a presidential candidate to be named later.
Utah Republican Rep. Mia Love said she will not attend the GOP's national convention next month. Instead, she will be visiting Israel in the company of a Congressional delegation.
After what political pundits described as Hillary Clinton's "best 10 days ever", the likely Democratic nominee has maintained a modest lead over Manhattan mogul and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. But given Trump's recent missteps including his controversial attacks on a judge of Mexican heritage assigned to hear a class action lawsuit against Trump University and a polling bump for Clinton following the effective end of the Democratic primary season, some have suggested the former Secretary of State is underperforming at a time when she should be leading Trump decisively in the polls.
For calling a first-generation judge of Mexican heritage a "Mexican," he had injected racism into the campaign. For firing his strong-arm campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski , he admitted his insurgency was adrift.
Foreign trips are not unusual for presumptive presidential nominees. In 2008, Barack Obama went to Israel and Afghanistan before heading to Europe to receive rock-star-like adulation.
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt - who's been highly critical of Donald Trump in recent weeks - made a number of suggestions during a Thursday-morning interview to the presumptive GOP presidential nominee on how to turn around his campaign. One of his most wild suggestions was that Trump should name his entire cabinet ahead of the election "so that the whole conservative movement and the middle of the country see a serious team."
A cardinal difference between Donald Trump and Barry Goldwater is that partisanship is more intense today than it was in 1964 and the vast majority of Republicans who don't like Trump will hold their noses and vote for him. In 1964, GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater stood at the podium of the Republican National Convention and declared that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Republicans increasingly fear Donald Trump is missing valuable opportunities to build a winning case against Hillary Clinton, compounding their concerns about his campaign's day-to-day decision making and seeming lack of preparedness for the general election. While Clinton presses a highly co-ordinated effort to cast Trump as a reckless, self-serving businessman, he has spent the past few weeks mired in controversies of his own making.
Protesters clash with Donald Trump supporters shortly after the a Donald Trump rally ended in Phoenix, Ariz., on Saturday, June 18, 2016. Several arguments sparked as the two groups crossed paths throughout the day, but city officials stepped in to disperse crowds if they became too heated.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, shouts to Secret Service agents that supporter Diana Brest, right, had been waiting in line since 2 a.m. to see the candidate speak at a rally Saturday, June 18, 2016, in Phoenix. less Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, shouts to Secret Service agents that supporter Diana Brest, right, had been waiting in line since 2 a.m. to see the candidate speak at a rally Saturday, ... more Together, Trump and the Republican National Committee brought in about $18.6 million in May, including another loan from the candidate.
Together, Trump and the Republican National Committee brought in about $18.6 million in May, including another loan from the candidate. Clinton and the Democratic National Committee raised more than double that.
Pink Martini will be joined by special guest Ari Shapiro host of NPR's All Things Considered at the Charleston Gaillard Center. As a high school kid in Portland, Ore., Shapiro was a Pink Martini fan before the band ever released an album.
Donald Trump fired his campaign manager Monday in a major shake-up that comes amid infighting and frustration among Republican Party leaders who complain that the presumptive nominee's effort is hobbled by poor organization, anemic staffing, an undisciplined message, and plunging poll numbers. The sudden firing of Corey Lewandowski, unusual in its timing just a month before the nominating convention, follows a stretch of bad publicity about Trump's response to the Orlando mass shooting and his disparaging comments about Muslims and a Mexican-American judge .
The chief of the Republican Party named a former Utah congresswoman on Friday to head the rules committee at the party's national convention next month, elevating a political veteran from a state where Donald Trump absorbed one of his worst beatings in his quest for the presidential nomination. Enid Mickelsen 's post is important because some dissident delegates say they'll try to persuade the rules committee - and the entire GOP convention - to change procedures and make it easier to find an alternative candidate to Trump.
Libertarian presidential hopeful Gary Johnson is sticking up for marijuana after 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney last week said smoking the drug "makes people stupid." "I do not agree with that," Johnson told CNN's Erin Burnett in an interview scheduled to air Sunday on "OutFront."
After criticizing him on banning Muslims from entering the country...House Speaker Paul Ryan is still standing with Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump. "That's not my plan.
Politico didn't have to mince words when it came to describing the strategies Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will pursue in the key general election battleground states: Republicans will rely on the sheer force of Donald Trump's personality to tap into deep-seated voter anger. Democrats are counting on a superior field organization to serve as Hillary Clinton's firewall.