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Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is expected to deliver a speech tonight at his annual retreat for his big-money donors, where the focus is likely to be the future of a GOP with Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee. But Boyd Matheson, head of the Utah-based Sutherland Institute, said today he hopes to hear more about policy during the three-day private event, not the politics of the controversial billionaire businessman and reality TV star.
The presumptive GOP nominee has argued he can put as many as 15 states into play this fall, but he lags far behind Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in building up troops for a general election battle. Rather than building out teams of his own hires in swing states -- the model previous nominees like Mitt Romney and John McCain relied on -- Trump is signaling to the Republican National Committee and state parties that he will rely on them to take the lead in organizing key toss up states.
Bluffing is Donald Trump's one great talent, and he brazenly bluffed his way to the Republican nomination. Now he is showing his cards, however, and they are utter garbage: racism, ignorance, capriciousness, egomania and general unfitness for office.
Harry Enten : "Donald Trump has been anything but a conventional Republican presidential candidate. He has, to take just one example, lashed out against the three previous GOP nominees, Mitt Romney, John McCain and George W. Bush.
That's according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which helps explain the rise of outsider candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and suggests challenges ahead for fractured parties that must come together to win this fall. “It feels like the state of politics is generally broken,” said Joe Denother, a 37-year-old Oregon voter who typically favors Republicans.
Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by months, even years, in using fast-evolving digital campaigning to win over voters, data specialists working with the GOP say. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has dismissed the science that defines 21st century political campaigns, a tool that President Barack Obama used effectively in PHILADELPHIA - Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by months, even years, in using fast-evolving digital campaigning to win over voters, data specialists working with the GOP say.
For years we've been told the reason there are so many negative campaign attack ads is simple - because they work. That makes sense when candidates and campaigns spend hundreds of millions of dollars on such ads, mostly 30-second television commercials.
Each party is on track to nominate the only candidate who could possibly lose the election to the other. In the latest Washington Post-ABC poll, a sizable majority of Americans considered Donald Trump unqualified to be president.
Early in the 2012 campaign, when top Democratic strategists were debating how to target Mitt Romney, they worked to hone their message about him down to a single, tight, pithy phrase. According to one senior Democrat in on the discussions, they finally settled on this: "When people like him do well, people like you get screwed."
As it stands now, it seems almost inconceivable that Sanders could become the Democratic nominee - unless the FBI indicts Hillary Clinton before the convention, or she reveals herself to be some sort of animatronic device sent from the future to bore us to death . The former seems about as plausible as the latter, given that Trump's nomination makes it even less likely the Feds will risk interfering with the election.
Could Bernie Sanders put Mitt Romney in the White House? I haven't gotten my 2012 and 2016 wires crossed; I have a theory that's slightly more realistic than a Donald Trump presidency seemed a year ago. As it stands now, it seems almost inconceivable that Sanders could become the Democratic nominee -- unless the FBI indicts Hillary Clinton before the convention, or she reveals herself to be some sort of animatronic device sent from the future to bore us to death .
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves during a campaign event in Lawrenceville, N.J., on May 19, 2016. **FILE** more > Likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee rolled out Tuesday a list of big-time fundraisers who will help raise cash for the fall elections, as the billionaire businessman takes another step away from the self-funded nature of his primary campaign.
The Senate Minority Leader said, "I have never ever seen a more flawed candidate than Donald Trump, never. I mean, this is a scary thing that 87 percent of the Republicans think he's great."
For Donald Trump to win the White House in November, he'll need the votes of women like lifelong Republican Wendy Emery. Yet Emery, a 52-year-old from the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, can't commit to voting for her party's presumptive presidential nominee.
Erick Erickson, who has been one of the leading voices of the "Never Trump" movement among conservative activists and some members of the Republican establishment, thinks its time for Mitt Romney to rise up and take on Donald Trump as a third-party candidate: Not only does Erick Erickson want Mitt Romney to restart a search for a third-party candidate to challenge Donald Trump, he also wants Romney to consider being that person. The conservative blogger wrote for The Resurgent on Friday that he would "gladly work for a Romney Presidency given the choices between" Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and Trump.
Polling shows that the likely general election matchup between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will feature unprecedented negative favorability ratings: 49% of Americans have an unfavorable view of Clinton, while 57% viewed Trump unfavorably, according to a recent CNN/ORC poll. A CBS/NYT poll released Thursday offered more insight: 64% of registered voters felt that Trump and Clinton were not "honest and trustworthy;" 66% said Trump doesn't "share their values," compared to 60% for Clinton; and 70% said Trump does not have the right temperament to be president.
Despite what you've been hearing about Bernie Sander's popularity, many more people have voted for Hillary Clinton : Including this week's primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, 12.6-million ballots have been cast for Hillary Clinton, 9.7-million ballots cast for Bernie Sanders. That's 56.5% to 43.5% -- which in a general election would be characterized as a landslide.
She lost the West Virginia primary to Bernie Sanders by about 15 points , a stinging setback for the presumptive Democratic nominee. Worse yet, Quinnipiac University released a series of polls from three key swing states with bad news for Clinton.
Baseball owners heard from Democratic and Republican strategists Wednesday on the opening day of their spring meeting. Jim Messina, co-chair of Priorities USA Action, spoke to them along with Matt Rhoades, chairman of America Rising.
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.