Trump, Pence to visit flood-ravaged Louisiana capital Friday
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and running mate Mike Pence will visit flood-damaged areas of Baton Rouge, La. Friday.
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Electing Trump president would be like passing out loaded guns as favors at a baby party
Almost everything Donald Trump says is provably wron g. PolitiFact says that 76 percent of statements by Trump that it checked were false.
Clinton widens lead over Trump in poll of NY voters Updated Aug 15, 2016 at
Hillary Clinton holds a giant lead over Donald Trump among New York voters in a Siena College poll released Monday, beating him by 30 percentage points in a two-way matchup and by 25 points when Libertarian and Green Party candidates for president were included in the choices.
Siena poll: Clinton 30 points ahead of Trump in NY
A new poll says Democrat Hillary Clinton has a 30-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in their home state of New York.
In A Way, You Can’t Blame Trump For Thinking He Should Be Winning
Donald Trump is griping about a New York Times story that portrays him as an uncoachable amateur struggling to compete in electoral politics with a seasoned professional. Advisers who once hoped a Pygmalion-like transformation would refashion a crudely effective political showman into a plausible American president now increasingly concede that Mr. Trump may be beyond coaching.
Another fight over ‘skewed’ polls
Four years ago in the race for President, Republicans were complaining about polls that were "skewed" against Mitt Romney, much as many in the GOP are arguing now that polls are biased against Donald Trump in 2016, as Trump supporters charge pollsters and the media are out to stop their candidate. The answer - Mitt Romney and the Republicans - as most polls actually underestimated the support for President Obama, both nationally and in a number of states.
Clinton and Trump Aren’t Making Policy Concessions
With less than three months to Election Day, neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump is shifting to the ideological center, a break from modern presidential campaigns that's being driven by the decline of swing voters. In a speech on Thursday, Clinton again emphasized her progressive stances on economic issues such as raising the minimum wage, tuition-free public college, expanding Social Security, adding a public insurance option to the Affordable Care Act, and cracking down on Wall Street.
Why it Matters: North Korea
In this June 23, 2016, file photo, people watch a TV news channel airing an image of North Korea's ballistic missile launch published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea could soon be capable of targeting America with nuclear weapons.
Civil-military relations and the 2016 presidential race
Editor's note: In advance of the Oct. 19 presidential debate at UNLV, The Sunday and the Brookings Institution, in partnership with UNLV and Brookings Mountain West, are presenting a series of guest columns on state and national election issues. The columns will appear weekly.
The Latest: Clinton says floods require national response
Hillary Clinton says she will visit flood-damaged Louisiana when "the presence of a political campaign will not disrupt the response." In a statement Monday, the Democratic presidential nominee called the floods a crisis in need of a national response.
Echoing Trump, Hezbollah accuses Obama of creating Islamic State
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group has accused the U.S. and President Barack Obama of creating the Islamic State group, using the words of presidential hopeful Donald Trump as proof. Quoting the Republican candidate, Hassan Nasrallah also accused Mr. Trump's Democratic Party competitor Hillary Clinton of helping create the militant group.
CNN Pair: Clintons’ Tax Return Shows How ‘Middle-Classy’ They Are
The Hillary Clinton campaign released the 2015 joint federal income tax return filed by Mrs. Clinton and her ex-President husband Bill this week. Among other things, the Clintons reported total income of over $10.7 million, incurred income and self-employment taxes of over $3.6 million, and deducted $1 million for a charitable contribution to the Clinton Foundation.
The end of the Republican Party?
I read Ginger Gibson's wire service piece on Evan McMullin throwing his hat into the already crowded presidential race . After finishing, I had to take a deep breath and resign myself to the inevitable a Hillary Clinton is going to be our next president.
The Latest: Trump’s foreign policy to focus on destroying IS
Republican Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as "foreign policy realism" focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. Trump is also expected to propose a new immigration policy under which the U.S. would stop issuing visas in cases where adequate screenings can't be performed.
Trump would stop issuing visas if screenings were inadequate
" Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as "foreign policy realism" focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. In a speech the Republican presidential nominee will deliver on Monday in Ohio, Trump will argue that the country needs to work with anyone that shares that mission, regardless of other ideological and strategic disagreements.
Johnson joins Trump campaign in Iowa
Jamie Johnson, former Webster County GOP chair, has joined the Trump-Pence presidential campaign as the Iowa coalitions director, the campaign announced Friday. Johnson said he joined the campaign efforts to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president, bring back American manufacturing jobs and to defeat radical Islamic terrorism.
Trump lashes out at ‘crooked media’
Donald Trump, clearly angered by news reports that he has grown depressed and sullen over his fading presidential prospects, has issued some of his sharpest attacks on the media. "I am not running against Crooked Hillary Clinton," the Republican presidential candidate said in a speech late Saturday in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Talk of shifting funds away from Trump premature-Republican official
A senior official with the Republican National Committee on Sunday played down the prospect that the party would cut off cash and logistical support to White House nominee Donald Trump in order to shift resources toward congressional races. Last week 70 Republicans wrote a letter urging the RNC to stop helping Trump and to focus instead on candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Russia’s tactics roil Europe
The hacking of Democratic Party computer systems, widely thought by U.S. intelligence officials to be the work of the Russian government, may be giving Washington a new taste of unconventional Kremlin tactics that have long been employed to influence politics in neighboring European countries. Russia has tried hard in recent years to tug Europe to its side, bankrolling the continent's extremist political parties, working to fuel a backlash against migrants and using its vast energy resources as a cudgel against its neighbors.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl: Campaign Advisers Secretly Fear That ‘Donald Trump Is Trying To Lose’
Advisers inside Donald Trump's campaign suspect that the Republican presidential nominee is "trying to lose," sources told ABC News. During a Sunday panel discussion on ABC's This Week , correspondent Jonathan Karl reported that Trump supporters feared the worst after the candidate undermined his own campaign with weeks of gaffes and unforced errors.