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After a disastrous week of feuds and plummeting poll numbers, Republican leaders have concluded that Donald Trump is a threat to the party's fortunes and have begun discussing how soon their endangered candidates should explicitly distance themselves from the presidential nominee. For Republicans in close races, top strategists say, the issue is no longer in doubt.
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.
Minnesota Republicans are finally ready to make their pick in the 2nd Congressional District, crystallizing the field in what's likely to be a tight contest to replace one of Minnesota's most prominent members of Congress. Tuesday's Republican primary will settle a bitter four-way primary between GOP candidates eager to take over for retiring Rep. John Kline.
Donald Trump escalated his attacks Friday on Hillary Clinton's character, just as top former government officials are questioning his own. The Republican nominee, speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, accused Clinton of being "unbalanced" and "unstable," called her a "dangerous" and "pathological" liar and warned voters in this swing state that a Clinton presidency would lead to "the destruction of this country from within."
Until August, ground zero in that rebellion was, of course, Donald Trump's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, which, when he handily won, rocked and shocked the Republican establishment and political world at large. Truly, he feels people's pain and has an intuitive, real feel for what's wrong and what needs to change.
Robin Starck is a retired submarine commander who still lives in the shadow of America's largest naval base, and he's heard all the shouting about Donald Trump and his tangle with the parents of a U.S. Army officer killed in Iraq. "Trump goes to the extreme," said Starck, 79. "Sometimes he goes off the wall."
In this Aug. 3, 2016, photo, Jacob Jeske, 28, a commercial diver from Portsmouth, Va., stands outside the Navy Exchange near Naval Station Norfolk, Va. Donald Trump may be losing support from prominent Republicans in the wake of his recent spat with a goldstar family and military icons like John McCain.
His vehement warnings that GOP nominee Donald Trump is temperamentally and intellectually unfit for the Oval Office leave Obama standing apart from almost all of his 43 predecessors in the extent to which he has publicly expressed a hostile attitude to a potential successor. During yet another turbulent week in a convention-busting election campaign, Obama cloaked himself in the symbolism-laden settings of the Pentagon and an appearance with a foreign dignitary in the White House to denounce Trump as "unfit" for the Oval Office.
John Kasich says he's no closer to endorsing Donald Trump for president, cementing his place as one of the most prominent holdouts in the Republican Party. Kasich, the governor of Ohio, a state that Trump almost certainly must win to take the White House, said he didn't know how he would vote in November.
The Libertarian Party ticket, facing what polls show are two of the most unpopular presidential candidates in modern American history, is seeing a bump in support as the general election race moves into full swing - and a surge in interest that could carry nominee Gary Johnson onto the prized debate stage this fall. Despite Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's popularity issues and trust gap with voters, few expect the Libertarian ticket to pose a Ross Perot-style threat this year.
The head of WikiLeaks opened up to the comedian about how he hacked the DNC and why the organization hasn't targeted Trump yet. The head of WikiLeaks , still banished to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, has come under fire by U.S. intelligence officials-and even NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who criticized the organization's "hostility to even modest curation"-for not just his troubling anti-Semitic streak or lingering rape accusation, but also that they are probably doing the work of Russia in releasing thousands upon thousands of Democratic National Committee emails, thereby tilting the U.S. presidential election towards former reality star Donald Trump, whose campaign has very deep ties to Vladimir Putin.
In an effort to repair some of the damage he had inflicted on his presidential campaign, Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan to end a four-day standoff that exposed the deeps chasms in the Republican Party over his candidacy. Trump struck a rare conciliatory tone at a Wisconsin rally on Friday, imploring his party to unite behind him and opening a full-throttle attack on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
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.
Donald Trump pumped up his attacks on Hillary Clinton's character Saturday night by suggesting that the former secretary of state is not mentally fit to be president. "She took a short-circuit in the brain.
At the beginning of the year, the Obama administration danced for victory in announcing the implementation of a deal with Iran that rewarded the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism with the lifting of well-deserved sanctions in return for its purported actions to dismantle its nuclear program.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis, frustrated by what he saw as state governments protecting their authority at the expense of the War efforts, lamented that if the South lost it was because it "died of a theory."
Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan late Friday, ending a four-day standoff between the GOP's most powerful man that exposed deepening concerns about the New York billionaire's presidential candidacy. Having refused to endorse the speaker earlier in the week, Trump said, "We have to unite" as he vowed to support Ryan in next week's primary contest.
After a week that featured a spat with Gold Star parents, squabbles with other Republicans and a nosedive in the polls, Donald Trump is looking to flip the script and stay on message, trying to keep the focus on his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The Republican nominee tried to do so Friday, focusing largely on Clinton during a rally in Des Moines.
Campaign 2016: Toomey banking on split-ticket voting The Pennsylvania Republican hopes voters turned off by Donald Trump will still support his Senate reelection bid. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://on-ydr.co/2aMxkW3 In this May 9, 2016, file photo, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
Donald Trump faced an all-too-clear sign of GOP divisions Friday in Midwestern battlegrounds, embraced by party leaders in one state but ignored in another.