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Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said on Monday that she had a "good conversation" with Donald Trump, promising that she would continue to share her thoughts with him. "Iowans are frustrated by the current direction of our country," the freshman Republican senator said in a statement.
Once a swing state in presidential elections, Colorado has teetered... . Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a news conference before attending Symphony on the Prairie for a Fourth of July concert, Sunday, July 3, 2016, in Fishers, Ind.
Two-hundred-and-forty years after American colonists upset at the dictates of Parliament turned over the established political order, a new group of political upstarts has spurned the rule of the European Union. This time it's a group of Brits themselves looking to the United States for inspiration.
In this June 7, 2016, file photo, former President Bill Clinton, left, stands on stage with his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, after she spoke during a presidential primary election night rally in New York. His popularity among Democrats is off the charts, he's a fundraising powerhouse and his administration is hailed by many as a high-water mark of economic prosperity.
In this July 1, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the opening session of the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. Once a swing state in presidential elections, Colorado has teetered on the brink of becoming solidly Democratic.
President Obama's domestic policies have done little to move this country forward and his foreign policy is a disaster. Sometimes when he speaks off-the-cuff without a teleprompter, he sounds downright awkward.
One of Hillary Clinton's biggest fans, Andrea Mitchell, was on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday to talk, among other things, about Clinton's week. It seemed as though she couldn't help but moan about the optics surrounding Bill Clinton's secret meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Donald Trump's tweet that featured Hillary Clinton and a six-pointed star atop a pile of money has also appeared on a white supremacist website. Trump's account on Saturday tweeted the so-called "meme" -- then deleted it and replaced it substituting a circle for the star symbol that resembles the Jewish Star of David.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won Sunday's Republican vice presidential straw poll of attendees at the Western Conservative Summit. Mr. Gingrich, who took 194 votes, for 20 percent of the 985 votes cast, was followed by Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, who spoke Saturday at the three-day conference and took 148 votes, or 15 percent.
The political firebrand that is Al Sharpton spent a segment of his Sunday show , PoliticsNation , praising the Hillary Clinton/Elizabeth Warren combination and condemning anyone who thought otherwise. He even went so far as to accuse women on Fox News of being "anti-woman."
A spokesman for Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says the governor and his wife met with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Saturday. Pence spokesman Marc Lotter said Sunday that the two couples had a "warm, productive" meeting before Pence returned to Indiana.
Progressives who have long criticized trade deals that favor multinational corporations, suppress wages, accelerate outsourcing, and replace local democracy with unelected tribunals, shrink from keeping company with the racist, isolationist right. This is equally true in Trump's America and in Britain, newly divorced from the rest of Europe.
In this June 7, 2016, file photo, former President Bill Clinton, left, stands on stage with his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, after she spoke during a presidential primary election night rally in New York. His popularity among Democrats is off the charts, he's a fundraising powerhouse and his administration is hailed by many as a high-water mark of economic prosperity.
Hillary Clinton's interview with the FBI may signal that the Justice Department is nearing the end of its yearlong probe of her use of a private email server while secretary of state, a controversy that has hung over her White House bid. "I've been eager to do it, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to assist the department in bringing its review to a conclusion," Clinton said in describing the FBI session to NBC's "Meet the Press" for an interview to air Sunday.
Donald Trump has been stepping up his courtship of conservative Christians, meeting last month in New York with 1,000 leaders of the religious right and naming an "evangelical executive advisory board." But while some evangelicals are ready to embrace the thrice-married business tycoon as a "lesser evil" than Democrat Hillary Clinton, many other conservative churchgoers are keeping their distance and may not vote for president at all this year.
Appearing on Meet The Press Sunday morning, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton wanted no part in trying to make the case for a Donald Trump presidency, repeatedly sidestepping questions from host Chuck Todd. Todd pressed the Arkansas senator by pointing out that his own views about how to handle the Middle East were much more similar to Hillary Clinton's than they were to the much more vague views of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
Residents of the Rio Grande Valley are intimately familiar with one of the most significant election-year issues - immigration - and are probably better informed than many Americans about the implications of this complex topic. But last week, another issue in the national campaign came to the fore that could have a significant and potentially catastrophic impact on our region if we don't pay attention to its implications: free trade with Mexico.
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Donald Trump says "racist" things and should be disqualified from becoming president for saying that he is "looking at" replacing employees of the Transportation Security Administration who are Muslim and wear hijabs. "He has said 100 things that would disqualify anyone else from running for president but doesn't seem to affect him," he told CNN's Brianna Keilar in an interview aired Sunday on "State of the Union."