McAuliffe fires up crowd as Democrats gather for state convention
Approximately 2000 Virginia Democrats convened at the Richmond Convention Center, Saturday, June 18, 2016, to pick delegates to the national convention.
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No crossover appeal for Trump and Clinton in Wisconsin
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Remaining in the EU is in Britain’s best interests
The vote by Britons next Thursday on whether to stay in the European Union is about more than British interests. Should the nation decide to leave, a strong signal against globalisation and multilateral cooperation would be sent around the world.
Nuts & Bolts: Inside a Democratic campaign – Don’t try to fix someone else’s campaign
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
Campaign: what to watch for in historic, bitter battle
A Washington Post column headlined last week, "Now, Election Day is the only thing that matters." Nice thought, but not true.
The 10 Republicans most likely to defect from Donald Trump
Republican Maryland governor Larry Hogan has publicly admitted he isn't voting for Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. Here are the many times Logan has said he won't back Trump's run for the White House.
GOP picks former Utah congresswoman to head rules panel
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.
Remember when Donald Trump went after another minority group 20 years ago?
TRENTON - Ever since Donald Trump announced a year ago that he was running for president, he's consistently faced sharp criticism for his statements about Hispanics and Muslims. In the last few weeks alone, the presumptive Republican nominee has been called a racist for comments about a judge's "Mexican heritage" and a bigot for reiterating in the wake of the Orlando shooting that the U.S. should fight terrorism by temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country.
2016 campaign takes strange twists after Orlando
The attack on an Orlando gay nightclub -- the worst strike on U.S. soil since 9/11 -- spurred a strange week of politics even by this year's standards. As always, Donald Trump was at the epicenter of much of the controversy.
Saudi minister rips White House on Syria, talks 2016 campaign
A top Saudi Arabian official visiting Washington gave his full backing Friday to State Department officials protesting the White House's refusal to directly confront the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir spoke a day after 51 State Department staff involved in Mideast issues sharply criticized the Obama administration's Syria policy in a formal, classified memo as ineffective and urged a tougher stance, including airstrikes against the Syrian regime.
Watch: 8th grader nails impersonations of 2016 presidential candidates
It's graduation season! It's that time when politicians and celebrities try to come up with witty speeches, crafty arguments and sappy words to motivate graduates as they move on to the next phase of their lives. But one Chicago-area kid has taken the graduation speech to the next level.
Meet America’s loneliest supporter of Donald Trump
First came the grimaces - the disbelieving eyes trained upon his shirt, his signs, his car window stickers broadcasting a local betrayal. Then his teenage son refused to drive the family car without redecorating, hiding the three "Make America Great Again" hats that usually sit atop the dashboard.
Trump battleground plan relies on skeptical GOP leaders
His campaign roiled by infighting and Republican revolt, Donald Trump is working to address a battleground state staffing shortage that highlights his reliance on a skeptical GOP establishment.
Ex-Congresswoman Enid Mickelsen to head GOP rules committee at convention
Former Utah Congresswoman Enid Mickelsen will head the powerful rules committee at next month's Republican National Convention, where Donald Trump is set to be formally nominated as the party's presidential candidate. Utah GOP Chairman James Evans said Mickelsen is trusted by Priebus, who has made it clear he expects the party to get behind Trump after his primary election victory.
The View Co-Host Slams Oprah’s Hillary Endorsement: ‘A Vagina Isn’t a Self-Interest’
Not everyone is happy about media mogul Oprah Winfrey 's endorsement of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton , and I don't just mean spurned potential ticket-mate Donald Trump . On Friday's edition of The View , co-host Paula Faris told her colleagues that Winfrey's endorsement of Hillary is a "disservice to every single woman in the United States, every woman in this country, every woman across the globe" because "you don't vote for someone based upon their gender."
Eric Metaxas on Virtue and … Donald Trump
Earlier this week, we posted a Q&A I did with Eric Metaxas about his new book, If You Can Keep It . I saved the conversation about the presidential election for you dear Corner readers today.
White House sees surge in Syrian refugee admissions this year
The Obama administration believes it will be able to process many more Syrian refugees in the last half of fiscal 2016 than in the first six months, allowing it to meet its goal of admitting at least 10,000 by Sept. 30. In a letter to Democratic Senator Richard Durbin seen by Reuters on Thursday, the White House said it has allocated additional staff and added more processing locations in the Middle East to expedite the screening process without compromising U.S. security.
AP Analysis: Mideast showed Hillary Clinton US power’s limit
In this Wednesday, January 12, 2011 file photo, Then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, talks to Gulf Cooperation Council Foreign Ministers during a meeting in Doha, Qatar. Stepping up to a microphone on the campaign trail this week, presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was unsparing when she talked about America's allies in the Persian Gulf.
Swecker: Virginia Democrats’ Convention: It’s go time
As mainstream Republicans sit idly while demagoguery conquers what once was the party of Lincoln, it's now up to Democrats to prevent a universally acknowledged catastrophe: a Trump presidency.
Horowitz: The – Never Trump’Murder-Suicide Pact
Barack Obama delivers nuclear weapons and $150 billion to America's mortal enemy in the Middle East - and every Democrat to a man and woman defends his betrayal; Hillary Clinton violates the Espionage Act and delivers classified secrets, including information on an impending drone attack, to America's enemies - and every Democrat to a man and woman defends her. Obama and Clinton lie about matters of war and peace - and every progressive publicly swears they are telling the truth.