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Academy Award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn has "never seen anything" quite like this year's presidential election season - and she believes she may know the reason for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's extraordinary success. "I can't understand it," the 83-year-old Interstellar and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore star said of Trump's popularity in an interview with Deadline .
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton criticized presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday, saying his recent behavior shows he's not qualified to president. "When you run for president of the United States, the entire world is listening and watching," Clinton told CNN's Chris Cuomo during an exclusive interview in Chicago.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is considering his options for a vice president. Among them are Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
In the effort to rally Republicans around the Donald Trump candidacy, one often hears two arguments invoked. One is that those who oppose Mr. Trump need to focus on "unity" now that he is the presumptive nominee; a second is that the anti-Trump forces need to respect the "will of the people."
When Donald Trump was asked about his own history with women, he turned the discussion to former President Bill Clinton. "By the way, you know, it's not like the worst things, OK," Trump said.
"It's not like 'none of the above' is a potential option," GOP Texas governor Greg Abbott said on MSNBC's Nevada senator Dean Heller, also a Republican, disagrees. "I vehemently oppose our nominee and some of the comments and issues he brought up during the campaign," he told reporters this month.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube had millions of users, but they hadn't yet exploded - they were still transitioning away from being the exclusive online hangout of hipsters, celebrities, and college students. Obama's campaign was the first to realize, harness, and unleash their users' potential as an organized political machine.
So I decided to dispense with satire and simply call Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Friday to hear about his trip to survey the damage from the volcanic eruption of his imminent nomination. Trump told me that when he came to tour the ruins of the Republican Party here Thursday, he and Paul Ryan asked if everyone would clear the room.
A new FOX News Poll shows what would happen if the Presidential election were tomorrow, showing face-offs between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Right now in a Clinton - Trump matchup, Trump leads Clinton by 3-points; however last month, Clinton was ahead of Trump by 7-points.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used the word "rape" on Wednesday when discussing past allegations of sexual misconduct involving former President Bill Clinton, further escalating his rhetoric on the subject. Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination and Trump's likely opponent in the November general election.
Donald Trump has cleared the field of competitors for the Republican nomination but has still not won over one particular, and significant, constituency. Legislators have been curiously resistant to his charms, far more so than those with executive branch experience.
Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman has released a scathing statement in response to likely rival Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court picks. John Podesta says Trump's list of 11 Supreme Court candidates includes "no people of color, but does include a judge who upheld a law requiring doctors to use scare tactics to impede reproductive rights and another judge who equated homosexual sex to bestiality, pedophilia and necrophilia."
Mark Zuckerberg and his massive social-media site Facebook have come under strong criticism for allegedly suppressing stories of interest for conservative readers from its influential "trending" news section. Facebook has roughly 1.6 billion users worldwide, 167 million of whom are in the United States.
Senate Democrats made an effort to push ahead with President Obama's pick for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court -- Judge Merrick Garland. Meanwhile, presumptive republican nominee Donald Trump released a list of judges he says he would consider nominating to the Supreme Court.
In this May 7, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Spokane, Wash. Trump is moving quickly to install political operatives in more than a dozen states, targeting Maine and Minnesota among others that traditionally favor Democrats, as the Republican White House contender lays the groundwork for an expanded electoral battlefield.
Leading Democrats are growing increasingly vocal in their concerns about the White House hopeful's continued candidacy, and if he and his legions of enthusiastic supporters ultimately will unite behind Hillary Clinton in a general election against Donald Trump. For his part, Sanders has sharpened his critique of the party.
James Hohmann, Washington Post: We've reached another pivot point in the race. The donnybrook at the convention has been a wake-up call for many liberal commentators, who have viewed Bernie [Sanders] positively because of his success at pulling Hillary to the left.
Seizing new fuel for his appeal to Donald Trump's critics, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has joined forces with another former Republican governor to strengthen his Libertarian presidential bid. William Weld, who served two terms as the Republican governor of Massachusetts in the 1990s, will announce plans Thursday to seek the Libertarian Party's vice presidential nomination, Johnson confirmed in a Wednesday interview with the Associated Press.
Donald Trump is within 76 delegates of clinching the Republican nomination for president with his win in the Oregon primary. With no one else left in the race, the only question is which state will put him over the top.