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NK US , Washington, Oct 28 : President Barack Obama will campaign for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton almost everyday in the final week leading to the November 8 election, a White House aide said. Obama will also ramp up his efforts to boost Democrats in down-ballot races through additional travel, robocalls, radio spots and endorsements, the aide said on Thursday.
Sen. Marco Rubio, right, and Rep. Patrick Murphy, chat during a break in a debate, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, at Broward College in Davie, Fla. Rubio and Murphy held their second and final debate, 13 days before the election.
Berta Delgado told the Spanish-speaking conservative activists at her door that she is "100 por ciento" Republican, and agreed with their assessment that Democratic Senate candidate Patrick Murphy is too liberal. She said she'd vote for Sen. Marco Rubio.
Donald Trump on Sunday linked the successful enactment of his policy agenda to the election of Republican majorities in the House and Senate, one day after he outlined his priorities for his first 100 days as president. The Republican nominee, who spends more time bashing establishment politicians than touting party unity, tied his agenda to "a Republican House and Senate" three times during his rally here on Sunday evening and urged voters to help him "reelect Republicans all over the place."
With the world mesmerized by the United States' presidential race this year, the race for control of the US House of Representatives and Senate has been largely overlooked. But the outcome of the congressional elections could make or break the next president's agenda.
LuAnn Bennett , L, and Northern Virginia Representative Barbara Comstock , R, greet one another following their first debate in the race for the Virginia 10th Congressional District earlier this month. Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock received a friendly but subdued reception from the Muslim community Friday night at a candidates forum focused on Islamophobia, immigration and improving relations with law enforcement.
Pundits long have said Hillary Clinton is a terrible candidate. You have to go back to Al Gore in 2000 to find a politician who faced as much jeering from the media, over everything from claims of dishonesty to matters of personal style.
Election officials nationwide dismiss Donald Trump's incendiary claim the presidential election is rigged against him, with Republicans and Democrats alike rejecting the idea anyone could overcome the logistical challenges of tilting a process run by officials of both parties and average citizens at thousands of polling places and election offices. Elections in the United States are held in open spaces, not in back rooms, and ordinary citizens serve as election officials.
Michelle Obama says that Donald Trump's refusal to say he'd accept Nov. 8 election results if he loses is an insult to millions of Americans who are voting in the presidential election. She told more than 7,000 supporters of Hillary Clinton in Phoenix that Americans decide elections and Trump was threatening to "ignore our voices and reject the outcome of this election."
As Donald Trump takes on the Republican establishment, Democrats and the mainstream media, he's telling supporters they're fighting against a "rigged" system, rife with voter fraud and those eager to protect the status quo. The left, predictably, says this type of talk is "dangerous" to the integrity of our electoral system, and then glibly asks for Mr. Trump to prove his voter fraud allegations.
With roughly three weeks to Election Day, Republican strategists nationwide publicly concede Hillary Clinton has a firm grip on the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House - and may be on her way to an even more decisive victory over Donald Trump. "He is on track to totally and completely melting down," said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who is advising Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's re-election campaign.
With roughly three weeks to Election Day, Republican strategists nationwide publicly concede Hillary Clinton has a firm grip on the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House - and may be on her way to an even more decisive victory over Donald Trump. "He is on track to totally and completely melting down," said Republican pollster Whit Ayers, who is advising Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's re-election campaign.
So now Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, seems to want business owners to be taxed the same as working Kansans . Funny how she rears her head only after the primary elections showed voters are upset with the GOP.
Re: "Jeffress' words evoke dark history -- We must speak the truth in the language of Christianity and of love, Joshua J. Whitfield says," Oct. 1 Viewpoints. Lifetime Southern Baptists, we have become increasingly disturbed and embarrassed by Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress' continued support of Donald Trump.
For the first time in decades, Florida is poised to see a crowded, wide-open primary for the gubernatorial nomination. Crazy as it seems, the 2018 contest already is well under way.
Allies of Democrat Patrick Murphy are doing what campaigns do this election season when his opponent, Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio keeps his distance from presidential nominee Donald Trump: Rubio spoke Thursday morning at a closed-door event at Boca Raton Synagogue. Roughly 27.6 miles away, at the South Florida Fairgrounds near West Palm Beach, Trump was revving up a supportive crowd that - as usual - did not include Rubio, although he did renew his endorsement of Trump this week.
Wikileaks emails show Hillary Clinton's staff thought Mario Rubio was the new Obama - and didn't see Donald Trump as a threat at all The staff hardly took notice of Donald Trump at first - but eventually came to hope he would get the nomination, fearing Rubio would be harder to beat A new batch of Wikileaks emails highlighting Hillary Clinton's campaign were released last week and show that the first GOP candidate the Democrats saw as a threat wasn't Donald Trump but Marco Rubio. At 43, the Florida Senator was the youngest Republican in a crowded field of 17 candidates and was seen by Clinton's advisers as similar to Obama, who bested Clinton in 2008 with his calls for a move away from the old guard politicians.
Republicans swiftly condemned Donald Trump after the revelations of crude comments he made about women, captured in a 2005 tape and made public Friday. Here is some of the reaction: "No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., left, speaks during a news conference as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., listens on June 3, 2016, in Doral, Fla. Rep. Carlos Curbelo had only been in Congress for a few months, and he was already facing a tough vote that he knew could exact political damage.
In fact, beneath the sound and the fury of the Trump campaign, normal Republicans are having a pretty good year. Pence had an exemplary introduction on the national stage.