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I met Steve Bannon-the executive director of Breitbart.com who's now become the chief executive of the Trump campaign , replacing the newly resigned Paul Manafort -at a book party held in his Capitol Hill townhouse in early 2014. We were standing next to a picture of his daughter, a West Point graduate, who at the time was a lieutenant in the 101 Airborne Division serving in Iraq.
Usually, candidates say which former presidents they'd seek to emulate. But Donald Trump has no sense of history-while Hillary Clinton has too much of her own.
The U.S. presidential election is looming large in the Canadian government's summer retreat, with U.S. trade ties among the discussion points for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet. Trudeau and his ministers are holding a quarterly retreat in Sudbury, Ontario, on Sunday and Monday.
Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk criticized President Barack Obama for delivering money to the Iranian government in coordination with the release of Americans being held prisoner there -- saying he was "acting like the drug dealer in chief." The comments came in a sit-down last week with the editorial board of The State Journal-Register, according to the Illinois paper's political writer.
President Barack Obama is returning from vacation rested and ready for a busy fall, including pressing Congress for money to protect against the Zika virus and fending off lawmakers' attacks over the administration's $400 million "leverage" payment to Iran. Obama was due at the White House late Sunday after a 16-day getaway to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha.
President Barack Obama returns from vacation rested and ready for a busy fall, including pressing Congres... . President Barack Obama is seated in the presidential vehicle as his motorcade leaves his family's rented vacation home in Chilmark, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.
Donald Trump sat down Saturday with Latino leaders from nearly a dozen states in his latest effort to appeal to minority voters who have largely spurned his struggling presidential campaign. After waging a yearlong campaign marked by divisive and racially tinged rhetoric, the Republican nominee also reached out to African Americans several times in recent days.
Republican Donald Trump again made a direct appeal to black voters Friday night, urging them to abandon the Democratic Party and give him a chance. Speaking at a rally in Dimondale, Michigan, an overwhelmingly white suburb outside of Lansing, the GOP nominee argued that Democrats, including his rival Hillary Clinton, have taken advantage of African-American voters and taken their votes for granted.
In high school, I was a rather awkward, nerdish history buff . I was also something of a lefty, particularly compared to my conservative religious upbringing.
Donald Trump's support among white men, the linchpin of his presidential campaign, is showing surprising signs of weakness that could foreclose his only remaining path to victory in November. If not reversed, the trend could materialize into one of the most unanticipated developments of the 2016 presidential campaign: That Hillary Clinton, the first woman at the head a major party ticket and a divisive figure unpopular with many men, ends up narrowing the gender gap that has been a constant of American presidential elections for decades.
Editor's note: In advance of the Oct. 19 presidential debate at UNLV, The Sunday and the Brookings Institution, in partnership with UNLV and Brookings Mountain West, are presenting a series of guest columns on state and national election issues. The columns will appear weekly.
In a presidential election year featuring the two most unpopular major-party nominees in at least 40 years Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton many voters are taking a hard look at third- and fourth-party candidates for the White House. And in North Carolina, even a modest November showing by one of these alternative candidates could tip the balance in this key battleground state where the Democrat and Republican are virtually tied, according to average of recent polls.
For example, in the world of campaign professionals, there's a term for a candidate who spends most of his time complaining about the media: "Loser." Ask Bob Dole.
It has been almost six months since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, and almost five months since President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, the widely respected and centrist chief judge of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to succeed him. Because of obstructionism by Senate Republicans, however, the Senate is no closer to holding a hearing on Garland's nomination, much less voting on it.
Ask Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri about his party's presidential nominee and you'll likely get a polite but weary response. It's tough enough for the political veteran seeking re-election against up-and-coming Democrat Jason Kander, Missouri's secretary of state who is showing surprising strength in the polls and in raising money.
Just as polls in key battleground states show him lagging behind rival Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump stoked fears of voter fraud in Pennsylvania Friday, pushing his supporters to police polling places on Election Day for any "cheating." "The only way we can lose in my opinion -- I really mean this, Pennsylvania -- is if cheating goes on," Trump told rally attendees Friday evening during an event in Altoona.
He said the women worked for the school district in various positions and had been either fired or reassigned.” And: “He also sent a text message to Briggman on Sunday night: 'I Will Take Actions Against The District My Self As A Community Activists Do The Right Thing The Media's Is Waiting On My Call.' ” Lewis' text message alleged that district staff covered up sexual misconduct and warned that he would reveal it if his demands were not met.
Fox News figures are helping rationalize Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's threat that the 2016 presidential debates must have "fair" moderators or he won't participate, pointing to Candy Crowley's 2012 debate moderation in which she fact-checked Republican candidate Mitt Romney as an "unacceptable" example. But Fox's attacks on Crowley are based on a lie, and they're helping lay the groundwork for Trump to justify withdrawing from the debates.
In his long shot bid to defeat Marco Rubio, Republican Carlos Beruff has yet to ignite the type of political grass fire that two years ago took out a top Republican leader in the U.S. House and nearly claimed four U.S. Senators. Following the insurgent's playbook, Beruff has spent more than $8 million of his own money on television ads.
Clinton wins the college-educated segment by 25 percentage points, while Trump's edge among those without a college education is 10 points. There are many demographic fault lines emerging in this year's presidential campaign, but few are deeper than the division among likely voters based on educational attainment.