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One of the enduring narratives of the 2012 election for some on the right is the belief that millions of conservatives stayed home that year rather than vote for an insufficiently conservative Mitt Romney. This year, the missing millions was a standard talking point for Ted Cruz and some other conservatives who believed it was imperative that the Republicans not choose a moderate that couldn't galvanize the party base.
Top Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren to force votes on judicial nominees, including two from Oklahoma. Warren, of Massachusetts, slammed Republicans, who control the Senate, for not allowing votes on 15 nominees for district judge positions in several states.
Pastor Richie Clendenen stepped away from the pulpit, microphone in hand. He walked the aisles of the Christian Fellowship Church, his voice rising to describe the perils believers face in 21st-century America.
The presumptive GOP nominee has argued he can put as many as 15 states into play this fall, but he lags far behind Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in building up troops for a general election battle. Rather than building out teams of his own hires in swing states -- the model previous nominees like Mitt Romney and John McCain relied on -- Trump is signaling to the Republican National Committee and state parties that he will rely on them to take the lead in organizing key toss up states.
Hillary Clinton has celebrated her triumph as the first woman to lead a major party in a race for the White House, scoring big wins in California and New Jersey to cement her grip on the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination. The former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state spoke to supporters at a raucous event in Brooklyn, New York, and placed her achievement in the context of the long history of the women's rights movement.
The former first lady, US senator and secretary of state spoke to supporters at a raucous event in Brooklyn, New York, and placed her achievement in the context of the women's rights movement. "Thanks to you, we have reached a milestone," Clinton said in a speech."
Polls didn't indicate she had such a large lead, but the AP's Monday night call could have affected the race. , which includes all publicly available polling, gave Clinton a 4 point advantage.
Lt. General Michael Flynn, author of the new book The Field Of Fight: How We Can Win The Global War Against Radical Islam And Its Allies , joined Hugh Hewitt on his morning radio show Monday to discuss a topic he believes should be getting more traffic in this year's presidential election. Flynn, Hewitt noted, "knows firsthand the war that we are engaged in," and is distraught this campaign is largely ignoring the barbarism of ISIS and its impact on national security.
The Nation magazine recently declared that the 2016 election "may be the most important election of our lives." This really shouldn't be surprising, since nearly every presidential election has been accompanied by similarly breathless promises that it will be one of the most important of our lives.
Californians geared up on Monday for their state's high-profile primary, the last major vote in a process all-but-certain to culminate with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump facing off in the US presidential election. LYNWOOD: Californians geared up on Monday for their state's high-profile primary, the last major vote in a process all-but-certain to culminate with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump facing off in the US presidential election.
As the conflict in Syria has raged and spilled over its borders, I have been skeptical that there is an American military solution to the complex political and religious problems at the heart of the crisis. I remain skeptical, and am glad that the Obama administration has been reluctant to engage in a large-scale humanitarian intervention.
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson said he can pull votes away from both the Democrat and Republican contenders in the U.S. presidential election once more Americans realize they agree with many of his views. "I'm trying to appeal to the majority of Americans whom I think are libertarian, it's just that they don't know it," Johnson said in an interview for CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" program to be broadcast on Sunday.
The federal judge who's hearing a Trump University lawsuit is "a hater of Donald Trump" and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that have legal experts worrying about his commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers.
The Obama administration will be known for its many initiatives between the Affordable Care Act, the Iran deal, and his immigration executive actions, the president will leave office with an ambitious array of policy undertakings. The current presidential election definitively reflects the mood of the nation angry, almost spiteful.
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The federal judge who's hearing a Trump University lawsuit is "a hater of Donald Trump" and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that have legal experts worrying about his commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers.
According to New York Magazine, four sources linked to the Trump campaign confirmed the Republican White House hopeful is considering a trip to the Jewish state in the next six weeks, though nothing has been finalized. In May, Trump said he believes he enjoys "massive" support from Israelis as he announced he would visit Israel before the presidential election, in an interview published by the Adelson-owned Israel Hayom daily.
President Barack Obama went on a "myth-busting" mission Wednesday aimed at undermining Republican arguments about the economy, working to give cover to Democrats to embrace his policies ahead of the presidential election. Officially, Obama came to this hardscrabble town in northern Indiana to illustrate how steps he took in the first days of his presidency had ultimately paid off and pulled the economy back from the brink.
" Seven years ago, newly elected President Barack Obama came to a blighted stretch of northern Indiana and predicted a tough but certain recovery " if the country embraced his approach to re-juicing the economy. He returns Wednesday seeking credit for having lifted the U.S. out of the doldrums with policies Democrats are now rallying behind as they work to elect his replacement.
Obama touts Elkhart's recovery, looks to November President Obama says his economic policies 'point us in the right direction' Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://indy.st/1sMDTj7 President Barack Obama visited Elkhart Wednesday to make the case that his policies have helped shape the recovering U.S. economy - especially in the northern part of Indiana. Obama spoke first at Concord Community High School in Elkhart before a scheduled town hall at the city's Lerner Theatre.