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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.
Residents of Puerto Rico can't vote in presidential elections. But with the island's economy in shambles, many are fleeing to the U.S. mainland, potentially shifting demographic norms in some of the most closely contested states.
Hillary Clinton is starting to spend a little money in Georgia and Arizona, states that any Republican running for president ought to be able to count on. The road to 270 electoral votes - the threshold to clinch the presidency - increasingly looks to be a series of uphill climbs and dead ends for Trump in the usual collection of most competitive states.
And some, such as Adolfo Olivas of Hamilton, Ohio, have decided to just shut down their accounts, as the divisive presidential campaign causes a deluge of news feeds amid photos of smiling kids' first day of school and what's on the grill for dinner.
The last ten polls reporting the outcome of a four-person presidential race with the Democrat Clinton, Republican Trump, Libertarian Johnson, and Green Party's Stein gives Hillary Clinton the edge in the popular vote but leaves her with an average in those ten polls of only 44%. Her unfavorable ratings with voters remains incredibly high for a major party candidate, compounded by the fact that Hillary has been at the center of Washington politics for a quarter of a century.
More than 75 Republicans have signed a letter urging Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus to spend the party's money on helping secure the Republican majority in the Senate, not on Donald Trump's presidential campaign. The letter, whose signers include former congressmen Gordon Humphrey, Mickey Edwards and Christopher Shays; Bruce Bartlett, a member of President George W. Bush's cabinet; and former RNC staff members said that Trump's campaign will have a "catastrophic impact" on down-ballot races.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman has opened a 9-point lead over Democratic challenger Ted Strickland in a newly released poll, despite headwinds from the top of the ticket that appear to be hampering his Republican Senate colleagues in Pennsylvania and Florida. "At this stage of the campaign, Republican U.S. Senate candidates may be running against their own presidential nominee, Donald Trump, as much as they are against their Democratic opponents," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University Poll.
Anchorage Democratic Senator Bill Wielechowski wants the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation to defy Gov. Bill Walker's veto roughly halving this year's dividends. Two Democrats are running for Lisa Murkowski's U.S. Senate seat.
Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker said Thursday that Donald Trump went "too far" if he was serious in saying that President Barack Obama founded the Islamic State terror group Corker was asked about Trump's comments, which he had not previously heard, after a speech to farmers and rural community insurance providers, according to USA Today. Corker initially said he assumed Trump was referring to the vacuum that was created in Iraq when Obama pulled U.S. troops out of the country, but was told that Trump had repeated his comments when asked by radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King is firmly in the Donald Trump camp, but said Thursday he can work with Democrat Hillary Clinton if she defeats Trump for the presidency. "I've sat across the table with Hillary Clinton eye-to-eye, and when you're working outside of staff and outside of the press she is somebody I can work with," The Des Moines Register reported King saying in a speech at the newspaper's Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair.
Hillary Clinton has admonished rival Donald Trump for claiming that she and Barack Obama were the founders of the Islamic State group, saying anyone who would "sink so low" should never be president. Mr Trump again roiled the presidential campaign late on Wednesday, telling a rally in Florida that Mr Obama "is the founder of ISIS".
Fresh off the presidential campaign trail, the self-described Democratic socialist bought a seasonal waterfront home on Lake Champlain in North Hero, Vermont, for $575,000. A Sanders spokesman says the senator and his wife Jane also own a row house in Washington, D.C., and a home in Burlington, Vermont.
A former paid worker for Donald Trump's presidential bid has accused the campaign's North Carolina state director of pointing a loaded pistol at him. Vincent Bordini filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday in a North Carolina court against the Trump campaign and recent state director Earl Phillip.
" U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa didn't want to leave Washington when she gave up her House seat to run for the Senate two years ago. But she hoped to fulfill the dying wish of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, a beloved Hawaii Democrat who spent five decades in office and wanted her to take his place.
The rise of George McGovern's hard-left agenda in 1972, followed later in the decade by Jimmy Carter's evangelical liberalism, drove centrist Democrats into the arms of Richard Nixon and later Ronald Reagan. These so-called neoconservatives grew tired of liberals' perceived laxity about fighting the Cold War.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ted Strickland of Ohio is apologizing for remarks appearing to celebrate the death of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In audio of an appearance Monday before the AFL-CIO in Cleveland, the former Ohio governor is heard saying he didn't "wish anyone ill" but Scalia's death "happened at a good time" for union workers.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Abraham Lincoln High School, in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Abraham Lincoln High School, in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016.
In this June 21, 2016, file photo, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center in Columbus, Ohio. Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland apologizes for "insensitive remarks."
Hillary Clinton will release her 2015 tax returns in the coming days, possibly as soon as Friday, a source close to the Democratic presidential nominee told ABC News today. Her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, is expected to release his returns from the last 10 years, the source added.
Republican Sens. Marco Rubio, of Florida, and Pat Toomey, of Pennsylvania, are facing Democratic challengers in races that are too close to call, while Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is ahead in his race by 9 percent, a new Quinnipiac University Swing State poll released Thursday shows. Florida: Rubio, 48 percent; challenger Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, 45 percent.