Pat Buchanan: Is the party over for Bushism?
Neither George W. Bush, the Republican Party nominee in 2000 and 2004, nor Jeb, the dethroned Prince of Wales, will be in Cleveland.
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Tunnel collapse risk probed at busy Arizona border crossing
The federal government said Monday it will investigate whether a floodwater drainage tunnel under a busy U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Arizona is at imminent risk of collapse and poses a safety threat to border crossing motorists and federal officers working there. The General Services Administration said in a statement it will launch the study of the tunnel under the Nogales, Arizona, crossing next month.
Four-day GOP convention, six speeches from Trumps
The headline speakers over four nights will include no less than a half-dozen members of the Trump clan, as the Republican party hopes to sand off some of the rough edges on its unpopular candidate with the loving touches of family. The sextet's performance starts Monday.
Is Trump a false-flag candidate?
I will get to this point in a bit, but I need to set the stage for what I want to bring out. No, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but strange things happen all the time.
US Senators Urge South Korea to Take Trump ‘With Grain of Salt’
U.S. and South Korean army soldiers pose on a floating bridge on the Hantan river during a joint military exercise against a possible attack from North Korea, in Yeoncheon, South Korea, Dec. 10, 2015. Republican John McCain and Democrat Robert Menendez write an editorial reasserting America's support for its Asian allies, in spite of past comments made by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump On the eve of the U.S. Republican convention, two powerful U.S. senators urged South Korea to take any criticisms made by the presumptive party nominee Donald Trump about America's commitment to Asia with "a grain of salt."
NAACP: Trump declines offer to address civil rights group
The NAACP says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has declined an invitation to address the group's upcoming convention, flouting established precedent and highlighting anew the GOP standard-bearer's struggle to attract support from nonwhite voters. NAACP president Cornell William Brooks told CNN Tuesday that Trump had declined the group's invitation to speak at the Cincinnati gathering, scheduled from Saturday through Wednesday.
Budowsky: If Trump were black
As voters hunger for a healing of racial wounds in a nation that comes together, the Republican Congress is preparing to take a lengthy vacation between its endless partisan witch hunts of Hillary Rodham Clinton Budowsky: If Trump were black Davis: What the facts tell us about Clinton's 'carelessness' Moulitsas: Stuck with Trump MORE , which remind voters why they hold this Congress in contempt, and the coming Republican National Convention, which is shaping up as a Woodstock festival for Clinton haters who will nominate one of the most bitterly divisive candidates in American history for president. Successful politics is about addition - of voters and groups to create a governing majority for a governing party.
Trump’s focuses on changes in programs for veterans
In this Thursday, June 30, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall-style campaign event at the former Osram Sylvania light bulb factory in Manchester, N.H. Trump will deliver a speech on veterans' health care reform Monday, July 11, his latest in a series of prepared remarks aimed at articulating his policy agenda and convincing still-reticent Republicans that he has the discipline and control to mount a credible general election bid against likely rival Hillary Clinton. The proposal is part of Trump's 10-point plan he's outlining Monday ahead of his general election bid against likely rival Hillary Clinton .
GOP not worried Trump will lose NC
In the campaign for North Carolina's 15 electoral votes, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton appears far ahead of Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump in both money and machinery. She's often stumped in the state, rolled out high-profile surrogates - President Barack Obama, for example - and is spending millions of dollars to assemble get-out-the-vote operations and fill the television airwaves with campaign ads.
Ruth: The best news for Hillary Clinton is Donald Trump
Write something critical of Donald Trump and prepare yourself for on onslaught of angry emails complaining: "Well, yeah, sure, but what about that crooked liar Hillary Clinton?" Conversely, pen a negative piece about Clinton, and just as reliable as a returning Capistrano swallow, you can rest assured of getting a full froth of: "Well, yeah, sure, but what about that nutball Donald Trump?" as if there is a perfectly balanced 50-50 equivalency of craziness on the campaign trail. As we approach the Democratic and Republican conventions this month, the national political discourse has devolved into a vigorous debate over which candidate to hold the highest office in the land is less of a conniving, duplicitous dolt than the other camp.
Donald Trump Clashes With Arizona GOP Senator in Closed-Door Meeting
The spat, first reported by the Washington Post, began when Trump remarked that Flake had been critical of him in the past. "Yes, I'm the other senator from Arizona - the one that wasn't captured - and I want to talk to you about statements like that," Flake told Trump in the closed-door meeting, the senator confirmed to ABC News.
Appearing with Clinton in N.C., Obama says hea s ready to a pass the batona
Democratic presumptive nominee campaigns with President Obama at a rally in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday. CHARLOTTE - President Obama made his debut on the campaign trail Tuesday for Hillary Clinton, declaring himself "ready to pass the baton" during a boisterous rally in this battleground state on a politically challenging day for his preferred successor.
Republican senator from a GOP stronghold says that Donald Trump might lose in his state
Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona said on Wednesday that it was "quite possible" that Donald Trump would lose his state after a series of polls showed the race between the presumptive GOP presidential nominee and Hillary Clinton as either extremely close or in the former secretary of state's favor. But Flake, in an interview with Business Insider, said he did not expect the presidential race to affect fellow Sen. John McCain's efforts at reelection in the traditionally deep-red state.
Trump looks to unlikely speakers for convention help
Donald Trump is turning to his family, sports figures and business leaders to fill speaking slots at the Republican National Convention later this month as scores of prominent Republican leaders continue to refuse to line up behind their controversial nominee-to-be. Trump announced Friday that his wife and children "are all going to be speaking" at the nominating convention that kicks off in just over two weeks.
Douglas Brinkley, Ryan Seacrest: Sunday guests
The Sunday morning chat programs will have politicians this Fourth of July weekend, but the lineup ranges from historians, such as Douglas Brinkley, to former "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest . The guest lineup: Sen. John McCain , R-Ariz., and Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., talk to CBS' "Face the Nation" form Kabul, Afghanistan, at 10:30 a.m. on WKMG-Channel 6. The program also features Mitt Romney and Rep. Adam Schiff , D-Calif.
Activists ready to work for Trump in New Hampshire
"I've been with him all along," Elliott said while waiting for Donald Trump to talk about trade at the former Osram Sylvania plant on Thursday. "But I've been awful quiet about it.
#NeverTrump’s Bill Kristol Floats McCainfor President, McCain’s PrimaryOpponent Pounces
Kristol tweets that McCain was in DC raising money for his Senate reelection bid against his conservative primary challenger, Dr. Kelli Ward. Dr. Ward - who polls have shown tied with Senator McCain in the Republican primary on August 30 - pounced on the Kristol tweets.
Latino group bars Trump from convention
The National Council of La Raza -- a leading immigrant advocacy group -- says it will not invite either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton to its annual conference in July. The group has long extended invitations to presidential candidates in the past.
Why do We Let Politicians Deceive Us?
Here in the United Kingdom we have just had a referendum which has led to an outcry about the honesty of our politicians with accusations from those on both sides of the debate that the other side told lies to influence the voters. Whatever one thinks about the results of the referendum, the fact that we are now talking about the honesty of our politicians strikes me as a good thing.
Politicon 2016: Sarah Palin blasts GOP establishment, stumps for Donald Trump
PASADENA >> Sarah Palin used her extensive stage time at Politicon on Sunday to stump for Donald Trump, blast the Republican establishment and promote gun rights in her blunt, riffing style that her fans love and her critics love to make fun of. The former Alaskan governor and vice presidential nominee eight years ago was an early supporter of the real estate mogul and used her first speech of the day to lay out the reasons why he is the GOP's presumptive nominee after besting a broad field that included such big names as Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.