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Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton blasted Hillary Clinton as a "socialist" who's only running for president so she can "pardon herself" in the investigations surrounding her use of a private email server. At an Ohio delegation breakfast during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday, Cotton began his speech by tracking the success of the Republican Party in recent years, noting its majorities in Congress and the state offices the party has won.
Donald Trump once promised a "showbiz" convention, packed with flash, celebrities and a "winner's night" featuring sports stars and champion coaches. Instead, the Republican National Convention kicking off Monday is shaping up to be a staid family-focused affair, with a lineup that features everyday Americans, successful business people and four of his five children.
Stephen Colbert unofficially kicked off the Republican National Convention before it was supposed to start, and he insulted presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, while he was at it. The "Late Show" host took the stage at the RNC in Cleveland, Ohio, dressed as his "Hunger Games" alter-ego on Sunday.
Congress won't ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the foreseeable future, according to the lawmaker who leads the campaign arm of the House Republicans. "My guess is that if you put it up for a vote on the floor today, it would go down dramatically," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden said during an Atlantic Live breakfast at the Republican National Convention.
Once upon a time, American political conventions were moments of great expectations. As Republican and Democratic delegates decamped to traditional convention cities, the actual nominees for the fall election were often still an open question.
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman and his re-election team have been beating the bushes and sifting through reams of data for more than a year. Republicans say Trump needs to take a page from Portman's playbook, and they worry that Trump's flyby approach to one of the most important states on the electoral map won't give him the edge he needs over Democrat Hillary Clinton, who already has a strong Ohio operation.
In tapping Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, Donald Trump moved to persuade America that the White House would be in steady hands with his election. Now, Trump will no doubt use the Republican Convention, which starts Monday, to reinforce that message while lacquering his policy prescriptions with a gloss of mainstream rationality.
Lamar Smith, a 29-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives, has long been hostile to climate science. The Texas Republican, who serves as chairman of the House Science Committee, gained notoriety for his harassment of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .
U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell heard emotional statements Saturday from both sides of a divisive proposal to create a national monument at a sacred American Indian site. Jewell's 3A1 2-hour meeting in the town of Bluff capped off a four-day research trip to Utah as a coalition of tribes urges President Barack Obama to turn 1.9 million acres around the twin Bears Ears buttes into a national monument.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee won't be speaking at the Republican National Convention this week, opting instead to appear on Fox News as a political contributor. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, had invited his former rival to address the delegates, but the network told Huckabee he'd have to choose between the news set and the convention stage.
None of Arkansas' top Republican leaders supported Donald Trump in the state's March 1 primary, but now that the party's presidential nominating convention is here, they're lining up to back him. Five of the six Republicans in the state's congressional delegation are present.
CLEVELAND >> A year ago, few imagined Donald Trump as a headline speaker at the Republican National Convention - let alone as its star. Back then, maybe the billionaire New Yorker was alone in thinking he would arrive in Cleveland this week as the GOP's presumptive nominee for president.
The Trump campaign set "Make America Safe Again" as the theme of the Republican convention's first night well before the attack that killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge. But that attack, and the earlier shooting in Dallas that killed five officers, added weight and a new emphasis to Trump's promise to protect Americans.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence made his introduction to many Americans this weekend as Donald Trump's running mate, but he previously gained renown as a social and fiscal conservative whose policy positions have at times drawn him into national debates. The 57-year-old Republican, formally named Mr. Trump's pick for vice-presidential candidate on Saturday, served 12 years in Congress before becoming Indiana's governor in 2013.
Republican Donald Trump is defending his new running mate Mike Pence's support for the Iraq War, despite criticizing rival Hillary Clinton for voting to authorize it. Asked about their difference of opinion about the war during their first joint interview on "60 Minutes," Trump was dismissive.
Just the suggestion that Hillary Clinton may select Sen. Timothy M. Kaine as a running mate has Virginia political circles abuzz about who might replace the swing-state senator if he joins the Democratic presidential ticket. In the event of a Clinton-Kaine victory, state law requires Gov. Terry McAuliffe to appoint someone to fill Kaine's Senate seat for about a year.
This week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland will be a watershed moment in the takeover of Republican foreign policy by Donald Trump. We are about to watch a host of senior party leaders water down or whitewash their dismay about their candidate's eccentric views about the United States' role in the world.
Baton Rouge police officer Randy Bonaventure takes a bouquet of flowers at the Our Lady of the Lake Hospital where the police officers were brought today. Photo / AP The deadly shootings of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, today, coming after the coup attempt and subsequent roundup of plotters in Turkey over the weekend, which followed a devastating attack in the French city of Nice, all have combined to redraw the backdrop for the Republican National Convention, which opens in Cleveland tomorrow.
As I watched Donald Trump "introduce" Mike Pence - and by that I mean talk about himself for 30 minutes - I just kept thinking: Why did the Indiana Governor agree to this? So, why then? Why put yourself so close to someone who has shown little regard for the party he will lead in a matter of days and even less regard for any politician not named "Donald Trump"? Pence returned to his home state to run for governor in 2012 with a clear eye on it being a more effective launching pad for his national ambitions than a congressional seat - even one in which Pence was part of the GOP leadership. But his return to Indiana didn't exactly go according to plan.
The Republican National Convention starts Monday. Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday morning, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be... Just days before he was shot and killed Sunday morning, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was "physically and emotionally" tired and expressing how difficult it was to be both a... Rappers The Game and Snoop Dogg are organizing a summit with Los Angeles-area gang members to discuss ways to curb violence.