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Donald Trump said that if elected president his immigration plan would include deporting the "bad hombres" he says are bringing drugs and crime across the border during the final presidential debate of the 2016 election on Wednesday. "We have some bad hombres here and we're going to get them out," the Republican nominee said on stage at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Indiana's top elections official clarified Wednesday that many of the thousands of altered registration forms she flagged for potential voter fraud might just be residents rushing to correct their names or birth dates ahead of Election Day. Republican Secretary of State Connie Lawson told The Associated Press she wanted Indiana State Police to investigate to ensure there was no widespread fraud after her office found a heavier than usual number of changes to voter registration forms this election cycle.
Republican vice presidential hopeful Mike Pence is condemning the firebombing of a North Carolina Republican campaign office as an "act of political terrorism." The Indiana governor made a surprise stop Tuesday at the Orange County Republican headquarters, encouraging local GOP officials and volunteers as he stood among stacks of Donald Trump campaign signs left charred by a Molotov cocktail.
President Barack Obama is playing down reports that a senior State Department official had asked the FBI last year to reduce the classification of an email from Hillary Clinton's private server. Obama said in a Rose Garden news conference Tuesday that some of the "more sensational implications or appearances" related to the report "are not based on actual events."
Donald Trump's escalating effort to undermine the presidential election as "rigged" has alarmed government officials administering the vote as well as Democratic and Republican leaders, who are anxiously preparing for the possibility of unrest or even violence on Election Day and for an extended battle over the integrity of the outcome. Hillary Clinton's advisers are privately worried that Trump's calls for his supporters to stand watch at polling places in cities such as Philadelphia for any hint of fraud will result in intimidation tactics that might threaten her supporters and suppress the votes of African-Americans and other minorities.
As Donald Trump insists that the election will be rigged, a significant portion of voters are convinced that the White House will be "stolen" from the Republican candidate. According to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll, 41 percent of registered voters believe that Trump could lose the election as a result of widespread voter fraud.
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence is starting the week with campaign stops in Ohio, while his Democratic counterpart Tim Kaine plans to return to the battleground state on Wednesday.
Donald Trump lashed out Monday at Republicans who have tried to tone down his rhetoric about election fraud, calling his own party's leaders "so naive" and claiming without evidence that large-scale voter fraud is real. Trump's claims were part a Monday morning blast of tweets that took on his party, the women who've accused him of sexual misconduct, the media and Vice President Joe Biden.
Donald Trump and his surrogates amplified their argument over the weekend that the election is "rigged," leaving the Republican nominee more isolated as top members of the GOP - including his own running mate - declared their faith in the political system. "The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD" But Trump's own vice presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, disagreed during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," saying he will accept the Election Day results.
Donald Trump is calling Republican leaders "naive" for dismissing his claims of a rigged election and urging his supporters to "come together and win this election." There is no evidence voter fraud is a widespread problem in the United States.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listens as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton answers a question from the audience during their presidential town hall debate at Washington University in St. Louis on October 9. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Donald Trump, having disgraced the Republican Party, polluted the presidential campaign, shamed and embarrassed the nation, now wants to bring those talents to the federal government. If his racist, misogynistic, narcissistic campaign does win, two unions representing thousands of federal law enforcement officers will have been accomplices.
THE ISSUE: Persistent Republican-led efforts to restrict access to abortion and to curb government funding for Planned Parenthood have been hotly debated in Washington and in states, and will be shaped in some way by the next president. Democrat Hillary Clinton supports access to abortion and is an outspoken defender of Planned Parenthood, which is the largest provider of abortions in the U.S. and also offers other health services.
With roughly three weeks to Election Day, Republican strategists nationwide publicly concede Hillary Clinton has a firm grip on the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House - and may be on her way to an even more decisive victory over Donald Trump. "He is on track to totally and completely melting down," said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who is advising Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's re-election campaign.
With roughly three weeks to Election Day, Republican strategists nationwide publicly concede Hillary Clinton has a firm grip on the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House - and may be on her way to an even more decisive victory over Donald Trump. "He is on track to totally and completely melting down," said Republican pollster Whit Ayers, who is advising Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's re-election campaign.
Donald Trump has been raising doubts about the integrity of the election for months, but his running mate and other GOP leaders are taking a more cautious tone. "We will absolutely accept the result of the election," Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said on NBC's Meet The Press Sunday.
Donald Trump on Sunday sought to sow doubt about the legitimacy of a presidential election he called "rigged," claiming - without evidence - that the firebombing of a local GOP office in North Carolina was perpetrated by supporters of Hillary Clinton. That as Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, downplayed the "rigged election" charges.
Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence says evidence implicates Russia in recent email hacks tied to the US election, contradicting his running mate, Donald Trump, who cast doubt on Russia's involvement. As Trump continued to fight his running mate on key issues a new poll revealed Hillary Clinton has more than doubled her lead in Virginia.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his surrogates amplified their rhetoric on the racially charged issue of voting fraud, accusing Democrats of systematic cheating that could throw the election to Hillary Clinton. Trump said in a Twitter message Sunday that the Nov. 8 election is "absolutely being rigged" at polling places and through media coverage.
Hacked emails released Sunday by WikiLeaks show Hillary Clinton 's aides fretting over how to respond to backlash from the LGBT community after Clinton lauded Nancy Reagan for starting a "national conversation" about AIDS in the 1980s. Clinton immediately tweeted an apology after her initial remarks last March.