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Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence isn't addressing GOP tensions after running mate Donald Trump refused to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan or Arizona Sen. John McCain. Pence spoke at a town hall event Tuesday night in Phoenix and then took some questions from the few hundred people there but didn't mention the endorsement snub.
As Republican loyalists continue to flee, Donald Trump has ignited new party tensions by refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan or Arizona Sen. John McCain, a remarkable display of party division just three months before Election Day. The Republican presidential nominee told The Washington Post Tuesday that he's "just not quite there yet," when asked about an endorsement of Ryan, who faces a primary election next week.
In this March 21, 2016 file photo, then-Democratic National Committee Chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., is interviewed in New York. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Wasserman Schultz are about to test votersa sA A anti-establishment mood, first hand.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Briar Woods High School, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, in Ashburn, Va. While Ryan faces underdog Paul Nehlen in a primary next week, Trump told The Washington Post that "I'm not quite there yet" with an endorsement of the House speaker.
The Republican presidential candidate tweeted praise Monday night for Paul Nehlen, who is the primary opponent for the house speaker's Wisconsin congressional seat. The tweet comes after Nehlen, a businessman, posted a piece on his website both slamming Ryan and defending Trump's controversial statements about the family of a fallen Muslim-American soldier.
Trump broke a major American political and societal taboo over the we... . FILE - In this Thursday, July 28, 2016 file photo, Khizr Khan, father of fallen US Army Capt.
Meet the Democrat Hillary Fan Who Is Currently the Speaker of the House Businessman Paul Nehlen, who is challenging Rep. Paul Ryan in his Wisconsin GOP primary, nationalizes the race to throw out the Republican House Speaker, saying under a Trump administration: "Paul Ryan will be nothing but a problem: He will thwart President Trump at every opportunity. Because they know who the real enemy is.
The father of a fallen Muslim-American war hero who's been criticized by Donald Trump urged Monday the hate-spewing GOP nominee's advisers to "set him right." "Every decent Republican has rebuked his behavior, yet nobody has stood up and said: 'Enough.
In this Friday, July 29, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colo. Trump broke a major American political and societal taboo over the weekend when he engaged in an emotionally-charged feud with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the bereaved parents of a decorated Muslim Army captain killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.
In this Friday, July 29, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colo. Trump broke a major American political and societal taboo over the weekend when he engaged in an emotionally-charged feud with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the bereaved parents of a decorated Muslim Army captain killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.
Donald Trump faced mounting criticism from leaders of his own party Sunday as a confrontation between the Republican nominee and the Muslim American parents of a soldier killed in Iraq continued to consume the presidential race.
For political journalists, there's nothing crueler than two national political conventions, two weeks in a row: Endless hours of note-taking; long, boring speeches by countless politicians; cheap hotels, lousy food and not enough sleep.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks on her campaign bus after visiting Imani Temple Ministries in Cleveland, Sunday, July 31, 2016. Clinton and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine are on a three day bus tour through the rust belt.
In this photo May 22, 2012 file photo, Charles Koch speaks in his office at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kansas. Billionaire industrialist and conservative benefactor Koch is hosting hundreds of the nation's most powerful political donors this weekend in Colorado.
From a luxury hotel on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, some of the nation's most powerful Republican donors are rebelling against Donald Trump. Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, host of the exclusive weekend retreat, did not mention Trump by name as warned that political leaders are giving "frightening" answers to America's challenges.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., implausibly - and contradictorily - insists that he agrees more than he disagrees with Donald Trump, and besides can stop the long list of nutty stuff Trump wants to do. In fact, the two differ on entitlement reform, trade, immigration, Russia, NATO and much more.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission is predicting voter turnout of just 16 percent for the partisan primary election on Aug. 9, equating roughly to 710,000 voters. "I just don't think there's enough on the ballot that will draw people out," said Schuch-Krebs, who estimates 15 to 20 percent turnout in Kenosha County.
The amount of time the Republicans spent the first two nights attacking Hillary Clinton as secretary of state for disproven criminal negligence at the consulate in Benghazi is disheartening. Where is there an Eisenhower or a Taft or a Ralph Flanders when the Party of Lincoln needs them so badly? Instead, the 21st century Republican Party is defined by unrestrained hatred.
The Republican Party nominated Donald Trump as its candidate for president of the United States - and I responded ending my 44-year GOP membership. First, Trump's boorish, selfish, puerile, and repulsive character, combined with his prideful ignorance , his off-the-cuff policy making, and his neo-fascistic tendencies make him the most divisive and scary of any serious presidential candidate in American history.
Undercutting calls for Republican unity, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz stubbornly withheld his endorsement from Donald Trump on Wednesday night as he addressed the GOP convention, instead encouraging Americans to "vote your conscience" in November.