Portman’s Ohio campaign a sharp contrast to Trump’s

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.

Poll: Portman gains ground in Senate race

Rob Portman has taken the lead in Ohio's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, according to a new poll released Thursday. Poll: Portman gains ground in Senate race Rob Portman has taken the lead in Ohio's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, according to a new poll released Thursday.

Polls in 3 crucial states show Trump improving

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are deadlocked in the crucial swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to new polls showing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee gaining strength on his Democratic rival because of doubts about her honesty. Surveys from Quinnipiac University show the two candidates statistically tied in the states going into their party conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia this month.

QU Poll numbers show Clinton, Trump gap narrowing in swing states among voters

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows the presidential race between presumptive democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her republican counterpart Donald Trump is close in some key swing states. What it found is that Trump has a three point lead over Clinton in Florida, the two are tied in Ohio, and in Pennsylvania, Trump leads Clinton 43 to 41. University of New Haven Political Science Professor Joshua Sandman says he is not surprised by what the poll found.

Sanders explains the long wait for his Clinton endorsement

Just a day after Bernie Sanders gave his full-throated support to presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the Vermont senator discussed the thought process behind his decision in an interview with "CBS This Morning." "I'm standing up for working families and the middle class in saying that Donald Trump would be a disaster for the future of this country," Sanders said early Wednesday.

Obama eats exactly 7 almonds every night – here are some of his other nighttime habits

US President Barack Obama makes an election-night phone call to Rep. John Boehner from his Treaty Room office in the White House residence a couple of minutes after midnight in this November 3, 2010, file photograph. President Barack Obama is a night owl, and his hours of solitude after dark are crucial to his well-being, according to a story in The New York Times.

Ohio businesses visited by US presidents get recognition

Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted says he's recognizing the businesses in the July installment of the Ohio Business Profile Program because of Ohio's pivotal role in deciding presidential elections. Six of the businesses offer food or drink: Katzinger's Delicatessen in Columbus; Cleveland Whiskey; The Golden Lamb in Lebanon; Tony Packo's in Toledo; The Red Brick Tavern in London; and Market No.

Shallow pool of experienced Republican GOP campaign staff willing to work with Trump

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has alienated himself even from Republican campaign staff who refuse to work for him. Photo / AP Donald Trump has finally acknowledged that to best compete against Hillary Clinton he needs more than the bare-bones campaign team that led him to primary success.

Toomey, Rubio boost shaky Senate GOP majority

In their quest to hold onto the majority, Senate Republicans got some good news Wednesday with swing state polls showing them in the driver's seat a month before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. According to new Quinnipiac polls released Wednesday, Sen. Pat Toomey holds a nine-point advantage over Democratic challenger Katie McGinty in Pennsylvania, while Florida's Marco Rubio, who hadn't announced his re-election bid when the poll was taken, leads Rep. Patrick Murphy , giving the GOP a boost in two states Donald Trump looks to flip for the Republicans in November.

Clinton seeking to disqualify Trump on handling of economy

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to portray Republican Donald Trump as an erratic and unfit steward of the nation's economy, returning to Ohio to press the case that workers would bear the brunt of the business mogul's policies. Clinton's Tuesday address in Ohio, one of the nation's most prominent swing states, will aim to place a marker on the economy in a similar manner in which she did on foreign policy earlier this month with a searing takedown of Trump in San Diego.

Trump to get ‘rude awakening’ in Democrats’ ad onslaught

In this photo taken June 15, 2016, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in Hampton, Va. Donald Trump coasted through much of the Republican primaries largely untouched by his rivals, relying on little more than media coverage of his controversial statements and massive rallies to win contest after contest.

Democratic congresswoman has an interesting theory about Trump’s relationship with the Clintons

You hear this theory floated jokingly by conservative #NeverTrumpers now and again, but no one really believes it. And when you do hear it, it's more of an "If Trump were trying to lose to the Clintons, what would he be doing differently right now?" rhetorical point, not a semi-serious accusation.