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Trump says his Obama as ISIS founder comment 'sarcasm' The GOP presidential nominee is clarifying recent comments, suggesting the media was slow to pick up on his intent. Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://usat.ly/2bbRnx9 At a Donald Trump rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, supporters cheered when Trump said President Obama founded the Islamic State with Hillary Clinton.
Homeland's sixth season is premiering later than usual, but showrunner Alex Gansa has a very good reason: the upcoming run is focussed around a US general election. The series takes place between Election Day and the presidential inauguration, and will air just after America has voted in its real-life president in November.
Fox News figures are helping rationalize Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's threat that the 2016 presidential debates must have "fair" moderators or he won't participate, pointing to Candy Crowley's 2012 debate moderation in which she fact-checked Republican candidate Mitt Romney as an "unacceptable" example. But Fox's attacks on Crowley are based on a lie, and they're helping lay the groundwork for Trump to justify withdrawing from the debates.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump now says his remarks that President Obama is the "founder of ISIS" were "sarcasm," just one day after repeatedly reaffirming the statement as "no mistake," and after conservative media figures defended his charge as "100 percent accurate." NY Times : "Donald Trump Calls Obama 'Founder of ISIS' and Says It Honors Him."
There is an expression dating back to the Middle Ages, meant to teach a lesson about fairness or equality, which goes something like "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." It applies to lots of political debates, perhaps notably today's campaign issues regarding energy policy.
Police on Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, have confirmed that another person has died in ... . In this Dec. 31, 2015, photo, a Buddhist monk looks out on the beach in the resort town of Hua Hin, 240 kilometers south of Bangkok, Thailand.
The father of the Orlando mass-shooter sitting behind Hillary Clinton at a Florida rally look bad for the candidate. Clinton Foundation donors gaining special access to the State Department while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State would look even worse.
Producers at CNN deemed it necessary to clarify that President Obama is not literally the "founder" of the Islamic State, otherwise known as ISIS, as Donald Trump has claimed several times throughout the campaign. During a segment Thursday on TrumpA s latest accusation against Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and their role in bolstering the Islamic State, a title screen over video of Trump said, "Trump calls Obama founder of ISIS ."
A haredi Orthodox newspaper that bans photographs of women on its pages earned praise and scorn for publishing a photograph of Hillary Clinton - or at least her arm. Yated Ne'eman, a newspaper based in Monsey, New York, that serves the area's large fervently Orthodox community, published a picture of the Democratic presidential nominee taken at a Florida campaign rally.
In a rare show of humility by the boastful billionaire, Donald Trump is acknowledging that his presidential campaign faces challenges and could ultimately fall short. The Republican presidential nominee is straying from his signature bravado as he campaigns in the battleground state of Florida, even telling a gathering of evangelical ministers Thursday he's "having a tremendous problem in Utah."
Clinton wins the college-educated segment by 25 percentage points, while Trump's edge among those without a college education is 10 points. There are many demographic fault lines emerging in this year's presidential campaign, but few are deeper than the division among likely voters based on educational attainment.
Donald Trump prepares to speak to business and political leaders at a Politics & Eggs forum January 21, 2014 at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. To hear Hillary Clinton tell it, Donald Trump is both a typical Republican seeking to enrich the wealthy and a dangerous outlier unfit to serve as president.
Residents of Puerto Rico can't vote in presidential elections. But with the island's economy in shambles, many are fleeing to the U.S. mainland, potentially shifting demographic norms in some of the most closely contested states.
Hillary Clinton is starting to spend a little money in Georgia and Arizona, states that any Republican running for president ought to be able to count on. The road to 270 electoral votes - the threshold to clinch the presidency - increasingly looks to be a series of uphill climbs and dead ends for Trump in the usual collection of most competitive states.
Donald Trump repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State group yesterday, refusing to take back a patently false allegation even when questioned about the logic of his position. A day after lobbing the attack against the president during a rowdy rally, Trump pressed ahead during a round of interviews.
And some, such as Adolfo Olivas of Hamilton, Ohio, have decided to just shut down their accounts, as the divisive presidential campaign causes a deluge of news feeds amid photos of smiling kids' first day of school and what's on the grill for dinner.
The last ten polls reporting the outcome of a four-person presidential race with the Democrat Clinton, Republican Trump, Libertarian Johnson, and Green Party's Stein gives Hillary Clinton the edge in the popular vote but leaves her with an average in those ten polls of only 44%. Her unfavorable ratings with voters remains incredibly high for a major party candidate, compounded by the fact that Hillary has been at the center of Washington politics for a quarter of a century.
I don't much doubt that Donald Trump is pro-gun rights, at least far more so than Hillary Clinton. Supposedly he has a concealed carry permit , and his sons are firearms enthusiasts .
More than 75 Republicans have signed a letter urging Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus to spend the party's money on helping secure the Republican majority in the Senate, not on Donald Trump's presidential campaign. The letter, whose signers include former congressmen Gordon Humphrey, Mickey Edwards and Christopher Shays; Bruce Bartlett, a member of President George W. Bush's cabinet; and former RNC staff members said that Trump's campaign will have a "catastrophic impact" on down-ballot races.