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To paraphrase the words of that Scottish master Robert Burns, the best laid plans of mice, men - and women - go often astray, or "gang aft agley," as they say in the Highlands. No one knows this better than Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, US April 27, 2016. Donald Trump has slammed Hillary Clinton as "heartless" for backing restrictions on gun ownership that he said would leave Americans in high-crime areas unable to protect themselves.
Polling shows that the likely general election matchup between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will feature unprecedented negative favorability ratings: 49% of Americans have an unfavorable view of Clinton, while 57% viewed Trump unfavorably, according to a recent CNN/ORC poll. A CBS/NYT poll released Thursday offered more insight: 64% of registered voters felt that Trump and Clinton were not "honest and trustworthy;" 66% said Trump doesn't "share their values," compared to 60% for Clinton; and 70% said Trump does not have the right temperament to be president.
Bernie Sanders ' campaign had less than $6 million at the start of May, a critical cash shortage as he makes an admittedly tough final play to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton . Sanders' rival had five times as much money, according to new Federal Election Commission filings, beginning the month with $30 million in the bank.
Bernie Sanders' campaign had less than $6 million at the start of May, a critical cash shortage as he makes an admittedly tough final play to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton. Sanders' rival had five times as much money, according to new Federal Election Commission filings, beginning the month with $30 million in the bank.
Donald Trump's investment in campaign tops $43 million Hillary Clinton's campaign is bigger and better funded as their likely showdown nears. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/27KRI1W WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump plowed another $7.5 million into his bid for the presidency last month as he barreled toward to his likely general-election confrontation with a well-funded Hillary Clinton, new campaign reports show.
Hundreds of millions of dollars that Republican groups had been poised to spend in the 2016 presidential election are moving into Senate and House races as many big donors look to distance themselves from the party's presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. These groups and their Democratic counterparts have already spent more than $25 million on advertising in Senate general-election races alone, according to Kantar Media/CMAG, outpacing both the 2014 and 2012 campaigns in outside spending.
Delegates bound to Sen. Bernie Sanders are approaching the Democratic National Convention with the enthusiasm that has powered the effort from the start -- holding garage sales, delivering pizza and raising money online to pay for their travel to Philadelphia. But their nerves are raw now over the Democratic Party's perceived slights against the insurgent candidate, and they are clinging to a bygone hope that Sanders can wrest the nomination from Hillary Clinton despite her lead in delegates and superdelegates.
Hillary Clinton and her allies are beefing up their campaign and super PAC operations in preparation for the fight against Donald Trump. Clinton's top super PAC, Priorities USA, said Friday that it has $47 million in the bank.
Donald Trump poured more than $7.5 million of his own money into his presidential campaign in April, bringing his total personal investment to more than $43 million since he declared his candidacy, new campaign finance reports filed late Friday show. The billionaire businessman, who swatted away 16 Republican rivals and relied heavily on wall-to-wall media coverage of his outsized personality and often inflammatory remarks, reported spending about $56 million during the primary, which lasted until his final two rivals, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich , dropped out of the race at the beginning of May. In April alone, Trump spent nearly $9.4 million, according to his monthly filing with the Federal Election Commission.
When some of his supporters threw chairs at a convention of the Nevada State Democratic Party and threatened the life of Roberta Lange, the state party chairwoman, Sanders' response was to paint the Democratic establishment - the leaders of the party with which he has had a marriage of convenience for decades - as corrupt. He sounded more petulant than apologetic, more angry at his Democratic rival than alarmed at the actions of his supporters.
A new Fox News Latino poll finds that Trump is losing the Latino vote decisively to Hillary Clinton. What must he do to persuade wary Hispanic voters? The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Leadership Conference went ON THE RECORD .
More than a dozen Donald Trump golf courses, hotels, casinos and private clubs have been honoured with "Star Diamond" awards from the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences, a company that doles out shiny plaques representing "the most prestigious award of true excellence in hospitality." The Trump Grill at Trump Tower has one.
At the rate the presidential campaign is quickly turning into Dr. Ruth meets "Last Tango in Palm Beach," this may mark the first time in history the general election debates will need a seven-second delay to guard against a candidate going all Porky's on everyone. Over the past week, we've gotten a very ugly, salacious taste of what to expect as the presumptive Republican and Democratic presidential nominees make their case for why one of them should become the leader of the free world.
Among the abundant ironies of this election cycle, there is this: We are now in the eighth year of the most liberal administration since Lyndon Johnson's. The primary elections reveal a national mood of anxiety, apprehension and anger, in turn reflecting stagnation at home and failure abroad.
Because what this presidential election cycle needs is another wealthy candidate with a quick temper who stars on a get-rich reality TV competition series, Mark Cuban is Chuck Todd 's guest on Sunday's Meet The Press , during which he will spell out the conditions under which he would be willing to become the running mate of Dem front-runner Hillary Clinton and, we assume, other topics. o run for president in a third-party bid.
Joshua Halbleib was one of the first in line to see former President Bill Clinton in Sioux Falls at The District. However, Halbleib didn't wake up early because he's a fan of the Clintons.
San Francisco's polic... . SFPD Chief Greg Suhr briefs the media near the scene where a 27-year-old woman was shot and killed by police in the Bayview District of San Francisco, Thursday, May 19, 2016.
Despite the drawn-out primary fight, Bill Clinton says he thinks Democrats will be able to "be together in the end." The former president campaigned in South Dakota Friday on behalf of wife Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.