Wisconsin voters have better impression of Pence than Kaine

Wisconsin voters have a better impression of Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence than Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick Tim Kaine. A Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday shows 37 percent of registered voters have a positive view of Pence, while 26 percent have a positive opinion of Kaine.

Latest bump in a rocky Ryan-Trump relationship

It's long been clear that House Speaker Paul Ryan is, shall we say, not wholly comfortable with Donald Trump's presidential candidacy. The announcement of Ryan's and Trump's first joint appearance of the campaign on Saturday in Wisconsin - just four weeks before the election - was simply the latest reminder.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks

First Trump-Ryan appearance derailed by Trump tape Already tricky, Ryan relationship wth Trump just became even more fraught Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://on.jsonl.in/2eb6RWY Donald Trump is under fire after a video from 2005 surfaced in which he can be heard making lewd comments about women. If the politics of sharing a stage with Donald Trump weren't complicated enough, they became untenable Friday for Wisconsin's top three GOP politicians, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

The debate might be the nominees’ last big chance to sway voters….

Ask Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump how they are preparing for the debate Monday that could upend the presidential race , and they might just change the subject. Their aides, of course, are handing them briefing books detailing where the cameras will be placed and what the price of milk is.

The Wall Street Journal: Billionaires Adelson, Ricketts plan to donate millions to Trump

Two billionaires are planning to open their pocketbooks for Republican nominee Donald Trump in the final six weeks of the election, as the businessman continues to lag behind Democrat Hillary Clinton in fundraising. Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, are planning to spend $45 million to boost Republicans in the next two months, including at least $5 million to help Trump, according to a person familiar with the plans.

The Latest: GOP lawmakers want investigation into leak

The Latest on the leak of documents from a secret investigation into whether Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign illegally coordinated with outside conservative groups : Republican legislators want Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel to investigate how documents from a secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign were leaked to a newspaper. Prosecutors launched an investigation in 2012 into whether Walker and his fundraisers illegally coordinated with outside groups during the recall.

Walker says nothing illegal about campaign donations

Gov. Scott Walker says there was nothing illegal about campaign donations from corporate leaders given to a conservative group that helped him and Republican legislators fend off recall challenges. Speaking on WTMJ-AM Thursday, Walker responded to a report in the Guardian, a British newspaper that obtained more than 1,000 pages of leaked documents from a secret investigation into whether Walker's campaign illegally coordinated with outside conservative groups.

Mike Pence endorses Paul Ryan even though Donald Trump won’t

Updated 1:55 p.m.: Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence is breaking with the Republican nominee by endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary fight. The move comes a day after Trump said in an interview that he's "just not quite there yet" when it comes to backing Ryan, who has at times been critical of Trump's most controversial comments.

Pence talks about lifting Trump campaign reporter bans

GOP vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence, has at least one area of disagreement with the top of the ticket that emerged in a radio interview this week on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" -- the practice of banning some reporters from access to campaign events. Asked by Hewitt about this, Pence talked about a campaign rally with Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin.

Federal judge strikes down Wisconsin election laws passed by GOP, Walker

A federal judge threw out multiple aspects of Wisconsin's voter ID law on Friday, leaving the law itself intact but ruling unconstitutional many restrictions on voting passed by the GOP -controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Scott Walker . Two liberal groups filed a lawsuit in May challenging the laws, including a requirement that voters show photo identification.

The next Republican battle for the presidency is already…

The jockeying for positioning in the next Republican presidential contest has already begun - and at this week's convention, a couple of people were able to separate themselves from what is certain to be as large of a glut of contenders as there were in the 2016 cycle. Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Joni Ernst of Iowa, and Ted Cruz of Texas were all on hand.

Bob Beatty: Political analyst to provide reports from Republican, Democratic conventions

On the road to Cleveland: It was April 2015 when I hopped onto eastbound Interstate 70, heading to Des Moines, Iowa, to attend my first candidate jamboree of the 2016 presidential election season, so it's only fitting that I'm back on the road to the national conventions. I'll be sending dispatches over the next two weeks from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

The Latest: Governors pledge to fight opioid crisis

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, talks with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, right, during the National Governors Association meeting, Friday, July 15, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, talks with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, right, during the National Governors Association meeting, Friday, July 15, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa.