Donald Trump’s flailing campaign has prompted Democrats to launch a new, broad effort to offer Hillary Clinton as a safe harbor for Republicans who find they can no longer stomach the Republican presidential nominee. Clinton’s campaign is quietly broadening its outreach to potential Republican converts, including donors, elected …
read moreHouse Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) sent an urgent fundraising appeal on Thursday evening that warned: “If we fail to protect our majority in Congress, we could be handing President Hillary Clinton a blank check.” Whether or not it was intentional, the phrase “blank check” has a political echo — one …
read moreAn hour before Mike Pence gave the biggest speech of his life at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, officials from Donald Trump’s campaign read over the text for the first time. They made no changes. Eleven days later, Pence crafted a statement about the Muslim American parents of …
read moreNewly published nude photographs of Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, have raised questions about the story of her immigration to the United States and how the Slovenian-born former model gained her legal status here — questions that the Trump campaign is not answering. Melania Trump has …
read moreWhile the media again and again recounts Donald Trump’s latest self-brewed controversy, his supporters say they are nonplused. Telling the Russians to hack a former secretary of state’s emails? A joke, many of them say. Insulting the family of fallen war hero? He was baited into it, they …
read moreNewt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and a close adviser to Donald Trump, broke with the Republican nominee on Thursday and endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for reelection.
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read more“As the FBI said, everything that I’ve said publicly has been consistent and truthful with what I’ve told them.”
— Hillary Clinton, interview with Brandon Rittiman of KUSA, Aug. 3, 2016 One would think the talking points would change after receiving Four Pinocchios from The Washington Post Fact Checker …
read moreSeveral Secret Service agents scrambled to the stage as a group of animal rights activists began heckling Hillary Clinton at a rally in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon. Four agents rushed to surround Clinton onstage as a female protester breached the barrier around the stage. She was immediately stopped by …
read moreDonald Trump's campaign chairman said Thursday that the Republican nominee's refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in the Wisconsin Republican primary is not unusual or newsworthy. "We've sort of had a rule of not getting involved in primaries because it's usually not a good situation for the presidential …
read moreDonald Trump’s presidential campaign is set to hold nearly two-dozen high-dollar fundraisers with the Republican National Committee this month, a busy press of events that will help sustain an expanding flow of contributions to his presidential bid. Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee between his campaign and the party …
read moreDonald Trump continued to say on Thursday that he has seen video footage taken by the Iranian government that shows the United States delivering $400 million in cash in January, even though his spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday night that the Republican nominee had instead seen footage of three released American prisoners …
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