A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that a quarter of Republicans think that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) can’t become president because he was born in Canada to an American mother.
Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz says he plans to launch a grassroots campaign that will defund Planned Parenthood in all 50 states and prosecute all criminal violations by the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” on the day after an incident involving his removal from a Donald Trump press conference, Univision’s Jorge Ramos went on the offensive against Trump and decried his proposed policy on immigration. “I think —
The Club for Growth PAC is charging that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump wants more federal control over businesses in the United States.
Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner, hit the 40 percent marker in a recent Gravis Marketing poll. According to a report, this is the first time a candidate has reached above the 30 percent mark.
Wednesday in Iowa, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said, “Most of the other Republican candidates are just Trump without the pizzazz or the hair” because like him they are advocating “stripping lawful America citizens of their rights.” Clinton said, “Many
Speaking to reporters today in New Hampshire, Sen. Marco Rubio appeared optimistic that billionaire Donald Trump would not be the eventual Republican nominee.
During a recent education summit moderated by Campbell Brown – who founded The Seventy Four, a non-profit website covering news about education reform – GOP presidential candidates Govs. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), Scott Walker (R-WI) and Chris Christie (R-NJ) shut down Brown’s argumentative questions that were pro-Common Core.
Republicans, and observers of the Republican Party, have concluded that Donald Trump’s gonzo commandeering of their presidential primary has defied their attempts to suppress it because he is crazy. This is broadly true, but not quite in the way Trump’s befuddled critics mean it. What they say is that Trump is winning because he attracts voters with nonsensical ideas.
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush clarified his “anchor babies” comments after being confronted by protestors in Englewood, CO Tuesday morning. Bush tried to clarify his comments, which is seen by some as offensive, but instead found himself angering another group after he
The White House reacted to Donald Trump’s suggestion on the campaign trail that teleprompters should be banned in America for presidential candidates, an allusion to President Obama’s heavy use of the device while delivering speeches.
At a Dubuque, IA rally on Tuesday night, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump told the crowd that fellow Republican primary candidates Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and his mentor former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) hug, kiss and hold each other on stage
The eight candidates MPP reports “have said or strongly indicated that they have consumed marijuana” include Jeb Bush, Lincoln Chafee, Ted Cruz, George Pataki, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders and Rick Santorum. “In addition to potentially becoming our next president, these marijuana consumers are playing a major role in the national political dialogue,” Mason Tvert, spokesman for the pro-marijuana groups, said in a statement. “Win or lose, they are guiding the debate and influencing the positions of others both within and outside of their parties.”
The feud between Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly heated up again Monday night as Kelly returned to air after a 10-day vacation. Trump took to Twitter saying he liked the show better while Kelly was away and suggesting her vacation was the result of their previous dust up (something Fox denies). Trump also retweeted others criticizing Kelly, including one person who wrote, “The bimbo back in town. I hope not for long.”
CARLY for America – an independent committee supporting GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina – is setting the record straight on various news reports critical of Fiorina’s career during her time as CEO of Hewlett Packard, alleging a friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton is behind the inaccurate reports.
Before a Dubuque, IA rally on Tuesday night, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump spoke with reporters telling them that he “doesn’t believe in teleprompters” and that is why he has gotten large crowds, such as the 30,000 people that showed
GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee is doing quite well according to two national polls conducted after the first GOP presidential primary debate. One poll has Huckabee in second place behind GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and another poll has Huckabee listed with the highest favorability rating among 15 GOP presidential candidates; however, former neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson takes the highest net favorability rating when comparing the results in totality.
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Democratic strategist James Carville said the Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is “dominating this conversation unlike anything I’ve ever seen.” Carville said, “Remember, you know, Republican Party is maybe 40 percent of the country. Let’s just say
Since her stand out debate performance at the first GOP presidential primary debate, Carly Fiorina has reached the top ten in three national polls and her name identification and favorability has increased by double digits.
On Wednesday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski said that “Just like Fox” Univision and Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos was lecturing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, not asking him questions. After fellow co-host former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough stated, “he
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski pressed State Spokesperson Rear Admiral John Kirby (Ret.) over Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails on Wednesday. Brzezinski asked, “did anyone approve of Hillary Clinton using a private email account,
Republicans in Congress plan new sanctions against Iran even if the Iran deal passes, according to a new report by Josh Rogin of Bloomberg View.
The national political dialogue is centered on which candidate is up or down in various national, and specific state level, polls. Yet when voting begins in about 5 months, the path to the Republican nomination won’t be as simple as coming out on top in final polling, or even voting on election day. First, a candidate must survive a complex nominating process.
“We don’t need a candidate who’s looking backwards who can’t even answer a question on anchor babies,” Christie said in an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly. “We need to have someone who is going to be looking forward and doing things the right way. I’m not trying to be coy about it. The fact is that if Governor Bush cannot stand up to answer those questions with two or three tries at it, what’s going to happen when he has to look at Vladimir Putin?
PHOENIX, Arizona — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio—known here simply as “Sheriff Joe”—loves 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and wants to accompany him on a trip to Mexico that would, in his estimation, either lead to a show of U.S. force in getting that country to come to the table on immigration and trade or expose that Mexico is uninterested in solving such problems.
In an August 23 Facebook post, Hillary Clinton contended that citizens and police were “much too eager” to use a gun, and she suggested the solution is to “rewrite” self-defense laws like “stand your ground” while making sure police officers are better “trained.”
