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.
Bloomberg’s Joshua Green explains why Donald Trump is in Alabama:
California Gov. Jerry Brown told NBC News’ Chuck Todd that Hillary Clinton’s ongoing email scandal is full of “dark energy” that she must address. “It’s almost like a vampire,” Brown said. “She’s gonna have to find a stake and put it through the heart of these emails, in some way.”
Breitbart News reported, based on high-level government sources, that of seven emails originally being analyzed by investigators to determine their classification status, two were deemed “Top Secret” and at least two were already classified when they were sent. Meaning: Clinton was sending and receiving classified information that she knew to be classified.
Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri told The Huffington Post that the campaign is planning “an end-of-summer effort to educate the public on the classification process for national security material.” It’s part of a three-part plan that will see Clinton also talking more about policy issues and more about her record as Secretary of State.
Friday at 7 p.m. ET, real estate mogul Donald Trump will hold a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, AL. Trump has said he anticipates thirty-to-forty thousand people at the event.
While manning a grill at the Iowa State Fair on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz was ambushed by lesbian actress Ellen Page and ended up debating homosexuality and religious freedom, unaware of who she really was.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Speaking before an energetic audience of 3,600 conservative activists on Friday afternoon at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) called for term limits and lobbying restrictions for all elected officials.
“There’s not a person on this planet who’s raised more money as a pro-life person than Dr. Carson, and his position is pretty clear,” the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign communications director says.
Friday on MSNBC while discussing the growing controversy over Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton deleting the emails from her tenure of Secretary of State, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) said it is all “nonsense”
“Everybody is focusing on the impact of immigration policy on people who broke the law to come into this country in the first place and not on the people who are impacted by the people who came into this country,” Santorum told Breitbart News. “If we have this discussion about the impact on America and the people and how America is effected by this as opposed to … we have an obligation to people who are in this country illegally to treat them a certain way – I think it’s a much more successful approach to be able to connect with the American public and get good policy.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump praised Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as a “very solid guy,” who “has given us some great ideas.” Trump said of Sessions, “it is true that I spoke to him, and my people spoke to him
Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said he’s “not taking a position…one way or the other” on birthright citizenship, and all other issues pertaining to immigration can’t be addressed “until you actually secure the borders and enforce the
In Iowa, Jeb Bush is in 7th place. In New Hampshire, which was expected to be the strongest of the early states for him, he is in 3rd. In South Carolina he is in second, but with almost one-third the support of the frontrunner. Interestingly, the South Carolina polls were taken before the first GOP debate, when the Trump boomlet gathered steam.
If anyone still has doubts whether billionaire candidate Donald Trump is here to stay in the presidential arena, not many of them are Republicans.
The author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan, a close friend of President Lincoln, stated, “[The 14th amendment] will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States….”
The head of Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration lobbying group, FWD.us, is calling Donald Trump’s popular immigration platform radical and “anti-immigrant.” While Trump has called for H-1B reform that would prioritize the jobs and wages of American workers, Schulte’s proposals would radically expand immigration and hurt American workers.
In 2011 on “The Duke Machado Show,” then-U.S. Senate candidate from Texas Ted Cruz said the legal arguments against ending birthright citizenship “are not very good.” Cruz said, “The 14th Amendment provides for birthright citizenship. I’ve looked at the legal
While Rafael Cruz’s outreach to the evangelical community may not be a “secret weapon,” his solid reputation and enthusiastic support for his son’s presidential campaign is a significant asset that none of the other GOP presidential contenders can match, especially here in Iowa where evangelical voters are so important in the GOP caucuses.
USA Today takes a look at the Trump political team’s path to the nomination.
An online petition to have former Daily Show host Jon Stewart moderate a 2016 debate has been endorsed by nearly 200,000 people, including at least one Democratic presidential candidate. The petition, posted to Change.org, requests that Stewart be allowed to moderate
Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski questioned Huffington Post editor Danny Shea for his publication’s decision to classify Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential run as “Entertainment” and not politics. However, Brzezinski pointed to the number of celebrities
Rubio warned Republicans against becoming a party defined by anger and frustration, especially on immigration. “I have got to tell you we can’t let anger define us because anger doesn’t solve problems,” he said.
In a call to the Republican Party to “man-up” and boldly stand up for conservative principles, while instilling them into national policy, Jindal says the “bad news” is that Walker’s newly released proposal “provides universal coverage with a guarantee of government coverage for everyone.”
Leading Republican candidate for the White House Donald Trump hasn’t officially begun scouting running mates – the first primary is still six months away.
At Bloomberg, Sahil Kapur explains that Sen. Ted Cruz disagrees with Donald Trump about legal immigration.
