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.
A report by Daniel J. McGraw in this weekend’s Politico brings rigorous data analysis–i.e. “quick back-of-the-napkin math”–to bear on the GOP’s demographic “problem”: namely, that Republican voters tend to be old, so more of them are dying. (If you are a Democrat, this is not a problem, as death has historically posed no real impediment to voting.) Yet the real demographic problem in 2016 is not the age of Republican voters: rather, it is the age of the Democratic candidates.
New York Times political reporter Nick Confessore argued that Hillary Clinton’s presidential run “doesn’t feel like a real campaign” on Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. “I don’t know, it’s like watching an armored car through Iowa. It doesn’t feel like a
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he is running for president because “the world is falling apart.” But a poll in his state reveals that roughly 60 percent of respondents, who are all South Carolina voters, don’t want Graham to run for president.
On Monday’s “CBS This Morning,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he would make an announcement of his 2016 presidential campaign intentions on June 1. Also in the appearance, Graham explained to co-host Norah O’Donnell why he is running and touted himself as
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is poised to wield enormous influence in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, if he so chooses. Although he expressed a desire to stay neutral earlier this month, Abbott recently seems to be inching closer to exerting his influence, even if he stops short of making an actual endorsement.
ATLANTA (AP) — South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) all but confirmed Monday that he will run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, saying he believes he’d be the best commander in chief amid continued Middle East unrest.
Hillary Clinton is reportedly running “as the most liberal Democratic presidential front-runner in decades” because she is projecting that minorities will comprise a whopping 31% of the 2016 general election electorate. According to a Washington Post report, Clinton’s campaign is
Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Henry Cisneros believes that Hillary Clinton’s campaign is intent on picking current HUD secretary Julian Castro as her running mate. “What I am hearing in Washington, including from people in Hillary Clinton’s
Hillary Clinton has not given an interview to a national media outlet since she announced her candidacy, via Twitter, on April 12. Other candidates, both announced and unannounced, have given dozens, answering hundreds of questions.
In advance excerpts of his speech released to reporters, Chris Christie blasts the culture of “civil liberties extremists” who are raising fears of the government’s surveillance practices. Christie will deliver his foreign policy speech at noon today in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
This will be Obama’s fourth public appearance in New Jersey as president. Christie welcomed Obama each time to the state and attended public events with the president.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said that Hillary Clinton is avoiding the press because “she realizes the less she talks, the better off she is.” Carson said that he
On Breitbart News Sunday, GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said he has plenty of supporters who, unlike the elites in the permanent political class, think his lack of political experience does not preclude him from being an effective leader. He
Both MSNBC and the Brody File are reporting that, contrary to a previous Buzzfeed report, Jeb Bush does indeed intend to “campaign hard” in Iowa.
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos’ “undisclosed contributions totaling $75,000 to former President Bill Clinton’s foundation … will cripple his ability to participate in the network’s coverage of the 2016 presidential election,” according to retired White House correspondent Ann Compton.
Sunday on CBN News’ “The Brody File,” former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), a potential candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, said he did not believe there should be a constitutional right to same sex marriage. Partial transcript as follows:
Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign shared his early fundraising numbers exclusively with Breitbart News, proving that he—like many other 2016 conservative presidential candidates—will be a force to be reckoned with on the campaign trail.
The 39 California Democrat members of the House of Representatives almost unanimously oppose Barack Obama’s request for fast-track trade promotion authority, which would expedite his desire to pass the 12-nation Asian trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Sacramento Bee reports.
An embattled Republican, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined an embattled Democrat, ABC This Week host George Stephanopoulos, in a rare showing of bipartisan support for the Hillary Clinton-backed Obamatrade deal on Sunday morning.
On Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former Reagan speechwriter and current columnist for The Wall Street Journal Peggy Noonan weighed in on the stumbles of Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush. Noonan acknowledged Bush had a difficult week, but
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,’ New York Times Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper said, it was “perplexing” as to why so far in her 2016 presidential bid, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is “making a lot of the same
Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” while adrressing the growing questions over Hillary Clinton Media silence Washington Post columnist David Ignatius said Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is “running scared.” Ignatius said, “She is, I wrote this week, playing a
On Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, elaborated on his views of the National Security Agency (NSA). According Paul, he would not eliminate the NSA, but instead said
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) insisted he hasn’t bailed on so-called comprehensive immigration reform. However, he explained he hasn’t been as vocal about the issue because there isn’t the support within the Congress
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing the brewing controversy over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not taking questions from the media while running for president, long-time ABC News personality Cokie Roberts said, “I don’t think anybody votes on whether
