Tag: Republican National Convention

Citing alleged U.S. intelligence intercepts leaked by current and former U.S. officials, the Washington Post reported that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak told his superiors at the Kremlin that he discussed issues related to the 2016 presidential campaign with Jeff Sessions despite the attorney general’s assertions to the contrary.

Television star Scott Baio, a rare Hollywood conservative, told Whatever It Takes host Curt Schilling that for Democrats the goal with immigration is always votes during his guest segment on Monday’s program. “I know what the endgame is with illegal

Pro-amnesty activists led by the former chairman of La Raza and the director of the Puente Movement organized a boycott in front of a local Arizona tire store after they posted signage supporting pro-Donald Trump Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is running for re-election.

Patricia Smith, mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith, was a guest on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon.

Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. claims he has been “viciously” targeted online and has been effectively blacklisted from Hollywood since he spoke in support of Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last month.

LUBBOCK, Texas — When email inboxes dinged in and around Lubbock last Tuesday afternoon, recipients were surprised by the new message: an invitation to a private, first-ever agriculture round table with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Aug. 11.

Something big is happening in American politics—bigger than this election. And so even if we can’t precisely predict the winner this November, we can know the general contours of American politics in the decades to come: populists on one side, elitists on the other.

The Reuters/Ipsos polling team announced Friday that they are dropping the “Neither” option from their presidential preference polls after their tracking polls showed a 17-point swing in favor of the Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, exposing the “Secret Trump Voters” Democrats fear.

New York Co-Chair for the Trump campaign and New York City Councilman from Staten Island Joe Borelli spoke to Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon about the two national political conventions, stating, “There was really a measured program, or rather, an effort, to try to silence some of the protesters that they knew would happen [at the Democrat convention]. The prediction of convention apocalypse that the mainstream media predicted for the RNC was actually materialized at the DNC.”

New York Times columnist David Brooks weighed in on both the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention Friday on PBS “NewsHour,” saying that if a Martian watched the two, the Martian would say the Democratic party was more

Eddie Levert and Walter Williams, founding members of the legendary R&B group The O’Jays, sent a cease and desist letter to the Trump campaign and to U.S. Rep. John Mica (R-Florida) after the congressman posted a now-deleted-pro-Trump video to YouTube featuring the band’s song “For the Love of Money,” which later became the theme song for Trump’s television show The Apprentice.

New York Magazine has released a video documenting their experience following Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos around the RNC.

Appearing on the Larry Kudlow show last Saturday, Breitbart Tech and Social Justice editor Milo Yiannopoulos discussed his suspension from Twitter, and how the Republican National Convention, which was held earlier in the week, had changed from previous iterations of the event.

Nate Silver writes that it is very common for post-convention bounce to mask the reality of a losing campaign. “John McCain and Sarah Palin did so in 2008, for example, and even Walter Mondale led a couple of polls in 1984. But those bounces do not always turn out to be predictive.”

I understand the Cruz supporters and Never Trumpers’ angst about Trump. He’s not a full-spectrum conservative. But remind me of all of our nominees in the past who have been?

Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president vaulted to a four point lead over Hillary Clinton just prior to the Democratic National Convention this week in Philadelphia, according to a Morning Consult poll of 2,502 registered voters.

During his blistering 13-month campaign to win the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump was scolded by several musicians who claimed the White House hopeful did not have permission to play their songs at his various campaign rallies.

Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump spoke to Mark Halperin, a host of The Circus — the weekly political program carried on Showtime — about his reflections on the Republican National Convention that ended Thursday in Cleveland, including the controversy surrounding the speech delivered by his rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

Many tech leaders were left “dazed and confused” after top Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel won a standing ovation at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last Thursday when he introduced himself as both “proud to be gay” and “proud to be Republican.”

On Friday’s “McLaughlin Group,” the Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift responded to people at the RNC chanting for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to be locked up by saying that “In a democracy, you do not lock up your political opponents,

“I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order,” Indiana Gov. Mike Pence declared to America at the Republication National Convention in Cleveland to the wild applause of the assembled delegates, launching into a speech showcasing his evangelical Christian faith—including hidden Bible verses—thrilling America’s Christian population and giving them a huge reason to be for Donald Trump, in addition to already being against Hillary Clinton.

Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s longtime confidante, slammed Sen. Ted Cruz as a “psychopath,” “megalomaniac” and traitor to the Republican Party for failing to endorse Donald Trump during Cruz’s speech here at the Republican National Convention yesterday.

Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart guest-hosted The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night, launching into a 13-minute rant about Donald Trump, Fox News, and Christian conservative Republican voters that was reminiscent of the sharp attacks he delivered during his tenure on Comedy Central.

Ivanka Trump gave a truly impressive speech at the Republican National Convention. She came across as competent, credible, sensible and strong. As I write this, I have my 11-month-old in my office with me, as I rush to finish my

Hillary Clinton has launched a website that allows users to “Trump Yourself” using the Facebook platform to superimpose now-infamous lines uttered by Donald Trump onto their profile pictures.

The estate of late Beatle George Harrison took to Twitter Thursday to rail against the use of his music at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show suffered a technical glitch during a live broadcast late Thursday night as the program debuted a Rosie O’Donnell-narrated skit mocking Donald Trump, who had just finished speaking at the Republican National Convention.

What united everyone in the room was the fact that everyone put America first. Donald Trump took that dusty old slogan, wiped away the grime of Second World War isolationism, and presented it to the nation as something new — what his friend Tom Barrack called the “diamond” at the heart of the American self-image.

“That was unity,” Donald Trump stated of the convention with his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence standing by his side. “The party has come together.”

On the Friday broadcast of NBC’s “Today,” Chuck Todd was asked to pick his best and worst moments from this week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland. “I’ll pick the same moment. Ted Cruz,” Todd replied. “It was an exciting moment,