Steve King isn’t being targeted by the Republican establishment for any of these positions, per se, however. King’s sin, in the eyes of many Iowa Republicans, was backing Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucuses in February. Cruz opposes the federal mandate requiring ethanol be added to gasoline.
On Saturday, Bernie Sanders swept Democrat caucuses in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii. The scale of his victories in each state is a story in itself. He won 70 percent of the vote in Washington and Hawaii and a staggering 80 percent in Alaska. The victories underscore how close the race for the Democrat nomination actually is.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump holds just a 3-point lead over Ohio Gov. John Kasich in Pennsylvania, according to a new poll of the Keystone State.
A new poll finds Ted Cruz leading Donald Trump by one point in the critical winner-take-most, April 5 Wisconsin primary.
The latest Quinnipiac poll of the Republican Presidential primary confirms what Ted Cruz supporters have long suspected. If Ohio Governor John Kasich dropped out of the primary, his supporters would overwhelmingly move behind Cruz rather than Donald Trump.
National Republican leaders are openly discussing ways to select an alternative at the Republican Convention in July, as frontrunner Donald Trump inches closer to securing the Republican nomination. The options range from imposing a new multiple-ballot vote, to a closed-door
The Republican nominating campaign restarts Tuesday with two potentially winner-take-all contests in Arizona and Utah.
Donald Trump has rode of a wave of voter frustration to the top of the Republican nomination contest, but incumbent Republican Senators and Representatives have easily turned back primary challenges from conservative outsiders.
The likliest outcome of Tuesday — Trump and Cruz winning all of the delegates in Arizona and Utah, respectively — would leave the race essentially unchanged heading into the final states.
Donald Trump now has 49 percent support, close to a majority of Republicans, in his race for the White House, says Reuters’ national tracking poll.
The various GOP candidates have won around 1,400 delegates, and there are 1,000 more to win in Pennsylvania, California and other states, but the people who will actually serve as those delegates have yet to be picked.
Donald Trump is the projected winner of the Illinois Republican primary. With just over a third of the ballots cast, Trump was leading with 39 percent of the vote. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was second with 27 percent, followed by
The first wave of exit-poll data has revealed important features among Republicans voting in five Mega-Tuesday contests.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump faces a key test as five large states, with rich troves of delegates, vote on Mega-Tuesday.
Ohio has the second biggest prize of delegates on Super Tuesday tomorrow, awarding 66 delegates to the candidate with the most votes in the state. No delegates are awarded for second or third place.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is holding five rallies across Illinois on Monday in the lead-up to its Super Tuesday vote tomorrow. Although the latest polls show Trump with a lead in Illinois, the Cruz rallies highlight the superior ground effort of his campaign.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio edged out Ohio Gov. John Kasich to win the DC Republican caucus on Saturday. GOP frontrunner Donald Trump came in third, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz finished last.
On Saturday, Wyoming Republicans voted in county caucuses to elect delegates to the Republican convention. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz dominated the vote, winning 66 percent support.
Donald Trump was forced to cancel a Friday campaign rally scheduled in Chicago, ahead of Illinois’ primary on Tuesday, as thousands of protesters marched outside the planned venue for the rally, raising the threat of possible violence.
At least six fresh public polls of the Republican race in Florida are giving pundits a better picture of the Sunshine State. Combine these fragmented reports of “internal polls” and the Florida race may be the most polled contest since Iowa or New Hampshire.
A new Fox News poll of Ohio primary voters shows Ohio Governor John Kasich leading Donald Trump by five points, less than a week before the state’s winner-take-all primary.
The latest poll ahead of the Illinois primary on March 15 shows a four-way knife fight. Donald Trump leads the crowded pack with 32 percent, followed by Ted Cruz at 22, Marco Rubio at 21 and John Kasich with 18 percent.
On Tuesday, Republicans in Idaho, Hawaii, Michigan, and Mississippi will make their pick for the Republican nomination. According to recent polling, Donald Trump has a clear edge in these states. It is very possible, though, that a replay of Super
Super Saturday was a disaster for Marco Rubio and his hopes of claiming the Republican nomination. Any path Marco Rubio had to the 2016 nomination via actual Republican voters is gone.
Sen. Marco Rubio has won the Puerto Rico Republican Primary, and it appears he is going to secure all of the 23 delegates from the U.S. territory.
Donald Trump has won the fourth contest of Super Tuesday, taking Louisiana by a sizeable margin. With 16 percent of the vote counted, Trump has 45 percent support, a large victory over Ted Cruz’s 30 percent.
Dr. Ben Carson personally ended his campaign for the Republican nomination at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Amid applause and a standing ovation, Dr. Carson said he plans to “be heavily involved in trying to save our nation.”
On Friday, Donald Trump reversed course and announced he would skip the annual CPAC conference on Saturday and campaign instead in Kansas. Kansas is one of four states voting in Republican primaries or caucuses on Saturday, contests that have been obscured by the Super Tuesday votes this week.
The 2016 race for the Republican nomination has already challenged virtually every bit of political conventional wisdom. It would take an entire series of articles to detail how wildly wrong the pundit and commentariat class have been this campaign. The race has also been challenging for pollsters.
Donald Trump posted one of his biggest wins on Super Tuesday in Alabama, winning the state by more than 20 points. His campaign, fueled by animosity towards the political establishment in Washington, however, provided no lift to two high-profile challengers to Republican incumbents.
In one of the closer contests of the night, Donald Trump edged Marco Rubio in Virginia on Super Tuesday. With 70 percent of the vote counted, Trump had 35 percent, followed by Marco Rubio with 31 percent.
A new survey from Gallup shows the Republican campaign for President is grinding down favorable ratings for Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. Cruz’s image among Republican voters has fallen the most of the three major remaining candidates. Trump’s image, after hitting a high point last Summer, is back near its campaign lows.
Two new polls show Donald Trump leading in both Alabama and Oklahoma on the eve of Super Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton is facing more questions about her close ties to Wall Street financial institutions. Last week, the New York Times urged Clinton to release transcripts of her highly-compensated speeches to Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs.
Three new polls from NBC/WSJ suggest a drama-filled election night on Super Tuesday, with the three top candidates in contention for at least some bragging rights.
Hillary Clinton demolished socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary on Saturday. While Clinton’s victory was expected, the magnitude of her landslide was suprising. Clinton beat Sanders by around a 50-point margin.
Late last week, the U.S. Treasury Department released its annual financial report for the U.S. Government. The document calculates the government’s total number of assets and liabilities. Unsurprisingly, the report offered another grim picture of the nation’s fiscal health.
A poll of Alabama ahead of its Super Tuesday vote shows Donald Trump with a solid 13-point lead over the rest of the Republican field. Trump has 36 percent support, followed by Marco Rubio in second with 23 percent.
A new poll of Massachusetts from WBUR Boston finds Donald Trump with a massive 21 point lead over the GOP field. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are locked in a dead heat for second, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is a distant fourth.
Super Tuesday, on March 1, represents the biggest prize so far in the Republican nomination contest. With 11 states voting, this election day offers 595 delegates, about a quarter of the total amount during the entire primary campaign. So their travel plans reveal a lot about their strategies for Super Tuesday.
