The possibility of a Clinton/Castro ticket in the 2016 Presidential Election seems very realistic as Julian Castro appears to be on the Democrat Party fast track. The former San Antonio mayor was picked by President Barack Obama last summer to become the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Previously he said a cabinet job he had “no upside politically.”
Hollywood’s entertainment and media figures took to Twitter Sunday afternoon to voice their support for Hillary Clinton’s announcement that she will seek the presidency in 2016.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will be discussing the most important news stories of the week. The show will include discussions of the huge NRA convention in Nashville, Tennessee, coverage of the 2016 presidential race, and the big 150th anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House. Call into the show: 866-957-2874.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wrapped his opening week as a 2016 GOP presidential candidate here with remarks to an overflow crowd.
As he prepared to announce his 2016 presidential bid, Sen. Marco Rubio discusses the many shortcomings of the Democratic front-runner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) expects former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to face a difficult path to her own party’s nomination, with Democratic voices like former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, former Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) and others potentially running for the Democratic nomination against her.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tells Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that part of the reason he’s fighting so hard against liberal media attacks—and against Democrats including Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz—is because GOP voters crave a nominee who’s willing to stand up and fight for conservatism.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and his attacks against Paul are irrelevant.
MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina — The Democratic Party of the State of South Carolina failed tremendously in an attempt to bracket a speech here by newly announced presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), calling a “press conference” that only one reporter—this one—showed up to.
According to a Politico report, likely Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was scheduled to appear at the Clinton Global Initiative Middle East and Africa Meeting in Marrakech on May 5-7, thanks to “a major donation from a Moroccan government-owned company” to the Clinton Foundation.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) invaded GOP establishment territory in low country South Carolina, speaking at the USS Yorktown here on his first trip to the early primary state as a declared 2016 candidate for president of the United States of America.
After his two terms as Florida’s Governor, Jeb Bush served on a number of corporate and philanthropic boards. A close look at these organizations uncovers a number of examples of significant financial support for liberal causes.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has gotten the message from the GOP base that immigration is an important issue—and that it’s not all just about securing the border, but also that American workers need to be protected.
MILFORD, New Hampshire — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has already raised more than a million dollars in one day since announcing his campaign for the White House and is trying to push that total over $1.5 million.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) rocked a rally packed with supporters Wednesday, the day after he announced he’s running for president of the United States. “Do we have any lovers of liberty in here?” Paul yelled out to the crowd, which cheered loudly for him.
Super PACs backing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for president of the United States are taking in a “record haul” that is “eye-popping,” Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin writes. They may have more than $30 million in the bank by the end of the week.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) announced his campaign for president of the United States, laying out a vision for the country that is drastically different than the path the political class in Washington has America on.
The latest poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) fares the best among the presumed 2016 Republican presidential candidates against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with independent voters, and is one of the top three contenders overall against her.
As a new Monmouth University poll points out, while there’s “no single contender breaking from the pack,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie finds himself falling further behind, leading to a slew of bad headlines in his home state.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Establishment Republicans are falsely smearing Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) with a million dollars worth of inaccurate attack ads on his foreign policy position as he announces his 2016 presidential campaign on Tuesday—something that shows off his viability as a serious contender not only for the Republican nomination but for the White House in a general election.
His campaign operation, which is pretty much already fully functional nationwide and has been for months as a campaign-in-waiting, is much more sophisticated than his father’s campaigns ever were. He has a technology team building a social media apparatus based out of Austin, Texas, and bare knuckles grassroots activists in place in key states—and pretty much every state for that matter—coast to coast already.
With the news breaking that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called himself “Hispanic” on his 2009 voter registration form—and that in 2012 he called himself Florida’s first-ever Latino governor—it’s worth revisiting a 2013 profile of him in the Washington Post that found friends of his referring to him as having “gone native” as a Hispanic.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s spokeswoman Kristy Campbell tells Breitbart News that a “paperwork error” was behind the false claim he made on a voter registration form in Florida that he is Hispanic.
HOUSTON, Texas — About six or seven hundred hardcore conservatives gathered outside the new Houston campaign headquarters for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last Tuesday, an event at which he showed off his presidential prospects as the first declared candidate for 2016.
Appearing on Breitbart News Sunday this weekend for the show’s Easter special, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said that he will make a decision officially whether or not he will run for president after the upcoming Louisiana legislative session—which starts later this month and ends around the second week of June—is over.
A political action committee (PAC) has been formed supporting Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) in advance of his anticipated 2016 presidential campaign announcement. The United for Rand PAC is being announced in Washington, D.C. Senator Paul is expected to announce his bid for the presidency on Tuesday, April 7, at the historic Galt hotel in Louisville, Kentucky and then take off on a multi-state campaign tour stops in New Hampshire on April 8; Charleston, S.C., on April 9, Iowa City, Iowa, on April 10; and Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11.with
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is reaping the benefits of being the first to officially enter the race. Recent public polling shows a surge of support for Cruz among Republican primary voters.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will be visiting Iowa and South Carolina this week, for a series of receptions and town halls as he seeks to connect with Republican primary voters in these critical early primary states.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tells Breitbart News that if he’s elected President, one of his first actions will be to undo all of President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders.
New Jersey’s economy is struggling. Except, that is, for its medical system, which is being propped up, Chris Christie’s treasurer says, by ObamaCare payments.
Moves by some key allies of Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) show that he is nearing a decision about running for President, with plans being made to find a suitable successor to run for his Senate seat and an announcement expected to come within just a few weeks.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will be hosting a special Palm Sunday program discussing all of the most important recent news with a special focus on the crisis in the Middle East. Bannon will be discussing the 2016 presidential campaign, religious liberty in Indiana, the Hillary Clinton email scandal, and much more.
Per a Washington Post report, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) claims that after the 2013 government shutdown over the Affordable Care Act both he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) “had their money spigot turned off by (GOP) leadership because blocking access to money is how leadership disciplines members.
They say “everything is bigger in Texas,” but Texas’ welfare rolls are shrinking, and presidential hopeful and former Governor Rick Perry (R) deserves a lot of the credit.
When Perry first became governor of Texas in 2000, the number of people enrolled in the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was well over 300,000. Since then, the number has declined to below 80,000, and a new study says key policy changes help explain why.
In late December, 2013 The New York Times whitewashed the Benghazi Islamist terrorist attack, claiming that based “on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault.”
Former Governor Jeb Bush (Florida) has a slight lead in New Hampshire among potential Republican Presidential candidates, but nearly a quarter of respondents were undecided ten months before the first-in-the-nation primary will take place.
A Florida presidential poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) reveals support for former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) has dropped five points since a similar PPP survey last June. Meanwhile, support for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) increased by 1 percent.
Apparently it is again okay to use the pejorative “uppity” against Americans who are members of a racial minority group. Ted Cruz is a historic Senator and presidential candidate, the first Cuban-American to join either club, and for that reason
According to a New York Times report, Sen. Ted Cruz is making some critical inroads in Iowa, including gaining the support of “more than a dozen party leaders for his statewide campaign.” Some of that support is coming from the state’s libertarians, or Liberty movement, generally assumed to be aligned with Rand Paul.
Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) will not be endorsing Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the Republican Presidential Primary. As Breitbart Texas reported, Cruz officially became 2016’s first Republican presidential candidate this week with a Tweet posted shortly after midnight Monday morning, followed by an announcement speech delivered at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
