Presidential election

The simple reason Democrats want to abolish the Electoral College is to rig the system so that they cannot lose.

Polls last month showing comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as the leading candidate in Ukraine’s presidential race appear to have been no fluke, as the latest round of polling shows him widening his lead over incumbent Petro Poroshenko and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

Campaigning began in Egypt’s presidential election on Saturday with incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi likely to romp to victory in the absence of a serious challenger in the two-candidate race.

It looked as if Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would run for re-election unopposed, but a competing candidate managed to qualify for the March presidential election just minutes before the registration deadline. It probably still won’t be much of a race, as newly minted presidential candidate Mousa Mostafa Mousa leads a party that has endorsed Sisi for re-election and organized political events on the incumbent’s behalf within the last few days.

Former porn star Elena Berkova of Murmansk, Russia, used an Instagram video to declare her candidacy for president against Vladimir Putin in the 2018 election.

California’s legislature passed a bill early Saturday morning to move California’s primary to March in an effort to make California more relevant in the presidential primary.

The contentious Kenyan presidential election appears to have returned President Uhuru Kenyatta to office with a ten- or eleven-point win over his main rival, Raila Odinga. However, Odinga claimed Wednesday that the official results are “fictitious” and a fair count of the votes would show him as the winner.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani defended his economic record in a press conference on Monday but stopped short of formally announcing his candidacy for next month’s presidential election.

Former Secretary of Labor under Barack Obama and newly elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee Tom Perez told people at a rally in New Jersey on Friday that Donald Trump didn’t win the 2016 presidential election.

A leftist mob, some have identified as paid agitators, violently attacked Ecuador’s center-right presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso and his family Tuesday night as they attempted to leave a soccer match in the nation’s capital, Quito.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that besides winning the Electoral College “in a landslide” in the Nov. 8 election: “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”

Wednesday on his radio show, conservative talked Rush Limbaugh reacted to the previous night’s presidential election, which gave Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Limbaugh told his listeners Republicans should not interpret the outcome

A web site explaining to foreigners how to move to Canada crashed on Tuesday night, as it became increasingly clear that Republican Donald Trump would win the 2016 presidential election in the United States.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – As early voting concludes in deep red Louisiana, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump appears to have turned out a record number of voters, leaving an apparent advantage over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Sales of AR-15s and the earnings of Sturm, Ruger and Co. have something in common during the last portion of the current presidential election cycle: both are skyrocketing.

Bernie Sanders, who had strong support from millennials in the primary, is trying to help Clinton among that demographic. He was also stumping for Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire’s Democratic governor and a candidate for U.S. Senate.

MARRERO, Louisiana – A Louisiana official is now under investigation after authorities seized a private voting machine in his office.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Voters in the Sportsman’s Paradise State have shattered previous early voting records in the first three days as the 2016 presidential race tightens between GOP nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mark McKinnon, GOP strategist and co-producer of Showtimes’ “The Circus,” warned the one thing that could impact the election would be something from WikiLeaks. “The important thing is I learned a ton about WikiLeaks,” McKinnon

Pat Caddell spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow Wednesday morning about what Trump can do to win both Wednesday’s presidential debate and the election.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Louisiana’s leading Democrat contender in the state’s open U.S. Senate race said he would not discuss his thoughts on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

The vast majority of Hispanics in the country say the United States’ immigration system is “mostly broken,” while a whopping 38 percent say tougher immigration policies are needed, according to new polling.

With 70 percent of votes tallied, Rodrigo Duterte – a populist candidate running on a zero tolerance anti-crime platform – is five million votes ahead of his closest competitor and expected to ultimately win the presidency of the Philippines.

Some young Democrats have expressed concern over the age of their presidential pick, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), suggesting he could die while he’s in office, should he go on to win the presidency.

Most people don’t realize this yet, but if a Democrat gets the keys to the White House next year it’s game over for the US economy.

The former First Assistant for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is aligning with his former boss, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, but instead of working directly for him again, he will serve as the executive director for a super PAC supporting his presidential campaign.

A new poll has Ted Cruz leading in Texas with a sizable 37 percent according to a new University of Texas and Texas Tribune poll. With only a week before the March 1 Super Tuesday primary, which includes the primary in Texas, Senator Cruz is 8 points over Donald Trump.

The number of Latinos eligible to vote in 2016 is projected to be at a record high this presidential election and millennials are expected to make up nearly half of that eligible population, according to a report from the Pew Research Center.

On Thursday, the Republican National Committee and the Fox Business News Channel hosted the first GOP Debate of 2016 in Charleston. I made the cross-country trek to be there to see it first-hand!

Vice President Joe Biden has already signaled that he regrets not running for president in 2016, but when asked if he would reconsider his decision, he left the door open.