All three U.S. Republican candidates – Sen. Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Gov. John Kasich – have backed down from their “pledges” to support the party’s candidate at the general election, “regardless of who it is”. During CNN’s Town Hall event
A state party staffer from a large Northeastern state passed the entry codes for a conference call of five Republican chairmen from significant states this past Saturday. The topic on the table? Stopping Donald Trump. I had to listen in.
Watching former Speaker of the House John Boehner stagger around, referring to Ted Cruz as the Devil and announcing his endorsement for non-candidate Paul Ryan as President, is a great reminder that this election isn’t really about Donald Trump.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow reacted to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) decision to endorse Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for president. Graham was a one-time fierce opponent of Cruz, having disparaged him as both a senator and a
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry will stump for 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in Arizona on Thursday, ahead of the state’s March 22 primary.
With Ohio Gov. John Kasich having won his state’s GOP presidential primary, the national Republican Party is setting up the narrative that its future now depends on Kasich. In a press release, Kasich campaign chief strategist John Weaver said with
Veteran GOP strategist Mark McKinnon told Breitbart News Daily that the rise of Donald Trump in the 2016 election reflects the fact that for years, the Republican Party “has had no clear vision of the future.” The GOP establishment, he said, “soaked the place in kerosene. All Donald Trump did was light a match.” In this election, “the Republicans are just going to have to burn the house down and rebuild it.”
The remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination met for their 12th debate last night, a weirdly subdued affair in which the opponents of the frontrunner tacitly acknowledged the futility of frontal assaults on Fortress Trump.
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.
There is much speculation about what Donald Trump’s nomination might do to the two distinct but entwined things — the Republican Party and the conservative movement. But it’s also a good idea to ask what a Trump candidacy, or even a Trump presidency, could do to the Democratic Party and its political factions.
In a victory press conference on Tuesday in Jupiter, Florida, 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump aimed to defuse GOP establishment hatred of him, all while mocking his most ardent detractors.
I Am Cait, the E! docu-series that chronicles Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner’s transition from a man to a woman, has lost almost two-thirds of its first season audience.
A lawsuit filed on September 26, 2015 in Washington D.C. (and its eventual outcome) may turn out to be the most important event of the 2016 presidential election.
TEL AVIV – An immensely influential Saudi columnist ranked the US presidential candidates on his Twitter account, offering insight into how this year’s election season may be perceived by Sunni Muslim elites across the Arab world. Khaled Eldakhil, a columnist for the London-based Al Hayat pan-Arab newspaper and a sociology professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, tweeted: “For the Arabs, the worst candidates are first and foremost Donald Trump, who is a racist demagogue, and then Ted Cruz, one of the most radical neoconservatives in the Republican Party.”
On Friday’s “Real Time,” HBO host Bill Maher argued that the rise of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is something the Republicans “brought…on themselves. They made a Faustian bargain with the racist devil, many years ago, and now those chickens
Republicans insisted that real estate developer Donald Trump sign their silly little pledge before they let them into their Losing Club for Losers. They said that unless he signed their pledge, he would run as a third party candidate if he did not win the nomination. He would hurt the party. He would fracture the vote and ensure whoever did win the nomination could never win the general election.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been fighting with Donald Trump throughout the 2016 primary, but on Wednesday he said the Republican Party “would be mad not to unify” around Trump if he becomes the nominee.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly weighed in on the chances of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump being the ultimate GOP nominee. According to O’Reilly, Trump looks unstoppable, but there are circumstances that could prevent
John Sununu, the former New Hampshire senator and John Kasich supporter, urged Republican voters to “choose the strongest nominee they can — someone who will win.” But he thinks Republicans may “look at alternatives” if “we have a nominee who is a disaster for the party.”
This Saturday, February 28, was the 156th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, which was delivered at Cooper Union, in New York City. It was the speech that launched Lincoln to the White House in the election of 1860; it was the speech that paved the path for a newly-formed Republican Party to take the White House for the first time, buoyed by its identification with the boldest and most unmistakeable principles.
Politico’s Shane Goldmacher writes that Donald Trump’s dominance in “the 2016 primary will define the GOP for years to come.”
Establishment Republicans are reckoning with something they thought would never happen: That it might soon be too late to stop Donald Trump.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — At every campaign stop, Marco Rubio calls it “the biggest lie in American politics” — the notion that Republicans are the party of the super wealthy, and hopelessly out of touch with the working class and minorities.
Rick Klein writes for ABC News: Donald Trump now owns the Republican party. The only question left is whether what’s left of the GOP establishment can winnow the field fast enough to take it back. South Carolina reveals a three-way
Friday on “CBS This Morning,” former host of the network’s Sunday program “Face The Nation” Bob Schieffer weighed in on the 2016 Republican presidential primary contest. Schieffer said at this point in the contest, a split within the GOP was
The New York Times editorial board is taking advantage of Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to slam U.S. conservatives and push for its (and the Mexican government’s) agenda for immigration reform.
Donald Trump’s latest bombshell, claiming the Bush administration lied about weapons of mass destruction to get us into the Iraq War, is just him doing wheelies on the way to the nomination. He’s apparently decided it would be fun to taunt the entire GOP by demonstrating that he can say anything and his voters won’t care.
Nearly fifty years ago, former Vice President Spiro Agnew said, “A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”
Wednesday on his radio show, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh argued that New Hampshire Republican primary winner Donald Trump won by building a coalition of voters that went beyond just conservatives, which is something the GOP has claimed was necessary to win elections in this era of American politics.
A Huffington Post blogger writes that Marco Rubio’s stumbles in New Hampshire, where he was propped up as an alternative to populist Donald Trump and Tea Party conservative Ted Cruz, confirmed “the impotence of the establishment” of the Republican Party.
Wednesday’s cover of La Opinión, the nation’s largest daily Spanish-language newspaper, prominently portrays donor-class favorite Sen. Marco Rubio with the infamous “hope and change” imagery that defined Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Tel Aviv, Israel — Tweets from Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal have already delivered a knockout blow to Donald Trump’s presidential hopes, according to a Saudi newspaper.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Virginia morning talk radio host John Fredericks slammed his talk radio colleagues who are “too afraid” to endorse Donald Trump for fear of repercussions from the Republican Party’s donor class.
MUSCATINE, Iowa — 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump received support from yet another major GOP player, state GOP chairman Jeff Kaufmann, in the all-important first caucus state of Iowa.
A new Fox News poll of Iowa shows Donald Trump surging to a strong 11-point lead in the caucuses taking place next week. With just one week until the first votes of the 2016 primary are cast, Trump leads second-place Sen. Ted Cruz 34-23 percent.
Friday on his radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh offered his analysis on why supporters of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump tend to overlook his past liberal positions. According to Limbaugh, seven years of liberalism led by President Barack Obama
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has conceded that the GOP is now the party of Donald Trump.
Evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham says that the U.S. Episcopal Church deserved its suspension from the Anglican Communion because of its embrace of same-sex marriage and the election of gay priests.
Wednesday on his radio show, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh reacted to Gov. Nikki Haley’s (R-SC) Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address a night earlier. Limbaugh questioned the decision to have her deliver the
Donald Trump was the unseen third speaker for the final Obama State of the Union, along with the President and the Republican response from South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
