Is America witnessing the re-emergence of “Jacksonian” politics? With increasing regularity, pundits are harkening back to the cultural and political movement that brought frontier General Andrew Jackson to the White House in order to explain the changes taking place in the Republican Party. The hero of the Battle of New Orleans is more relevant than ever, it seems.
In an exclusive telephone interview with Breitbart News, Laura Wilkerson, whose son was tortured to death by an illegal alien, explained why she cast her early ballot today for GOP frontrunner, Donald Trump.
A new Bloomberg poll of South Carolina shows Donald Trump maintaining a strong lead in the state heading into Saturday’s primary. Trump has the support of 36 percent of likely Republican voters, followed distantly by Ted Cruz in second with
A new poll of South Carolina finds Donald Trump maintaining his large lead among likely Republican voters, but also shows Trump slipping slightly since Friday, while Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. John Kasich edge higher.
Several experienced, qualified and conservative Republican governors entered the presidential race last year. And yet we are just days away from the final culling of the herd.
If Sarah Palin wants to take on the permanent political class, her best bet is another candidate. One who We, the People can trust and who has proven he has the stiff spine to fight for them.
On his Thursday broadcast, conservative talk show Rush Limbaugh offered his analysis what has led certain elements to gravitate toward Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, including former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), the 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee. According to Limbaugh, what
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum defended GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s values during a radio interview on Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, guest host and Breitbart News Washington Editor Matthew Boyle will discuss the most important news of the week. He will be talking about the Republican presidential primary, the events in South Carolina, and much more.
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum told the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention attendees to “not act out of anger” when electing the next President of the United States.
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said that fellow GOP candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “acts like Robin Hood” and that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush shouldn’t run away from his last name. Trump also touted how
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stressed that in America “We are the can do society, not the what can you do for me society.”
Breitbart News and several GOP presidential candidates will attend the 2016 South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention, set for January 16 to 18 at the Springmaid Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Tea Party activists are planning to primary House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan, following passage of his $1.1 trillion omnibus, according to recent reports.
Phyllis Schlafly predicts Trump will win because grassroots voters are outraged over such “betrayals” as the omnibus spending bill, in which Republicans used their historic midterm election victory – under the leadership of a Speaker who made his bones as the math-wizard archenemy of irresponsible government spending – to deliver a trillion-dollar bag of Christmas goodies to Democrats, funding almost the entirety of the Obama agenda without a fight.
In an interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily, historian Victor Davis Hanson spoke about the decline of his native California and increasing distance between the Democrat and Republican elites and average, middle-class Americans. Hanson is a columnist, former classics professor, scholar of ancient warfare, and the author of numerous books on history and politics, including his newest The Decline and Fall of California: From Decadence to Destruction.
Senator John McCain says the Republican populist movement that’s sweeping the country and boosting candidates including Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race appeals to the “bad angels” of human nature.
Friday, on Washington, D.C.’s ESPN 980’s “The Tony Kornheiser Show,” host Tony Kornheiser spoke with Huffington Post editor and political journalist Howard Fineman on Paul Ryan and the Speaker of the House position. Fineman said that as Speaker, Ryan would
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that Lois Lerner, and other IRS officials involved in targeting conservative groups’ tax exempt applications, will not have criminal charges filed against them.
Ex-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor – swept out by the Tea Party-backed Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) – is now on the attack against it and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, saying voters have an unrealistic expectation from a Republican majority in Congress and Trump is “absolutely not” a credible presidential nominee for the GOP.
In a lengthy wide-ranging interview with BBC’s “Hardtalk” earlier this week, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sounded off on a number of issues including his primary loss prior to last year’s midterm elections, the Tea Party and his party’s
On Oct. 16, Carolyn Lochhead, Washington correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, published an article entitled: “Nancy Pelosi’s leadership style helps her avoid crises like GOP’s.”
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump took up for the Tea Party to a Left-leaning crowd at the No Labels Convention in New Hampshire Monday morning.
Since the Tea Party arose in 2009, it has achieved two major goals, but failed to fulfill its third and most important task: taking power.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Retired U.S. Army Gen. Colin Powell, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State, complained that the GOP has become too conservative, adding that the only reason he remains a Republican is to annoy the party.
On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told GOP legislators he will resign in October. Boehner’s decision was likely prompted by at least 30 House Republicans who had threatened a no-confidence vote, which would leave Boehner in the uncomfortable position of needing Democratic votes to remain in his position.
This weekend the Tea Party California Caucus held it’s popular dinner event at the semi-annual California Republican Party Convention drawing activists from around the state to Anaheim to share ideas and listen to radio host Larry Elder, Assembly Member Melissa Melendez, and a variety of other Tea Party leaders.
California’s Republican Party voted Sunday to change its stance on immigration with the adoption of an amendment authored by California GOP Central Valley Regional Vice Chairman Marcelino Valdez. The Tea Party caucus ultimately backed the amendment.
Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak delivered a powerful speech on Wednesday at the Tea Party-sponsored Stop Iran Rally in the nation’s capitol, imploring and encouraging the American people to remain valiant in their opposition to President Barack Obama’s flawed nuclear deal with Iran.
The following is the speech by Breitbart Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak at the Tea Party rally with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and Mark R. Levin, among others, against the Iran deal at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. today. as prepared for delivery.
Breitbart News Contributor Sonnie Johnson and Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak will join Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark R. Levin and others in addressing Wednesday’s Tea Party rally against the Iran deal.
On his Thursday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh hit back at those criticizing GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump for challenging his opponent, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), for not speaking English to a press gaggle earlier this week. Limbaugh
Here are some of the things that have been said by the guy who has galvanized the GOP’s Tea Party base and taken the lead in the Republican presidential race:
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received a special “CONFIDENTIAL” memo from her shady political adviser, Sidney Blumenthal just after tea party Republicans won their huge majority in the House of Representatives during the midterm elections of November 2, 2010. Blumenthal bashed
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — After delivering an energetic 50 minute speech using no notes or teleprompter, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump easily won a presidential straw poll conducted at the annual convention of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, garnering 52 percent of the votes cast.
California Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles) lashed out at Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Wednesday, accusing the former Florida governor of making a “dangerous mischaracterization” of Asian immigrants during a recent interview.
I remember having a conversation with a local city official in Kentucky when the Kelo Supreme Court decision came down. Conservatives, myself included, were outraged that the Supreme Court had wrongly allowed using eminent domain to take private property from one private property owner and give it to another private owner.
What is the best political tool for defeating Democrats? Think. Think real hard. Think real hard some more. The BEST political tool for defeating Democrats is… wait for it… another political party. And the BEST other political party to defeat
Critics of Donald Trump’s rise in the Republican polls have now turned on large swaths of the Republican base in a fit of pique and frustration.
Mark Levin’s opening segment on his Monday radio broadcast attacked America’s media for focusing on superficial issues while the country faces existential threats.
