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In the two weeks since Hillary Clinton wrapped up the Democratic presidential primary, runner-up Bernie Sanders has promised to work hard to defeat Donald Trump — but he’s given no sign he’ll soon embrace Clinton, his party’s presumptive nominee. Neither have many of Sanders’s supporters. A June 14th Bloomberg Politics national poll of likely voters…
Friday, June 17, 2016 at 8:37 a.m. Marco Rubio is spending this weekend pondering his future, possibly cruising around Miami’s waterways in his “luxury yacht” as he decides whether to make another run for U.S. Senate. All signs are that he will. The GOP leadership is begging him to do it. His good buddy Lt….
Every week or so during the spring, I met with Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, at the party headquarters on Capitol Hill. We fell into a familiar routine. I would enter his office, usually chaperoned by Sean Spicer, the R.N.C.’s chief strategist and head of communications. Priebus has a healthy appreciation…
Photo Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, in 2014. He has filed an amendment that would prevent any money from being spent to redesign American currency. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, moved on Tuesday to block the Treasury Department’s sweeping plan to represent women and civil…
Image: Jim Cooke, Photo: Getty Donald Trump is not going to be the president. Trump isn’t going to let himself lose in any official capacity, of course—that would go against everything the Trump brand stands for. So when his numbers start dropping, as they inevitably will and already have, Donald Trump is going to save…
I spent five hours at the Donald Trump rally in Sacramento, California, on 1 June. I spoke to and overheard dozens of the rally’s attendees, not as a journalist but as one ticketholder to another – I was dressed in jeans, workboots and wore a Nascar hat – and found every last one of the…
Torn posters litter the floor following a Donald Trump campaign rally on April 25 at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images As of Monday morning, the Trump campaign doesn’t have a manager. “The Donald J. Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the Republican Primary having received almost 14…
Donald Trump supporter Wayne Allyn Root appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to threaten Apple — yes, the same Apple who manufactured the very product you’re likely reading this on — with a boycott if it didn’t openly support Donald Trump. Co-host Steve Doocy noted that Apple had dropped its support of the Republican…
AP Radio News:Your browser does not support the audio element. Source: Authorities: Man at Vegas rally said he wanted to kill Trump