Donald Trump ran a brilliant Republican primary campaign. The problem? He’s running that exact same campaign in the general election. Trump cruised to the Republican nomination on the strength of his hard-line stance on immigration (build wall, make Mexico pay for it) and his willingness to savage the other 16 people running against him (“Low […]
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Has Hillary Rodham Clinton been running for president for 24 years?
On a cold night in early February, Hillary Clinton looked out at the voters CNN had assembled for a town-hall event at the Derry Opera House in Derry, New Hampshire, and told them, “I never thought I would do this.” “I never thought I’d be standing on a stage here, asking people to vote for […]
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Donald Trump bashes Democrats and Republicans
TAMPA, Fla. — Donald Trump called for the Republican Party to fall in line behind his presidential bid Saturday during a campaign swing here in Florida, attacking skeptical members of his own party along with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. “We have a war to win against a very crooked politician. The Republican Party really should […]
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Rev. Jesse Jackson endorses Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his support for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in a Saturday afternoon news conference with reporters in Chicago and called for “reconciliation” between her and her rival, Bernie Sanders. Jackson, 74, recalled meeting Clinton in the Mississippi Delta and cited her work with the Children’s Defense Fund and, […]
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Politicians face backlash for past policies
What’s wrong with millennials and those working class guys (WCGs)? What do they see in that septuagenarian socialist and that overbearing braggart? The chattering class is baffled. They just don’t get it. For three decades WCGs saw their jobs outsourced and mechanized. Small family businesses disappeared. Whole industries vaporized. Rural economies imploded. Describing the devastating […]
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Hillary Rodham Clinton offers feminist attack on Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton is offering an unabashedly feminist attack on GOP rival Donald Trump, in her first speech since becoming the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee. Linking abortion rights and birth control to national economic growth, Clinton argues that Trump would take the country back to a time when “when abortion was illegal women had […]
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GOP wants Donald Trump to avoid controversy
UPDATE: Donald Trump apologizes to Pocahontas NEW YORK — Weary Republicans are looking for assurances that Donald Trump can maintain the discipline needed to stay on message as he prepares for a bruising general election run-up against Hillary Clinton. Trump’s conciliatory, teleprompter-guided victory speech Tuesday appeared to stave off— at least for the time being — […]
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Donald Trump apologizes to Pocahontas
UPDATE: GOP wants Donald Trump to avoid controversy RICHMOND, Va. — A half-full coliseum erupted into Indian war whoops as Donald Trump called a U.S. senator “Pocahontas” on Friday at a rally in Richmond, where the mogul-candidate was back to his teleprompter-free ways. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee expressed tongue-in-cheek remorse for calling Sen. Elizabeth Warren, […]
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Gov. Paul LePage blames asylum seekers for carrying disease
PORTLAND — Republican Gov. Paul LePage is again blaming asylum seekers for bringing infectious disease into Maine – but he hasn’t released data proving it. The Portland Press Herald reports that state data shows seven tuberculosis cases in the first quarter of 2016, compared with a median of five cases for the same period during […]
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Gov. Paul LePage wants to call legislature into special session
AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says he will call Maine legislators back into special session this summer to discuss four laws that he said lawmakers passed without appropriate funding. LePage claimed lawmakers didn’t appropriate money for a drug need exchange program, a wage study, raises at Riverview Psychiatric Recovery Center and $2.5 million to […]