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Oct 29 2014
News
Big GOP Names Stump For Local Candidates With Eye Toward 2016
Many national figures in the Republican Party have been trying to give GOP candidates a boost in competitive races — and potentially help their own future presidential ambitions. Renee Montagne checks in with NPR's Don Gonyea, who's been keeping tabs on who's out on the trail
NPR (Online News)
Sep 15 2015
News
The travesty of Rick Perry's failed campaign
Rick Perry dropping out of the 2016 presidential race is a damn shame. It's an indictment of Republican voters, who express a preference for entertainers and oddities, of the Republican Party apparatus that allowed Perry to languish at a "kid's table" debate, and the media institutions that spent more time talking about Donald Trump's hat than the success of governors.
The Week - News
Aug 29 2012
News
GOP, big tent or big mess?
Now that delegates have converged on Tampa, Florida, for the Republican National Convention, one has to wonder whether there is enough room in the arena for all the conflicting and contradictory elements of the modern Republican Party.
CNN Digital
Jan 31 2014
News
MSNBC Is Very Sorry for Suggesting Conservatives Are Racist (Again)
Exactly one month after panelists on Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show sparked a controversy by using a photo of Mitt Romney's African-American grandson as the inspiration for jokes about the Republican Party's alleged lack of diversity, the network is at it again.
Margaret Hartmann
Sep 25 2020
News
Trump and Biden Trade Barbs on Social Security but Avoid Substance
Social Security has become a flashpoint in the presidential campaign in recent weeks, with both candidates accusing the other of undermining the program, and each insisting he won’t cut benefits.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump have launched a series of ads in key swing states targeting older voters. So far, however, the debate has overshadowed the
Wall Street Journal (News)
Mar 02 2020
News
O'Rourke endorses Biden at Dallas rally on eve of Super Tuesday, as ex-VP appears to offer gun-control role
In a surprise moment at the end of his Dallas rally on the eve of Super Tuesday, former Vice President Joe Biden called former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke up to the stage -- and vowed to put O'Rourke, who has said the government should forcibly seize assault rifles from Americans, in charge of gun-control efforts.
Also at the rally, Biden accepted the endorsements of onetime rivals Pete
Fox News Digital
Mar 06 2013
News
Obama Budget Deal Moves Draw Skepticism From Democrats
President Barack Obama must work with a deeply skeptical partner as he tries to undo painful spending cuts and set U.S. finances on a more sustainable course: the liberal wing of his own party.
HuffPost
May 22 2016
News
New Poll Finds Donald Trump Almost Caught Up with Hillary Clinton
Republicans have rallied behind Donald Trump in recent weeks, as the businessman and reality-TV star cleared an all but assured path to the party’s presidential nomination. Trump has narrowed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s lead to 3 percentage points, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The margin of error for the poll is plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.
Vanity Fair
Mar 02 2020
Opinion
The Worm Has Turned in the Democratic Race
The establishment has consolidated incredibly rapidly around Joe Biden after his South Carolina triumph.
Most importantly, Amy Klobuchar and Peter Buttigieg have both dropped out and are endorsing him. Part of the reason it was difficult to see anyone stopping Bernie was that it was hard to figure how the field could consolidate before Super Tuesday, which on the prior trajectory would
Rich Lowry
Oct 08 2016
News
How Do You Teach Politics In The Year Of Donald Trump?
In professor Jerome Hunt's American politics class last month at the University of the District of Columbia, there were many questions: Could whoever wins the election serve a second term, given Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's low favorability numbers? What will the Republican Party look like years from now, after the Trump phenomenon has its full effect? What will happen to the Supreme
NPR (Online News)