Hillary Clinton seems to have done everything but actually call Republicans racist in playing to a half-empty arena at Texas Southern University in Houston on Thursday. The Democrat frontrunner called for automatic voter registration at age 18 and demanded that felons have their voting rights restored after they’ve served their sentences.
The Republican primary to effectively replace disgraced lawmaker Aaron Schock is down to Conservative Mike Flynn versus establishment candidate Illinois state Senator Darin LaHood, the son of former Congressman and Obama Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a GOP presidential hopeful, was named MVP at the True Blue benefit softball game Wednesday, which was held to honor three slain New York City police officers: Brian Moore, Wenjian Liu, and Rafael Ramos.
As the New York Post reports, Hillary Clinton scheduled a big campaign event that includes Bill Clinton at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, forcing the cancellation of “a specially-planned event for tots called Imagination Playground.”
The wife of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Democrat Kathleen Matthews, has jumped into the primary to replace Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has announced that the House Republican Conference Member group, the Conservative Opportunity Society (COS), has hired Chris Stevens as its executive director and formalized into an official organization.
Saying it should be “left in the past,” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker went after what he called Hillary Clinton’s “Washington-knows-best, top-down approach that says we’ll tell you what to do, when to do and how to do it.”
The MSNBC host has a message for Hillary Clinton and, perhaps just as importantly, the Beltway media that seems to be all but anointing her. In essence, it ain’t over till it’s over and Sen. Bernie Sanders appears to be getting serious traction, including in key states.
The invitation-only Economic Growth Summit will be at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Convention Center, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Each of the candidates is being given 30 minutes to speak.
Hillary Clinton is kicking off her campaign on New York’s Roosevelt Island on June 13 and, as Politico reports, it “will not be the first time that the former secretary of state—or her husband, for that matter—has invoked the famous family in a political setting”.
Co-author of the USA Freedom Act, Utah Sen. Mike Lee said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s opposition to the act may delay it a few days but it is destined to pass, according to reports.
Bush also seemed to prod the GOP, if not conservatives, for presumably not being inclusive enough — saying the GOP can win only “if they reach out to everybody in our country, not just those that have already decided that they are conservatives and Republicans.”
It would seem the only Catholics Pelosi “respects” are those who agree with her. Yet, she goes on to paint Rubio as the divisive and polarizing one.
He’s been a Republican, an Independent, and a Democrat; now former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee wants to be a president.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote a political memoir in 1997, one “published by the radical left-wing Verso Books,” according to MSNBC.
Moderate Republican and former New York Gov. George Pataki has announced what The Washington Post drolly calls “a long-shot bid for the presidency.”
Reports indicate Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich is “moving rapidly to assemble the staff and financial resources” required to run for the GOP presidential nomination, and he plans on announcing for same sometime after June 30th.
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced a presidential candidacy based on big spending: he lambasted Republicans for their views on budgeting and called for the expansion of Social Security, Head Start and other social welfare programs. He also vowed to fight to make tuition at all public colleges free, while reducing the rates on student loans for private institutions.
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), 77, adamantly declared that there was no affair between him and top aide Kay Webber, 76, during his bid for re-election. His staff also insisted there was nothing to the rumors that surrounded the couple. Now, it seems Cochran has used to cover of Memorial Day to minimize news that the two have wed.
For the curious, Hillary is not an unusual fixture at the annual New Castle Memorial Day parade on Monday in Chappaqua, New York — per a previous report. The former Secretary of State, who owns a house in Chappaqua with her
Ohio governor and possible GOP presidential hopeful John Kasich called recent protests in Cleveland as a “model” for cities experiencing racial tensions.
Several media outlets on the right have picked up on a Washington Blade headline that sounds shocking but hasn’t really been substantiated.
Some may recall news reports at the time of Hillary Clinton’s concussion that ended her testimony on Benghazi before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Former Texas Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry often touts his military experience on the stump while pointing out he may end up being the only 2016 Republican contender with military experience.
Karl Rove’s American Crossroads long sat at the top of the GOP political food chain. It dominated through three presidential election cycles, but no longer.
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum isn’t happy with Fox News, given their announced guidelines for the first GOP debate. “Fox News announced it would limit participation to those GOP candidates who rank in the top 10 of five national polls in the months leading up to the debate in Cleveland.”
She may be too busy to answer questions from the lowly media … or even to provide you with a location – but according to her Twitter account, Hillary Clinton wants you to “get excited.”
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton disagrees with Sen. Rand Paul about “the constitutionality and the effectiveness” of the government’s collection of information.
To hear Jeb Bush tell it, he doesn’t have a problem, you do. And you had better get used to it — and him — even if you don’t like it.
Reports indicate former Maryland governor and Baltimore mayor Martin O’Malley will announce his bid for the 2016 Democrat nomination on May 30th at Baltimore’s Federal Hill Park.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has decided not to run for the presidency in 2016, according to a spokeswoman. He’s opting to run for reelection as Indiana’s governor, instead.
Ed Henry of Fox News dared to try to ask Hillary Clinton a question today in Iowa.
Sen and GOP presidential hopeful Rand Paul, whom even prominent progressive voices have given credit for being ahead of many Democrats on so called civil right issues, is calling out former President Bill Clinton for putting “a generation of black men in prison,” which Clinton has basically acknowledged as true.
Both MSNBC and the Brody File are reporting that, contrary to a previous Buzzfeed report, Jeb Bush does indeed intend to “campaign hard” in Iowa.
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos’ “undisclosed contributions totaling $75,000 to former President Bill Clinton’s foundation … will cripple his ability to participate in the network’s coverage of the 2016 presidential election,” according to retired White House correspondent Ann Compton.
Leave it to the Republican Party to create a problem it doesn’t need. Nothing irks the grassroots quite so much as their need to demonstrate the top-down control of the apparatus.
In his latest head-scratcher moment, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush left himself wide open for a swipe from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)—never a good idea—while leaving others wondering what the heck it was he was thinking, let alone talking about.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is reportedly set to declare his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination in Dallas on June 4th.
One of President Obama’s biggest critics in his handling of what was once considered to be a war on terrorism turns out to be a Democrat from Hawaii, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, according to an interview in The Hill.
For some reason, Rasmussen thought it worthwhile to poll Americans on whether or not Michelle Obama should challenge Hillary for the Democratic nomination.
