NASHVILLE, Tennessee—A resolution to sue the federal government’s refugee-resettlement program cleared a subcommittee hurdle in Tennessee’s General Assembly on Wednesday, amid strong opposition from left-wing groups, business interests, and the state’s Republican governor.
If GOP frontrunner Donald Trump wins next week’s March 22 winner-take-all primary in Arizona, his chances of securing enough delegates to wrap up the Republican nomination for president on the first ballot at the party’s July convention in Cleveland, Ohio will improve significantly. But the results of the majority-take-all Utah caucus held on the same day could change that trajectory.
Appearing at a CNN town hall in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised that in her administration, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Justin Trudeau, the recently elected 44-year-old Prime Minister of Canada with the movie star looks and glamorous pedigree, said at the White House on Thursday that his country’s acceptance of 25,000 Syrian refugees in just four months shows the “fundamental truth that diversity can be a source of strength.
Four above-the-fold headlines at the Drudge Report on Friday linked to stories and videos that focused on the role of Sen. Ted Cruz’s faith in his campaign for president.
Donald Trump’s vote-totals were boosted March 8 by cultural evangelicals in Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii — but committed religious evangelicals helped Sen. Ted Cruz win Idaho.
Legendary NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw says former First Lady Nancy Reagan, who died Sunday at the age of 94, “will be remembered as a very skilled and powerful First Lady who didn’t let the seams show.”
Robert Jeffress, the pastor of the 12,000 member First Baptist Church in Dallas who has endorsed Donald Trump, is pushing back against several high profile Christian leaders and pundits who have mocked the professions of faith of Trump and anyone who votes for him.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Tennessee State Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris (R-Collierville), sponsor of the resolution calling on Tennessee to sue the federal government over its operation of the refugee resettlement program in the state on Tenth Amendment grounds, issued a statement today calling the recent testimony by NATO commander General Philip Breedlove that “ISIS is spreading like a cancer” among refugees pouring into Europe “another wake-up call.”
Minutes after the polls closed in Tennessee, several networks, including Fox News and CNN, declared GOP front runner Donald Trump the big winner in today’s GOP Presidential primary in the Volunteer State.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tells Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon that the GOP establishment “is denying reality,” but should instead “question their failure” and not “repudiate 70 percent of your own party.”
The three leading contenders for the GOP nomination–Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, and Sen. Marco Rubio–all appeal to different segments of self-described evangelicals, a key group whose voting behavior will have a significant impact on the outcome of the Super Tuesday “SEC Primary” results.
How can Donald Trump, who’s been married three times, who says he attends a mainline Presbyterian congregation, who is painfully unfamiliar with basic elements of evangelical life, and until recently was on the wrong side of many issues important to social conservatives, hold a lead among self-identified evangelical Christians?
On the eve of his expected endorsement of Sen. Marco Rubio for president, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is trying to surreptitiously bury a migrant-stopping resolution that was passed overwhelmingly by the State Senate on Monday.
The Tennessee State Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution by a 27 to 5 margin requiring a state lawsuit against the federal government program that is dumping refugees into the Volunteer State.
FRANKLIN, Tennessee — A huge crowd of 5,000 welcomed Sen. Marco Rubio to his campaign rally here Sunday afternoon, where his 30-minute speech made no mention of the frontrunner, Donald Trump, who beat him by ten points in the South Carolina primary.
The only two polls which have been conducted, in any part, since the papal swipe at Trump that topped headlines yesterday (ARG and Emerson College), may support the idea, advanced by several pundits, that Pope Francis’s unprecedented criticism of Donald Trump may generate a backlash that helps the GOP front runner.
The highly competitive ground-game run by the top four GOP presidential contenders in the all-important South Carolina Republican primary may decide the outcome of the brutal fight in the Palmetto State.
Donald Trump is offering a possible explanation for the biased reporting on him by the New York Times.
GOP front runner Donald Trump tells Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon that Germany’s Angela Merkel is “a catastrophic leader” and that “she’ll be out if they don’t have a revolution.”
Ann Coulter is blasting weak Republican governors who claim they have no power to resist the settlement of refugees in their states.
The state of Tennessee is one step closer to filing a Tenth Amendment lawsuit in federal court to end the United States Refugee Resettlement program in that state.
Four recent polls of the South Carolina GOP primary show that Donald Trump leads Ted Cruz among the 65 percent of likely GOP primary voters who self-describe as evangelical Christians. CNN, Public Policy Polling (PPP), Emerson College, and Opinion Savvy
At a campaign rally in Beaufort, South Carolina early Tuesday evening, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump blasted President Obama’s statement earlier in the day that he “continues to believe Donald Trump will not be president.”
Best-selling author Bernard Cornwell, whose Saxon Tales series of historical fiction books was recently made into the BBC’s The Last Kingdom, tells Breitbart News in an exclusive interview “we absolutely can” trace the origins of Anglo-American concepts of constitutional liberty, individual rights, and the rule of law to Alfred the Great’s obsession with justice and the development of a written legal code.
Katrina Pierson, spokesperson for the Donald Trump campaign, tells Breitbart News the latest eminent domain attack ad put out by the Ted Cruz campaign in South Carolina is misleading voters.
American Future Fund, an Iowa based 501(c)(4) group that is not required to disclose its donors, has launched a television ad in South Carolina attacking Sen. Ted Cruz as “weak” on defense.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says the Supreme Court’s decision to stay enforcement of the Obama administration’s “illegal” coal power plant regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency is an “unprecedented victory” for the rule of law.
Citizens United Political Victory Fund is endorsing Becky Gerritson, founder of the Wetumpka, Alabama Tea Party, in her bid to defeat incumbent Rep. Martha Roby in the March 1 GOP primary to represent Alabama’s Second Congressional District.
The House of Representatives passed the Financial Institution Customer Protection Act on Thursday by a vote of 250-169.
Best-selling author and Donald Trump supporter Ann Coulter tells Breitbart News the Obama administration will not indict Hillary Clinton over the national security scandal involving her use of an insecure private server for her emails while Secretary of State.
Donald Trump says Democrats will “sue his ass off” if Sen. Ted Cruz receives the Republican nomination for president.
MILFORD, New Hampshire — Donald Trump told an enthusiastic crowd of 5,000 at the Hampshire Hills Athletic Club Tuesday night that “we’ll beat the sh** out of them,” if he is president and the United States is attacked by somebody.
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Mike Zona, director of communications for Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign in New Hampshire, tells Breitbart News that Rubio’s higher-than-expected finish in Iowa is a model for success in next week’s New Hampshire primary.
The Iowa native is driving across the country on his own dime to promote small events for the Rubio campaign. He has equipped his truck with two large 10 foot by 12 foot Rubio signs, which he hoists 25 feet up on a telescope when he parks his truck near smaller Rubio campaign events.
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire – Mark Campbell, national political director for the Ted Cruz campaign, tells Breitbart News Cruz’s victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday can be replicated in the New Hampshire primary next week.
NASHUA, New Hampshire – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie kicked off a bus tour of the Granite State at a town-hall meeting here, telling an audience of about 400 it is “time to put Iowa in the rear-view mirror.”
90 minutes before the Iowa caucuses are scheduled to begin at 7 pm Central time, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush held a town hall meeting at the members only Alpine Club in Manchester, New Hampshire.
A new poll from Middle Tennessee State University shows Donald Trump holding a strong lead over second place Sen. Ted Cruz in Tennessee, which will be one of the states voting in the important March 1 “SEC Primary.”
The latest polls show GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz in a virtual dead heat less than 72 hours before Monday’s Iowa GOP caucuses begin.
