When the president addressed Disabled Veterans of America, he “threw around a lot of impressive sounding talking points,” Miller says. As chair of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs Miller has challenged how Veterans Affairs has been operated and worked to improve congressional oversight.
The founder of the government spending watchdog Open the Books told SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily on Monday that instead of spending millions on fancy artwork, the Department of Veterans Affairs should present art created by veterans themselves.
Pioneering political pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News that the Breitbart/Gravis poll on immigration confirms that Americans have real concerns about immigration, even Democrats, going into the last 100 days of the presidential election.
Breitbart News Network announced Sunday it is launching a new partnership with Gravis Marketing — the Florida-based polling firm recognized July 1 by Bloomberg Politics as the most accurate for the 2016 primary season — to create the Breitbart/Gravis poll series.
The federal Department of Veterans Affairs blew through at least $20 million during a decade when the veterans seeking care, including aging veterans of World War II and military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, were shunted aside and performance audits were altered and forged, so that VA employees qualified for performance bonuses.
Speaking exclusively to Breitbart News, political polling pioneer Pat Caddell said the Reuters news service was guilty of an unprecedented act of professional malpractice after it announced Friday it has dropped the “Neither” option from their presidential campaign tracking polls and then went back and reconfigured previously released polls to present different results with a reinterpretation of the “Neither” responses in those polls.
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The Reuters/Ipsos polling team announced Friday that they are dropping the “Neither” option from their presidential preference polls after their tracking polls showed a 17-point swing in favor of the Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, exposing the “Secret Trump Voters” Democrats fear.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute issued a statement Wednesday on the Hinkley release: “John Hinckley is responsible for the shooting of President Reagan and three other brave men. One died two years ago from the wounds he received. Contrary to the judge’s decision, we believe John Hinckley is still a threat to others and we strongly oppose his release. They are all lives that matter dearly to us.”
The woman leading Democrats in the House of Representatives told delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Thursday that electing Hillary R. Clinton the first female president of the United States means achieving the dreams and hopes and aspirations of every woman, every daughter, every son, and every family, all across our land, for generations to come.
The 2016 Democratic nominee is the first major party candidate for president in the current era of primaries and caucuses to earn fewer votes in their run for the White House than in a previous campaign.
Donald Trump told a crowd at the Lackawanna College Student Union Gymnasium that he knew it was traditional for presidential candidates to dial back their campaigning during the rival party’s convention.
“A Catholic, who has procured an abortion or has publicly advocated it, which could be any politician, is not to present his or herself for Communion and a priest is supposed to withhold it,” said Jay W. Richards, who teaches at the Catholic University School of Business and Economics.
WikiLeaks is out with more than two dozen voicemails from the Democratic National Committee, which feature frantic complaints about how the DNC is too soft on Sen. Bernie Sanders (D.-Vt.) and his supporters.
Tom Foreman, the CNN correspondent hosting the segment, said Warren, who was a Harvard Law professor before running for Senate in 2012, has repeated made this charge, but he wanted to verify it because she made it at the convention.
Nancy Pelosi was joined on stage by other female members of the House, who also came to voice their support after Leader Pelosi. The 20-minute program with Pelosi and her sister congresswomen was consistent with other elements of the night, but stood in contrast with comments made to Politico’s Glenn Thrush on his “Off Message” podcast.
“Most elections are about two different visions for America,” Charles Schumer said. “This election is about two different visions of America. Donald Trump can only see an angry America, fearful and small, closed to the world and suspicious of our friends and neighbors.”
After more that 75 other speakers, she was the first one of speak about the presumed Democratic nominee for president as a close friend. Grimes talked about a woman that she interacted with as a fellow human, not the political ally or champion of causes everyone else seems to know her as.
Nate Silver writes that it is very common for post-convention bounce to mask the reality of a losing campaign. “John McCain and Sarah Palin did so in 2008, for example, and even Walter Mondale led a couple of polls in 1984. But those bounces do not always turn out to be predictive.”
An ailing Paul Simon stepped out of his retirement from show business Monday night to serenade delegates of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with “A Bridge Over Troubled Water,” at once a plea for unity and a reminder of
When the House Minority Whip walked on stage Monday evening, it started out as a happy, routine convention speech at what is quickly becoming the least conventional Democratic National Convention in a generation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will back Hillary Clinton in exchange for speaking opportunities at fall campaign rallies, a fully-funded campaign aircraft and a share of the credit for her hoped-for election, according to a negotiating memo obtained by BuzzFeed News and dated two days before the June 7 California primary.
Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president vaulted to a four point lead over Hillary Clinton just prior to the Democratic National Convention this week in Philadelphia, according to a Morning Consult poll of 2,502 registered voters.
The tight relationship between The Washington Post and the Democratic National Committee was borne out in emails discovered in the 20,000-deep email trove from the DNC posted on WikiLeaks.
Bernie Sanders, the runner-up in the 2016 race for the Democratic nomination for president, celebrated after Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation as the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee on the eve of the party’s national convention in Philadelphia.
The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee met with MSNBC’s top executive to bind the channel to the Democratic Party, according to a May 2 email from the 20,000 emails exposed by the Wikileaks site.
Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump spoke to Mark Halperin, a host of The Circus — the weekly political program carried on Showtime — about his reflections on the Republican National Convention that ended Thursday in Cleveland, including the controversy surrounding the speech delivered by his rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
A release of Democratic National Committee emails from WikiLeaks shows Politico reporter Ken Vogel sent a pre-publication negative copy of a story April 30 to the DNC’s deputy communications director, so he and other staffers at the DNC along with Hillary Clinton campaign could coordinate a response.
Emails traded between staffers at the Democratic National Committee confirmed the April 26 Breitbart News article that pointed out that Democratic voter turnout in the primaries was way off compared to the 2008 primaries.
The order from China forbids live-blogging and live-streaming. The order does not affect social media and microblogging sites such as WeiBo and WeChat.
Donald J. Trump for president is “America’s blue collar billionaire,” Rev. Jerry Falwell told delegates at the 2016 GOP convention, 32 years after his father, Rev. Jerry Falwell, offered an opening prayer at 1984 Republican National Convention.
The economist said he first connected with Trump after he read an interview with the New York City developer, when he cited Navarro’s book The Coming China Wars as one of the books Trump read to understand how China is beating us.
The man at President Ronald W. Reagan’s side for 13 years and who walked with him out of the White House Jan. 20, 1989, told Breitbart News he understands why Sen. Ted Cruz (R.-Texas) failed to endorse the GOP’s nominee for president Donald J. Trump Wednesday at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, despite his pledge to do so.
The Las Vegas magnate, who has been Donald J. Trump’s friend and business partner for two decades, told delegates at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland Wednesday that Trump’s vision and determination to succeed in business are the skills he needs as president to “Make America Great Again.”
The young adult daughter of Donald J. Trump, who just graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, told delegates at the Republican National Committee in Cleveland that Americans will love her father as she does.
The bestselling author of “Unusual For Their Time: On The Road With America’s First Ladies” told Breitbart News Melania Trump’s Monday night speech to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland blew a chance to introduce America to Donald J. Trump’s wife by emphasizing her strengths and natural appeal.
“When you grow up with rednecks, there are some occasional disagreements and sometimes those disagreements turn into fisticuffs,” said Willie Robertson. “But, anytime I was in a bad spot, I always knew my brothers had my back.”
“We have become the best enemy and the worst friend-and that has to stop,” said Army Lt. Gen Michael T. Flynn, who retired from a 30-year career as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Monday afternoon at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland was a display of rancor and division. But in the evening program of speakers, delegates seemed to bond together as each one discussed a dimension of America’s National Security challenges–especially, when the mother of one of the four men killed in Libya was escorted to the podium.
“If I was getting ready to join the military right now, I wouldn’t do it. I’d wait to see who is getting elected–if it is another Clinton, you don’t know if they have your back if something happens. They will just leave you to hang out to dry,” John “Tig” Tiegen says.
Ebony magazine tweeted birthday greetings to cop killer Assata Shakur, the 69-year-old member of the radical Black Liberation Army, convicted of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster May 2, 1973, who was backing up Trooper James Harper, during what was a traffic stop.
