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.”
What a difference four years makes. The just-ended Republican Convention in Cleveland was a lot different from the Tampa GOP convention four years ago, and a lot different from the St. Paul Republican convention four years before that. One is tempted to say, “Let’s count the ways,” starting with the conventional wisdom-defying rise of Donald Trump, but it’s hard to count that high. So let’s just focus on six.
Dr. Kelli Ward, the candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona running against Sen. John McCain, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon that McCain is not at the GOP Convention in Cleveland to hear many so called “little people” speak because he’s more interested in “maintaining his power, maintaining the status quo in Washington, D.C., and making sure that the establishment strongholds that are in our Beltway remain strong.”
Trump-resistant and election battling Republicans including two former Presidents, two former Republican nominees, and several former 2016 presidential hopefuls are offering up excuses for why they will not attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next week, notably among them a break with a history of former Presidents attending their party’s convention.
Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump has more support from Hispanic voters than both 2008 GOP nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney had during their general elections in 2008 and 2012.
U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward called on Republicans to fight back against Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the wake of the FBI’s findings and recommendation not to indict Clinton over what it called “extremely careless” handling of national security information.
Conservative commentator and former GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan argued this weekend that GOP elites who represent the globalist wing of the party will not attend this year’s convention because Donald Trump’s insurrection against them on trade, immigration, and foreign policy has succeeded.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump have the right military strategy to defeat the growing threat of Islamic terrorism. Partial transcript as follows: Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,”
Dr. Kelli Ward wants to thank #NeverTrump’s Bill Kristol. After Breitbart News reported that #NeverTrump leader Kristol had floated McCain’s name as a possible independent candidate to undermine presumptive nominee Donald Trump, Dr. Ward reports having a “record fundraising haul.”
Fourteen hundred pages of recently uncovered calendar records from high-ranking officials at the Obama Administration reveal just how many resources and time the administration will spend trying to push through its immigration policies, including executive amnesty.
Donald Trump has a “Mormon problem.” He is barely ahead of Hillary Clinton in Utah, and actually behind in Arizona, a strong Republican state with a large Mormon population. Various theories have been floated as to why Mormon voters are reluctant to
#NeverTrump leader Bill Kristol is floating a new name in his search for an establishment presidential candidate to mount an independent run to undermine presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump: John McCain.
Practicing physician Kelli Ward called on Arizonans to elect her to replace Sen. John McCain in the wake of Monday’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Texas’s abortion law, declaring that, unlike McCain, she will support a President Donald Trump in appointing conservative Justices.
On Monday evening, a senior staffer for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Trevor Abarzua, nearly toppled over the mother of Dr. Kelli Ward—the former state senator working to unseat McCain—inside a restaurant.
Former State Senator Dr. Kelli Ward issued a statement targeting establishment Senator and “remain” supporter John McCain after the United Kingdom voted to “Brexit” the European Union on Thursday.
Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Susan Collins (R.-Maine), worked Monday night with Democrats, such as Sen. Chris Murphy (D.- Conn.), to fashion a compromise to give Democrats the No-Fly-No-Buy legislation they have been demanding in their political response to the June 12 spree-shooting in an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub.
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin write that vulnerable Republicans, instead of embracing a groundswell of populist support, are turning to former President George W. Bush for campaign help.
Dr. Kelli Ward called out incumbent Republican Sen. John McCain following his fumbled criticism of President Barack Obama’s role in the rise of Islamic terror group ISIS.
President Barack Obama’s policies are “directly responsible” for the terrorist attack on an Orlando gay bar because he allowed for the expansion of ISIS, Sen. John McCain said Thursday.
Republican Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama is “directly responsible” for the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, because Obama has allowed the growth of the Islamic State group on his watch.
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has backed a visa program for Afghani interpreters and their relatives that’s funded by imposing higher costs on U.S. military veterans’ health care costs, according to an immigration reduction group.
Today, Californians will finish a primary election that really has been taking place for almost a month, when the first round of absentee ballots were mailed out.
During her foreign policy speech, for example, Hillary Clinton taunted Donald Trump for his use of Twitter, asserting that his character was too unpredictable to successfully lead the nation on foreign policy.
Libertarian icon and former candidate for President of the United States Ron Paul is endorsing Dr. Kelli Ward for U.S. Senate from Arizona in the Republican primary against five-term incumbent Sen. John McCain.
Reuters reports that the Chinese navy will send five ships to participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), a massive international maritime drill held every two years in Hawaii.
Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel endorsed Dr. Kelli Ward for U.S. Senate in an announcement released Tuesday as the former Arizona State Senator seeks to unseat five-term incumbent Sen. John McCain.
Pro-family conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly endorsed Dr. Kelli Ward in her campaign to replace incumbent John McCain in the U.S. Senate.
The Pentagon is accelerating its program to recruit illegal immigrants and put them on a fast-track to citizenship, and the GOP leadership just blocked an amendment to stop the recruitment.
Breitbart News recently sat down with Kelli Ward, who is running to unseat Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and remove the GOP establishment’s crippling hold on politics.
“Hillary Clinton will never, never name me her favorite Republican,” Dr. Kelli Ward told Breitbart News Weekend guest host Matthew Boyle and listeners on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 this Sunday. Ward used examples of her own voting record in the
Language added in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would allow a single nonprofit organization to have control of $37.5 million for international sex trafficking grants with little oversight and no guarantees that the funds will not be used to promote and perform abortions.
Five-term D.C. insider Sen. John McCain is in a dead heat with challenger Dr. Kelli Ward among GOP voters presented with a choice between the two, a poll released Tuesday reveals.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said it is time for the GOP to support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He said there was no option to sit it out saying, “We have no second chance to get this right.”
Former Arizona State Senator Dr. Kelli Ward called for the impeachment of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch following news that the Department of Justice would sue North Carolina over the state’s new bathroom bill.
When I was turning out faith-based voters for George W. Bush in 2000, John McCain refused to endorse or even meet with Bush for two months after losing the nomination. The idea that Speaker Paul Ryan not endorsing Donald Trump on the spot, a week before they meet, hurts Trump’s campaign is ridiculous.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin, a strong supporter of Donald Trump, avoided a question about whether she may serve as GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s 2016 running mate, when CNN’s Jake Tapper asked on Sunday.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said likely presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “could be a capable leader.” McCain said, “I’ve said all along that I would support the nominee of the party. I
Columnist and author of “Adios, America,” Ann Coulter said that the “sore losers” in the Republican Party over Donald Trump clinching the nomination “know how I feel when [Sen. John] McCain (R-AZ) was running” but that “I wasn’t as much
Thursday Politico released an audio recording from a private fundraiser last month, in which Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that likely presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will jeopardize his reelection bid because of Latino voters’ “anger” with Trump’s policy proposals.
SANTA MONICA, California — Former Mexican President Vicente Fox spoke exclusively with Breitbart News on Wednesday inside the J.W. Marriott about migration, saying Mexicans have a right to come to the United States to live and work, but that he is not for “open borders.”
