Sensing that Illinois might be an opportunity, if not to beat Donald Trump to at least dip into his Illinois delegates, Texas Senator Ted Cruz hastily set up five events in Illinois to convince Republican primary goers to vote for him on March 15.
Multiple sources are reporting that GOP insiders, governors, donors, and tech CEOs recently gathered at two separate meetings to keep GOP frontrunner Donald Trump from winning the party’s nomination for president.
As Vermont came down to the wire, at midnight eastern Fox News called the state for Donald Trump with John Kasich a close second.
Here are eight reasons why GOP legislators should vote against Jerry Brown’s “MCO tax” increase.
The Muslim Brotherhood is lashing out after a bill put forward by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) — which seeks to designate the radical Islamic group as a terrorist organization — has gained traction in Congress.
The number of registered Republican voters in California has dropped 8% since 2012, according to a report issued by Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Monday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has now promised to stifle any judicial nominee President Obama makes for the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,” he stated.
It is well known that GOP frontrunner Donald trump and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady are friends. Yet, despite their friendship, Brady has not publicly endorsed Trump. But now the real estate mogul has a reason for the lapse.
On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush released a list of 50 women who his campaign claimed were supporters of his 2016 bid for the White House.
In 2015, 29 percent of Americans identified as Democrats — a 27-year low, according to the poll — lower than the poll’s previous record low of 30 percent a year earlier. Gallup notes that although the company shifted from in-person to telephone polling in 1988, from 1951-1987 the outfit never collect a yearly Democratic identification lower than 37 percent.
Vice President Joe Biden mocks the idea that there are actual gun owners who oppose President Obama’s executive orders on gun control.
As The Force Awakens breaks box office records nationwide, my Ted Cruz Star Wars video satire, The Constitution Strikes Back: The Cruzade, is going viral on You Tube.
Congressional Republicans are touting a bill scheduled for a vote next week that would gut Obamacare’s mandates and taxes and eliminate taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood in favor of other health centers that do not perform abortions.
Six in ten Republicans say they want the GOP to nominate either a “conservative” or “very conservative” candidate to be the party’s nominee for 2016.
A new poll finds the majority of Americans favor a plan backed by Republicans to eliminate Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding and redirect that funding to other clinics that do not perform abortions.
In Orange County, long considered one of the few bastions of conservatism in California, voter registration trends have been decidedly poor for the Republican Party, with GOP registration dropping below 40% of registered voters for the first time ever.
A poll released on Wednesday revealed that 65 percent of likely Republican primary voters support Donald Trump’s call “for a temporary ban on all Muslims who are citizens of foreign countries from entering the United States.” Overall, 37 percent of Americans support the immigration proposal, with 50 percent opposing; another 13 percent said they didn’t know.
On December 7, Steve Israel (D-NY-3) said Democrats have various tools they can use to “force and even shame” the GOP into bending the knee on gun control in the wake of the San Bernardino terror attacks.
House Speaker Paul Ryan publicly disavowed Donald Trump’s call for a conditional ban of all Muslims entering the United States, insisting that his views are out of step with the Republican party.
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider and harvests and sells baby parts. Federal funding for Planned Parenthood should stop. Congress can and should defund Planned Parenthood in the pending “Omnibus” spending bill.
As Donald Trump’s lead amongst Republic presidential candidates shows signs of faltering, conservative blue-on-blue attacks will exponentially increase as those who feel they have the most to gain from the fall of “the Donald” position themselves against their rivals for the candidacy crown.
“Let me first of all say I’m anticipating a Democrat succeeding me,” Obama replied. “I’m confident in the wisdom of the American people on that front.” Obama added that even if he was succeeded by a Republican, they would find it difficult to turn back on the world just to please the United States
The Washington Post’s aptly named “The Fix” vertical has weighed in on an embarrassing email story involving Politico. The Post labels Politico editor Mike Allen’s offer of a “precisely” pre-arranged interview with Chelsea Clinton—one he promises will not involve any tough questions—a Republican conspiracy theory.
The 2016 presidential race is undergoing a sweeping reconfiguration, with national security taking on new prominence following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and the downing of Russian fighter jet by Turkey that has the U.S. and its allies calling for calm on both sides.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said Monday that the United States already vets refugees entering the country, and she has no specific plan to make the vetting process more stringent.
President Barack Obama mocked Republicans responding to his acceptance of Syrian refugees, saying the GOP are “scared of widows and orphans,” and “worried about 3-year-old orphans.” But it’s Obama who appears to be uninformed.
One such bill, introduced by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), would require the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the FBI, and the Director of National Intelligence to certify each refugee coming from Iraq or Syria that they do not present a threat to national security.
President Obama is again excoriating Republicans for raising concerns about Syrian refugees setting in America after the terrorist attacks in Paris.
As the 2016 GOP primary season began, the famed Koch brothers were gearing up to spread a lot of their considerable cash around the race. But as the campaign rolls on, those big dollar donors seem to be pulling back and
A new poll shows that minorities, millennials, and single women are less interested in upcoming Senate elections than Republican-leaning voter groups.
Dr. Ben Carson is in the 2016 presidential race to do two things: chew bubble gum, and destroy media narratives. And he’s all out of bubble gum.
The largest single religious group in the Democratic Party is now the religiously unaffiliated, or “nones,” a new report by the Pew Research Center reveals.
The Iowa Republican Party has denied media credentials to Comedy Central’s news satire show The Daily Show but not because the show skewers the GOP.
In the last three months, California Attorney General Kamala Harris has pulled out all the stops in her campaign for the U.S. Senate, spending $1.4 million of the $1.8 million she raised while amassing another $400,000 in debts.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton, denying reality once again, claimed that the Veterans Affairs scandals plaguing the Department of Veterans Affairs have been blown out of proportion by Republicans who want the department to fail.
President Obama is making fun of Republicans, accusing them of looking like “Grumpy Cat” – an old internet meme from 2012.
Gallup’s latest poll finds the much-demonized National Rifle Association with far higher approval ratings than two of its most prominent assailants: President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The NRA had a 58 percent approval rating, far higher than Obama’s 45 percent or Clinton’s 41 percent.
Apparently, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doesn’t live up to her own expectations when it comes to bipartisan leadership.
The New York Times published a barn-burner editorial Tuesday, which blames Republicans for the recent collapse of several Obamacare co-ops. In fact, the collapse has more to do with poor management.
For the first time in almost three years, President Obama has risen above 50 percent in his approval rating by striking 51 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. The latest rating is a hike from Obama’s lowest rating
