Election 2016
Continuing his effort to dismiss critics with slurs and xenophobic comments, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, took aim again at President Obama, suggesting he’s a Secret Muslim, writes The Daily Beast. “We’re led by a man who is a very—look, we’re led by a man that either is, is not tough, not smart, […]
In 1988, Rev. Jesse Jackson ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, but Governor Michael Dukakis ultimately won the spot. Jackson mesmerized and galvanized many voters during the ’88 campaign, just as Sen. Bernie Sanders has done in 2016. Rev. Jackson understood that in order to increase his leverage and have an impact on the Democratic Party going […]
Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate count by a small number of the party's unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the convention. Among them is Oklahoma GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard.
Trump is expected to be officially nominated in July at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
During a victory speech Tuesday in California, Sanders told supporters he planned to stay in the race "'til the last ballot is cast," dismissing calls for him to drop out.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won West Virginia’s primary Tuesday, signaling trouble for front-runner Hillary Clinton “in industrial states in the November general election,” reports Reuters. While the defeat slowed her coronation for the nomination, according to the news outlet, Clinton is still heavily favored to become her party’s candidate in the Nov. 8 election to face presumptive […]
Donald Trump is drawing fire after calling Hillary Clinton a "nasty, mean enabler" of her husband's affairs.
"It just doesn't make sense to require a nonviolent drug offender to serve 20 years, or in some cases, life, in prison," Obama said
In an effort to assuage fears and instill hope, President Barack Obama on Wednesday visited the beleaguered city of Flint, Michigan amid a towering crisis involving lead in the city’s water supply. He also toured a food bank, participated in a roundtable discussion about the lead-contaminated water crisis, met with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Flint Mayor […]
Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL) delivers this week’s Congressional Black Caucus Message to America focusing on how increasing economic opportunities in urban communities can reduce gun violence in America. Kelly’s new collaborative initiative, UP or otherwise known as the Urban Progress initiative was established to reduce gun violence by increasing opportunities and building strong a strong coalition at the […]
After Donald Trump became the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee and Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race, Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced plans to suspend his campaign for the White House on Wednesday, reports Politico: [Kasich] had long ago been mathematically eliminated from clinching the GOP nomination outright but had hoped to emerge as a […]
As Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is fond of saying, he is "winning by a lot of delegates" ahead of Indiana's pivotal primaries. The same measure could be applied to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, who also leads her competitor, Bernie Sanders.