Jun 8, 2016 – added that these remarks were uttered in April of 2015, a month before the billionaire real estate magnate launched his 2016 presidential … for Trump or Clinton—even if he didn’t necessarily endorse the concept of American exceptionalism that traditional Republican candidates … being a possible RINO—we should be focusing on Hillary Clinton who has now amassed enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic…

Jun 8, 2016 – A number of potential candidates, well known and not, have turned down the chance to run. … It's a commonplace that the states that have voted Democratic in the last six presidential elections total 242 electoral votes -- just … 28 short of a Democratic victory.…

Jun 7, 2016 – iQMiaMaFd4 — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) June 7, 2016 So that's the playbook you're likely to witness from many Republican candidates … Here's Chris Christie first declining to comment on the latest "kerfuffle" as he calls it (friendly reminder: his presidential campaign … fans is this story, which details how Trump's bare-bones campaign is barely functional in the way it needs to be to defeat the Democratic…

Jun 3, 2016 – socialist become the Democratic nominee (which isn’t going to happen). … candidates, I next side with Bernie Sanders at 73 percent. … total nutters. […] [Libertarian presidential candidate] Darryl W.…

Jun 3, 2016 – Gary Johnson, Governor of New Mexico from 1995-2003, will be the party’s presidential nominee for the second time in a row. … Johnson isn’t likely to win a state, but he can still play a useful role by reminding the major party candidates that they aren’t the … or Hillary Clinton, is enough to jolt any liberal, or conservative, to hold their noses and vote for either of the respective Democratic…

Jun 3, 2016 – This may be the very first time in U.S. presidential election history when both of our major party candidates were in trouble with … presidential nominee willfully violated or skirted well-known government security rules and regulations. … Meantime, both candidates remain under investigation, one by the FBI on risky security practices, and the other in federal court for…

Jun 1, 2016 – have a slight edge over Donald Trump in a new national Quinnipiac poll, beating him 45 to 41 percent, but when it comes to the candidates … There’s something to be said when a 76-year-old Democratic socialist from Vermont does a better job connecting with millennials than … Presidential qualities are important in a candidate, but so is personality. President George W.…

May 31, 2016 – In an email to The Huffington Post, who asked both Democratic candidates to weigh in, Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs wrote, "Sanders … HuffPo, like many voters no doubt, believes that this tragedy demands some kind of response from the presidential candidates.…

May 31, 2016 – Two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have already shaken up the political system in the United States. … Sanders, a junior Senator from Vermont and an independent until late 2015, is mounting a serious challenge for the Democratic Presidential … Whether either the Democratic or Republican parties can regain control over the nominating process and selection of candidates for…

Jun 17, 2016 – Senate race and run for re-election instead, taking on likely Democratic nominee Charlie Crist, confirmed former St. … Rubio, having just run a national presidential campaign, is a proven, successful fundraiser. … both candidates, losing by 22 points in a hypothetical matchup.…

Jun 16, 2016 – For all the flaws of both presidential candidates -- Trump is an undisciplined political amateur, Clinton a compromised and scripted … True, both candidates are notorious flip-floppers and opportunists who seem to lack deeply held beliefs. … But for now, Clinton is pledged to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and has largely repudiated many of the centrist agendas…

Jun 11, 2016 – Over the past half century, the public position of Democratic politicians has changed quite a lot. … The coming presidential election, he writes, will not mainly be about ideas. It will be about group identity. … Republican candidates didn’t even know where the black churches were.…

Jun 10, 2016 – The three major political parties have their candidates now for the general election. The ad war is starting in earnest. … The most qualified of the three candidates is a two term Republican governor of New Mexico whose running mate is the former Republican … The Democratic Party has its presumptive nominee.…

Jun 10, 2016 – Like most candidates she has also been more than happy to through her resume into the limelight. … As of June 7th, 2016, Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. … The CNN headline, "…will become the first woman in the 240-year history of the United States to lead the presidential ticket of a major…

Jun 10, 2016 – America's two major political parties have chosen their presidential nominees and, for good or for ill, are mapping their strategies … And it's the first time, at least in the modern era, that both candidates are drawing extraordinarily high unfavorable ratings from … Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, an unreconstructed political liberal, has captured the Democratic nomination.…

Jun 10, 2016 – Peru has just had a close presidential election between two candidates both described by Reuters as "business friendly." … You didn't hear much about these developments in the Democratic primaries and caucuses. … But it may not serve America or the Democratic Party well in the long run.…

Jun 9, 2016 – The fact remains: The last successful third-party presidential bid was led by Abraham Lincoln in 1860. … We all did — at least those of us who backed other candidates in the Republican primaries. We didn’t sell them the right way. … So did most of the GOP candidates who, mysteriously, trashed each other while leaving Trump largely untouched. Oops.…

Jun 9, 2016 – It was the result of this Associated Press item from Wednesday morning: BREAKING: Clinton wins Democratic primary in California … EDT As we discussed earlier in the week, California wasn't going to decide which of the two candidates - Hillary Clinton or … Two of the most flawed candidates - outside of unpublishable fiction - that have ever squared off against one another.…

Jun 9, 2016 – In the Democratic and Republican primaries, millions of voters expressed rage by voting for anti-establishment candidates like Donald … The fall presidential election is going to hinge on many issues.  …

Jun 9, 2016 – Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, reportedly on the short list of VP candidates for Trump, called it "one of the worst … After all, Trump could say, the media did not hyperventilate over then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's association with his bigoted … At one of the Democratic debates, Bernie Sanders turned to Hillary Clinton and said: "The American people are sick and tired of hearing…

Jun 28, 2016 – spite of the presumptive nominee's struggles, his historic unpopularity does not appear to be the drag on down-ballot Republican candidates … It's a virtual guarantee that this November's electorate will more Democratic than what we saw in 2014, but this poll suggests that … Indeed, former Democratic strategist and former Obama operative Bill Burton told an audience at Politicon over the weekend that much…

Jun 28, 2016 – So what does the Brexit vote portend for the 2016 presidential race in the United States? … count him out, for a host of reasons -- including that he has a better chance in some of the battleground states than recent GOP candidates … Now the additional concerns over declining national sovereignty and democratic rights could lead to a greater shift of working-class…

Jun 27, 2016 – Over the weekend, CNN’s John King discussed the 2016 presidential race (what else?) … Right, and there’s a debate within Democratic circles about whether it’s enough for her to run just against him, or whether she has … Both of these candidates are unpopular, but Trump leads Clinton on honesty by a two-to-one margin.…

Jun 22, 2016 – We talked about the presidential election and debated our views of the candidates that were running – he liked Hillary Clinton and … In any case, much of the Democratic Party and media echo chamber appear to have decided that partisan point-scoring and opponent-shaming … Republicans and a handful of Democrats scuttled two Democratic gun control proposals that critics said (a) offered insufficient civil…

Jul 6, 2016 – In a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, the House Speaker asked for the Democratic nominee to be shielded from … Then, on Tuesday evening, Ryan backed up those comments by recommending the Democratic nominee be prohibited from receiving any classified … information ahead of the general election, usually a routine practice for presidential candidates.…