May 10, 2016 – I look very much forward to meeting w/Paul Ryan & the GOP Party Leadership on Thurs in DC. … Both former presidential candidates had choice words for the businessman last summer as the 2016 campaign was just getting underway … Flashback: Trump refused to support the eventual nominee at the very first presidential debate.…

May 10, 2016 – Rubio, born May 1971, and Cruz, born December 1970, are young for presidential contenders. … Crist withdrew from the Republican race and ran as an Independent. … Nevertheless, their skill sets served them well in the presidential race.…

May 26, 2016 – After all those months of worrying and complaining about having too many candidates, the GOP finally found its 2016 presidential candidate … A couple weeks ago I said the Republican Party was in such sad shape it should use Leslie Gore's 1963 hit "It's my party" for its theme … He has been picking up more support from the party establishment -- though it'll dry up real fast if he keeps sucker-punching Republican…

May 24, 2016 – Surely all those candidates know that it's impossible to restart a presidential campaign once it's been suspended. … The 2016 Republican presidential primaries yielded one "presumptive" nominee, Donald J. … Trump, plus 16 candidates whose presidential campaigns were "suspended" but could remain in business for many more years.…

May 23, 2016 – Surely all those candidates knew that it’s impossible to restart a presidential campaign once it’s been suspended. … The 2016 Republican presidential primaries yielded one “presumptive” nominee, Donald J. … Trump, plus 16 candidates whose presidential campaigns were “suspended” but could remain in business for many more years.…

May 20, 2016 – In 2016, conservatives are faced with a presidential candidate who supports socialist healthcare plans run by the government, protectionism … Almost all of the Republican presidential candidates and large numbers of conservatives declared Donald Trump singularly unfit for … The Nebraska Republican Party killed a resolution that denounced offensive statements by Republicans against minorities and women because…

Jun 8, 2016 – the Texas Patriots PAC, a local tea party outfit. … candidates have supported on the campaign trail. … I can see why this could cause some hesitancy in Republican voters.…

Jun 7, 2016 – the ensuing rift within the GOP, Lindsey Graham sounds like he's permanently off the Trump train: No prominent elected Republican … So that's the playbook you're likely to witness from many Republican candidates and office-holders as various Trumpian controversies … Maybe you'll see a handful of un-endorsements roll in, but the party will mostly stick together.…

Jun 3, 2016 – Party. … Johnson noted that he was always a libertarian Republican, but now a Libertarian presidential candidate. … Two minutes were given to candidates for party chair, which prompted this bizarre act. He's now getting booed off the stage.…

May 31, 2016 – Two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have already shaken up the political system in the United States. … This year, however, not only are both parties experiencing challenges to establishment candidates, in the case of the Republican Party … Whether either the Democratic or Republican parties can regain control over the nominating process and selection of candidates for…

Jun 16, 2016 – At first glance, 2016 sizes up as no other election year in American history. … 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.…

Jun 15, 2016 – These three candidates constituted the “top tier.”   … The third tier was comprised of those candidates “who are unlikely to break through.” … a White House victory in 2016.”…

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 – As of June 7th, 2016, Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. … Now one's counter argument could be that Woodhull's Equal Rights Party was not a major political party. … In 1964 Margaret Chase Smith ran under the Republican Party, received primary votes in Illinois, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and…

Jun 9, 2016 – Would it be a popular Republican governor, say South Carolina’s Nikki Haley? … 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.…

Jun 9, 2016 – Trump on the Republican side. … And with what appeared to be a very strong field of good Republican candidates it looked like it was going to be very difficult for … It’s a good bet that most if not all of the original Republican candidates would have had a very good chance of defeating Hillary in…

Jun 28, 2016 – that in spite of the presumptive nominee's struggles, his historic unpopularity does not appear to be the drag on down-ballot Republican … candidates that many feared -- at least not yet. … Party writ large.  …

Jun 22, 2016 – @ChrisMurphyCT said it right: The @SenateGOP have decided to sell weapons to ISIS. — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) June 20, 2016 … isn't true.But that probably doesn't matter for your political purposes. https://t.co/uYum6Qrocp — Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) June 20, 2016 … We talked about the presidential election and debated our views of the candidates that were running – he liked Hillary Clinton and…

Jul 7, 2016 – The Libertarian party has always had a candidate, but rarely any with as much presence or traction as Johnson in 2016. … This is the first year the Libertarian party will be on the ballot in every single state. … While the candidates explained why they are Libertarian as opposed to Republican or Democrat, they also placed importance on the way…

Jul 4, 2016 – By the 1924 presidential election, the Klan was so institutionalized within the Democratic Party it rallied enough convention delegates … Party and the Trump campaign. … Small wonder that GOP presidential candidates hover in the high single digits when it comes to winning the black vote.…

Jul 3, 2016 – Third-party candidates need to exhibit 15 percent or more support in five national polls to win a seat at the national presidential … candidates. … Most Republican candidates give lip service to fiscal restraint, without offering specifics about which spending they would cut.…

Jul 1, 2016 – Coming this year in the middle of one of the nastiest presidential campaigns in recent memory, it would certainly be refreshing to … presidential campaign look like a schoolyard tug of war. … Lincoln lost his bid to become senator when the Republican Party failed to gain control of the Illinois Legislature, but the debates…

Jun 29, 2016 – Would Ronald Reagan endorse presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump? … Nixon told him his endorsement would be more valuable coming from a “Democrat” and told Reagan to switch to the Republican party in … Buckley ran as the Conservative Party nominee against a liberal Republican and a more liberal Democrat.…

Jan 9, 2015 – Nine months from now, Republican candidates for president will meet on the stage of the Reagan Presidential Library (with the old … Air Force One providing great visuals) for the first debate of the 2016 race. … Properly undertaken, a debate about Common Core could be healthy for the party and the country.…

Jan 7, 2015 – Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is a rising 2016 GOP Presidential nominee. … However, he lacks Walker’s savvy to unity distinct interests within the Republican Party. … Presidential candidates must transition from firing up the base to winning over quizzical independents and intrigue disaffected Democrats…