Locker room talk? Key women voters call foul on Trump’s defense
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Republican Donald Trump has dismissed his vulgar sexual comments about women that surfaced on a video as “locker room talk,” but his explanation did little to soothe the queasiness of Esther Rosser, a 71-year-old gr…
Clinton weighed reinstating Glass-Steagall, Wikileaks emails show
(Reuters) – A longtime political adviser to Hillary Clinton last year urged her presidential campaign to support a new version of a law that separated commercial and investment banking to avoid antagonizing the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, acco…
TV audience sharply down for second Trump-Clinton debate, despite tape furor
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The television audience for the second debate between White House contenders Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton fell sharply from their first, record-breaking encounter, despite the drama caused by a 2005 video of Trump b…
Trump threatens jail time, Clinton says rival’s campaign is ‘exploding’
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – Donald Trump, defiant amid a tide of criticism of his sexually aggressive remarks about women, said Hillary Clinton would go to jail if he were president and attacked her husband for his treatment of women in a vicious presidentia…
Trump to Ryan: Do not waste time fighting Republican nominee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that House of Representatives’ Speaker Paul Ryan, the party’s top elected official, should “not waste his time” opposing the party’s nominee.
Buffett hits back at Trump over tax comments
(Reuters) – Billionaire investor Warren Buffett denied on Monday an allegation by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that he, like Trump, had taken “a massive deduction” that allowed him to avoid federal income taxes.
As of last week, Clinton’s White House chances 95 percent: Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Even before Sunday night’s vicious presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump was losing ground in many of the states he needs to win to capture the presidency, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation Project analysis released on Monday.
Paul Ryan distances himself from Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The leader of the U.S. House of Representatives distanced himself from Donald Trump on Monday as the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign sank deeper into crisis over his sexually aggressive remarks about women.
Trump may have stopped the bleeding, but not the worrying
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump may have done just enough in Sunday’s presidential debate to keep his leaky presidential campaign afloat – and that may have put Republicans considering abandoning him in an even tougher position.
Trump says he disagrees with his running mate on Syria
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump publicly broke with his running mate, Mike Pence, on how to deal with the civil war in Syria in comments during Sunday’s U.S. presidential debate that exposed further tensions within their campaign.
