North Carolina asks Supreme Court to reinstate voter ID law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Carolina on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a state law requiring voters to show identification to remain in effect for the Nov. 8 U.S. election despite an appeals court decision that the measure discriminates …
Republican Asia experts say Trump presidency would be ‘ruinous’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Asia experts who served in past Republican administrations said on Monday they would back Hillary Clinton in the presidential race as a Donald Trump presidency would lead to “ruinous marginalization” for the United States in…
Obama warns Democrats against overconfidence about Clinton victory
CHILMARK, Mass. (Reuters) – Declaring he was tired of talking about Donald Trump, President Barack Obama urged Democrats on Monday not to grow too confident about their prospects in the 2016 election despite Hillary Clinton’s strong position in the rac…
Biden: Trump is already making our country less safe
(Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s remark that President Barack Obama founded Islamic State had increased threats to the physical safety of U.S. troops in Iraq.
Fix campaign or step aside, Wall Street Journal tells Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump should fix his stumbling White House campaign in the next three weeks or step down, The Wall Street Journal said on Monday in a sharply worded warning from a leading conservative voice.
Republicans seek Trump presidency votes in Israel
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli branch of the U.S. Republican party began a campaign on Monday to get American voters living in Israel to cast absentee ballots in favor of Donald Trump.
Trump rails against press in response to reports of chaos
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Reuters) – U.S. Republican Donald Trump on Saturday repeated his attack on President Barack Obama that he helped “found” Islamic State and railed against media reports that his campaign is failing, at a campaign rally in Connecticut, …
Talk of shifting funds away from Trump premature: Republican official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior official with the Republican National Committee on Sunday played down the prospect that the party would cut off cash and logistical support to White House nominee Donald Trump in order to shift resources toward congressi…
Disillusionment, U.S.A. Where voters are just hoping for change.
ALGONAC, MICH.–Parker Fox drifted out of the Donald Trump rally in a sort of euphoric daze, along with the thousands emptying into the parking lot alongside him. “After leaving a Trump rally, you’re very pro-Trump,” he recalled a few weeks later, describing a noisy communion with people who understood that politics mattered, unlike some people he could name at his high school. “It was so enthusiastic and so energetic you could feel it in your body. It gave you chills.”
Trump backs off ISIS comments; party head appears at rallies in show of unity
ALTOONA, Pa. (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump on Friday backed away from comments calling President Barack Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton the founders of the militant group Islamic State, while the Republican Party sought to project un…