Former Christie campaign finance chair slams Christie endorsement of Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former finance co-chair of Chris Christie’s presidential campaign on Sunday slammed Christie’s recent endorsement of Donald Trump, according to NBC, calling for the New Jersey governor’s supporters to reject the Republican fron…
Republicans Rubio, Cruz release taxes, piling pressure on Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz released tax returns for several years on Saturday in an effort to pressure billionaire front-runner Donald Trump to follow suit.
Republican Ted Cruz releases four years of tax returns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz released four years of his and wife Heidi’s tax returns on Saturday, ranging from 2011-2014, showing $389,124 taxes paid on $1.2 million in 2014.
Two former presidents of Mexico compare Trump to Hitler
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s political rhetoric is “racist,” and evocative of Adolf Hitler, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon told reporters at an event in Mexico City on Saturday.
Clinton wins big in South Carolina on way to ‘Super Tuesday’
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton crushed rival Bernie Sanders at the South Carolina primary on Saturday, propelling her into next week’s crucial “Super Tuesday” voting in 11 states on a wave of momentum….
Buffett rails against presidential candidates who talk down economy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Warren Buffett bemoaned the “negative drumbeat” on the U.S. economy from presidential candidates in his annual Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholder letter on Saturday, saying they are misleading Americans into believing their childre…
In hard-bitten rural South Carolina, many minds made up for Clinton
DENMARK, South Carolina (Reuters) – Betty Odom-Bell, a 47-year-old entrepreneur, took a financial risk last year when she opened a restaurant in Denmark, a small town in the middle of a deeply depressed part of rural South Carolina.
Trump’s march stirs growing sense of dread among U.S. Republicans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans in Washington are coming to grips with what many of them not long ago considered an unimaginable reality: Donald Trump is likely to be their presidential nominee and standard-bearer.
Clinton deflects calls to release Wall St. speech transcripts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defended her paid speeches to Wall Street, saying in an interview that aired on Friday that they would not soften her campaign pledges for tougher regulation.
U.S. Supreme Court justice candidate list still open: White House
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – The White House said on Friday that more candidates could be added to its list of potential nominees to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
