In a speech to the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee urged supporters not to “lose heart, don’t give up on the values we share.” And she gave among the most personal testimonials ever about the ...
Read More »US election 2016: Clinton has 90 per cent of winning according to polls
Clinton’s chances are roughly similar to last week’s odds, and any upset by Trump on Tuesday depends on an unlikely combination of turnouts of white, black and Hispanic voters in six or seven states, according to the survey released on ...
Read More »WikiLeaks’ Assange signals release of documents before U.S. election
Assange said the documents would be released before the end of the year, starting with an initial batch in the coming week, Reuters reports. He criticized Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, for demonizing the group’s work after a spate of ...
Read More »Clinton and Trump to square off in highly anticipated debate
The tight race for the White House and the unpredictable clash in styles between well-known but polarizing foes has generated wide interest in the potentially pivotal encounter, which comes six weeks before the Nov. 8 election, according to Reuters. The ...
Read More »Wealthy Republicans campaign for Hillary Clinton
They say they are seeking money and endorsements from other Republicans disillusioned by Trump, their party’s candidate for the Nov. 8 presidential election, Reuters reports. Some have received encouragement from Clinton and members of her campaign staff. “I made the ...
Read More »Obama: Trump ‘unfit’ to be president
During a press conference at the White House with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Obama posed the question to the Republican Party: “If you are repeatedly having to say what Trump says is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing ...
Read More »Hillary Clinton makes history with U.S. presidential nomination
In a symbolic show of party unity, Clinton’s former rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, on Tuesday told the chairwoman from the convention floor that Clinton, 68, should be selected as the party’s nominee at the dramatic climax of ...
Read More »Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination, says ‘I alone can fix’ system
“Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it,” Trump said in his address, the USA Today reports. After ascending the stage to the theme from the action film Air Force One, Trump said ...
Read More »CNN: Poll shows Clinton with battleground leads
According to CNN, Ballotpedia’s battleground poll shows that Clinton leads Trump: 51% to 37% in Florida 45% to 41% in Iowa 50% to 33% in Michigan 48% to 38% in North Carolina 46% to 37% in Ohio 49% to 35% ...
Read More »Donald Trump fires campaign manager Lewandowski, taps Manafort as successor
Donald Trump fired Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager who helped him win the Republican Party’s presidential nominating contests but has clashed with other advisers about how to appeal to the broader general electorate, two people with knowledge of the decision ...
Read More »Reuters: Facebook’s Zuckerberg to meet US conservatives on political bias flap
Some 12 “conservative thought leaders” will join the meeting with Zuckerberg on Wednesday, a Facebook spokesman said. Among the invitees are media personality Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel’s “The Five” co-host Dana Perino and Zac Moffatt, co-founder of Targeted Victory, ...
Read More »Clinton and Trump win seven states on Super Tuesday
RepublicanDonald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton moved closer to becoming reality as both leapt further ahead in the battleground states of a marathon Super Tuesday. the Guardian reports. On the most important night of the presidential race so far, Clinton ...
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