Pithy, mean and powerful: How Donald Trump mastered Twitter for 2016
The aging actress Kim Novak, a megastar of 1950s cinema, was a near-recluse when friends urged her to take a chance and appear at the Academy Awards last year. Sitting at home, Donald Trump spotted...
View ArticleThe wealthy win under GOP tax plans
Donald Trump unveiled a detailed plan for tax reform last week — four pages, complete with numbers and a graph. It didn’t win universal praise; one conservative economist dismissed it as “unserious.”...
View Article'SNL' season opener pokes at Donald Trump: Trump just wishes hair more realistic
“Saturday Night Live” season opener had a field day with Donald Trump as the top Republican candidate for the presidential bid. Trump spoke with “Fox and Friends Weekend” Sunday morning and he was fine...
View ArticleRevenge of the outsiders: Why 2016 presidential race is breaking the mold
The rise of the outsiders – Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, and Bernie Sanders – is the story of the 2016 presidential race so far. On the Republican side, the staying power of the top three...
View ArticleDonald Trump sides with Jeb Bush on Redskins nickname
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump hasn't found much common ground with 2016 GOP rival and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on the campaign trail, but the two agree on at least one thing:...
View Article‘Donald Trump Is an Authoritarian and He Brags About It’
This week on RT, the Russian government’s English-language station, host Ameera David interviewed former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) who said Republican presidential candidate Donald...
View ArticleChris Christie Raps Donald Trump As 'Painfully Naive' About Syria
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) called Donald Trump's position on Syria "painfully naive" on Sunday, slamming him for welcoming Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention in that country....
View ArticleShocked at evangelicals' flocking to Trump? Blame it on Reagan
Donald Trump Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump, pictured here at Trump Tower in New York, has a surprising evangelical following. (Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images) Randall Balmer Among the...
View ArticleRepublicans owe Sam Newby
Sam Newby is the Man. He delivered the largest city in Florida back to Republicans by running for a long shot city council seat. he also won the mayors race fr Lenny Curry and is now the model the...
View ArticleTrump and Carson: contrasting styles, bombastic rhetoric, similar results
Two Republican presidential candidates have gone top of the polls and stayed there by offering aggressive if vague foreign policy and promises of returning America to a state of greatness, in a...
View ArticleWhy Donald Trump Is Still Winning America
Over the last couple of months the country has been riveted by Donald Trump's improbable rise as front runner for the Republication Nomination. During this time numerous pundits have asked with...
View ArticleCarson’s bias against Muslims breaks unwritten rule of using veiled language
When Republican Ben Carson declared Muslims unfit to be president, he crossed a line that historians say no major White House hopeful has breached since the 1940s — openly expressing prejudice. Carson...
View ArticleWho Can Save the GOP From Itself?
For months, the American public has experienced the political circus know as the Republican primaries. Led by reality television star Donald Trump and the seemingly obsessed cable news networks, this...
View ArticleMitt Romney Scoffs At Donald Trump Belief That ISIS-affiliated Immigrants May...
“Donald Trump will not be the nominee,” Mitt Romney has said of the 2016 front-runner. Mitt Romney’s declaration of a lack of faith in Trump is not just a put-down – some would call it a betrayal. The...
View ArticleJeb Bush Should Face Facts: It’s Time to Drop Out
Jeb, this isn’t working. You’re a bad candidate, and all you’re going to do now is damage the guy who can beat Trump. Is that what you want? Jeb, this just isn’t going to work. After all that money...
View ArticleIs Donald Trump too big to fail?
Donald Trump has dominated the Republican field since getting into the race and the Republican party needs him to stay in this race and keep things interesting. Mother Jones’ David Corn and former Mitt...
View ArticleRepublican field pushes tax cuts bound to drive up debt
DENVER — Republicans came into this presidential campaign with painful memories of how, in the last one, Democrats blasted Mitt Romney's tax plan as a giveaway to the rich. Yet Donald Trump's tax plan...
View ArticleUnder Pressure To Run For Speaker, Ryan Talks To Mitt Romney
4:28 PM ET Arnie Seipel i Then-vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan campaigns with his GOP running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, at a Celina, Ohio, rally in 2012. Friday, the two spoke by...
View ArticleBill Clinton throws shade at Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump on 'The Late Show'
Bill Clinton talks to Stephen Colbert about Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Bill Clinton visits "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Meredith BlakeContact Reporter Call him the secretary of throwing...
View ArticleDonald Trump live-tweets the Democratic debate because why wouldn't he?
On Tuesday's episode of Donald Trump Says Things, the Republican candidate decided to tweet his reactions to the first Democratic presidential debate. But rather than focus on Hillary Clinton or Bernie...
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