Donald Trump’s campaign said Wednesday it collectively raised $80 million in July for the campaign and the Republican Party, picking up the pace from a June haul of about $51 million. The campaign said its digital and direct mail operations brought in about $64 million in donations last month, in conjunction with the Republican National […]
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USAASHBURN, Va. – Donald Trump’s feud with a Muslim Gold Star family may be driving GOP leaders to fits, but the Republican presidential nominee’s supporters aren’t fazed at all, saying they remain firmly behind the billionaire businessman and his tough talk on Twitter. Mr. Trump drew a huge crowd to a rally Tuesday in the
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USAThe radical “Black Lives Matter” movement released a formal platform on Monday, singling out Israel for what it calls the “genocide” against Palestinian Arabs and “Israeli Apartheid”. BLM, which emerged in the summer of 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a Hispanic man who shot and killed an African American teenager in self-defense, aims
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Middle East, USADonald Trump has responded to scathing criticism from U.S. President Barack Obama, branding the latter the “worst president” in the country’s history. The Republican presidential nominee said that Obama, who was elected in 2008 and returned to power in 2012, had been a “disaster” and cited Russia’s takeover of Crimea as an example of Obama’s
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USAHewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, a high-profile Republican donor who served as a finance co-chair for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s 2016 presidential campaign, says she’s now supporting Hillary Clinton. “To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division,” Ms.
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USAHillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both rotten candidates for the U.S. presidency, but they do provide great fodder for comedians. For example, the following joke arrived in my Inbox this morning: Trump and Hillary meet at a bar. Donald leans in and smiles, “The media are really tearing you apart for That Scandal.” Hillary
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USAFriends don’t let friends vote Trump—if they’re Hillary Clinton supporters, that is. And the same dynamic holds true among supporters of Donald Trump, according to a Pew Research Center report that indicates friends are sticking together when it comes to the candidate they back. Just a quarter of voters who lean toward Trump say they
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USATwo years ago today, on August 3, 2014, the world watched in horror as ISIS massacred the Yazidi ethnic and religious minority on Mount Sinjar, slaughtering Yazidi men and abducting Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves. Far from being an isolated atrocity, Sinjar marks the beginning of ISIS’s genocide of Yazidis and the world’s
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International, Middle East, USAThe following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday, Aug. 3: Hillary Clinton has less than 100 days to show the country why she, rather than Donald Trump, should be the next president. It’s time she started acting like the president she wants to become. The first thing she can do is stop
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USAWhy would folks who like country music vote for a guy who owns country clubs? Why, in other words, is Hillary Clinton doing worse with straight, white working-class men than any other demographic? According to myriad studies, polls and my friend Beverly Anne, “They watched (Donald Trump) on ‘The Apprentice’ and they think they know
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USAIn deciding whether to formally prohibit plane sales that already seem commercially infeasible, Washington should consider one question: if the Islamic Republic is going to shoot itself in the foot, why refuse it the gun? In the continuing debate about the proposed Boeing and Airbus plane sales to Iran, the focus has been on whether
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Middle East, USASpeaking at a rally in Virginia US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has laid out some more controversial foreign policy stances. The US will push for air and ground safe zones in Syria he said, but it won’t pay for them, instead the rich Gulf states would. The safe zone policy is controversial because it
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Jewish Council for Public Affairs on Wednesday, Aug. 3, issued a statement pleading for civility in political discourse. The statement follows: “This presidential election season, more than any in recent memory, has been marked with hostile, acrimonious, and demeaning rhetoric. Leading up to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, in an
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USACOLUMBUS, Ohio — By the time Hillary Clinton rolled up here for the final stop of her bus tour through Pennsylvania and Ohio, she had campaigned at a toy manufacturer, a wire factory, a convention center and a school. She bought a milkshake at a local shop, spoke from a church pulpit and showed off
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