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The chief spokesman for the Florida Republican Party is quitting his job because of his refusal to support the party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Wadi Gaitan, a former senior House Republican aide who focused on Hispanic affairs, will be joining the LIBRE Initiative, a grass-roots conservative organization backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, The […]

Hillary Clinton continues to have the upper hand over Donald Trump in the presidential race, another poll released Monday shows. The CNN Poll of Polls incorporating the results of six major polls — all conducted after the party conventions concluded in late July — finds Clinton with an average of 49% support to Trump’s 39%.

The Woodrow Wilson Center, one of Washington’s best-known think tanks, is defending itself against charges that it played a role in the failed military coup against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month. The charges, played up prominently on Turkish newspapers in recent days, are a sign of a sharp deterioration in

Hillary Clinton has jumped out to a 13-point lead over Donald Trump among likely voters nationwide, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday that showed Mr. Trump has some ground to make up in unifying Republicans around his presidential candidacy. Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic nominee, had a 50 percent to 37 percent lead over

President Obama’s former top intelligence official said Tuesday that “political incompetence” when it comes to the Islamic State group is putting Americans in danger. Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who now advises Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told the Washington Free Beacon that the White House downplays the extent to which ISIS has infiltrated the homeland. “There

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said Monday that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is “a straight-up cop hater” who sympathizes with the “criminal element” of the Black Lives Matter movement. Sheriff Clarke, an outspoken black conservative, appeared on “Fox & Friends” to address Mrs. Clinton’s decision not to seek the endorsement of the biggest police

WASHINGTON, August 8, 2016 – Much is said about Donald Trump turning off voting blocks, but Hillary Clinton might take the cake as the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton chose the endorsement of the militant Black Lives Matter group, and chose to not pursue the endorsement of the the Fraternal Order of Police. The Fraternal

SEATTLE — At least three business executives listed as co-hosts of an upcoming Seattle fundraiser for Donald Trump are now disavowing involvement with the event. Gordon Sondland and Bashar Wali, Portland, Ore.-based executives of Provenance Hotels, were named as co-hosts of Trump’s scheduled Aug. 30 fundraiser, according to an invitation circulated last week. But in

RACINE, Wis. — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s primary challenge is drawing national attention. But that wasn’t obvious Monday, less than 24 hours before voters head to the polls here, as Ryan met with manufacturing workers on the eastern edge of his district. Ryan never mentioned the election, rival Paul Nehlen or last week’s kerfuffle

Just to explain where I’m from: I’m a registered Republican who served on the White House staffs of two Republican presidents, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon; was the editor-in-chief of the platform for a third Republican president, Gerald Ford; and was tasked by the Republican National Committee to write a transition plan for a fourth

Before the Democratic convention in Philadelphia two weeks ago, some Democrats were concerned that whatever magic Hillary Clinton had managed to hang on to up until that point had vanished with the nomination of Donald Trump. Little under a week and a half since Clinton formally accepted her party’s nomination, however, projections show the party