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As the US election campaign heats up following both parties’ conventions, the spotlight on the candidates and their personalities is sure to intensify. For a polarizing candidate like Republican nominee Donald Trump, this is sure to mean even more incidents with even more media scrutiny about his temperament and personality. At a campaign rally yesterday […]

Groucho Marx famously said he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member. Bernie Sanders last week turned that on its head, saying he wouldn’t remain a member of any party that wouldn’t have him as its leader. Mr. Sanders decided to become a Democrat only last year and only so he

Former President George W. Bush not-so-subtly critiqued policies espoused by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally for Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, although not explicitly mentioning the candidate, WSJ reports. At the rally, Bush criticized policies of “isolationism, nativism, and protectionism,” aspects which have come to be associated with the Trump presidential campaign,

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, says his campaign has raked in more than $1 million in the last two weeks, and he’s trying to push things further with a “money bomb” tied to the presidential debates to try to raise $1.5 million on August 15. In a fundraising pitch,

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

ASHBURN, 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

Donald 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

Hewlett-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.

Hillary 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

Friends 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

The 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