Debate Commission: No Change to 15 Percent Third-Party Polling Rule
The Commission on Presidential Debates, a Republican and Democrat controlled group that establishes criteria and rules for U.S. general election presidential debates, announced last week that it will...
View ArticleRand Paul Challenges Bernie Sanders To Hour-Long Debate On Socialism vs....
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) posted a video clip on Facebook on Thursday from a live broadcast on the Iowa-based talk radio station WHO NewsRadio 1040 in which he can be seen challenging Sen. Bernie Sanders...
View ArticleAlan Grayson Threatens Lawsuit Over Ted Cruz’s Presidential Eligibility
During an interview on The Alan Colmes Show on Fox News Radio last week, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) said that he plans to file a lawsuit challenging the eligibility of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to serve...
View ArticleTrump Says He Supports Reauthorizing Patriot Act, NSA Metadata Collection
2016 Republican presidential candidate and billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump said that he supports reauthorizing the USA PATRIOT Act and bulk cell phone metadata collection by the National...
View ArticleRubio Accuses Cruz of Siding with ‘Isolationists’ on Foreign Policy
On Sunday’s episode of NBC’s Meet the Press, 2016 GOP presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) accused opposing candidate and Republican Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) of siding with...
View ArticleLimbaugh on Trump: ‘A Genuine Conservative Would Not Go after Cruz This Way’
On Monday’s episode of The Rush Limbaugh Show, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh called 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent attack on opposing GOP candidate Senator...
View ArticleRepublican Sen. Lindsey Graham Suspends Presidential Campaign
“Today, I’m suspending my campaign for president. I want to thank everyone who has taken this journey with me. You have honored me with your support,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in a Monday...
View ArticleJim Webb, Weighing Third-Party Bid, Says Clinton’s Policies Caused ‘Chaos in...
Former Democratic Senator from Virginia Jim Webb, who said that his “views on many issues are not compatible with the power structure and nominating base of the Democratic Party” as he dropped out of...
View ArticleSanders Tweet Raises Questions About His Understanding of Secured Loans,...
2016 Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was widely rebuked on social media on Saturday after posting a tweet that appeared to demonstrate a misunderstanding...
View ArticleFormer N.M. Gov. Gary Johnson Launches Bid for Libertarian Presidential...
Former Republican New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson announced on Wednesday that he is seeking the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination in 2016. According to KRQE News 13, Johnson made his...
View ArticleCruz Rebukes Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Says ‘We Don’t Live in a Police...
Senator from Texas and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that he opposes Donald Trump’s plan for a new deportation force that would seek out and...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Beating Clinton in N.H., Tied In Iowa
The 2016 Democratic presidential race seems to be tightening in the final weeks leading up to the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses and the Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary. According to recent polls, Senator from...
View ArticleGary Johnson Responds to President Obama’s State of the Union Address
After U.S. President Barack Obama gave the final State of the Union address of his presidency on Tuesday, 2016 Libertarian Party presidential candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson...
View ArticleCommission on Presidential Debates Preps for Possible Third-Party in 2016...
Officials in charge of the Commission on Presidential Debates say that due to the mood of the electorate, they are preparing for the possibility that a third-party candidate will emerge who obtains...
View ArticleThursday’s Smaller Republican Debate Least Watched Among All GOP Debates This...
Fox Business Network’s Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center in North Charleston, S.C. on Thursday drew in the lowest ratings of any GOP debate this...
View ArticleTexas Attorney Files Lawsuit Challenging Sen. Ted Cruz’s Presidential...
81-year-old Houston-based attorney Newton Boris Schwartz Sr. filed a federal class action lawsuit on Thursday challenging the presidential eligibility of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Sen. Cruz was...
View ArticleNBC’s Chuck Todd: Trump, Cruz Have ‘Tried to Co-Opt’ Parts of Ron Paul’s Message
On last Thursday’s episode of Meet the Press Daily on MSNBC, host Chuck Todd, who also serves as a moderator for Meet the Press on NBC, asked libertarian icon and former Republican Congressman Ron Paul...
View ArticleDONEGAN: Media Should Report on Presidential Elections, Not Manipulate Them
The 2016 presidential election, crowded with candidates in a circus-like atmosphere, is serving as a type of stress test for the U.S. news media. Can journalists, often viewed as members of the U.S....
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Trump to Skip Fox News GOP Debate Amid Megyn Kelly Feud
Billionaire real estate investor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he plans to skip Thursday’s Republican presidential debate on Fox News in Des Moines, Iowa....
View ArticleFox GOP Debate Attracts Better Ratings Than Trump Event, Previous Republican...
Thursday night’s Fox News/Google GOP Debate attracted better ratings than candidate Donald Trump’s counter-event and the previous Jan. 14 Republican presidential debate on Fox Business that featured...
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Cruz Campaign Accused of Spreading Carson Drop-Out Rumors Before Iowa Vote
Following Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator from Texas Ted Cruz’s victory in Monday’s Iowa Caucuses, rival candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has cried foul. Ben Carson told...
View ArticleBush Super PACs Outspent All Iowa Campaigns, Garnered Sixth-Place Finish
Super PACs supporting the 2016 presidential candidacy of former Florida Republican Governor Jeb Bush spent over $14 million on ads promoting his bid for the GOP nomination in Iowa, which only resulted...
View ArticleJohnson: Fiscally Conservative, Socially Tolerant Voters Alienated by Iowa...
Former two-term New Mexico Republican Governor Gary Johnson, who is seeking the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president in 2016, issued a statement on the results of the Democratic and Republican...
View ArticleDONEGAN: Debunking the Lesser-of-Two-Evils Voting Theory
Anyone who has ever supported a third-party presidential candidate in an election has likely had to defend their decision from partisans who endorse the lesser-of-two-evils voter theory. By the logic...
View ArticleSteinem Apologizes for ‘Misinterpreted’ Comment About Young Female Sanders...
On last Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, journalist and feminist activist Gloria Steinem controversially suggested that young women who support U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie...
View ArticleBloomberg Confirms He Is Considering Independent Presidential Bid in 2016
Amid rumors that he has been conducting polls to test the viability of a 2016 independent presidential bid, billionaire and former independent New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed in his own...
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Fox News Mistakenly Publishes Fake New Hampshire Election Results Prior to Vote
Tuesday morning, several hours before the polls close in New Hampshire, Fox News reportedly published fake, finalized New Hampshire primary election returns on its website. Mashable captured...
View ArticleJim Webb Announces That He Will Not Launch Independent Presidential Bid
Former Democratic U.S. Senator from Virginia and Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb announced on Thursday that he has decided against sparking an independent campaign for president of the United States....
View ArticleN.H. GOP Issues Petition Urging Democratic Superdelegates to Vote for Sanders
Strange bedfellows have emerged in the 2016 presidential race, as the New Hampshire Republican Party has launched an online petition urging superdelegates in the Democratic Party to vote for Senator...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: Sanders Needs to Distance Himself from ‘Fantasy Economics’
Nobel Prize winning, progressive-leaning economist Paul Krugman said in an op-ed on Wednesday that the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign needs to distance itself from unrealistically rosy...
View ArticleCharles Koch Says ‘Bernie Sanders Is Right’ on Criminal Justice, Corporate...
Billionaire Koch Industries CEO Charles Koch says he agrees with U.S. Senator from Vermont and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders “that we have a two-tiered society that increasingly...
View ArticleBush Drops Out After Donors Spend over $100 Million on 2016 Campaign
After a disappointing fourth-place finish in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary, former Florida governor Jeb Bush announced on Saturday that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican...
View ArticleSanders Criticizes Two-Party System for Blocking Competition from Third Parties
At Thursday’s televised town hall among Democratic presidential candidates presented by MSNBC and Univision, Democratic presidential candidate and independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders...
View ArticleTrump Rips Cruz for Not Showing Up to Vote for Audit the Fed
2016 Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday to criticize rival candidate and Sen. from Texas Ted Cruz for his decision to skip a key vote on...
View ArticleCongressman Justin Amash Endorses Ted Cruz for President
Libertarian-leaning Republican Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan’s third congressional district was an early and loud supporter of Sen. Rand Paul’s quest for the Republican nomination in 2016. Now,...
View ArticleRubio Says He Opposes Prostitution But Would Not Support Federal Ban
2016 Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator from Florida Marco Rubio took a states’ rights position on prostitution while campaigning on Monday in Nevada, where the world’s oldest...
View ArticleJesse Ventura Says He May Run for President If Clinton Is Nominated Over Sanders
Former independent Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, who says he is leaning towards supporting U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders for president in 2016, indicated that he is considering getting...
View ArticleEx-CIA Chief: ‘American Armed Forces Would Refuse to Act’ If Trump Ordered...
“I would be incredibly concerned if a President Trump governed in a way that was consistent with the language [on military tactics] that candidate Trump expressed during the campaign,” said former...
View ArticleGOP Sen. Ben Sasse Says He Will Vote Third Party If Trump Wins Nomination
In an open letter on Facebook which called Donald Trump supporters “well-meaning” and “right to be angry,” Republican U.S. Senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse said that he “cannot support Donald Trump” and...
View ArticleTrump’s Tea Party Leaders Ready To Win
The Donald Trump doctrine doesn’t fit neatly into any particular ideological box. He doesn’t agree 100 percent with the Republican platform, nor do his plans for economy fit perfectly within the...
View ArticleRomney Says He Would ‘Write In a Name’ or Vote Third Party If Trump Wins GOP Nod
Following last Thursday’s speech in which former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican nominee for president Mitt Romney attempted to rally Republicans against Donald Trump’s candidacy for the...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Governor’s Clinton Donation Raises Questions About Fed...
Federal Election Commission records indicate that Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard has contributed a total of $750 to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign over three different donations, which...
View ArticleBloomberg Says He ‘Could Not Win,’ Will Not Run for President in 2016
Billionaire business magnate and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had previously said that he was considering running for president, announced on Monday that he will not launch an...
View ArticleClinton on If She Would Drop Out If Indicted: ‘I’m Not Even Answering That...
At Wednesday’s presidential debate presented by CNN and Univision, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attempted to downplay the seriousness of an ongoing Federal Bureau of...
View ArticleRNC Official Claims ‘Every Delegate Is a Superdelegate,’ Can Override Will of...
Republican National Committeeman Curly Haugland of North Dakota sent a letter on Friday to fellow RNC officials arguing that current party rules allow 2016 Republican National Convention delegates to...
View ArticleReport Finds Registered Lobbyists Among Democratic Superdelegates
A new report found that some Democratic superdelegates are also registered lobbyists. In the Democratic Party’s presidential primary process, superdelegates are party insiders who are allowed to vote...
View ArticleTrump Calls NATO ‘Obsolete’
Following the deadly March 22 coordinated terror attacks in Brussels, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is arguing that the Brussels-headquartered North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
View ArticleCruz Proposes Increased Police Patrols in U.S. Muslim Neighborhoods
“We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized,” said 2016 Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator from Texas Ted Cruz in a...
View ArticleTrump on Gaddafi in 2011: U.S. Should ‘Immediately Go into Libya, Knock This...
In 2011, Donald Trump posted a videoblog, seen above, in which he passionately argued in favor of U.S. intervention in Libya, calling for Muammar Gaddafi to be taken out in a series of surgical...
View ArticleDONEGAN: With GOP, Democrats in Turmoil, Libertarian Party Makes Historic Gains
The unexpected, meteoric rise of celebrity presidential candidate Donald Trump has torn the Republican Party asunder, causing many leading GOP politicos that once represented the party’s establishment...
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