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Way back in August of 2015, when Scott Walker was still running for the White House and the Marco Moment was an as-yet unobserved phenomenon, all the top-tier Republican presidential candidates gathered together on stage for the first time to debate. Fox News’ Bret Baier kicked off the questioning by asking the candidates to raise…
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday there would “have to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions if the procedure were outlawed in the U.S. The comment, which is sure to rile abortion-rights supporters, came during a week where Trump is fighting to defend himself on women’s issues on multiple fronts ahead of a…
Sen. Marco Rubio, flanked by his family, announces he is suspending his campaign after losing his home state of Florida to Donald Trump on March 15. Angel Valentin/Getty Images How far will Republicans go to deny Donald Trump the nomination at a contested convention this summer? Pretty damn far. Consider: Marco Rubio, a man…
Photo Donald J. Trump and Anderson Cooper at a town hall-style event hosted on Tuesday by CNN.Credit Darren Hauck/Getty Images Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday night that he no longer vowed to support the Republican nominee if it isn’t him, despite a loyalty pledge that all Republican primary candidates signed last year. “No, I…
Donald Trump can find something to hate about pretty much everyone. The GOP frontrunner has proudly proclaimed one horrible, misogynist thing after another about women, immigrants, foreigners, everyone, but he’s pretty much left Hollywood alone. Until now. Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski managed to dig up Trump’s unasked-for opinions on the looks of some of the most beautiful women…
Donald Trump on Tuesday continued to defend his campaign manager after he was charged earlier in the day with simple battery for allegedly manhandling former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields at an event in Jupiter, Florida. “It’s a sad day in this country when a man can be destroyed over something like that,” Trump said while…
Photo: AP Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, and always one for public self-flagellation, has whole-heartedly embraced the idea that “we in the media” have “empowered” Donald Trump. This is incorrect. According to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, barely half of GOP primary voters said that they’d be satisfied with…
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz hugs his wife, Heidi, during a campaign rally in Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 19.Jim Watson/Getty Images One accomplishment of Donald Trump’s campaign for president has been to reveal that American politics had not previously been as degraded as some of us thought. Before he entered the scene, many…
Thank you, Donald Trump. Unwittingly, you’ve done something important. You’ve exposed AIPAC’s indifference to the well being of the country in which it thrives. My country. The United States. Once upon a time, the leaders of American Zionism divided their time. They struggled to establish, defend and improve the State of Israel because of…
Donald Trump and Ivana Trump, in Beverly Hills, California, 1989.Ron Galella/WireImage Donald Trump holds one core belief. It’s not limited government. He favored a state takeover of health care before he was against it. Nor is it economic populism. Despite many years of arguing the necessity of taxing the rich, he now wants to…