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Donald Trump is juggling two brewing controversies not directly involving him, but his campaign today. The campaign was forced to release a terse four word statement on the arrest of a North Carolina supporter caught assaulting a protestor at a Fayetteville rally last night: “We are not involved.” The Trump campaign’s official response to allegations…
Let us now address the greatest American mystery at the moment: what motivates the supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump? I call it a “mystery” because the working-class white people who make up the bulk of Trump’s fan base show up in amazing numbers for the candidate, filling stadiums and airport hangars, but their…
The Trump supporter who was filmed sucker punching a protester during Wednesday’s rally in North Carolina said: “Next time, we might have to kill him.” Read: Protester Gets Sucker Punched By Trump Supporter During Raucous Rally Multiple videos show the protester, 26-year-old Rakeem Jones, raising a middle finger to the crowd as security escorted him from…
Bernie Sanders’ victory in Michigan Tuesday may have terrified Democratic Party elites and liberal pragmatists all over, but it reflects something much more fateful than a serve or a curveball in these primary games. It suggests that more Americans than just 20-somethings are awakening to a reality much harder and darker than anything this election alone…
Photo Ben Carson at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland last week.Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times MIAMI — Ben Carson, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon who ended his presidential bid last week, plans to endorse Donald J. Trump Friday morning, three people familiar with the discussions said. Mr. Carson will make his endorsement, first…
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come not to praise Marco Rubio – dear God, never, ever that – but to bury him. And then to salt the earth in the hope that he will never come back. The Rubio campaign is on its last legs, stumbling dehydrated and desperate through the Florida…
I’m dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.” Do you still feel the same? If you loved Trump, would Salon even let you proclaim it? I mean, they’re kind of as liberal as they come, no? Why can’t there be a…
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert last night weighed in on Donald Trump’s bizarre victory press conference in Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday. As Colbert noted, “Trump’s victory speech had a little bit of product placement.” “Trump gave his victory speech next to a pyramid of raw steak,” Colbert said, referring to the Bush Brothers steak Trump tried to…
This week, Donald Trump won primaries in Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii, and then proceeded to give perhaps the strangest victory speech in the history of American presidential races. Trump had assembled a pile of meat, wines, a pyramid of bottled water, and one magazine to make a point that he is a successful businessman. You…
At tonight’s Democratic debate on Univision, moderator Karen Tumulty asked both candidates—point blank—whether or not they believed that noted racist Donald Trump was, in fact, a racist. The candidates’ collective response: Welllll……. More specifically, Hillary began her answer by declaring that, should she be nominated, there will be plenty of time “to talk about [Trump]….