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2016 Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon, from left, Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc., Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, and John Kasich, governor of Ohio, participate in the Republican presidential primary candidate debate sponsored by CNN and Telemundo at the…
Photo Chris Christie and Donald J. Trump at the Republican debate in New Hampshire on Feb. 6.Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey endorsed Donald J. Trump on Friday, a major turn in a wild race and one that gives the New York businessman a major boost as he heads…
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Flas.) speaks during a rally on Friday in Dallas. (Brandon Wade/AP) DALLAS — For the first eight minutes of his final pre-Super Tuesday rally in Texas, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) ditched one of the tightest stump speeches in politics and hurled a luxury tower’s worth of kitchen sinks at Donald Trump. He mocked his…
Wolf Blitzer at CNN’s GOP debate at the University of Houston on Feb. 25, 2016 in Houston, Texas.Michael Ciaglo–Pool/Getty Images Donald Trump’s constant refrain about American decline, which has been heard throughout this campaign season, had an ironic undertone when uttered at Thursday night’s debate on CNN. Other than Trump’s rise, there is no…
I’m going to tell you the truth, friend. You say you want the truth. You say you want someone who speaks boldly and brashly and bluntly and “tells it like it is” and so on. According to exit polls in South Carolina, voters who want a president who “tells it like it is” are an essential…
How the US Went Fascist: Mass Media […] Donald Trump is interviewed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer for The Situation Room. (Photo by Regine Mahaux/Getty Images) This post originally appeared at Juan Cole’s blog, Informed Comment. The rise of Donald Trump to the presumptive Republican standard bearer for president in 2016 is an indictment of, and…
The first thing you notice at Donald Trump’s rallies is the confidence. Amateur psychologists have wishfully diagnosed him from afar as insecure, but in person the notion seems absurd. Donald Trump, insecure? We should all have such problems. Illustration by Robert Grossman At the Verizon Giganto-Center in Manchester the night before the New Hampshire primary,…
We use the word “troll” liberally these days. Take a spin through Google News using the word as a search term. You’ll see Maxim calling Kanye West a troll for tweeting that Mark Zuckerberg should give him a billion dollars. Then you’ll see Sports Illustrated saying the Grammys “trolled” Kanye. A 12-year-old with Down’s Syndrome…
Comedian and voice actor Harry Shearer somehow got his hands on audio of Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough chatting behind-the-scenes with Donald Trump in between breaks of their MSNBC town hall, playing it on his weekly radio show Le Show. Throughout the six minutes or so, Trump and the MSNBC hosts chat amiably about a variety of topics, including politics, the…
The beginning of the end of the Republican Party has started. On Friday, I told you the Republican Party is dying. Then, yesterday, Ross Douthat in the New York Times echoed my key point. Mine was that the Republican leaders in Washington would see the decline of Donald Trump as proof that they need do…