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Trump calls on Kasich to quit race: ‘He’s taking my votes’

MILWAUKEE – Donald Trump on Sunday called for John Kasich to drop out of the Republican presidential race, arguing that the Ohio governor shouldn’t be allowed to continue accumulating delega...

DATE: Apr 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump, Ryan increasingly at odds over future of the GOP

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump wants to win the White House in the fall. Paul Ryan wants to save his vision of the Republican Party for years to come. Those goals put Trump and Ryan in...

DATE: Mar 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sanders wins 3 states; Clinton retains big delegate lead

WASHINGTON – Bernie Sanders scored three wins in Western caucus contests, giving a powerful psychological boost to his supporters but doing little to move him closer to securing the Democrat...

DATE: Mar 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump demands GOP embrace him as Dems unleash new attacks

WASHINGTON – A front-runner under attack from all sides, Republican Donald Trump demanded that his party’s skeptical establishment embrace the inevitability of his presidential nomination as...

DATE: Mar 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump and Cruz tap their inner fishermen to reel in voting bloc

Donald Trump favors bespoke suits, jets, gilded New York towers and once declared on Twitter: “I’m not a hunter and don’t approve of killing animals.” Yet Sportsmen for Trump is rallying beh...

DATE: Mar 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gaffe Proof? Trump vs. Clinton tests political pitfalls

WASHINGTON – When is a gaffe not a gaffe? When Donald Trump says it. Over 72 hours earlier in the month, the Republican front-runner faced a campaign crisis after unrest at his ev...

DATE: Mar 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

2016 race barrels toward potentially decisive primary day

HANOVERTON, Ohio – The tumultuous presidential primary season barreled toward a potentially decisive day for both Republicans and Democrats, with enough delegates up for grabs Tuesday to tur...

DATE: Mar 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP hopeful Donald Trump stands by his campaign rhetoric

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Showing no signs of trying to ease the nation’s tense political atmosphere, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is standing by his antagonistic campaign rhetoric, reject...

DATE: Mar 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Who’s an outsider? GOP establishment fears loss of standing

WASHINGTON – Republican leaders in Washington have spent years casting tea party allies and hardliners in Congress as merely a restive minority, a fringe element to be tolerated. ...

DATE: Mar 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Some in GOP start seeing Cruz as best alternative to Trump

WASHINGTON – Republican leaders on Sunday grappled with the prospect that the best hope for stopping Donald Trump’s march to the nomination may be Ted Cruz – the only candidate who causes as...

DATE: Mar 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New rancor, tough talk in Clinton-Sanders Democratic debate

FLINT, Mich. – Ratcheting up the rancor, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled aggressively in a Democratic presidential debate Sunday night over trade, Wall Street influence and more, ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cruz wins Kansas in GOP battle for delegates

WICHITA, Kan. – Ted Cruz claimed the first prize in Saturday’s four-state round of Republican voting, triumphing in Kansas as front-runner Donald Trump tried to pad his delegate lead in the ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World