Delegates Awarded to Republican Candidates | InsideGov WASHINGTON — Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign. Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate […]
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Anti-Trump protestors clash with police in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In one of the presidential campaign year’s more grisly spectacles, protesters in New Mexico opposing Donald Trump’s candidacy threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, injuring several, and toppled trash cans and barricades. Police responded by firing pepper spray and smoke grenades into the crowd outside the Albuquerque […]
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Concerned about Donald Trump
Being keyed up by the shenanigans of Donald Trump, a few questions come to mind. How did this nation go, without gradual transition, from genteel presidential candidates of even the recent past to one outlandish boor in one leap? Will Trump’s so-far successful campaign be a catalyst for breeding other unconventional aspirants into subsequent runs […]
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Trump, Sanders move politics leftward
The upshot of the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump phenomena is that both parties are moving to the left. Sanders’ and Trump’s styles and affects are very different — the rumpled, oddball lecturer in Socialism 101 vs. the boastful, power-tie-wearing business mogul — but they have worked in tandem to ensure that the center of […]
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Trump is who he is
Who or what is Donald Trump? Not intending to reduce government to the size of a boson, he can’t be a right-wing nut-bag. As for being a liberal, he favors too many inhumane, Constitution-bashing, divisive and victimizing policies for that. No, it appears he actually is the character he presents himself to be, like the […]
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Sen. Angus King says Donald Trump is too ‘hot’ to lead
If you wonder whether Donald Trump’s lack of experience in the national security arena could hurt his candidacy, consider Senator Angus King, the only independent in Congress. After a recent trip on the “doomsday plane,” the one to be used by the president in the event of a nuclear attack, King has concluded that the […]
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Donald Trumps lists 11 prospective Supreme Court nominees
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he’s elected to the White House. Trump’s picks include: Steven Colloton of Iowa Allison Eid of Colorado Raymond Gruender […]
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Donald Trump bolsters staff in Maine
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is rushing to install operatives in several states that traditionally favor Democrats, pointing to a general election plan consistent with the campaign he has run thus far: Defying conventional wisdom and political trends. The staffing expansion includes Maine, Minnesota and other places where Trump opens as the underdog, with the New […]
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Has Trump hijacked the GOP?
We know that Donald Trump was a Democrat and a liberal. We also know that he is violent, i.e. “I’d like to punch him in the face.” He is profane, disrespectful, crude and is insulting to women and Spanish-speaking people. He will revive torture and also compel the use of water-boarding. In listening to his […]
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Trump sees government as little more than dealmaking
Prior to the 2012 election, Democrats had a theory: Republicans were in the grip of a “fever” that had led them to oppose and attempt to obstruct President Barack Obama at every turn. If Obama won a second term, the fever would break. President Obama himself floated the idea. It turned out to be completely […]