The longtime former butler to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called for President Obama to be killed, and now the Secret Service said it will conduct an investigation. Liberal magazine Mother Jones reported on Anthony Senecal’s Facebook posts, including one from Wednesday in which he wrote Obama “should have been taken out by our […]
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Who would be governor if Paul LePage joined a Trump administration?
PORTLAND — Gov. Paul LePage has floated the idea he could play a role in a Donald Trump presidency, a move that might benefit the state’s Senate president, a fellow Republican with whom he has had a tepid relationship. LePage, whose term as governor doesn’t expire until 2018, would have to leave office early if he […]
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When Trump met Ryan: ‘A very positive step toward party unity’
Updated 11:50 a.m.: The highest-ranking woman in the House GOP leadership calls the meeting with Donald Trump a “very important first step” toward unifying Republicans. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state says Thursday’s meeting was the first chance for her to make clear to the presumptive presidential nominee this core value for the party: […]
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Donald Trump says he has 5 or 6 names for Veep
NEW YORK — Shifting swiftly to the general election, Donald Trump says he’s narrowed his list of potential running mates to “five or six” people and doesn’t want to accept taxpayer money to finance a fall campaign against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. In a break from recent major party nominees, Trump does not plan […]
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Have to give Trump his due
Every Trump critic had “Oh, hell” moments during the primary season. They were when Donald Trump demonstrated a keen, gut-level political instinct that even an exceptionally talented conventional politician would be hard-pressed to match. An example: During a Republican debate in Florida in February, Trump was asked about former Mexican President Vicente Fox’s comment that […]
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Chris Christie gains power as head of Trump’s transition team
TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to endorse Donald Trump back in February brought him plenty of derision at the time. But it’s bringing rewards now that it’s clear he bet on the winner. With Trump having effectively clinched the Republican presidential nomination following a bruising primary fight, Christie now sees vindication of what […]
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Do not see Trump as the new ‘normal’
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s Republican primary triumph means that this cannot be a normal election. Americans who see our country as a model of tolerance, inclusion, rationality and liberty must come together across party lines to defeat him decisively. Many forces will be at work in the coming weeks to normalize Trump — and, yes, […]
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What Trump must do to beat Clinton
By Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg View In the last four presidential elections, the Republican nominee has never won less than 90 percent of the Republican vote. Republicans won the popular vote only one of those times, in 2004, and when they did they carried 93 percent of Republican voters. Donald Trump has defied the odds before, […]
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Money and power corrupts
It is sickening and sad to hear a candidate for president of the United States acting like a spoiled adolescent, yet still get support from thousands of people nationwide. He acts like a bully, too. Are people so bitter and immature that they accept Donald Trump’s name-calling and egotistical self-centeredness as acceptable for a presidential […]
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Sen. Susan Collins could support Donald Trump
On Wednesday morning, she was heard on a WGAN radio show saying she could back Trump if he stopped the “gratuitous personal insults” and “bizarre” behavior. Collins also said she wants to hear more specifics on what a Trump presidency would look like. Collins, who didn’t endorsed a candidate after Bush dropped out of the […]