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House Speaker Paul Ryan refuses to back Donald Trump
House Speaker Paul Ryan is refusing to support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president.
Trump-supporting tow truck driver leaves Sanders supporter stranded
Kenneth Shupe tells FOX Carolina that he stopped hooking up a woman’s car to his tow truck Monday after he noticed a sign supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in rear window of the vehicle.
Republican Senate candidate says he won’t vote for Trump
Chris Vance, who is running against incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, said Thursday that unless a conservative third-party alternative comes forward by November, he won’t vote for president in the election.
Bernie Sanders’ money tightens as California race looms
As Bernie Sanders looks toward California to make a defiant final stand, he is bumping up against a dilemma that his campaign has not had to confront in some time. He is running short on cash.
Trump’s self-funding pledge is fading away
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is building a finance operation that will raise money for the general election, two people familiar with the plan said.
Election analysis: Ted Cruz ran a good campaign – for 2012
He was the first of 17 Republicans to announce his presidential run in a commanding, preacherlike speech at a religious university.
Trump’s open path to nomination causes agony for some in GOP
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s last Republican foe, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, ended his quixotic presidential campaign Wednesday, cementing Trump’s remarkable triumph as his party’s presumptive nominee and launching him toward a likely fall battle with Hillary Clinton. Some Republican leaders began reluctantly rallying around Trump, but others agonized over their party’s future. The billionaire businessman vowed to unite the splintered GOP, even as he was bitingly dismissive of members who have been critical of his campaign.
Rolling Stones asks Trump to stop using songs
The Rolling Stones have asked presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to stop playing their songs at his campaign events.
The Latest: Bernie Sanders gets delegate boost; challenge remains
The Latest on campaign 2016 as voters in Indiana head to the polls for the state primary.
Donald Trump virtually clinches Republican presidential nomination
In a stunning triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked rival Ted Cruz out of the race and cleared Trump’s path to a likely November face-off with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Exit poll: Indiana GOP voters pick Donald Trump, but party divided
Donald Trump can thank male voters for his big victory Tuesday night in the Indiana Republican primary.
Survey: Trump presidency would prompt U.S. pullback by foreign companies
Foreign corporations would dramatically scale back their plans to invest in the U.S. if billionaire Donald Trump is elected president, according to a survey conducted in January for global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.
Sanders says he must win half remaining delegates
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says Indiana’s primary on Tuesday will be important to his goal of amassing as many delegates as possible to catch up with rival Hillary Clinton. And he’s acknowledging that’s a big challenge. In Evansville, Indiana, Sanders is telling supporters that with 10 states left, his campaign needs to earn more than 50 percent of the remaining delegates up for grabs. The Vermont senator says he will “fight hard as hard as we can for every vote.”
Abroad, Trump seen as both a danger and a mystery
The world is fascinated by Donald Trump, just as blindsided as many Americans about his rise and nearly at a loss to understand what he would do as president.
What 8 years of Senate votes reveal about Hillary Clinton
Now that her dominance of the Acela primaries has moved Hillary Clinton’s nomination to the cusp of mathematical certainty, millions of voters will soon start looking for evidence to shape their judgment about her this fall.
Ted Cruz getting Indiana governor’s endorsement
In a setback for Donald Trump, Indiana’s governor is endorsing chief rival Ted Cruz before the state’s critical Republican primary contest.
Sanders, Kasich visit Oregon as presidential hopes slip
Democrat Bernie Sanders’ struggling campaign returned to Oregon to make sure he can count on the state’s progressive voters in the May 17 primary.
Former Speaker Boehner calls Cruz ‘Lucifer in the flesh’
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Thursday that former House Speaker John Boehner let his “inner Trump come out” when he called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh” during a talk to students at Stanford University.
Sanders, Kasich holding rallies in Oregon Thursday
Democrat Bernie Sanders is making his third trip to Oregon since August, this time holding a rally on Thursday in Springfield in advance of the May 17 primary.