Author: Steve Peoples
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Trump rejects ‘phony’ polls, insists ‘we are winning’
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — A defiant Donald Trump blamed his campaign struggles on “phony polls” from the “disgusting” media on Monday, fighting to energize his most loyal supporters as his path to the presidency shrinks. With just 14 days until the election, the Republican nominee campaigned in battleground Florida as his team conceded publicly as…
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Trump lashes his accusers as ‘horrible, horrible liars’
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Donald Trump heatedly rejected new allegations of sexual assault as “pure fiction” on Thursday, hammering his female accusers as “horrible, horrible liars” as the already-nasty 2016 presidential campaign sank further into charges and countercharges of attacks on women. Campaign foe Hillary Clinton was mostly silent on the issue. But Trump…
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Trump: “Zero chance I’ll quit”
NEW YORK — Republican leaders from Utah to Alabama called on Donald Trump to leave the presidential race as a party in crisis grappled with the fallout from its White House nominee’s vulgar and sexually charged comments caught on tape. Trump said Saturday he won’t quit — “never.” House Speaker Paul Ryan and various other…
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Who pays for the wall? Dispute clouds Trump’s Mexico visit
MEXICO CITY — On Mexican soil for the first time as the Republican presidential nominee, a firm but measured Donald Trump defended the right of the United States to build a massive border wall along its southern flank, standing up for the centerpiece of his immigration plan in a country where he is widely despised.…
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Trump ends standoff with Ryan, strains to fix split GOP
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan late Friday, ending a four-day standoff between the GOP’s most powerful men that exposed deepening concerns about the New York billionaire’s presidential candidacy. Ryan, like other top Wisconsin Republicans, did not attend Trump’s evening appearance in their state. Having refused to endorse the speaker…
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Turning back on Trump, Koch network focuses on Senate during Colorado Springs meetings
Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch declared Sunday in Colorado Springs that his expansive political network would not support Donald Trump, but the 80-year-old conservative icon insisted he would not support Hillary Clinton, either. Koch, a popular target of Democrats, called any rumor that he would back the Democratic presidential candidate “a blood libel.” “At this point…
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Ted Cruz taps Carly Fiorina to serve as running mate
INDIANAPOLIS — In need of momentum after a five-state shutout, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Wednesday tapped former technology executive Carly Fiorina — a woman he said has repeatedly “shattered glass ceilings” — to serve as his running mate. The Texas senator announced his pick for vice president nearly three months before his party’s…
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Trump: Time to rally around me _ or expect voter riots
WASHINGTON — After yet another round of convincing victories for Donald Trump, Republican leaders spent Wednesday wavering between grudging acceptance and deep denial about the businessman’s likely ascent to the GOP presidential nomination. An emboldened Trump warned that if the party tried to block him, “You’d have riots.” With at least three more states in…
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Face to face: Obama, Romney in crackling debate
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of favoring a “one-point plan” to help the rich in America and playing politics with the deadly terrorist attack in Libya in a Tuesday night debate crackling with energy and emotion just three weeks before the election. Romney pushed back hard, saying the…
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Romney campaigns in Colorado with GOP’s rising stars
ASPEN — Mitt Romney is campaigning in Colorado alongside some the Republican Party’s rising stars. And a few of them are thought to be potential running mates for the presidential candidate. Romney says he’s looking forward to working with GOP governors like Chris Christie of New Jersey, Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Virginia’s Bob…