All posts tagged "election"

  • Yoo Seong-min holds press conference in Daegu on March 23, 2016 to announce that he will run in next month's parliamentary race as an independent. (Yonhap)
    3 ruling party heavyweights to run for parliamentary seats as independents

    SEOUL/DAEGU (Yonhap) — Three lawmakers of the ruling Saenuri Party quit the party Wednesday to run in next month’s parliamentary race as independents, following a factional feud over the candidate selection process. Yoo Seong-min, former Saenuri floor...

    • Posted March 23, 2016
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    Once forgotten, a California primary could sway 2016 contest

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Imagine Ted Cruz walking precincts in Haight-Ashbury, the hippie homeland in Nancy Pelosi’s district. Or Donald Trump stumping in Compton, the West Coast capital of hip-hop. In California, expect the unexpected. A possibly...

    • Posted March 23, 2016
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  • Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, face off with protesters after a rally on the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago was cancelled due to security concerns Friday, March 11, 2016, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
    Historians warn about use of anger, race in 2016 elections

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Fear of a changing America is fueling some of the anger playing out publicly around Donald Trump’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination, historians Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Monday. “We...

    • Posted March 14, 2016
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  • Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton speaks during a rally at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Monday, March 7, 2016, in Detroit, Mich. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
    Clinton carries Mississippi; Trump, Cruz in tight GOP race

    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Hillary Clinton claimed victory Tuesday night in Mississippi, padding her lead in the Democratic presidential primary and highlighting anew her strength with black voters who will be crucial to her party’s prospects in...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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  • Voters fill out their ballots during the primary election Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at the Fort Gratiot Township Hall in Fort Gratiot, Mich. Presidential candidates in both parties were looking to Michigan on Tuesday for one of the largest delegate hauls in the bruising nominating contests. (Jeffrey M. Smith/The Times Herald via AP)
    Trump, Clinton look to pad leads in Michigan, Mississippi

    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton looked to pad their leads in Tuesday’s primary contests in Michigan and Mississippi, eager to turn their attention toward a general election fight for the White...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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  • Protesters yell as they are escorted out of a rally for Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump at Radford University in Radford, Va., Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
    GOP badly split as Trump, Clinton seek Super Tuesday wins

    VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — On the eve of Super Tuesday’s crucial primaries, a sharp new divide erupted between Republicans who pledge to fall in line behind Donald Trump if he wins their party’s nomination and others who...

    • Posted February 29, 2016
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  • In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Las Vegas. Legions of Republican voters are coming to grips with the idea that Donald Trump may be their party’s best chance for retaking the White House. Some love the idea. For many others, there’s shock, confusion and anxiousness, but also a feeling that he’d be better than another four years with a Democrat in the White House. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
    With Trump’s Nevada win, the race to Super Tuesday is on

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — With his big win in Nevada, Donald Trump claimed a third straight commanding victory in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Marco Rubio edged Ted Cruz in a tight race for second...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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