All posts tagged "GOP"

  • cruz
    Cruz emboldened, but needs a near miracle to catch Trump

    WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) — While Ted Cruz decried “gutter politics” against him, former Republican presidential contenders gave him a boost Wednesday, casting the Texas senator as the party’s last best chance to stop Donald Trump. The long...

    • Posted March 23, 2016
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  • Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on Super Tuesday primary election night at the White and Gold Ballroom at The Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
    Trump demands GOP embrace him as Dems unleash new attacks

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A front-runner under attack from all sides, Republican Donald Trump demanded that his party’s skeptical establishment embrace the inevitability of his presidential nomination as he stormed into Washington on Monday. Democrats responded by debuting...

    • Posted March 22, 2016
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  • Barack Obama, Merrick Garland
    First GOP senator calls for vote on Garland court nomination

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mark Kirk became the first Republican senator to break with party leaders and call for a vote on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court selection, saying Friday, “It’s just man up and cast a...

    • Posted March 18, 2016
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  • Graphic shows results of March 15 contests; Updates vote percentages and delegate allocations. (AP)
    Trump still must do better to guarantee nomination

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is the only candidate with a path to clinching the Republican nomination for president before the party’s national convention in July, according to an analysis of the delegate math. But despite four...

    • Posted March 16, 2016
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  • President Barack Obama speaks during a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Rose Garden of White House in Washington, Thursday, March 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
    It’s personal: Obama says GOP hostility to him led to Trump

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama blames years of knee-jerk GOP hostility toward him for fueling Donald Trump’s rise, arguing Thursday that Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. Trump’s GOP rivals headed into their final...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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  • Donald Trump (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
    Rattled Republicans seek a last-ditch strategy to stop Trump

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down the prospect of nominating Donald Trump for president, Republicans spiraled into a chaotic, last-ditch search Wednesday for a way to save the GOP from hitching its fortunes to an unpredictable celebrity candidate...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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  • FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks in St. Louis. Carson has moved into the top tier of the 2016 presidential race as quietly as Donald Trump crashed the party with bombast, and he'll join the billionaire real-estate mogul as a focus of attention at the GOP's second debate. (AP Photo/Sid Hastings, File)
    Ben Carson says ‘no path forward’ in his bid for White House

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said he is effectively ending his bid for the White House Wednesday, concluding a roller-coaster campaign that briefly took him to the top of a chaotic GOP field but ended...

    • Posted March 2, 2016
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