Hillary Clinton Has Been Diagnosed with Pneumonia

After nearly fainting at the National September 11 Memorial in New York City on Sunday, Hillary Clinton's doctor says the Democratic presidential candidate is recovering from pneumonia in a statement

Shock Poll: Trump’s Black Support Grows 6X in Week

The Los Angeles Times/USC Dornsife national tracking poll of the presidential campaign picked up a sharp uptick in African-American support for Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, which it now pegs at 14.6 percent.
When the “Daybreak” poll began July 10, Trump‘s support among black voters was 4.6 percent and he fluctuated between 5.4 percent Aug. 1 and 2.5 percent Aug. 11.

Shock Poll: Trump’s Black Support Grows 6X in Week

The Los Angeles Times/USC Dornsife national tracking poll of the presidential campaign picked up a sharp uptick in African-American support for Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, which it now pegs at 14.6 percent.
When the “Daybreak” poll began July 10, Trump‘s support among black voters was 4.6 percent and he fluctuated between 5.4 percent Aug. 1 and 2.5 percent Aug. 11.

50 G.O.P. Officials Warn Donald Trump Would Put Nation’s Security ‘at Risk’

Fifty of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald J. Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president and “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.”

Trump on Clinton: 'She took a short-circuit in the brain'

Windham, New Hampshire (CNN)Donald Trump pumped up his attacks on Hillary Clinton's character Saturday night by suggesting that the former secretary of state is not mentally fit to be president."She took a short-circuit in the brain. She's got problems," Trump said, seizing on Clinton's explanation that she "short-circuited" a recent answer about her truthfulness in discussing her email server.

GOP Reaches ‘New Level of Panic’ Over Trump’s Candidacy

Turmoil in the Republican Party escalated Wednesday as party leaders, strategists and donors voiced increased alarm about the flailing state of Donald Trump’s candidacy and fears that the presidential nominee was damaging the party with an extraordinary week of self-inflicted mistakes, gratuitous attacks and missed opportunities.

Donald Trump Says He Was Just Being "Sarcastic" About Asking Russia To Hack Our Emails

The Donald, what have you done again?GOP front-runner Donald Trump has gotten a lot of flak for some of the ridiculous statements he's made this campaign season, including that women who seek abortions should be punished, and that Mexico should pay for a wall at the U.S. border. There's no shortage of lists of the shocking things he's said.

Leaked DNC Documents Show Plans To Reward Big Donors With Federal Appointments

Democratic National Committee documents recently released by WikiLeaks include spreadsheets and emails that appear to show party officials planning which donors and prominent fundraisers to provide with appointments to federal boards and commissions.

Trump's Appetite for Destruction: How Disastrous Convention Doomed GOP

Hell, yes, it was crazy. You rubbed your eyes at the sight of it, as in, "Did that really just happen?"
Donald Trump is no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever.
It wasn't what we expected. We thought Donald Trump's version of the Republican National Convention would be a brilliantly bawdy exercise in Nazistic excess.

Ted Cruz Did Not Endorse The Donald!

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) gave a stirring address to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, but failed to endorse Donald Trump, telling Americans to “vote your conscience.”
Cruz congratulated Donald Trump on winning the party’s nomination, but stopped short of endorsing Trump outright, saying merely that he wanted to see the party’s principles prevailing in November.

Melania Trump Basically Copies a 2008 Michelle Obama Speech at the RNC

Who said the speech better?lol!If you were listening closely to Melania Trump's speech during the Republican National Convention tonight, and felt a bit of déjà vu, you weren't alone.While presidential candidate Donald Trump's wife took the podium tonight for the first night of the convention in Cleveland to address her husband's run for the White House, the Slovanian model received cheers and applause from the audience.

Bernie Sanders Staying In Democratic Race Despite Hillary Clinton Nabbing Nomination

A defiant Bernie Sanders declared he’s staying in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination despite Hillary Clinton becoming the presumed nominee after her sweeping Super Tuesday victories. Read on for what he had to say about his campaign moving forward.
Bernie Sanders, 74, is holding strong and refusing to back out of the Democratic race for the White House, even though Hillary Clinton, 68, made history June 7, becoming the Democratic party’s

Clinton wins Puerto Rico, on cusp of Democratic nod

Hillary Clinton defeated her rival Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico’s Democratic primary Sunday, bringing her to the brink of victory in their long-fought battle for the party’s presidential nomination. Former secretary of state Clinton won with 59.38 percent of the vote against 37.53 percent for Sanders, according to official results from the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico. Victory in debt-hobbled Puerto Rico marked a double dose of good news for Clinton over the weekend, with another territory, the US Virgin Islands, voting overwhelmingly for her on Saturday. The pair of wins

Yes, Trump Can Win

By Sean Trende.Throughout this primary season, I’ve had an ongoing fight with a co-worker about whether Donald Trump could win the general election.  I was pretty firmly in the “if the economy collapses, maybe, but he is much more likely to drag the entire Republican field down with him” camp.To resolve this, my co-worker invited me to set up some benchmarks: what we would have to see in order to believe that Trump really could win the election – not just that he had some sort of

Sanders Crushing Trump in Polls 53 Percent to 38 Percent, Seen as Strongest General Election Candidate

The Vermont Senator is poised to arrive at the Democratic convention as the stronger candidate to take on Trump.Senator Bernie Sanders would defeat Donald Trump relatively easily in a general election, according to the latest polls. An average of the three most recent major polls predicts a victory of more than 14 points, which would be a landslide in modern presidential politics.

Donald Trump Named Presumptive GOP Nominee As Ted Cruz Drops Out of Presidential Race

BY NAJA RAYNE .Donald Trump is one step closer to securing the Republican nomination for president. Following Tuesday night's primary in Indiana, the GOP front-runner was named the presumptive nominee after Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced that he was suspending his campaign.
"Donald Trump will be presumptive GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton #NeverClinton," Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus tweeted.

Anti-Trump Protest Intensifies in Orange County as Roads are Blocked, Police Window Smashed

BY NAJA RAYNE @najarayne,people

A protest outside of Donald Trump's rally at the Orange County Amphitheatre intensified on Thursday night when protestors blocked roads and smashed the window of a police cruiser, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the newspaper, residents also threw rocks at motorists, put holes in the tires of a police SUV, and even attempted to flip a police vehicle as a proclamation of their opposition to the GOP front-runner. The protest occurred after Trump's rally had ended.

Bernie Sanders Has a Superdelegate Problem

There was a stretch of days and weeks in the not-too-distant past during which Bernie Sanders was winning primary after caucus after primary, but he still seemed unable to cut into Hillary Clinton's lead in any meaningful way.Clinton had vaulted far ahead of the Vermont Senator with strong showings in the first and second Super Tuesdays of the election. That reality, coupled with the fact that most Democratic primaries award delegates on a proportional, rather than a winner-take-all, basis made it tough for Sanders to close the gap between himself and the former secretary of State.It didn't help that a majority of superdelegates — elected politicians and party apparatchik who can vote for any candidate — decided to throw their weight behind Clinton early on.

The Biggest Moments Of The Brawl In Brooklyn — & What Women Really Think About The Candidates

It’s being called the Brooklyn brawl and the night the gloves came off. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sparred in New York on Thursday night during the final debate before the state's primary on April 19.

Why Thousands of Americans Are Lining Up to Get Arrested in D.C. This Week

Chanting, "Money ain't speech, corporations aren't people!" and "We are the 99 percent!" around 425 protesters were arrested Monday in a mass sit-in on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., and more have returned to face arrest Tuesday. The demonstration, called Democracy