by Jim Heath | Jul 27, 2016 | Headlines, Republicans
Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, is deeply — and curiously — pro-Russian. He has expressed repeated admiration for President Vladimir Putin (admiration for anyone is hard to find when you review Trump’s tweets). He has rattled...
by Jim Heath | Jul 26, 2016 | Headlines, Republicans
During the 2012 presidential election Donald Trump blasted Mitt Romney for not releasing his tax returns (which he later did), but during his presidential campaign Trump has refused to do so. Conservative columnist George Will suggests it may be because Trump has...
by Jim Heath | Jul 22, 2016 | Headlines, Republicans
David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan wizard, has announced he’s seeking the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana. Duke says he was partially inspired by Donald Trump’s nomination and the message he’s running on. “I’m...
by Jim Heath | Jul 22, 2016 | Headlines, Republicans
For some inexplicable reason that only Donald Trump knows, the Republican presidential nominee, in a post-acceptance speech press conference, again stirred up the unsubstantiated rumor from the National Enquirer that Senator Ted Cruz’s father was somehow linked...
by Jim Heath | Jul 20, 2016 | Conventions, Headlines, Republicans
It should have been his moment, and his moment alone. Indiana Governor Mike Pence accepted the 2016 Republican vice presidential nomination to a huge ovation. But he had to follow one of the most controversial convention speeches in modern history after Republican...
by Jim Heath | Jul 20, 2016 | Headlines, Republicans
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, spent two days blaming the news media for manufacturing claims that Melania Trump’s convention speech Monday night had plagiarized portions of a speech by Michelle Obama. The repeated denials were absurd...
