Hillary Clinton Is The Debate Winner: Donald Trump Loses All Three Presidential Debates Despite Insults
Hillary Clinton sighed and rolled her eyes through the final presidential debate Wednesday night, emerging the winner largely by ignoring Donald Trump’s bait about her husband’s many alleged affairs, his accusations that she created ISIS and any probing questions about her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Pundits said heading into […]
How Wall Street Could Control Retirement Savings
While Hillary Clinton has spent the presidential campaign saying as little as possible about her ties to Wall Street, the executive who some observers say could be her Treasury Secretary has been openly promoting a plan to give financial firms control of hundreds of billions of dollars in retirement savings. The executive is Tony James, […]
Fact-checking Trump and Clinton on the Billionaire’s Tax Break
The only thing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump seemed to agree upon in last Sunday’s debate — indeed, one of the few substantive policy exchanges they had — was the need to eliminate a tax benefit that collectively saves private equity, real estate, and venture capital partners billions of dollars each year. But their exchange […]
Muslims Back Clinton, Poll Finds
Muslims are expected to get out and vote in large numbers on Election Day — and they’re largely voting for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a poll released Thursday from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. It’s perhaps an unsurprising revelation, since the other major-party nominee, Republican Donald Trump, called for a ban on Muslim […]
Donald Trump: ISIS Will Take Over U.S. If Clinton Wins
Donald Trump told a rally of supporters in Florida Wednesday that electing Hillary Clinton as president next month would see the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) “take over this country,” as he continued to brush off a string of recent controversies. The firebrand Republican presidential candidate told voters in Ocala, Florida, that the extremist group […]
Leaked email shows Democrats knew that raising the minimum wage would cost jobs
Among the slew of private emails WikiLeaks recently released from the Hillary Clinton campaign, one focused on the Democratic nominee’s proposed $15 federal minimum wage. Apparently her advisers and others in Clinton’s orbit knew that position might not actually be helpful in practice. Related: Leaked email shows how much Hillary Clinton’s campaign feared Rand Paul […]
Round 2: The I-Need-A-Shower Debate
They did shake hands at the very end, but it was still such an upsetting evening that you kind of wish we could all be given a companion animal, a golden retriever to help deal with the trauma. It was bad enough that we—a nation of 330 million-plus—had to spend the last 48 hours listening […]
CNN Debate Live Updates 2016: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Best Quotes, Memes, Twitter Reaction And Analysis As It Happens
UPDATE: 7:30 p.m. EDT — Voters aren’t rushing to embrace Hillary Clinton after a leaked video Friday showed Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about women. Before the Sunday night debate, a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll taken after Trump’s remarks were made public showed Clinton ahead at 42 percent, a 1-point gain. Trump, however, was sinking. He […]
Clinton vs Trump: How they said what they said
Washington, DC – “The maverick versus the veteran.” That is how one political consultant described Monday night’s US presidential debate after the 90-minute showdown. The interval-free debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton started somewhat subdued – but ultimately grew in pace, tone and unsurprisingly, insults. To provide a deeper […]
Clinton and Trump clash over terrorism after bombings
The attacks in New York and New Jersey look set to dominate the presidential debate and both candidates quickly clashed in their reactions to events. Donald Trump again targeted what he called lax immigration controls, blaming poor screening of immigrants. At a rally in Florida the Republican candidate called on the authorities to get information […]