Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Hillary Clinton ally and once one of the most powerful politicians in the state, is going to be spending much of his remaining life in jail for corruption. Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday, capping one of the steepest… Read More
GOP tells Republicans to rally around Trump
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his presidential campaign Tuesday, eliminating the biggest impediment to Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination. Following his announcement, the Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus responded and called for unity behind Trump against the presumable Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. .@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive… Read More
Trumped! Cruz drops out of presidential race
He promised to hang on until the Republican National Convention in July. But after a crushing loss in Indiana on Tuesday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz officially ended his bid for the presidency. Cruz, a political firebrand and Tea Party favorite, failed to gain traction as GOP frontrunner Donald Trump dominated headlines and polls. He… Read More
Panic time! Key voters ditch Hillary
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has long been obsessed with the idea of becoming America’s first female president. But the Clinton campaign’s recent stop in West Virginia may prove that the White House will remain out of her reach again — and could instead fall into the hands of GOP… Read More
DefeaTED: Cruz campaign finished tonight
Is this the end of Republican Ted Cruz’s presidential run? Tonight, Cruz faces a high-stakes test for his slumping presidential campaign in Tuesday’s Indiana primary, one of the last opportunities for the Texas senator to halt Donald Trump’s stunning march toward the GOP nomination. If he fails again, political analysts… Read More
Nightmare! Clinton heading toward contested convention
Hillary Clinton’s pursuit of the Democratic party’s presidential nomination was supposed to be a cake walk — but it turned into a dog fight instead. And, unfortunately for Clinton, it may not be over yet. While Clinton and her campaign have done everything they can to declare rival Bernie Sanders’… Read More
DeserTED! Delegates ditching Cruz in droves
While billionaire businessman Donald Trump might lock up the Republican presidential nomination in the next five weeks of voting, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been busy for weeks courting delegates behind the scenes that can act independent of voters’ wills — a system Trump has called “corrupt.” Trump supporters haven’t… Read More
New rule: No more voting selfies
If you want to share your voting experience on social media, you’ll have to find some way other than taking a photo in the voting booth. West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant says it’s forbidden. Tennant said in a news release Friday that it’s illegal to photograph any… Read More
Dems confess: Clinton has no chance against Trump
As the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries begin to wrap up, frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have begun to square off. And the presumptive match-up is terrifying for at least one prominent Democratic strategist. According to The Daily Caller on Wednesday, “Democratic strategist Dave ‘Mudcat’ Saunders believes Donald Trump… Read More
Big GOP campaign donors shun Cruz, Kasich
It seems like a logical pairing: Republican donors who despise Donald Trump, and two GOP presidential rivals sticking it out to keep him from the nomination. Yet those donors have largely shunned Ted Cruz and John Kasich, depriving each of them as much as $39 million in what has become… Read More