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Sanders, Clinton in tight race in California, poll shows

August 21, 2019 at 6:35 p.m.

Hillary Clinton's popularity has slumped in California under an unrelenting challenge from Bernie Sanders, who has succeeded in breaching the demographic wall Clinton had counted on to protect her in...

Voters cast their ballots in the Indiana primary at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Carmel, Ind., on May 3, 2016.

GOP voters wanted an outsider who would rework the economy: Donald Trump is their man

June 24, 2019 at 6:01 a.m.

The Republican race for president will go on through the mighty contests of early June, but it ended Tuesday. Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president because of...

Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, seen in a debate earlier this month, lead feuding factions of the party.

Bitter GOP divisions are like nothing the party has seen before

June 21, 2019 at 6:06 p.m.

Every day there's a new development in what pollster Randall Gutermuth calls this "hold your nose" presidential election. One day Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are beating each other up...

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton atthe CNN/TV One Ohio town hallin Columbus, Ohio.

Donald Trump casts a big shadow in the Democratic race too

May 14, 2019 at 6:02 a.m.

Donald Trump has not only roiled the Republican presidential race, but also the focus of the Democratic one, at least temporarily. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders opened a rally at the...

Protesters speak out during a Donald Trump campaign rally March 11, 2016, inside the UIC Pavilion.

For Donald Trump, protests create short-term benefit, long-term threat

May 17, 2019 at 10:46 p.m.

A flammable brew of populist anger, a candidate's provocative remarks and disruptive protesters found a fuse, and the result, at what was to be a Donald Trump event in Chicago...

Campaign violence and Donald Trump: Hardly surprising, entirely predictable

June 21, 2019 at 8:24 a.m.

Violence splashed across the television screen Friday night like a horrific flashback from the 1960s, as fistfights and shoving broke out among thousands of supporters and opponents at a Donald...

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is followed by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., during a campaign stop Feb. 29, 2016, in Knoxville, Tenn.

Clinton wins by easing Democratic split; Trump wins by exploiting GOP divisions

June 19, 2019 at 10:24 p.m.

The presidential race will go on for months, but both parties' front-runners leaped closer Tuesday to becoming nominees. Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton won every state up for grabs,...

Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, N.H.

Apocalyptic N.H. campaign rhetoric aimed at the angry and the aggrieved

June 22, 2019 at 11:55 a.m.

The villages and towns of New Hampshire are as scenic as ever, the people as friendly as can be. The unemployment rate is 3.1%, about a third lower than the...

John Kasich, Ohio governor, announced July 21, 2015, that he will seek the Republican nomination for president.

Dramatically different presidential race drives into New Hampshire

June 23, 2019 at 10:53 p.m.

The dramatic results of Monday's Iowa caucuses thrust the presidential contest forward to a state that promises a wildly different eight-day battle for its contrarian but deeply political voters. Among...

Marco Rubio, left, and Ted Cruz, right, argue during the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas on Dec. 15, 2015.

Analysis: Republicans’ sharp-elbowed presidential debate isn’t likely to shake many voters

May 17, 2019 at 8:43 p.m.

Were Donald Trump a typical presidential candidate, he might have suffered from his inability in Tuesday's debate to respond to a question about the "nuclear triad." Presidents are, after all,...

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