2016 Campaign Watch

The campaign of Republican nominee Donald Trump is beginning to shop for ad rates, according to National Journal:

Trump Campaign Begins Shopping for TV Ad Time

The Trump cam­paign’s me­dia buy­er, Stra­tegic Me­dia Ser­vices, re­ques­ted TV ad rates in 17 states Thursday, ac­cord­ing to two sources with know­ledge of the move. The states on the list are: Ari­zona, Col­or­ado, Flor­ida, Geor­gia, In­di­ana, Iowa, Maine, Min­nesota, Michigan, Mis­souri, New Hamp­shire, Nevada, North Car­o­lina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vir­gin­ia, and Wis­con­sin….

If he ul­ti­mately de­cides to hit ...

A slew of polls in the past few days show Democrat Hillary Clinton with a comfortable lead both nationally and in key battleground states, and competitive in several states generally thought to be safely Republican (she leads in Georgia, according to a new poll). But the presence of third-party candidates on the ballot could make things a little less comfortable for her, according to Politico:

Clinton’s third-party headache

A raft of new polls out this week carried almost unanimously good news for ...

The campaign of Republican Donald Trump has been having a rough time since being officially nominated just two weeks ago. FiveThirtyEight.com’s analysts just published the transcript of a “chat” they recently held on the topic, and as the excerpt below indicates, a big part of his troubles appear to center on his response to the parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq:

Is Donald Trump Blowing It?

micah: …It feels like Trump’s incendiary comments about the Khan family have stuck in ...