Donald Trump’s repeated visits to deep-red Arizona have some of the state’s leading Republicans at best puzzled and at worst, annoyed.
“The general feeling’s kind of been just mystified that he keeps coming here because it seems odd to come to Arizona so much rather than going to the swing states.… It seems like there should be states they’re more worried about,” said a GOP operative involved in Arizona campaigns.
Donald Trump’s weeklong slide in the presidential race started when he showed up to the first debate unprepared and spoiling for a fight. On Tuesday evening, Mike Pence helped slow it by doing the opposite.
Calm and measured, Pence showed off his preparation for his vice-presidential showdown with Democrat Tim Kaine, fending off a slashing, interrupting opponent.
Read More >>Vice presidential debates don’t decide elections. But Mike Pence’s commanding performance against Tim Kaine offered a tantalizing preview of where Republicans would be if they had nominated a more traditional presidential nominee.
On issue after issue, Pence put Kaine on the defensive, forcing him to defend Hillary Clinton’s positions on the Russia reset, her email server’s security, President Obama’s health care law, and the administration’s current policy in Syria.
Read More >>Just a few weeks into early voting, it’s too soon to know which presidential campaign is winning the war for ballots cast in advance of Election Day. But one thing is obvious: For better or for worse, in the critical phase of the campaign where roughly a third of the vote was cast in 2012, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are following the same playbooks that got them this far.
Read More >>Hillary Clinton emerges from the first presidential debate with a five-point lead over Donald Trump in the race for the presidency, having narrowed the enthusiasm gap between her supporters and Trump’s, and holding broad advantages over the Republican nominee as the candidate with the right temperament and preparation for the job, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
Read More >>For politics fans, it’s easy to get caught up in fun Electoral College scenarios — ones in which small states make a big difference or in which the House of Representatives has to decide the election. The alternative — endlessly repeating that “Florida is important; Ohio is important” — can get tiresome. That said, Ohio is important, and Florida is super important.
Read More >>After perhaps the worst week any presidential nominee has ever had, Donald Trump enters the final full month of the 2016 contest in desperate need of a big moment to halt Hillary Clinton’s newfound momentum and his own downward spiral.
Trouble is, he may have to wait another seven days.
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