Tag Archives: Hillary Clinton

The Associated Press reports: Bernie Sanders says he will vote for Hillary Clinton for president. While stopping short of a full endorsement of his Democratic rival, Sanders says he’s “pretty good at arithmetic” and understands that Clinton has more pledged delegates than he does. “I will do everything I can to defeat Donald Trump,” because his campaign is built on …

The Hill reports: A super-PAC allied with Hillary Clinton is making the case to young voters that Donald Trump is “full of hate.” Priorities USA on Thursday unveiled the new campaign, with two videos and a website called “We Can Stop Hate.” The website’s homepage currently shows a video titled “Donald Trump is full of hate” — a supercut of …

Via Breitbart: The new “Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC,” which was launched by GOP mega-donor Robert Mercer, released its first ad titled, “Gotta Pay the Bills.” The ad mocks Hillary Clinton’s claim that she and her husband former President Bill Clinton “came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.” “The Clintons are worth $200 million, earning …

Via Politico: Sen. Bernie Sanders acknowledged Wednesday that his chances of becoming the Democratic nominee for president aren’t ideal. “It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee, so I’m not going to be determining the scope of the convention,” Sanders said during an interview with C-SPAN. The comment came in response to a question about his preparations for …

Donald Trump is about to take the podium to unleash his latest attack speech on Hillary Clinton. Judging by the presence of teleprompters, today’s rant will be scripted. Watch below.

Ruh-roh: Donald Trump slipped farther behind Hillary Clinton in Florida, lost his narrow advantage in Ohio and remained locked in a dead heat in Pennsylvania, according to the results of the latest Quinnipiac University poll gauging voter attitudes in the those three swing states out Tuesday. Clinton leads Trump by eight points in Florida, 47 percent to 39 percent, up …

Wow. From the New York Times: Donald J. Trump enters the general election campaign laboring under the worst financial and organizational disadvantage of any major party nominee in recent history, placing both his candidacy and his party in political peril. Mr. Trump began June with just $1.3 million in cash on hand, a figure more typical for a campaign for …

Politico reports: Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by 7 percentage points, according to a new poll — one of the latest national surveys to show the presumptive Republican presidential nominee badly trailing his likely Democratic opponent. Clinton earned 47 percent support in the new Monmouth University poll released Monday, while Trump took 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup omitting …

Buzzfeed reports: The big question this weekend in Chicago is how to turn the Bernie Sanders movement into a lasting element of Democratic politics. For some of the Sanders faithful on Saturday afternoon, the answer was locking arms on a civic center floor and struggling as “police officers” pulled them apart and “arrested” them. The People’s Summit conference, sponsored by …

The Hill reports: A Pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC released one of its first general election ads on Sunday, hitting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for what it calls “dangerous” policy positions. In the 30-second ad, titled “Presidential,” Priorities USA, the largest super-PAC supporting presumptive Democratic nominee Clinton for president, rehashes controversial statements Trump has made throughout his campaign. “I know …

CNN reports: Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton, gave birth to a son on Saturday, according to her Twitter and Facebook accounts. “Marc and I are overwhelmed with gratitude and love as we celebrate the birth of our son, Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky,” the former first daughter tweeted on Saturday. This is the second child for Clinton and …

From the Washington Blade: Donald Trump continues to invoke his newly enumerated, but highly dubious support for LGBT people to encourage his election to the White House. After recognizing the LGBT victims of the mass shooting during a national security speech on Monday reiterating his call for a Muslim ban, Trump again referenced the LGBT community on Wednesday during a …

This is the first major poll since Orlando. Via Bloomberg: Democrat Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, whose negatives remain unusually high for a presidential candidate amid early indications that the Orlando terrorist attack has had little direct impact on the 2016 race. A new Bloomberg Politics national poll shows Clinton leading Trump …

And that’s that. Via the Associated Press: Hillary Clinton is finishing the Democratic presidential primary season with a lead of more than 380 pledged delegates over Bernie Sanders. Clinton won the District of Columbia, which was the last to hold its primary, on Tuesday. With 20 delegates at stake, Clinton won at least 14. Sanders picked up at least two. …

From the New York Daily News: Drawing a stark contrast between herself and Donald Trump and renewing her calls for stricter gun control in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, Hillary Clinton declared Monday that “weapons of war have no place on our streets.” “It’s essential we stop terrorists from getting the tools they need to …

The “H” on Hillary Clinton’s tweet indicates that she wrote it herself.

TIME recaps: Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is spotlighting the controversy over Donald Trump’s now-defunct seminar program, Trump University, with a mock infomercial for the program which is the subject of a class action lawsuit alleging it was a scam. The biting video released Saturday references recently-released ‘playbooks’ which detailed how sales-people worked to convince potential clients, even those already in …

I watched every minute of this live on CNN. You should watch it below. Business Insider recaps: Rabbi Michael Lerner delivered a powerful eulogy for boxing legend Muhammad Ali at his funeral on Friday, praising Ali for daring “to love black people at a time when black people had a hard time loving themselves” and calling for an end to …

Reuters reports: Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 11 points in the U.S. presidential race, showing little change after she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. The online poll, conducted from Monday to Friday, shows 46 percent of likely voters support Clinton while 34.8 percent back Trump. Another 19.2 percent …

From the Washington Post: Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton will meet privately Friday morning, according to two knowledgeable Democrats. The sit-down, coming just hours after the Massachusetts senator formally endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee, will fuel speculation about her prospects as a potential vice presidential pick. The women have had several conversations over the past month, including one that lasted …