“A growing number of conservatives are challenging Trump’s wide-reaching tariffs on allies and adversaries alike, with some questioning whether he has the authority to implement them …. It’s coming from an influential, conservative-backed legal nonprofit representing a small stationery company …....
BIDEN: "[I]f Mr. Biden decides to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, his Senate reputation as a friend to financial institutions could be a significant obstacle, especially if he wants to make inroads with the party’s liberal base, which has become increasingly skeptical and often...
The GOP field is even more crowded, with many conservative groups backing Rep. Ron DeSantis, with his House colleague David Jolly as well as Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera already in the race as well. (With the state's late filing deadline, several others may throw their hat in the rin...
Frank Luntz, the GOP messaging expert and Fox News commentator, milled about looking at the exhibit. To him, Santorum’s problem was not any media conspiracy to shut him out, but instead tougher competition than 2012, when Santorum was one of the few conservative alternatives to Mitt Romney. ...
“We need to stop making baseless accusations, and we need to get full information about the treatment of all of these groups, conservative, liberal, and everyone in between,” said Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)at Thursday’s hearing. ...
Johnson plans on presenting himself as a fiscally conservative, pro-immigrant, socially liberal alternative to Trump. He said he plans on contrasting himself to Clinton by focusing on "crony capitalism," military intervention, and legalizing marijuana. ...
To go the other direction, Bush said, will lead to a nominee who plays “a bit part in the story of another conservative loss and another liberal victory.” The stakes are high for Bush in getting his new message to connect. Rubiois competingfor many of the same Republican voters, donors...
and when law-and-order Republicans used the issue as a cudgel to beat liberal Democrats, who they portrayed as wanting to coddle criminals. George H. W. Bush’s infamous “Willie Horton” ad, attacking Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, his rival in the 1988 presidential race, was among th...
Walker went on to encourage other Republican candidates to drop out so voters can "focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive conservative alternative to the current frontrunner," Donald Trump, whose name Walker did not mention. Trump and Walker clashed in Wednesday's deba...
rails with religious and social litmus tests in the 2012 primary season, and its conservative candidates cannibalized moderates, who then split the right-wing vote between the likes of Santorum, Gingrich, Bachmann and Cain, and allowed the most liberal of the field to survive the nomination ...