Tag: Donald Trump

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 07:00 UTC

  Republican party orthodoxy waiting for a unifying message from the Trump challenge

  

  United States Speaker of the Lower House and one of the most powerful members of the Republican party, Paul D. Ryan thrust open Thursday the discomfort that many party members are feeling about Donald Trump as their presumed presidential nominee, withholding his support and deepening the fracture between the outsider candidate and the party he hopes to lead.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2016 - 07:49 UTC

  “We're going after Hillary Clinton”, says Trump as Cruz leaves the primary

  

  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz cleared the path on Tuesday night for Donald Trump to claim the Republican presidential nomination, suspending his underdog campaign following a crushing defeat in the Indiana primary, allowing the billionaire businessman to effectively leave the raucous primary behind and turn his attention squarely to the general election.“We’re gonna win in November,” Trump said.

• Thursday, March 17th 2016 - 08:08 UTC

  Obama challenges Republicans and names veteran judge to the Supreme Court

  

  President Barack Obama nominated veteran appellate court judge Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court on Wednesday setting up a potentially ferocious political showdown with Senate Republicans who have vowed to block any Obama nominee.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 08:08 UTC

  Bloomberg fears a three way race could help Trump, and gives up idea of running as an independent

  

  Michael Bloomberg has decided against throwing his hat in the United States 2016 presidential ring. On Monday, March 7, the former New York City mayor, 74, penned a lengthy explanation on his website The Bloomberg View. as to why he will not run for president.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2016 - 04:47 UTC

  Republicans work out strategy to stop Trump in Ohio and Florida primaries

  

  Following on Donald Trump's sweeping win on “super-Tuesday” Republican strategists are planning support for Ohio governor John Kasich so he can take his state presidential primary on 15 March and similarly with hopeful Senator Marco Rubio in his home state of Florida.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 - 23:46 UTC

  Trump tsunami: Republican hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer to become Rubio's finance chairman

  

  Paul Singer, the influential hedge fund billionaire from New York who endorsed Marco Rubio in October, is set to be named as his national finance chairman according to various US press reports. Singer is well known in Argentina for bringing a lawsuit against the government in the holdouts dispute.

• Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 07:29 UTC

  “Attacks on Islam are attacks on all religions” says Obama at Maryland mosque

  

  President Barack Obama visited an American mosque on Wednesday and declared that attacks on Islam were an attack on all religions, in an effort to counter rhetoric from Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates that has alienated Muslims.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 - 06:12 UTC

  Iowa surprise: Senator Ted Cruz beats Donald Trump: “I'm honored by second place”

  

  Texas Senator Ted Cruz has won the Iowa Republican caucuses, the first vote of the US 2016 presidential election. He took 28% of the Republican vote, beating his rival, the once frontrunner Donald Trump, and Marco Rubio.

• Friday, January 29th 2016 - 04:40 UTC

  US economy in a bubble, says Trump, ”I hope they pop before I become president'

  

  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the United States economy is in a bubble he fears will burst and he does not want to deal with a financial collapse if he is elected to the White House.

• Wednesday, January 13th 2016 - 05:24 UTC

  Obama's last State of the Union full of optimism strongly criticizing Trump with out mentioning him

  

  United States President Barack Obama promised that his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night would be something very different from the six that had preceded it. And, he made good on that promise, - abandoning the traditional list of policy proposals to instead make an extended case against the vision being offered by 2016 Republican front-runner Donald Trump.