Tag: Donald Trump

• Friday, May 27th 2016 - 07:08 UTC

  Trump is over the top: with 1237 delegates he becomes Republican candidate

  

  United States presidential candidate Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination and Trump has reached 1,238.

• Friday, May 20th 2016 - 10:17 UTC

  Trump ahead of Hillary in new polls, but both candidates have record negatives

  

  Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton in two new polls, as Republicans begin to coalesce around him while Bernie Sanders keeps hammering fellow Democrat Clinton. The real-estate tycoon leads the former secretary of state, 42% to 37%, in a general-election presidential match-up, according to a Rasmussen poll released Thursday.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2016 - 07:16 UTC

  Cameron stands by his criticism of Trump: “stupid, divisive and wrong”

  

  Downing Street has said that Prime Minister David Cameron stands by his criticism of Donald Trump but will work with whoever is elected US president. UK PM has called the Republican hopeful “stupid, divisive and wrong” over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2016 - 09:13 UTC

  What Labour can learn from my victory: we can’t ignore what voters want

  

  By Sadiq Khan (*) - Labour has won control of City Hall in London for the first time in eight years – the first major electoral success for our party in England in over a decade.

• 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.