Tag: Republican Party

• Saturday, October 22nd 2016 - 09:10 UTC

  Trump's “rigged system” claim receives strong support in opinion polls

  

  The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gained on his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton among US voters this week, cutting her lead nearly in half, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling released on Friday. The polling data showed Trump's argument that the Nov. 8 election is “rigged” against him has resonated with members of his party.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2015 - 06:54 UTC

  A repeat of the Corbyn surprise in United States?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Jeremy “Jez” Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are very much alike - and so are their ambitions. Corbyn wants to lead Britain's Labour Party into the next election and become prime minister; Sanders wants to win the Democratic Party nomination and become the next President of the United States. And then each man plans to turn his country sharply to the left.

• Saturday, September 5th 2015 - 07:19 UTC

  Trump pledges not to run as independent candidate; tells Jeb Bush to speak in English

  

  Republican front-runner Donald Trump has bowed to pressure from the party establishment and signed a pledge not to run as an independent candidate in the November 2016 presidential election.