Despite the previous Associated Press reports that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had already officially surpassed the minimum delegate thresholds needed to secure their party nominations, tonight it became official. As the final votes are tallied in California, New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico and the Dakotas, the two celebrity candidates have locked up the delegates […]
In what was highly predictable, Donald Trump won each won all five Atlantic state Republican primaries tonight (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island). In the meantime, Hillary Clinton won the biggest Democratic prizes of Pennsylvania and Maryland plus Connecticut and Delaware. Bernie Sanders won just one state, tiny Rhode Island. While Trump still has […]
Tomorrow, the voters in five big, important states will state their preferences and have the potential to significantly alter the trajectory of the presidential derby. Those states, most of which will be swing states in the general election, are Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri. Some are calling tomorrow Super Tuesday 2; I’m calling […]
It was a Super Tuesday for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as they trounced their less-famous rivals on the biggest day in the 2016 presidential campaign. The real estate billionaire won 7 out of 11 states on the Republican side while the former Secretary of State won 8 out of 12 contests on the […]
After months and months of campaigning, bloviating, debating and four state elections, the big one comes on Tuesday, when the voters in 12 different states cast their ballots for one of the seven candidates still running to be the President of the United States. This piece is straight analysis so there will be no Trump-Cruz-Clinton-Sanders […]
How angry are you? The 2016 presidential nominating contest has turned into a game of who can scream the loudest. Republicans are angry at Barack Obama. Democrats are angry about obstructionist Republicans in Congress. And the American people are angry at the entire political system. So, led by a red-haired bombastic billionaire and enabled by […]
Tonight the citizens of New Hampshire made their collective voices loud and clear: as far as they’re concerned, politics as usual is over. The Live Free or Die state voters rendered a decisive result by conferring landslide victories upon the two biggest outsider candidates in the race, the self-funded billionaire Donald Trump and the self-described […]
After over six months of debates and punditry, real human beings actually had the opportunity to support presidential candidates tonight and the results are…. — Ted Cruz was the definitive winner of the Iowa caucuses, besting Donald Trump by 4 points (28% to 24%), with Marco Rubio finishing 3rd (barely) at 23%. — Hillary Clinton […]
Well sports fans, the games finally begin on Monday with the Iowa caucuses. Hundreds of thousands of residents of the Hawkeye State will see endless political advertisements cease and will have the opportunity to officially put their marks behind their preferred candidate to be the President of the United States. In this post, I’m going […]
She’s baaaaaaack! Today Donald Trump received by far the most significant endorsement for his campaign for the presidency from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. In a well-scripted event in Ames, Iowa, televised live on all three major cable networks, the 2008 GOP nominee for vice-president delivered an enthusiastic seal of approval for the billionaire front-runner […]