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Donald Trump savaged Hillary Clinton as an enabler of former President Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual crimes and raised former Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick scandal to argue that the media is seeking to cover up the Clinton family’s misdeeds. Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday, Trump called Bill Clinton a “predator” and accused Hillary Clinton of making it “possible for him to take advantage of even more women.” “Bill Clinton was the worst abuser of women ever to sit in the Oval Office,” Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said. “He was a predator. Hillary Clinton systematically attacked and discredited...

As GOP senators scramble to survey the damage caused by Donald Trump's explicit comments about women, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had some direct advice for a local Kentucky group: Don't ask him about the presidential election. "If you are interested in the presidential election, you might as well go ahead and leave because I don't have any observations to make about it," McConnell said Monday at a Danville-Boyle County Chamber of Commerce luncheon, according to The Associated Press.

LOUIS — Donald Trump adopted a base-first strategy at the second presidential debate, tossing red meat to his most fervent supporters in an effort to save his campaign from imploding. Trump might have had little choice after an extraordinary weekend that saw Republicans fleeing his campaign.

Despite having positioned himself as a critic of US foreign policy in the Middle East, Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, said he would likely represent a continuation of President Barack Obama's efforts to contain ISIS. "I don't want to do anything that takes a step backwards" in our fight against ISIS, the former governor of New Mexico told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files" podcast, produced by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.

First, Donald Trump isn't leaving the race, and indeed seems oblivious to the storm of criticism surrounding him. By Saturday, about a dozen senators, a dozen members of the House of Representatives and three governors - all Republicans - had withdrawn their support. "Thank you", Trump wrote on Twitter. "Watch their poll numbers - and elections - go down!" Outside Trump's small cadre of advisers, support for the businessman was scarce following Friday's release of the 2005 videotape in which he can be heard detailing his attempts to have sex with a married woman. The video was taped only months...

“Jackass.” That's what one Trump supporter shouted at U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan after his speech at Fall Fest, held Oct. 8 at the Walworth County Fairgrounds in Elkhorn. The insult ended a bizarre afternoon filled with dismay, anger and confusion for many loyal Republicans who attended Ryan’s yearly fundraiser for the First Congressional Republican Party of Wisconsin.

House Republicans appear to be trying to make it harder for rank-and-file revolts, like the one which caused John Boehner to step down last year, from happening again. California Congressman Devin Nunes told Roll Call, his proposal would keep leadership vacuums from happening. The proposed change, offered by Rep. Devin Nunes, would end the privileged status of the motion to vacate that allows any member to call up the motion for a vote at any time. The California Republican is proposing that instead the majority or minority caucus must vote on the motion and that a majority of the caucus...

Heading into tonight’s debates the theme for the evening has already been set by the media, along with everyone else who has been hoping that a giant sinkhole would open up and swallow Donald Trump like some sort of low rent Mothra in a budget Godzilla film. This narrative rests on the assumption that the video of Trump’s now infamous Bus Ride with Billy was the straw that broke the camel’s back and “everyone is fleeing the sinking ship.” Over at The Hill they’re keeping a running WHIP list of politicians who are pulling their support for the nominee. Less...

Tremendous support (except for some Republican "leadership"). Thank you.

Ballotpedia currently rates this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Paul Ryan (R) will face Ryan Solen (D), Jason Lebeck (L) and Spencer Zimmerman (Trump Conservative) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Ryan defeated Paul Nehlen in the Republican primary, while Solen defeated Tom Breu to win the Democratic nomination.

Ryan brings other Wisconsin Republicans up on stage to say goodbye, hecklers yell, "GOD BLESS TRUMP!" "SEE YA PAUL! JACKASS!"

Why did senior Clinton campaign officials order their dirty tricks team to release the Trump tape this past Friday instead of the Friday before Election Day? Dr. Lifson answers: The leak of an old hot mic recording of a private conversation between a TV host and Trump probably was originally scheduled for the Friday before Election Day. But the Wikileaks revelations about Hillary could not be allowed to dominate the weekend pre-debate chatter. An alternative explanation: The Clinton campaign believes that waiting to release the tape until the Friday before Election Day would be too late. The campaign believes that...

If the death of men in Benghazi, at your hand, doesn't matter, what do some words ten years ago matter??

Fiscal Restraints Proposal 1: SECTION 1. The public debt shall not be increased except upon a recorded vote of two-thirds of each house of Congress, and only for a period not to exceed one year. SECTION 2. No state or any subdivision thereof shall be compelled or coerced by Congress or the President to appropriate money. SECTION 3. The provisions of the first section of this amendment shall take effect 3 years after ratification. Federal Legislative & Executive Jurisdiction Proposal 1: SECTION 1. The power of Congress to regulate commerce among the several states shall be limited to the regulation...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has not been a Donald Trump apologist, like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). To the contrary, he has signaled that he’s not voting for Trump. Kasich has not fanned irrational fear of immigrants, as did most 2016 GOP presidential contenders (Jeb Bush being the most obvious exception). He has not drunk the anti-trade Kool-Aid. In fact, he is helping President Obama sell the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal to Congress at a time of gross irresponsibility on trade.

Obama needs to ensure he gets well compensated after leaving office for a job well done protecting, defending and further enriching the global oligarch class. This is precisely why he’s so adamant about passing the TPP during the upcoming lame duck session of Congress, when he knows “representatives” who no longer face reelection can be coerced or bribed into voting for this monumental public betrayal. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ins’t really a free trade deal, it’s a way for global oligarchs to consolidate, grow and protect their enormous wealth. The investor-state dispute settlement system (ISDS) is perhaps the most nefarious...

WASHINGTON (AP) " The head of the IRS wants to be able to call witnesses, present evidence and enjoy other traditional protections if the House formally pursues an effort by conservatives to impeach him, John Koskinen's lawyers told Congress Friday. Koskinen has agreed to testify under oath next Wednesday to the Republican-run House Judiciary Committee. The panel plans to quiz the commissioner about conservatives' claims that he should be impeached for thwarting congressional investigations into his agency's tough scrutiny of tea party groups seeking tax exemptions. Koskinen, who didn't join the IRS until after it had already apologized for its...

GORHAM, New Hampshire – Hillary Clinton’s campaign used a rope to keep journalists away from the candidate on Saturday while she walked in this small town’s July Fourth parade. The ensuing photos of journalists, including a CNN reporter, being somewhat dragged by a thin white rope as Clinton walked down Main Street caught fire online. Initially, Clinton’s campaign was not using a rope to corral the press, allowing journalists to get close to her and ask her questions.

Reporters bristled at their treatment during Donald Trump's campaign event Friday, where the GOP presidential nominee only briefly addressed his past skepticism of President Obama's birthplace and abruptly left without taking any questions. Trump then barred reporters from joining a tour of his new hotel, which prompted the pooled television reporters to erase their video from the tour, according to multiple reporters. “As the designated pool producer; attempted to go on pooled tour, as is customary. Was physically restrained from accompanying the camera,” ABC News journalist Candace Smith tweeted. “Blocked is perhaps the better term. Tried to go through the...

The point of McMullin’s candidacy, I thought, was to peel off enough Republican votes in Utah to give Clinton a fighting chance at the upset there. Trump is unpopular among Mormons; McMullin is Mormon himself, was born in Provo, attended BYU, and is much more of a traditional conservative than Trump is. If he can pull, say, 20 percent in the state, a freaky-deaky outcome in which Clinton wins with 35 percent of the vote in a four-way race with Trump, McMullin, and Gary Johnson isn’t unthinkable. (A poll taken earlier this summer, months before McMullin got in, had Trump...