WASHINGTON—Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump continues to lead the crowded field of U.S. Republican presidential candidates while Hillary Clinton is the top Democrat. A newly-released poll of 1,200 voters by CBS News gives Trump 27 percent support among Republicans. He is followed by another political novice, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, with 21 percent. None […]
WASHINGTON—A new U.S. political survey shows billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump with a sizeable lead in three key battleground states in his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is holding diminished leads in the same states as she seeks the Democratic nomination, Quinnipiac University said Wednesday as […]
The Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner, will resign from Congress and give up his seat at the end of October, lawmakers and aides in the speaker’s office said Friday. Boehner, a member of Congress since 1990, has been under pressure from the conservative wing of his Republican Party on a […]
WASHINGTON—The first Republican presidential debate will take place in the Ohio city of Cleveland on August 6, and a mad scramble is underway among some of the contenders who fear they will be excluded from the event. Under the debate rules, only 10 of the 16 Republican contenders will be allowed to take part in […]