WASHINGTON—Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders face off in two more Democratic state presidential nominating contests Tuesday, in coal-producing Kentucky and Pacific coastal Oregon. Pre-election surveys have been scant in both states, leaving analysts guessing whether Clinton can reverse recent setbacks against Sanders and move ever closer to clinching […]
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders won Saturday’s Democratic caucus in the Western state of Wyoming, but even in victory he failed to gain ground on his rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the race to become U.S. president. Sanders won 56 percent of the vote. Democratic Party rules left each candidate with seven of […]
U.S. billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump at first said he was honored to finish second in this week’s Republican presidential nomination caucuses in Iowa, but Wednesday he claimed the winner, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, “stole” the election. Trump, a flamboyant political novice, wrote a Twitter message alleging that Cruz, a conservative firebrand, “didn’t win […]
WASHINGTON—The pace of the 2016 presidential election campaign is quickening as White House contenders from both major political parties hone their closing arguments less than a month before the first votes are cast in Iowa. President Barack Obama injected a new issue into the campaign Tuesday with new executive actions aimed at tightening criminal background […]