There’s a story being told about the 2016 presidential race that says big money in politics no longer matters all that much.Source: How to Fight Big Money in 2016 and Beyond...
California's primary amounts to 54 separate races on a single day — one in every congressional district across the sprawling, diverse state, and one statewide. The winner in each district collects three delegates; then, the candidate who gets the largest number of votes statewide claims a bonus of 13 more.That means a solidly Democratic district covering the heavily Hispanic neighborhoods...
Top Republicans will try to force more transparency at the party’s national convention in July, aiming to scrap their 1,500-page rule book in favor of simpler procedures that they hope will head off arcane maneuvers designed to deny Donald Trump the presidential nomination.Source: RNC weighs scrapping convention rule book to head off anti-Trump maneuvers...
The four GOP presidential campaigns are quietly preparing for a battle over an obscure rule-making committee that could control the balance of power in a contested Republican National Convention in July.Source: How an obscure committee could decide the GOP nomination...
Speaker Paul RyanPaul RyanPentagon chief: Obama wants to defeat ISIS by end of his term Pelosi calls on Ryan to delay Easter recess Editor of top US Jewish newspaper: Boycott Trump at AIPAC MORE (R-Wis.Source: Contested convention is looking more likely, says Speaker Ryan...
The prospect of a Donald J. Trump nomination is accomplishing what a diverse and talented field of Republican presidential contenders could not: uniting the party’s big-money donor establishment.Source: Donald Trump Is Finally Uniting Top Republican Donors — Against Him...
Joshua A. Douglas University of Kentucky - College of Law March 21, 2016 Kentucky Law Journal, Vol.Source: A Pivotal Moment for Election Law...
Meaning that when polls close at 11 p.m. Eastern on June 7, we will likely be tracking 53 individual elections in order to figure out if Trump or Cruz hit the 1,237 mark. So that's something to look forward to.Understandably, this is hard to game out. There hasn't been much polling in California, and it's extremely expensive to take the...
Conservatives at a meeting in Washington Thursday had "absolute consensus" on trying to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump from getting enough delegates to clinch the party's presidential nomination, according to a source familiar with the discussion.Source: Conservative leaders gather to plot against Trump...
Ted Cruz faced a decision as his campaign hung in the balance: Would he return to the Capitol for the first time in a month and potentially try to unite Republicans behind him as the conservative alternative to Donald Trump?Source: Ted Cruz's Senate conundrum...
