Romney, McCain, Bush among conspicuous no-shows at GOP fete to tap Trump
As Republicans spilled into Cleveland on Monday to nominate Donald Trump as their presidential candidate, 2012 nominee Mitt Romney had an equally crucial task: Entertaining his grandchildren at his lakeside summer house in New Hampshire. U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the 2008 Republican nominee ...
Big-name GOP leaders piled on Friday against Donald Trump in an extraordinary show of Republican-vs.-Republican discontent over his winning the party's presidential nomination. Trump just shrugged it off, declaring they didn't really matter when compared to all the voters who turned out to vote ...
Jeb Bush drops out of Republican presidential race after disappointing finish in South Carolina
Republican Jeb Bush ended his campaign for the presidency Saturday after a disappointing finish in South Carolina, acknowledging his failure to harness the hopes of Republican voters angry at the political establishment. The former Florida governor and political scion told supporters that he'd tried to ...
Bush, Cruz pledge defense boost in appeals to South Carolina's military community
Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz on Tuesday appealed to South Carolina, a state with a large military and veteran population, with promises to strengthen U.S. defense as the next Republican primary approaches. South Carolina residents will cast their votes for a Republican nominee for president ...
George W. Bush offers tough Trump takedown in campaign debut
George W. Bush never mentioned Donald Trump. But with his folksy touch, the former president unleashed a tough takedown Monday of the billionaire businessman who has upended a Republican Party his family has long led. "I understand Americans are angry and frustrated," Bush said during ...
'Trumpertantrums' intensify as Republican campaign talk turns coarse, mean
Front-runner Donald Trump is in a profanity-laced campaign for the Republican nomination that has seen multiple candidates hurl insults and disparaging remarks. In recent days, Trump has publicly lip-synced the F-bomb, blurted out the S-word more than once, hurled an offensive term for coward at ...
Republican rivals pounce on Rubio's debate missteps in bid to blunt rise
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio tried to blunt efforts by his rivals to slow his rise in the Republican presidential contest, while on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton looked to close the gap with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire just two days before ...
Rubio, Cruz face barrage of attacks in U.S. Republican debate
Marco Rubio, a first-term senator on the rise in the U.S. presidential race, faced a barrage of attacks in Saturday night's Republican debate, with rivals vigorously challenging his readiness to be president and the depth of his expertise as they sought to salvage their ...
Republican presidential candidates strained to take advantage of a rare opportunity to step out of front-runner Donald Trump's shadow in Thursday night's debate — a policy-heavy contest that offered a glimpse of what the party contest might have been without the unpredictable businessman. Still, the ...
Trump may still dominate GOP debate even as no-show but rivals sense chance to pounce
2016 Republican presidential candidates take the debate stage Thursday night absent their front-runner, billionaire Donald Trump, who will instead seek to starve his rivals of attention at a critical point in the campaign by holding a competing rally. Trump's decision to boycott the final debate ...
U.S. Republicans may face 'devil's bargain' in campaign
Three weeks before Iowa kicks off the state-by-state presidential nominating contests, businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are generating overwhelming enthusiasm among Republican voters in the state, along with concern, though not panic, among the party professionals who believe both are unelectable ...
