Authors: Carmen Cox
Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Just days after Hurricane Isaac barreled through the Gulf Coast region bringing tornadoes and flooding, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise delivers this week's Republican address expressing thanks to Americans for their prayers and support for the storm-wrecked region.
"Let me take a...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama will visit Louisiana on Monday to assess the damage in the wake of Hurricane Isaac, the White House announced Friday.
“Our hearts are obviously with all the folks who are down in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast who are dealing with the aftermath of...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Chris Maddaloni/Roll Call/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Republican Party may want Todd Akin to disappear, but a dark joke made by GOP strategist Karl Rove has hit a nerve with the congressman’s office.
“We should sink Todd Akin,” Rove said at a fundraiser during the Republican National Convention, according to a...
Authors: Carmen Cox
ABC/ Ida Mae Astute(KENNER, La.) -- Mitt Romney traveled Friday in the storm-ravaged state of Louisiana, meeting with Gov. Bobby Jindal and surveying damage caused by Hurricane Isaac.
“I’m here to learn and obviously to draw some attention to what’s going here,” Romney told Jindal. “So that people...
Authors: Carmen Cox
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages(FORT BLISS, Texas) -- President Obama told several hundred troops with the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss in Texas that he kept his promises as commander-in-chief during the past three-and-a-half years, ending the war in Iraq, drawing down forces in Afghanistan and redoubling care for returning...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Matt Sullivan/Getty Images(Richmond, Va.) -- Paul Ryan was supposed to be rallying in Virginia Friday with his running mate, but when Mitt Romney announced he was heading to Louisiana to visit parts of New Orleans hit hard by Hurricane Isaac, Ryan got a different wing man: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
Ryan said Romney was...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Sure, Democrats had some spokespeople wandering around Tampa, Fla. But Republicans plan to bracket Democrats’ Charlotte, N.C., convention with an unprecedented counter-convention right outside the gates of the Time Warner Cable Arena, where Democrats will gather after Labor Day.
As many as 50...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
ABC News(LORDSTOWN, Ohio) – Vice President Joe Biden slammed the Republican ticket on Friday, just one day after Mitt Romney officially accepted his party’s nomination, saying that much of what they spoke about at the convention “wasn’t on the level.”
Speaking before a local auto workers union,...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images(WARREN, Ohio) -- Vice President Joe Biden gave himself a new nickname Friday when he introduced himself to three Greek men seated at a table at the Mocha House in Warren, Ohio.
“I’m Joe Bidenopoulos,” Biden said.
The vice president, who is of Irish ancestry, chatted briefly with the...
Authors: Kelly Knaub
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(LAKELAND, Fla.) -- Mitt Romney knows he’s made a lot of campaign promises, and now he’s challenging American voters to hold him to his word.
“We want to be held accountable for the promises we made last night, and the night before,” said Romney, appearing at a farewell rally...
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