Authors: Carmen Cox
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GettyImages(MANSFIELD, Ohio) -- Air Force One will touch down in a swirl of defense controversy in Mansfield, Ohio, Wednesday as President Obama makes a third campaign trip in four weeks to the battleground state.
“If President Obama has his way, his Air Force One arrival would be one of the final flights...
Authors: Carmen Cox
ABC/ Ida Mae Astute(CHICAGO) -- President Obama has presided over three consecutive years of historically high federal budget deficits and the addition of more than $5 trillion to the national debt.
Yet, that didn't stop his campaign from launching a new television ad in which Obama casts himself as the only candidate for...
Authors: Carmen Cox
(WASHINGTON) -- After lampooning Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer last week for getting his facts wrong on the controversy surrounding the White House Winston Churchill bust, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer has apologized.
On Friday, Pfeiffer slammed Krauthammer for repeating “this ridiculous...
Authors: Carmen Cox
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in an interview with the Huffington Post, was apparently happy to spread a totally unsubstantiated rumor regarding Gov. Mitt Romney.
Democrats have criticized Romney for not releasing more than two years of his tax returns -- he argues that's all...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner today announced a six-month agreement to avert a government shutdown. But the deal relies on existing spending levels and punts a larger spending battle to next January after whoever gets elected this November takes office.
“We’v...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images(WARSAW, Poland) -- A top aide to Mitt Romney insisted today that the Republican presidential candidate's foreign trip has been "great" just hours after a blow up that caught an angry aide telling the press corps to "kiss my a**."
The outburst came on the final day of a tumultuous three-country...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
Obama for America/YouTube(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama made his first, personal donation to his 2012 campaign on Monday with a $5,000 online contribution, the campaign said today.
Obama referenced the gift in an email appeal to supporters ahead of the midnight fundraising deadline for July.
“Friend — Yesterday, I...
Authors: Joshua Cohan
MittRomney.com(WASHINGTON) -- Mitt Romney’s campaign said Tuesday it will announce the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's running mate via a new smartphone application.
The app, appropriately named “Mitt’s VP,” allows users to sign up to become the first to learn who Romney selects as his...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- First lady Michelle Obama and San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro will headline the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in September, organizers have announced.
Both will address delegates gathered at the Time Warner Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 4 -- two days...
Authors: Jeanette Torres
Bill Clark/Roll Call(AUSTIN, Texas) -- After a long, expensive and fiercely-fought battle, the Texas GOP Senate primary will come to a close on Tuesday as voters cast ballots in the runoff between Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and former Solicitor General Ted Cruz.
Dewhurst, 66, and Cruz, 41, are facing off for the second time in...
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