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The first fall presidential debate of 2016 is being anticipated with all the hype (and class) of a heavyweight boxing match. Perhaps we should call it “Smackdown at the Mack,” since it is being held at the Hofstra University’s David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex on New York’s Long Island.
So how should you watch this D-Day of Debates? We have some tips for you:
Monday’s debate — and all other debates of thi
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will meet Monday night for their first debate in a virtual dead heat in the race for the White House, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with the Democratic nominee’s August advantage erased after recent difficulties and the GOP nominee still facing doubts about his qualifications and temperament.
Likely voters split 46 percent for Clinton and 44 percent for Trump, with Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson at 5 percent and Green Party nominee
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While on the campaign trail in Las Vegas, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton sat down with ESSENCE Editor-in-chief Vanessa K. De Luca to discuss the issues that matter to us most and why she hopes to earn Black women’s votes.
ESSENCE: Thank you, Secretary Clinton, for spending time with ESSENCE. Let’s ju
Joe Raedle/Getty Images; Cristobal Herrera/EPAThe race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has narrowed to essentially a dead heat nationally in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, raising the stakes dramatically for the first presidential debate Monday night.
A vast 74 percent of Americans plan to watch the debate. And while eight in 10 say it won’t change their minds, that leaves more than enough to shift the balance in an incr
© Whitney Curtis for The New York Times Brittany Packnett, 31, a St. Louis-based activist, said that Hillary Clinton was not connecting with black voters.
When a handful of liberal advocacy organizations convened a series of focus groups with young black voters last month, the assessments of Donald J. Trump were predictably unsparing.
But when the participants were asked about Hillary Clinton, their appraisals were just as blunt and nearly as biting.
“What am I supposed to do if I don’t like h
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Sean “Diddy” Combs said Sunday that black voters won’t get fooled again — insisting that Hillary Clinton has to prove herself before she gets the African-American vote since “[blacks] got a little bit shortchanged” by President Obama.
“My number one thing, though, to be honest, is black people,” the rapper turned mogul told the Rev. Al Sharpton on his MSNBC show Sunday. “I feel like we put President Obama in the White House. When I look bac
Hillary Clinton’s unpopularity reached a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, putting her on par with Donald Trump among registered voters.
The latest findings solidify their positions as the two most unpopular presidential candidates in polling dating back more than 30 years.
Among all adults, 56 percent now view Clinton unfavorably, up 6 percentage points in three weeks, compared with 63 percent who say the same about Trump.
Among registered voters, the two candidates have
During the week Tim Kaine was selected as the vice presidential candidate by Hillary Clinton, many liberals – some of whom had deluded themselves with the pipe dream that Elizabeth Warren (or, even more delusionally, Bernie Sanders himself) might be picked – lined up to attack Kaine as insufficiently progressive. They cited his positive comments regarding the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, a recent letter he co-signed urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
PHILADELPHIA — Three black women are running the Democratic National Convention this week, taking charge of the top jobs that keep the massive gathering on schedule and, as much as possible, on message.
Veteran Democratic strategist Donna Brazile stepped up at the last minute to serve as interim chairman of the Democratic National Committee after embattled Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned from her position Sunday. Although her resignation is effective at the end of the convention,
Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, tells CNN's "State of the Union" that experts say Russian hackers are behind the leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee disparaging Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders.
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager on Sunday accused Russian hackers of releasing internal emails to help Republican Donald Trump win the presidential election.
On CNN's "State of the Union," Robby Mook, who heads up Clinton's presidential campaign, told Ja
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A few weeks ago, I joined many evangelicals—a number of Hispanics among them—in New York City for “A Conversation About America’s Future with Donald Trump and Ben Carson.” Trump was asked a “softball” question by a Hispanic leader: “You have often spoken of building a wall for our southern border, but how will you build a bridge to Hispanics, the fastest growing demographic in our nation?”
Trump’s answer was hardly satisfactory (more of that below). But it isn’t as if we H
Hillary Clinton campaigned with Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, a potential pick as her running mate, in Annandale, Va., on Thursday. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
If it weren’t for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton would be the most disliked major-party presidential nominee in recent American history.
That qualifier, of course, is important here. Clinton doesn’t need to be liked; she needs to be liked slightly more than Trump in what will very likely boil down to a two-candidate race.
But it’s h
Supporters for Mr. Sanders were in the crowd at the campaign event. (Credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times)
After 14 months of policy clashes and moments of mutual disdain, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, clearing away the last major obstacle to a united Democratic front heading into the party’s convention this month and the general election this fall.
Entering the high school gymnasium together and waving and shaking hands along
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Taraji P. Henson urged viewers at Sunday night’s BET Awards to take the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency seriously.
Accepting the award for Best Actress, the Empire star said, “I’m really not political, but it’s serious out here.” She then referenced Trump, though not by name: “For those who think he’s not going to win, think again. We really need to pull together and turn this country around.”
The BET Awards were filled with a number of political call-outs in
Hillary Clinton has a comfortable lead over Donald Trump nationally and in the battleground states that will be critical in determining the outcome of the election, a new poll finds.
A Monmouth University survey released Monday shows Clinton taking 47 percent support over Trump at 40 percent among registered voters nationally.
Among likely voters, Clinton’s lead increases to eight points, 49 to 41 over Trump.
Clinton also leads by 8 points – 47 to 39 – in the 10 battleground states that were d
Hillary Clinton is showing her confidence.
During an interview on CNN on Thursday, the Democratic presidential candidate essentially called the primary race over.
"I will be the nominee for my party," she said, bluntly. "That's already done, in effect. There's no way I won't be."
Clinton currently has 2,293 delegates, according to a delegate count by ABC News, putting her just 90 delegates shy of the number needed to clinch the nomination.
By the same count, Sanders has 1,528 delegates -- 765
The Rev. Al Sharpton and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are introduced at the 25th annual National Action Network convention in New York, Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Hillary Clinton has been dominating Bernie Sanders among black voters in the Democratic primary, but it has not been a good couple of weeks for her campaign on the topic of race relations.
First, Bill Clinton got into it with a group of Black Lives Matter protesters last week, passionate
Hillary Clinton greets supporters after a town hall meeting at Cumberland United Methodist Church in Florence, S.C., February 25, 2016. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Hillary Clinton began her campaign to win South Carolina years ago.
Polls show African-American voters, who could make up a majority in the state’s Democratic primary on Saturday, are poised to help Clinton defeat Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., by a wide margin.
Her husband, Bill Clinton, was famously dubbed America’s “first bla
Sen. Bernie Sanders said he would support a proposal to legalize recreational use of marijuana, saying he wanted to reduce the number of people sent to jail for drug use or minor possession.
“I suspect I would vote yes,” Sanders said, when asked how he might vote in an upcoming referendum in Nevada, where Tuesday night’s first Democratic debate was held. “And I would vote yes, because I am seeing in this country too many lives being destroyed over non-violent offenses…We have to think through
