Author: NICHOLAS RICCARDI
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Clinton struggling to win over young voters she needs
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John Morales was interning for Bernie Sanders’ campaign when the longshot Democratic candidate’s hopes started to fade in the spring. That’s when Libertarian Gary Johnson caught his interest. In many ways Johnson and Sanders are ideological opposites. The Vermont senator is an opponent of foreign trade deals and won over many younger voters in the…
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Johnson races around U.S. to qualify for presidential debates
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Most presidential hopefuls spend their Septembers in places like Ohio and Florida, hoping to win over a handful of swing voters in battleground states. But Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is crisscrossing the country in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to boost his national poll numbers and qualify for the presidential debates. Johnson needs to reach…
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Johnson asks ‘What is Aleppo’; says he ‘blanked’ when asked
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If it was greater attention Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson wanted, he got it – but probably not the kind he wanted. As part of a media blitz in New York to try to raise his polling numbers enough to qualify for the upcoming presidential debate, Johnson fielded a range of questions Thursday with the…
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GOP woos veterans, but Trump has rubbed some vets wrong way
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It was more than a routine get-out-the-vote knock on the door when Iraq War veteran and Nevada Republican Party staffer Jon Staab asked Kenneth Olofson, a Vietnam veteran, if he’ll be voting for Donald Trump. An instant bond was formed as the two swapped stories of service and those of relatives who fought in World War…
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Trump paints new target on legal immigration
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Donald Trump’s aggressive rhetoric on illegal immigration has obscured a potentially historic policy shift – the Republican presidential nominee is the first major party candidate in modern memory to propose limiting legal immigration. In his speech on immigration Wednesday night, Trump capped a list of steps to combat illegal immigration, with a final pledge to…
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump on immigration
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EDITOR’S NOTE – A look at the veracity of claims by political figures. A look at some of his statements after a meeting with Mexico’s president Wednesday and his immigration-focused night rally: ___ TRUMP, on people illegally in the U.S.: “They’re treated better than our vets.” THE FACTS: People in the country illegally do not…
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Nevada becomes one of Trump’s big hopes for swing state win
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Russ Wheeler bears the financial scars of Nevada’s lost decade, and he hopes Donald Trump can heal them. He worked for a Las Vegas roofing company when the real estate bust crushed the state’s economy. He took two pay cuts before getting laid off. He had to commute into the California desert to find work after that.…
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Trump immigration ‘softening’ reflects voter confusion on issue
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Dean Green supports Donald Trump partly because of the GOP presidential nominee’s tough, deport-them-all stance on illegal immigration. But the 57-year-old Republican paused as he complained about U.S. immigration policy and acknowledged that deporting all 11 million people in the U.S. illegally would separate families. “I don’t want to break up families,” Green said. It has been 30…
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump wrongly says nation is short of coal
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EDITOR’S NOTE – A look at the veracity of claims by political figures But the Republican nominee incorrectly blamed the coal industry’s woes solely on new federal regulations, leaving out the effects of cheap natural gas. And he warned those regulations will lead to an imminent spike in the cost of electricity. That’s not on…
