2016 democratic national convention
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Text of President Obama’s Democratic convention speech
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Below is the text of President Barack Obama’s speech Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, as provided by the White House. ___ Hello, America. Twelve years ago tonight, I addressed this convention for the very first time. You met my two little girls, Malia and Sasha – now two amazing young women who just fill me with pride. You fell…
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Trump sets Friday rally, fundraiser in Colorado Springs
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to campaign at a town hall and attend a high-priced fundraiser in Colorado Springs on Friday, the same day the wealthy Koch brothers kick off their secretive, semi-annual weekend donor gathering just across town, sources close to the Trump campaign confirm. The Trump stop will come a day after…
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Colorado Democrats cheer Clinton’s choice of Kaine as VP
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Democratic elected officials and national convention delegates from Colorado cheered Hillary Clinton’s announcement that she had chosen Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate, saying the one-time governor brings strong executive chops to the ticket, along with crucial foreign policy experience gained on Senate committees. Key supporters of Clinton’s chief primary rival, Vermont…
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Colorado Democrats cheer Clinton’s choice of Kaine as VP
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Democratic elected officials and national convention delegates from Colorado cheered Hillary Clinton’s announcement that she had chosen Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate, saying the one-time governor brings strong executive chops to the ticket, along with crucial foreign policy experience gained on Senate committees. Key supporters of Clinton’s chief primary rival, Vermont…
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Reagan: We can’t elect a liar in chief
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The stunt Ted Cruz pulled at the GOP convention in Cleveland Wednesday night may someday become known as his “Mistake on the Lake.” By making a point to not endorse Donald Trump in his speech and telling people to vote their “conscience” in the fall Cruz did his own political future and his conservative principles…
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Colorado Sanders supporters have mixed reactions to Clinton endorsement
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Bernie Sanders might have thrown his support behind presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally on Tuesday, but some of the Vermont senator’s leading Colorado backers say it’ll take more than his enthusiastic embrace for Clinton to earn their endorsement. “You have to tip your hat to Sen. Sanders. He could have taken…
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Hickenlooper says ‘deep, deep frustration’ behind Trump, Sanders support
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Gov. John Hickenlooper weighed in on the state of presidential politics in the wake of Donald Trump outlasting the field of Republican candidates to become the presumptive nominee this week. Hickenlooper, a Democrat, said the success of Trump, along with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, was a reflection of the uneasiness…