Republican operatives are scouring the country for transcripts, notes or secret recordings of Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs in hopes of finding damaging material for the general election.
House and Senate Republicans will return to Washington this week for the first time since Donald Trump became their party’s presumptive nominee for president.
OPINION | One has to give Donald Trump credit. He got there fair and square, triumphing over the strongest Republican presidential primary field since 1980, when Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, Howard Baker and Jack Kemp were among the contenders.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he supports a higher minimum wage, but said he thinks the decision should be left to state governments.
Donald J. Trump’s refusal to rule out removing Paul D. Ryan, the speaker of the House, as the chairman of the Republican convention deepened a rift in the party.
Still shaken by Donald Trump’s triumph, Republican and conservative foes of the billionaire can still cause headaches for the party’s presumptive presidential nominee at this summer’s GOP convention. But their options are shrinking by the day.
Hillary Clinton is consolidating her support among Wall Street donors and other businesses, winning more campaign contributions from financial-services executives in the latest fundraising period than all other candidates combined.
The other two candidates left in the presidential race, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, want to overhaul the government, but with her fine-grained approach to policy, Hillary Clinton mainly wants to tinker with its parts.
