Donald Trump is his own counsel, but some people have his ear more than others — at least some of the time.
Here are five people who carry enough weight with the businessman to potentially influence the direction of his unconventional campaign for the presidency.
Speaker Paul Ryan said he’s hoping the tone of Donald Trump’s campaign improves amid allegations of racism from the presumptive nominee’s critics and fellow Republicans.
Greens think they have a sure-fire way to bring Bernie Sanders supporters around to Hillary Clinton: Remind them of what Donald Trump says he’d do to the Paris climate deal.
West Virginia Democrats joined in on a call to end the role of unbound superdelegates in the Democratic primary process and also showed support for the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
The right and left increasingly have one thing in common: neither wants to be seen as friendly to Wall Street. Eight years since the financial crisis, big bank bashing remains very much en vogue in Washington.
The State Department has a habit of underestimating controversies before they explode, and that tendency is flaring up again in the furor over an edited video.
CIA director John Brennan said on Saturday that he expects 28 redacted pages of a congressional report on 9/11 to be published and that he supports their release.
A wild primary season is coming to an end, with voters turning to the choice ahead between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But based on dozens of interviews across the U.S., they are having trouble getting to “yes” with either candidate. As one put it, “It’s a clown show. I’m pretty much embarrassed to be an American citizen.”
The presidential primaries are just about over and the nominees have emerged. And the general election begins with Democrat Hillary Clinton already ahead of Republican Donald Trump on the Road to 270.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co chief executive and Republican donor Meg Whitman reiterated her opposition to Donald Trump as the party’s presidential nominee and compared him to fascist leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, according to media and two sources.
