by Jason Mast | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
GRAHAM, N.C. – The Rev. Marcia Isley stepped into a voting booth to cast an early ballot for Hillary Clinton last month. But after making her vote, she said she glanced over her electronic screen to see a checkmark next to Donald Trump’s name. With early voting under...
by Michelle Kim | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016
WASHINGTON – A coalition of U.S. Muslim groups announced Wednesday it had reached its goal of having 1 million Muslim-American registered voters. And leaders attributed their success to one main source – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “I’d like to thank...
by Dan Waldman | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
Video by Kelly Norris/MNS WASHINGTON — Republican Donald Trump can still pull out a win on Nov. 8, Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace said Wednesday at a panel hosted by the Washington Economic Club. Wallace, who moderated the third presidential debate, speculated...
by Eunice Lee | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. – Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to call Congress into a special session for the express purpose of repealing and replacing President Barack Obama’s signature health care law if he wins next week and takes office as president in January. His...
by Jason Mast | Nov 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
With Election Day nearing, the major party candidates have set the themes for their campaigns: Republican Donald Trump calls himself the tough-on-crime, law-and-order candidate, while Hillary Clinton paints herself as the reform-minded Democrat working to make inroads...
by Jason Mast | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Topics
RALEIGH, N.C. – The Rev. Anthony Spearman was standing in line for early voting with 25 to 50 black parishioners recently in Greensboro when he says a white man started shoving through them. “Hillary for Prison,” he shouted. “Get out of my way.” Spearman’s experience...
by Ben Din, Rishika Dugyala & Fallon Schlossman | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
CARY, N.C. — It’s hard to find empty space in the cozy Democratic field office here, where the walls are adorned with signs promoting Democratic candidates across the ballot and messages of support for presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “I’m with...
by David Gernon & Ross Krasner | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
DURHAM, N.C. — Every four years, College Republicans around the country rally around the GOP nominee for president. But this year, Donald Trump has turned the tradition into a moment of reckoning, pitting club members against club members and chapters against chapters...
by Darby Hopper and Marissa Page | Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
BOULDER, Colo. – In this battleground state, young voters can be the key to a candidate’s success. In 2012 and 2008, they turned out in droves and Barack Obama carried the state that had gone red in the three prior elections; in 2012, the voting rate for 18- to...
by Dan Waldman | Oct 31, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Technology
WASHINGTON — PayPal co-founder and Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel defended his recent support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Monday, saying America is on the decline and needs to elect an outsider to manage the economy. Thiel made the remarks in a...
by Rishika Dugyala | Oct 28, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — First lady Michelle Obama, one of the most popular surrogates for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, joined Clinton for the first time on the campaign trail at an early vote rally Thursday. Thousands of supporters and...
by Ben Din & Fallon Schlossman | Oct 28, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — First lady Michelle Obama dismissed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s allegations of a rigged election, saying Thursday that the outcome on Nov. 8 will be determined by the will of the voters. She urged Americans to ignore any...
