ATLANTA — If there was ever an issue underscoring the differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, it’s gun rights. Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, is a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association who believes the Second Amendment provides an absolute right to buy and own firearms. Democrat Clinton has advocated limiting the sales [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — One group of Americans will likely see huge changes to their tax bills after this year’s presidential election: the wealthiest 1 percent. They will see a big tax increase if Hillary Clinton wins, or enjoy a huge tax cut if Donald Trump wins. For everyone else? Both candidates are proposing very small [...]
NEW YORK — Last Halloween, Erin Holin and her husband coiffed their 2-year-old’s blond hair, Donald Trump style, and bought him a little suit with a red tie as his costume. “I taught him to say, ‘I’m very rich!’ He even squished his face to be ‘angry Trump,’” she said. This year, her husband wants [...]
DALLAS — The voices cascade into the studio, denouncing political hypocrisy and media bias and disappearing values. Hillary Clinton is a liar and a crook, they say; Donald Trump is presidential and successful. By the time the 16th caller reaches the air this day, the Rick Roberts show has reached an impassioned crescendo of anger [...]
CINCINNATI — Ohioans are again getting plenty of attention in the presidential race’s final weeks. After a lull last month, high-level campaigning has accelerated in the perennial battleground state. Republican Donald Trump campaigned here Thursday, while President Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton followed Hillary Clinton’s return to the state earlier in the week [...]
WASHINGTON — Advance voting shows positive signs for Hillary Clinton in two states that could help her lock up the presidency, North Carolina and Florida, as the election enters a critical, final stretch. There are encouraging signs for Donald Trump in Ohio. That’s a vital state for the Republican presidential nominee, but a victory there [...]
NEW YORK — Dan Stewart walked into the room just in time to hear one of his employees say that one presidential candidate should be in jail, and a second staffer respond that another was the worst since Hitler. “I said, ‘Whoa, wait a minute,’” says Stewart, CEO of Happy Grasshopper, an email marketing company. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even if your daughters don’t pay much attention to politics, they’d be hard-pressed to have missed Donald Trump’s attack of a former Miss Universe’s weight or comments about a 400-pound hacker. It resonated with a 15-year-old who said last week the words damage girls’ body image and asked Hillary Clinton how to [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican Donald Trump can do little to stop Democrat Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency if she carries North Carolina, where their close race reflects the national liabilities of both candidates. Trump is struggling with conservative Democrats, especially women in the big and booming suburbs of Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, who’ve long [...]
For weeks after the vote, the abuse kept coming: Venomous, sexist phone calls and emails, venting rage at the five women on Seattle’s City Council who outvoted four men to derail a sports arena project. “Disgraceful hag” was one of the milder messages. “Go home and climb in the oven,” one councilor was told. This [...]