Ronald Reagan

Super Tuesday’s results don’t always match primaries’ design

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After Democrats saw Walter Mondale lose 49 states to President Ronald Reagan in 1984, party le...
21:39 1 March 2022

Bloomberg banking on Florida but must survive Super Tuesday

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A.J. Broome is a 56-year-old married gay man living in St. Petersburg, Florida. Until recent...
17:13 1 March 2022

Shifting demographics drive GOP nosedive on US West Coast

BEND, Ore. (AP) — In the early 1990s, the population of Bend was around 25,000 and leaned Republican. A lumber mill oper...
21:49 26 February 2022

Trump looks to rev up his base at Daytona 500

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is out to rev up his appeal with a key voting demographic — NASCAR fans — as he takes in the Daytona 500 on Sunday...
17:33 15 February 2022

Sanders’ Social Security ‘adjustments’ undercut Biden attack

DES MOINES, Iowa — As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making “adjustments" to the tax and benefit structure of Soc...
20:39 28 January 2022

Biden’s ‘consensus’ pitch faces biggest test in Iowa

MASON CITY, Iowa — On a snowy morning just days before Iowans make their choice in the Democratic presidential contest, Joe Biden invoked President Ro...
20:19 26 January 2022

Longtime political writer William Greider dies at 83

WASHINGTON — William Greider, a longtime political writer for The Nation, Rolling Stone and The Washington Post, died Wednesday at the age of 83, acco...
2:50 27 December 2022

The new ‘three amigos’ riding into Trump impeachment inquiry

WASHINGTON — The “three amigos” used to stand for one thing in Washington — the pack of globe-trotting senators led by John McCain who brought America...
12:23 1 December 2021

Reagan statue unveiled in Berlin at Cold War speech site

BERLIN — The U.S. Embassy in Berlin unveiled a statue of Ronald Reagan on Friday at a site overlooking the location of the former president's iconic s...
17:04 8 November 2021