Apr 23 Cruz’s position on student loans may hurt his appeal among young voters By Will Weissert, Associated Press In the Senate, Ted Cruz opposed letting millions of Americans reduce their student loan payments. Continue reading
Apr 23 Railing against ‘rigged’ system may reinforce Trump appeal to base By Jill Colvin, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press Donald Trump keeps hammering away at Republican insiders even as campaign aides are gingerly courting those same officials. Continue reading
Apr 23 Why you don’t have to be nominated to become the GOP nominee By Alan Fram, Associated Press It turns out you don't have to be nominated to become the Republican presidential nominee. Continue reading
Apr 21 Watch 2:41 Talk of rules, for restrooms and the RNC, dominates the campaign trail By PBS News Hour Rules took center stage in the election cycle Thursday, as Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz clashed over rules regulating transgender people’s access to restrooms. Meanwhile, RNC officials left the Republican party’s rules unchanged going into July’s convention, and Bernie… Continue watching
Apr 21 Trump will work with GOP leaders, advisers say By Daniel Bush HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Donald Trump has campaigned as the ultimate outsider. But now, with the Republican nomination is in sight, his top advisers are reassuring party leaders that Trump would embrace the GOP establishment if he moves on to the… Continue reading
Apr 19 GOP leader, House Republicans meet on convention rules By Alan Fram, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The rules governing this summer's Republican presidential nominating convention will be made by that gathering's delegates, not a small group of GOP leaders, the chairman of the Republican National Committee told House GOP lawmakers on Tuesday. Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch 7:08 Is the nominating process rigged? RNC chairman weighs in By PBS News Hour As convention politicking continues to cost Donald Trump delegates, the Republican front-runner has ramped up his criticisms of what he claims is a rigged party system. For more on the GOP’s delegate selection process, Judy Woodruff sits down with Republican… Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch 1:27 Behind closed doors, GOP strategizes on how to block Trump By PBS News Hour As Donald Trump approaches the 1,237 pledged delegates who would secure his nomination as the GOP’s presidential candidate, the rifts within the Republican party grow ever deeper. On Thursday, a group of conservative activists met in a closed-door session in… Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch 6:39 News Wrap: Paul Ryan won’t be GOP nominee; Putin makes threat on Syria By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan again denied any possibility that he would stand for the Republican presidential nomination at a contested RNC convention, saying those who argue otherwise should “knock it off.” Also, Russian president Vladimir… Continue watching
Mar 16 Watch 4:12 News Wrap: Trump dismisses talk of contested convention; Fed maintains interest rates By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump warned against trying to deny him the party’s presidential nomination via a brokered RNC convention in July. Also, the Federal Reserve decided to hold interest rates steady, saying the U.S. economy… Continue watching