David Sherfinski

Gary Johnson admits low chance of winning, but hopes for 5 percent of vote

He admits he has little hope of winning, but Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson says Americans can now vote for him in order to get him past the 5 percent threshold, which would entitle his party to up to $10 million in public financing in 2020.

October 24, 2016

Tim Kaine: Hillary Clinton would seek updated war authorization for fight against ISIS

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine says if elected, Hillary Clinton would pursue an updated authorization for use of military force (AUMF) for the battle against the Islamic State terrorist group.

October 24, 2016

Donald Trump: White House run has made me ‘more jaded’ toward the press

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said his White House run has made him "more jaded," notably toward the press, and appeared open to a system where the bar is lower to successfully sue reporters.

October 24, 2016

Tim Kaine on WikiLeaks warning: ‘I suspect it’s a big yawn’

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said he suspects a recent warning directed at him from WikiLeaks will turn out to be a "big yawn."

October 24, 2016

Donald Trump campaign: We’d be willing to do another debate

Donald Trump's campaign manager said she wishes there were more presidential debates and that they would be willing to do another one.

October 24, 2016

Joe Biden: Donald Trump’s words, actions ‘genuinely a threat to the democratic process’

Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Thursday said Donald Trump is questioning "the legitimacy of our democracy," after Mr. Trump declined to say whether he would accept next month's election results during Wednesday's presidential debate.

October 20, 2016

Tim Kaine: ‘This is not a reality show’

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine ripped Donald Trump on Thursday, saying Mr. Trump was effectively insulting democracy when he declined to say he'd accept next month's election results at Wednesday's debate.

October 20, 2016

Majority of Republicans side with Trump over Ryan for GOP’s vision: poll

By a nearly 20-point margin, Republican and GOP-leaning likely voters chose Donald Trump over House Speaker Paul D. Ryan as to who better matches what they think the party should stand for, according to polling released Thursday.

October 20, 2016

Trump campaign: Donald Trump was putting potential fraudsters ‘on notice’

A spokesman for Donald Trump's campaign on Thursday said Mr. Trump's declining to say whether he would accept the outcome of the election was the GOP presidential nominee's way of putting people thinking about committing voter fraud "on notice."

October 20, 2016

Mike Pence: I’m confident we’ll accept vote if it’s ‘fair’

GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence says he's confident he and Donald Trump will accept the election results if they're "fair," after Mr. Trump refused to say whether he would definitively accept the outcome of the election during Wednesday's debate in Nevada.

October 20, 2016

Tim Kaine: Donald Trump is ‘trying to pull the central pillar down’

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Donald Trump's refusal during Wednesday's debate to say he'd automatically accept the election results was a "shocker" and that Mr. Trump is trying to "pull the central pillar down."

October 20, 2016

Renee Elmers knocks Hillary Clinton debate prep: What woman has that much time?

Rep. Renee Elmers, North Carolina Republican, said it's curious how much time Hillary Clinton spent off the public campaign trail preparing for Wednesday's debate and asked what woman in the country has that much time for anything when they're balancing so much.

October 20, 2016

Election fraud to be headed off by Justice Department, attorney general vows

Amid frenetic talk of a "rigged" election, U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch on Wednesday pledged that the federal government will work to protect the public's right to vote to the extent they can, as voters head to the polls to elect a president for the first time since a 2013 ruling invalidated a key part of the Voting Rights Act.

October 19, 2016

John Kasich likens Donald Trump’s ‘rigged’ election talk to faked moon landing conspiracies

Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday dismissed Donald Trump's recent statements that the 2016 election is "rigged," likening such talk to debunked theories that the U.S. faked the moon landing.

October 19, 2016

Support for legalizing marijuana use at record-high 60 percent: Gallup

Public support for legalizing marijuana is at 60 percent -- the highest level in a 47-year Gallup trend -- according to a survey from the longtime polling outfit released Wednesday.

October 19, 2016

Donald Trump invites Malik Obama and Patricia Smith to the final debate

Donald Trump has invited President Obama's Kenyan-born half-brother, Malik, and Patricia Smith, the mother of a Benghazi victim, to the final presidential debate on Wednesday.

October 19, 2016

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 9 points: poll

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 9 points, according to a national poll of likely voters released Wednesday.

October 19, 2016

Gary Johnson’s Libertarian rivals reject him for president

It's not exactly "never Johnson," but some of Gary Johnson's former rivals for the Libertarian presidential nomination say they are unimpressed with his campaign and won't vote for him, with one even channeling Sen. Ted Cruz and telling libertarians to vote their "conscience" as he mounts an informal write-in campaign for himself.

October 18, 2016

Mike Pence: North Carolina firebombing an ‘act of political terrorism’

GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Tuesday condemned the recent firebombing of a Republican office in North Carolina as an "act of political terrorism" and said the narrative would likely be much different had something similar happened to a Democratic office.

October 18, 2016

State Department: ‘No wrongdoing’ in ‘interagency conversation’ about classification

The State Department said there was "no wrongdoing" in the wake of newly-released FBI files that showed an accuser alleged there was a proposal for additional bureau personnel in exchange for the lowering of classification on Hillary Clinton's email.

October 18, 2016