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Ralph Z. Hallow

Ralph Z. Hallow

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Ralph Z. Hallow was the chief political correspondent of commentary, served on the Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Washington Times editorial boards, was Ford Foundation Fellow in Urban Journalism at Northwestern University, resident at Columbia University Editorial-Page Editors Seminar and has filed from Berlin, Bonn, London, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Belgrade, Bucharest, Panama and Guatemala.

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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus (Associated Press) **FILE**

RNC rules panel rejects proposal to simplify convention procedures

A Republican National Convention panel shot down an effort Thursday to simplify the rules for the presidential nomination, but anti-establishment forces claimed victory after the party's top attorney said existing rules make it difficult to substitute candidates.

April 21, 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Paul Ryan email blasts causing top Republicans to wonder

House Speaker Paul Ryan has been showering select Republican bigwigs with email messages, causing some to wonder whether Mr. Ryan is setting himself up to play "white knight" at the Republican National Convention.

April 20, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's statements on abortion, now recanted, cost him the support of pro-life allies. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s abortion gaffe undermines his aura of invincibility

In yet another undermining of the New York tycoon's aura of invincibility, the influential National Right to Life Committee's board of directors voted over the weekend to endorse his chief rival, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Meanwhile, several prominent Republicans who had advised making peace with the inevitable are now walking back their earlier acceptance.

April 3, 2016
Ted Cruz (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s Arizona win gives Ted Cruz slim GOP nomination chance

ANALYSIS: Ted Cruz's loss in the Arizona primary Tuesday puts mathematics squarely on the side of Donald Trump in the race to capture the Republican presidential nomination, an ongoing state-by-state delegate allocation analysis by The Washington Times indicates.

March 23, 2016
Donald Trump predicts he will enter the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer with as many as 1,450 delegates. Other prognosticators say he will be lucky to eke out the 1,237 majority needed for the party's presidential nomination. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump on track to win barely enough delegates for GOP nomination

If Donald Trump can keep up his winning streak, he will head to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland with just barely enough delegates to win the presidential nomination outright, avoiding a messy fight that has all sides of the GOP wary of the consequences.

March 21, 2016
FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2006, file photo, Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland is seen. Whoever wins a majority of the 2,472 convention delegates, or 1,237 votes, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland is the party’s nominee. What happens if there’s no winner on the first ballot? Delegates vote again and again until one candidate gets a majority. On subsequent ballots, most delegates are free to vote for whomever they please.(AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Randy Evans says most scenarios favor Trump nomination at convention

The chairman of the Republican National Lawyers Association sees the odds favoring Donald Trump's winning the GOP presidential nomination on the first-ballot, even if the billionaire businessman marches into the GOP convention in Cleveland as many as 100 delegates short of a majority.

March 21, 2016
Donald Trump might come into the Republican National Convention short of the 1,237 majority needed for the nomination, but a brokered convention is looking less likely. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump gives Republicans little choice on nomination

NEWS ANALYSIS: Donald Trump can lose Ohio to John Kasich on Tuesday and still have a 1,242-delegate majority going into the Republican National Convention in July or, at worst, wind up 142 delegates short, according to the latest state-by-state delegate allocation analysis by The Washington Times.

March 14, 2016
By the time California and three other states count their votes from the last four primaries June 7, Donald Trump will be 74 or so delegates short of the 1,237 majority needed for the nomination, the analysis shows. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump to storm convention just shy of delegate threshold for nomination

Donald Trump is on track to hand the Republican establishment an unprecedented defeat at the national convention in July, despite being outspent 3-1 by party leaders and their associates in their all-out effort to turn primary and caucus voters against him, according to a state-by-state delegate allocation analysis by The Washington Times.

March 9, 2016
Sen. Marco Rubio will speak at 11:35 a.m. Saturday during the March 2-5 gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor just outside Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

Marco Rubio will appear at CPAC

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida will show up at next week's Conservative Political Action Conference after all, resolving months of tension between the senator's Republican presidential campaign and American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp.

February 24, 2016