©2015 Bloomberg View NZ27YD6KLVR6 (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump wins again. Oh, he’s still not going to be president. His new offensive — coming out for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslim immigration and travel to the U.S. — won’t get him any closer to taking over the White

 ©2015 Bloomberg View NYY2NW6KLVR4 (Bloomberg View) — It’s a recurring theme in U.S. history: Populist presidential candidates giving voice to an electorate fed up with Washington and politics as usual. Yet the three politicians wearing the label — the Republicans Ben Carson, Donald Trump and, to a lesser extent, Ted

©2015 Bloomberg View NYSC8J6S972U (Bloomberg View) — If Marco Rubio is the front-runner to win the Republican presidential nomination, as election prediction markets are saying (and I agree!), then why aren’t his poll numbers spiking? That’s what the Rubio naysayers keep asking. No matter that the Florida senator just moved into

©2015 Bloomberg News NVTLDV6JTSEF (Bloomberg) — In the wake of Thursday’s mass shooting in Oregon, a familiar political pattern has emerged, with Democrats advocating for tougher gun laws and Republicans arguing that such legislation won’t make a difference in curbing firearm deaths. To make the latter point, two of the current GOP presidential candidates, New

©2015 Bloomberg News NVEDKI6KLWMH (Adds details starting in first paragraph.) (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump has portrayed himself as a different kind of Republican presidential candidate. His tax plan is mostly more of the same. The billionaire front-runner for his party’s presidential nomination has been promising to make “hedge fund guys” pay more

©2015 Bloomberg News NUFL956KLVRG (Bloomberg Politics) — Martin O’Malley is no fan of Donald Trump. The former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate called out Trump’s “xenophobia” and even took aim at his Democratic presidential rivals for not speaking out loudly against it in a Wednesday interview on Bloomberg’s With

©2015 Bloomberg View NUBIE36S972G (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump’s eruption into the Republican presidential race has been held up as evidence of a new phenomenon in American politics. But it’s not. The real estate mogul has precedents, and there’s one historical doppelganger in particular whose bid for the presidency followed

©2015 Bloomberg View NS9MQF6KLVR8 (Bloomberg View) — In the not-so-distant past — 2012, to be exact — candidates lived and died by the money primary. How much you could raise was a measure of your worth as a candidate and an indication of how long you could stay in the

©2015 Bloomberg News NS84AI6KLVRA (Bloomberg Politics) — As far Donald Trump is concerned, Mike Huckabee has nothing to apologize for. In an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, Trump took aim at the Obama administration’s deal with Iran and stood up for Huckabee’s Holocaust analogy in which the former