published May 26th 2016, 4:27 pm, by Brian Wingfield (Bloomberg) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would rescind “job-destroying” Obama administration environmental actions within 100 days of taking office and cancel a landmark international climate deal reached last year in Paris. “His policy is death by a thousand

published May 23rd 2016, 6:00 pm, by Tom Orlik (Bloomberg View) —Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have propelled their campaigns in part by appealing to globalization’s losers. The blue-collar American workers who have seen wages shrink and jobs disappear offshore have responded strongly to Trump’s China-bashing and Clinton’s newfound

published May 16th 2016, 4:00 am, by Michael C. Bender (Bloomberg) — As Hillary Clinton’s campaign focuses its attacks on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, she faces the challenge of pinning down someone who rapidly shifts positions on issues, sometimes within a single day. The Republican’s evasiveness confounded his primary

published May 11th 2016, 8:49 pm, by Kevin Cirilli and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) —Donald Trump has discussed in recent days the possibility of selecting former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as his vice presidential running mate, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been

published May 8th 2016, 2:15 pm, by Ben Brody (Bloomberg) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said his chief economic concern is giving the middle class a sizable tax cut, while other proposals, including lowering taxes on businesses and the wealthy, were starting points for negotiation. “I have to

published May 5th 2016, 2:43 pm, by Albert R. Hunt (Bloomberg View) —Will Hillary Clinton pick Senator Sherrod Brown as her running mate to carry his home state of Ohio or turn to Senator Elizabeth Warren, flame-thrower of the Democratic left, to energize Bernie Sanders fans? Will Donald Trump tap

published Apr 20th 2016, 5:25 pm, by Erik Larson (Bloomberg) — New York’s attorney general opened an investigation into alleged improprieties during the state’s primary voting on Tuesday, when thousands of voters complained they couldn’t cast ballots due to inaccurate voting lists. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Wednesday that the

©2016 Bloomberg View O4VCTM6KLVSL (Bloomberg View) — Big Business is having big doubts about its traditional political allies. Senator Ted Cruz, who not long ago was considered the most offensive presidential candidate imaginable, is now the best-case scenario. Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues his march toward collecting the most delegates for

©2016 Bloomberg News O1MO9G6JTSEA (Bloomberg) — Roughly 45 minutes before Donald Trump’s campaign would announce on Tuesday that he was skipping Thursday night’s Fox News debate, as always giddily tipping the Republican race into chaos in a yet another pique of strategic petulance (or is it petulant strategy?), Ted Cruz was

©2016 Bloomberg News O0K3CW6JTSEB (Bloomberg) — When Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign swept into Sioux City, Iowa, on Tuesday, her entourage headed to the city’s famous Orpheum, a 2,690-seat theater that for decades has played host to A-list celebrities running the gamut from Fred Astaire to Jerry Seinfeld. But the Democratic front-runner