published Oct 25th 2016, 8:00 am, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg View) — The U.S. presidential election is not all about Donald Trump’s outrages or Hillary Clinton’s positioning as the the lesser evil. As an outside observer, I see hope in some Americans’ quixotic resolve to stand up to the ugliness

published Jun 15th 2016, 4:17 pm, by Steven T. Dennis (Bloomberg) — Senator Marco Rubio said he will consider running for re-election this year after all, amid an effort by fellow Republicans to persuade the former presidential contender not to give up his Florida seat. A Rubio run would be

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

©2016 Bloomberg View O3TUY46KLVRD (Bloomberg View) — In Donald Trump’s telling, Mexico, Japan and especially China are fleecing the U.S. because past presidents were inept negotiators and too timid to muscle America’s trading partners. But even if a President Trump could stop companies from offshoring or countries from manipulating currencies

©2016 Bloomberg News O2XBDE6JTSEF (Bloomberg) — Third time’s a charm? Leading fundraiser Bobbie Kilberg, who had first supported New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, then former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination, is now backing Florida Senator Marco Rubio.  “The landscape is becoming pretty clear,” she told Bloomberg in

©2016 Bloomberg News O2E9TN6TTDSG (Bloomberg) — While presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s tax proposals would put more money in taxpayer wallets and business coffers, their benefits would be concentrated at the top end of the income scale, and they could produce large, “unsustainable, budget deficits,” according to a policy group’s analysis.

©2016 Bloomberg View O1KZS66JTSEC (Bloomberg View) — Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, the two candidates who are putting up the biggest fight against Donald Trump’s surprise surge in Iowa, aren’t supposed to have much in common. One is a hard-line right-wing maverick with a gift for alienating people; the other

©2016 Bloomberg View O086W36JTSEA (Bloomberg View) — National Review’s Tim Alberta and Eliana Johnson report a potentially important development: The emergence of an Anybody-But-Cruz-(Except-Trump) movement from the soon-to-be ashes of the Iowa campaigns of Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. It would seem that some social conservatives, including a few currently supporting

©2015 Bloomberg View NZS2WE6JTSED (Bloomberg View) — With almost six weeks until the Iowa caucuses and seven weeks to the New Hampshire primary, there’s still time for big changes. But here’s how the Republican contest looks right now, based on my reading of the odds currently posted at PredictIt, the

©2015 Bloomberg News NZBF3P6KLVR4 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky will be on the prime-time stage for the next Republican presidential debate on Dec. 15, sponsor CNN announced Sunday. Donald Trump, who’s spent much of the primary race atop polls of the party’s crowded 2016 field, will again