published Jun 1st 2016, 6:00 pm, by Justin Sink (Bloomberg) —President Barack Obama took on Donald Trump’s Republican campaign pitch to make America great again by declaring Wednesday that his economic policies already have made life better for middle-class voters. Obama returned to the site of his first presidential visit,

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 3rd 2016, 6:34 pm, by John McCormick (Bloomberg) —Real-estate developer Donald Trump won the Republican presidential primary in Indiana on Tuesday, dealing a devastating blow to Ted Cruz’s effort to stop the front-runner from becoming the party’s presumptive nominee before the national convention in July. Trump’s win, projected

published Apr 25th 2016, 6:01 pm, by Michael C. Bender and Mark Niquette (Bloomberg) — The plan to stop Donald Trump is not playing well in Indiana, a state crucial to the billionaire’s prospects of winning the Republican presidential nomination. Ohio Governor John Kasich locked up both of his campaign

published Apr 10th 2016, 9:47 am, by Albert R. Hunt (Bloomberg View) — When House Speaker Paul Ryan released a video laying out his familiar theme that politics should be fought on ideas and issues, the Drudge Report’s headline was: “Paul Ryan launches his first campaign ad.” A dream of

published Apr 6th 2016, 4:00 pm, by Terrence Dopp (Bloomberg) — Fresh off a double-digit victory in Wisconsin, Ted Cruz landed in in Donald Trump’s home state Wednesday to declare that the tide in the Republican primary had turned and that the billionaire front-runner knows it. “He gets very angry

©2016 Bloomberg News O4TQ766K50XZ (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump’s apparent willingness to upend decades of U.S. security dominance in Asia is baffling major allies given China’s increasing clout and North Korea’s nuclear threats. The billionaire front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination has told the New York Times he’d be prepared to

©2016 Bloomberg View O4HQOI6JTSF2 (Bloomberg View) — Just about everything Donald Trump says about trade is wrong, but his use of trade-deficit numbers is especially so. To understand why, consider his attacks on Apple, which he accuses of destroying American jobs by making devices in China. QuickTakeFree Trade Feud The

©2016 Bloomberg News O4IGED6KLVR9 (Bloomberg) — Hillary Clinton cast herself Wednesday as the only presidential candidate capable of leading the U.S. as it confronts the threat of terrorism, deriding Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for offering “bluster” rather than real solutions. “Slogans aren’t a strategy; loose cannons tend to misfire,”

©2016 Bloomberg News O4F08B6S972C (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump shot back at Hillary Clinton during a well-received speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee given hours after the former secretary of state blasted the billionaire Republican front-runner’s promise to remain “neutral” in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.  Trump — who along with