Articles Written By: Abby Phillip

‘I don’t know which Donald Trump will show up,’ Clinton says of debating Trump

August 29, 2016

Abby Phillip

Hillary Clinton was candid with supporters at a high-dollar fundraiser in the Hamptons on Monday afternoon, seeking their advice on debating Trump and telling them that she was preparing to debate an unpredictable candidate. "I'm running against someone who will say or do anything ... and who knows what that might be," Clinton said in […]

Kaine escalates attack on Trump, associating him with ‘Ku Klux Klan values’

August 26, 2016

Abby Phillip

Hillary Clinton's running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, escalated his attacks on Donald Trump on Friday, calling his comments bigoted and telling to a crowd at a historically black college in Florida that Trump's values are associated with Ku Klux Klan values. Kaine's comments at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee came a day after Clinton detailed her case against Trump, accusing him of amplifying […]

Kaine escalates attack on Trump, associating him with ‘Ku Klux Klan values’

August 26, 2016

Abby Phillip

Hillary Clinton's running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, escalated his attacks on Donald Trump on Friday, calling his comments bigoted and telling to a crowd at a historically black college in Florida that Trump's values are associated with Ku Klux Klan values. Kaine's comments at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee came a day after Clinton detailed her case against Trump, accusing him of amplifying […]

Clinton calls for donations for Louisiana flood victims, but warns against causing ‘distractions’

August 19, 2016

Abby Phillip

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said that she called Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) on Friday, but she suggested that she would not travel to the state to avoid distracting from flood relief efforts there. In a statement posted on Facebook, Clinton urged her supporters to donate to the relief efforts. "The flooding there […]

Clinton, Kaine to release new tax returns, pressuring Trump to do the same

August 11, 2016

Abby Phillip

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her vice-presidential running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), will release new tax returns in the coming days, according to a person close to Clinton. It is the campaign's latest effort to pressure Republican nominee Donald Trump into releasing his returns. Trump has said that he will not release his […]

Kaine responds to Trump’s encouragement of gun owners: ‘I really, frankly couldn’t believe he said it’

August 9, 2016

Abby Phillip

AUSTIN -- Hillary Clinton's vice presidential running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, condemned Donald Trump for making comments today that Kaine said encouraged violence against Clinton. "Nobody who is seeking a leadership position -- especially the presidency, the leadership of the country -- should do anything to countenance violence, and that’s what he was saying," the Virginia senator told reporters after […]

George W. Bush administration official announces support for Clinton over Trump

August 8, 2016

Abby Phillip

Lezlee Westine, a former aide to President George W. Bush, will support Hillary Clinton for president. Westine, who served as the Bush administration's White House director of public liaison and deputy assistant to the president, is one of several Republican figures to publicly announce their support for Clinton in recent weeks. “Our nation faces a […]

Clinton acknowledges misspeaking about FBI director’s testimony

August 5, 2016

Abby Phillip

In an effort to clarify her most recent statements about her use of a private email server as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton on Friday only further muddled a controversy that has dogged her presidential candidacy from the start. Clinton acknowledged that she had misspoken in two recent media interviews when she claimed that FBI Director […]

In endorsing Clinton, ex-CIA chief says Putin made Trump his ‘unwitting agent’

August 5, 2016

Abby Phillip

Former CIA director Michael Morell endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and blasted GOP rival Donald Trump, accusing him of becoming an unwitting agent of Russian President Vladimir Putin in an op-ed on Friday. Morell wrote that while he is neither a registered Democrat nor a Republican and has never made his preference for president public, he […]

Showing growing confidence, Clinton campaign and super PAC pause ads in Colorado and Virginia

August 4, 2016

Abby Phillip

LAS VEGAS — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the super PAC supporting it have removed its state-specific ads in two battleground states, Virginia and Colorado, a sign of growing confidence in her position in the presidential race after both party's conventions. According to a Democrat tracking media buys, the Clinton campaign has renewed its ad […]