WASHINGTON – Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday threw his support behind Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination, calling the former Massachusetts governor “the man for the job.” “Given his accomplishments, background, character, experience, ideas and intellect, Mitt Romney has what it takes to build a foundation for America’s success in this global [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mitt Romney lashed out at what he called President Barack Obama’s weak policy on China, criticizing it on Thursday for going in “precisely the wrong direction” and calling meetings this week with China’s vice president “empty pomp and ceremony.” In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, the Republican presidential candidate chided [...]
If we could peer into Mitt Romney’s brain, what would we see? What is he thinking? And what would he be saying if he could be totally honest? That’s what ABC News Political Director Amy Walter and Yahoo News Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian chewed over Wednesday on Top Line. Amy says the first thing [...]
Rick Santorum, currently polling as the frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, is out with a new Michigan ad that pokes fun at Romney for spending millions on negative advertising. “Mitt Romney’s negative attack machine is back, on full throttle. This time, Romney’s firing his mud at Rick Santorum,” says the voice [...]
President Obama’s performance in head-to-head matchups with his Republican competitors, especially Mitt Romney, have dramatically improved in recent weeks. In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for People the Press, Obama went from being tied with Romney in trial heats last fall to holding an eight-point lead in the fresh batch of data [...]
SOUTH EL MONTE, Calif. – Republican Newt Gingrich on Monday dismissed calls to drop out of the presidential contest in order to set up a direct contest between rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The former House speaker insisted that his ideas and a new determination to stay positive would help him once again resuscitate [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum has surged into a virtual tie in opinion polls with Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, setting up a tough fight in the party’s primary in Michigan on Feb 28. Picking up support from voters aligned with the conservative Tea Party movement and white Christian evangelicals, Santorum rose [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama proposed tax increases on wealthy individuals and some corporations Monday, setting the stage for an ideological battle that won’t be resolved until after the November election — if then. Obama’s proposed tax hikes put him at odds with the Republican presidential hopefuls. They have all called for tax packages that [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) – Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney grabbed back some momentum after midweek losses in three states, scoring a narrow win in Maine’s caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists. Results of Maine’s non-binding straw poll showed the former Massachusetts governor with 39 percent support, or 2,190 [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) – Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney grabbed back some momentum after midweek losses in three states, scoring a narrow win in Maine’s caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists. Results of Maine’s non-binding straw poll showed the former Massachusetts governor with 39 percent support, or 2,190 [...]
WASHINGTON – Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don’t. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around the globe may sound like the exclusive province of the wealthy, the mysterious or the shady, [...]
WASHINGTON – Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don’t. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around the globe may sound like the exclusive province of the wealthy, the mysterious or the shady, [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has a Rick Santorum problem that can’t be easily swept aside, even with wins in the sparsely attended Maine caucuses and a poll of conservative activists. The former Massachusetts governor arguably has fewer effective weapons against Santorum than he was able to pull out against [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has a Rick Santorum problem that can’t be easily swept aside, even with wins in the sparsely attended Maine caucuses and a poll of conservative activists. The former Massachusetts governor arguably has fewer effective weapons against Santorum than he was able to pull out against [...]
PORTLAND, Maine – His losing streak broken and the GOP presidential race entering a lull, Mitt Romney now turns his attention to extending the huge cash advantage he enjoys over his rivals. The former Massachusetts governor narrowly won Maine’s Republican caucuses, state officials announced Saturday night, giving Romney’s campaign a much-needed boost after humbling losses [...]
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts. Under his leadership, Massachusetts sought tens of millions of dollars in earmarks for transportation projects through the state’s congressional delegation. A prime example was [...]
WASHINGTON – Rick Santorum says he expects to do well in the next GOP presidential contests and will be in a two-man race with Mitt Romney. Santorum is coming off victories last week in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, and says he can have good showings Feb. 28 in Michigan and Arizona. The former Pennsylvania senator [...]
WASHINGTON – Staggered by Rick Santorum’s surge, Mitt Romney is trying to reset his presidential campaign by defining himself as a strict conservative. The former Massachusetts governor had focused on his business credentials and played down his ideology, four years after he failed in his attempt to win the GOP nomination by running as a [...]
Ron Paul speaks from the balcony of Linda Bean’s Maine Kitchen Topside Tavern during a stop in Freeport, Maine. … Rick Santorum’s three-state sweep in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday did more than put a jolt into the 2012 Republican race: It inspired Mitt Romney to visit Maine. Ahead of the announcement on Saturday of [...]
SANFORD, Maine – Mitt Romney hoped to avoid a fourth straight election setback Saturday in the GOP presidential nomination race, but feisty Ron Paul could extend that losing streak with a victory in Maine’s caucuses. Romney, the one-time front-runner, stepped up efforts to court Republicans in recent days, reflecting growing concern about the outcome of [...]
It’s a big day Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Three of the Republican White House hopefuls speak. Rick Santorum, who is angling to maintain the momentum he picked up Tuesday in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado, speaks at CPAC at 10:25 a.m. EST. Mitt Romney, who continues to try to solidify [...]
TULSA, Okla. – Rick Santorum stirs his ever-growing crowds when he promises to right a country awash in “immoral debt” and to replace an administration he argues has “callousness toward life and family and faith.” Of the GOP presidential hopefuls, Santorum is by far the most public and emphatic about his faith, drawing on his [...]
(Reuters) – Four years ago, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stood at the gates of a Michigan factory and vowed to fight for the U.S. auto industry as it slid toward collapse. Now, with Romney desperate for a win in Michigan’s primary on February 28, he will have to explain to voters why later in [...]
CLEVELAND – Newt Gingrich, suddenly in danger of losing his perch as Mitt Romney’s strongest GOP challenger, is fine-tuning his presidential campaign to place more emphasis on raising money, guarding his home turf and trying to avoid nasty quarrels with the front-runner. Rick Santorum’s stunning success in this week’s elections in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Many Republicans may have growing concerns about their presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, but no one is pushing the panic button – yet. That could change quickly, however, if Romney does not reverse Tuesday’s three-state losing streak to Rick Santorum by winning in Arizona and Michigan on February 28, and then having a [...]
Mitt Romney seems to be finally paying attention to Rick Santorum, since the former Pennsylvania senator staged a three-state election sweep Tuesday. The Romney camp has designed a Santorum-specific banner graphic that will grace future anti-Santorum news releases issued from the campaign press shop. The image reinforces Romney’s line of attack against Santorum, highlighting Santorum’s [...]
For the candidates vying to claw their way back into the Republican nominating fight, there are no symbolic victories. The Missouri primary is a $6 million beauty contest inexplicably wedged onto the political calendar ahead of the state’s caucuses next month. Minnesota’s caucuses are non-binding; the state’s 40 delegates are chosen through local conventions. Ditto [...]
Rick Santorum spent the morning after his three-state sweep in the Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota caucuses with interviews on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. “We felt it, we felt it coming,” Santorum said on “Fox and Friends” of his surprising victory over Mitt Romney in Colorado and more expected victories in Minnesota and Missouri, that [...]
DENVER (Reuters) – Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum claimed a surge of momentum and fundraising on Wednesday, a day after his shocking sweep of nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri that dealt a blow to front-runner Mitt Romney. Even though Romney holds strong advantages in financing and organization, his campaign will have to refocus [...]
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney has added to his lead in the race for delegates now that Republican officials in Nevada are done counting the votes from Saturday’s presidential caucuses. Romney won the GOP caucuses with 50 percent of the vote, giving him 14 delegates. Newt Gingrich won six delegates, Ron Paul won five and Rick [...]
Whether or not Newt Gingrich can carry on a real campaign against Mitt Romney for several more weeks or even months depends in large measure on his political guardian angel, the Las Vegas casino billionaire and fierce Israel hawk Sheldon Adelson. Adelson’s camp won’t say whether the mogul will donate any money beyond the $10 [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama – bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth – would win in a match-up against the two leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, a poll on Monday showed. A Washington Post-ABC News survey of 1,000 adults found that, for the first time, Obama’s [...]
LAS VEGAS – Defeated in the Nevada caucuses, Newt Gingrich brushed aside all talk of quitting the Republican presidential race and said he hopes a series of victories will enable him to catch up with front-runner Mitt Romney by the Texas primary in early April. At a news conference in Las Vegas after results showed [...]
Newt Gingrich finished behind Mitt Romney in the Nevada caucuses on Saturday night—his second disappointment in a row after losing the Florida primary last Tuesday. Rather than throw the typical post-results rally party, Gingrich held a press conference with a small cadre of reporters in Las Vegas, vowing to stay in the race and taking [...]
LAS VEGAS – Now it’s on to Colorado, Minnesota and Maine. With back-to-back victories fueling him, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is looking toward the next states that hold GOP nominating contests as main rival Newt Gingrich brushes aside any talk of abandoning his White House bid — all but ensuring the battle will stretch [...]
LAS VEGAS – Mitt Romney expects Nevada’s caucuses to kick off a month of primary and caucus contests to keep momentum on his side in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. Polls show Romney far ahead in advance of Saturday’s voting, which follows months of organizing by the campaign of the former Massachusetts governor. [...]
LAS VEGAS – A confident Mitt Romney is looking past his GOP opponents and Nevada’s caucuses the day the state votes. Chief rival Newt Gingrich is bracing for defeat in a state the former Massachusetts governor won in 2008. Romney was scheduled to fly to Colorado Saturday morning for a campaign rally before returning to [...]
LAS VEGAS—Mitt Romney’s stump speech, absent a tweak here and there at the top of his remarks, is virtually the same everyday, right down to the closing meditation on his unwavering love for the nation’s patriotic hymns. “I love the hymns,” Romney has said at virtually every campaign stop throughout the early primary states. “‘America [...]
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder and a House chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, have squared off over the Justice Department’s flawed gun-smuggling probe. Issa (EYE’-suh), R-Calif., is demanding the department turn over documents about how it handled congressional inquiries after problems with Operation Fast and Furious came to light. At the start of Thursday’s hearing, [...]
WASHINGTON – During his presidential campaign in 2007, Republican candidate Mitt Romney promised that a trust overseeing his financial portfolio would shed any investments that conflicted with GOP positions toward Iran, China, stem cell research and other issues. But Romney’s family trusts kept some of those stocks and repeatedly bought new investments in similar holdings [...]
Newt Gingrich ended his campaign against Mitt Romney in Florida with the same message strategy that Romney’s senior advisers had used in another Republican primary two years earlier: Attack Goldman Sachs. There was a good reason. Amid the orange groves and senior centers, the successful investment bank served as Gingrich’s red meat for the right. [...]
Fresh off his double-digit victory in Tuesday’s Florida Republican primary, a chipper Mitt Romney hit the morning talk-show circuit on Wednesday, appearing on the “Today” show, “Good Morning America,” “CBS This Morning,” “Fox and Friends” and CNN’s “Starting Point” via satellite from Tampa. With Newt Gingrich vowing to stay in the race until the Republican [...]
TAMPA, Fla. – Barreling out of Florida with money and momentum on his side, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said Wednesday that the bare-knuckled nomination fight thus far has toughened him up for contests to come. Chief rival Newt Gingrich is regrouping after a significant loss and faces serious disadvantages in the next states to [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Whenever Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been down and in need of an enforcer, one has been there. Restore Our Future, the independent “Super PAC” that supports Romney’s campaign, has been a machine of destruction in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, swamping Republican rival Newt Gingrich with attack [...]
TAMPA, Fla. – Mitt Romney oozed confidence and a defiant Newt Gingrich seemed to acknowledge his momentum had been checked, at least for now, as Florida Republicans voted Tuesday to decide who gets the state’s 50 delegates, the biggest prize yet in the Republican presidential nomination contest. Romney is heavily favored in the winner-take-all primary, [...]
ORLANDO Fla. – Newt Gingrich says he expects the GOP presidential race to last about six more months — unless chief rival Mitt Romney drops out. Polls show Romney is favored to win Tuesday’s primary in Florida. But Gingrich, appearing undeterred by sagging poll numbers, has pledged to stay in the race despite the Florida [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa – Two Republican officials say Matt Strawn will step down as chairman of Iowa’s Republican Party, possibly as early as Tuesday. The officials say party leaders were unhappy with Strawn’s handling of the disputed results from the Jan. 3 presidential caucuses. They noted that Strawn declared Mitt Romney the winner on caucus [...]
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – Mitt Romney said Monday he has overcome his South Carolina setback and returned to the Republican primary forefront by aggressively returning Newt Gingrich’s fire and by presenting himself as a Washington outsider. Gingrich said Romney is “pretending he’s somebody he’s not.” Romney said that in the days leading up to the [...]
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – Mitt Romney said Monday he has overcome his South Carolina setback and returned to the Republican primary forefront by aggressively returning Newt Gingrich’s fire and by presenting himself as a Washington outsider. Gingrich said Romney is “pretending he’s somebody he’s not.” Romney said that in the days leading up to the [...]