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Bruce Goacher, right, drives his tow truck in Davenport, Iowa, with his son, Alan. He is a strong supporter of Donald Trump.

Core backers find Trump controversies only deepen their support

August 19, 2019 at 12:20 a.m.

Bruce Goacher, a repo man in a camouflage cap and oil-smudged jacket, praised Donald Trump as he drove his flatbed through Davenport on Tuesday on his way to seize a...

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida greets guests during a town hall meeting over the weekend in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His stand on immigration will need to be clarified before the campaign hits the swing states of Colorado and Nevada.

Rubio faces pressure from all sides over his views on immigration

June 21, 2019 at 4:38 a.m.

Immigration politics has long offered great promise but also threatened great peril for Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio. The heated fight over what to do about people in the country...

Donald Trump at a rally in Las Vegas on Oct. 8.

Trump donors: No qualms about giving money to billionaire who doesn’t need it

May 14, 2019 at 5:34 a.m.

Donald Trump was under siege — stores were yanking his branded merchandise, Univision was dumping his Miss Universe pageant — and James Radcliffe wanted to help out. So the 56-year-old...

Mayoral candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia meets supporter Alix Guevera and her daughter Rosa in front of Darwin Elementary School in Chicago on April 3, 2015. Garcia met with parents and children before making a speech focused on funding for public education.

Garcia hits Los Angeles looking for campaign cash

May 25, 2019 at 12:55 p.m.

Standing in front of an upright piano in a large, wood-floored living room, challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia told several dozen campaign donors seated in folding chairs that he would put...

Obama’s got jokes on ‘Jimmy Kimmel’: UFOs, Clinton email and ‘Fast Times’

June 15, 2018 at 10:44 p.m.

Late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel had a request for President Obama during an appearance Thursday on Kimmel's television show: Hillary Rodham Clinton's new email address. "I can't share it with you,"...

Romney clinches GOP nomination, but faces fallout from the primaries

December 24, 2018 at 5:23 a.m.

Mitt Romney's victory in the Texas primary on Tuesday gives him enough delegates to capture the Republican presidential nomination, but he remains some distance from recovering from the damage caused...

Obama gets nod ‘in spirit of unity’

August 21, 2021 at 11:21 p.m.

Democrats swept away more than 200 years of history Wednesday and nominated Barack Obama for the White House, a milestone punctuated by former President Bill Clinton?s declaration that the first...

Schwarzenegger gets a rival

August 21, 2021 at 7:29 a.m.

California's general election season started Wednesday, hours after state Treasurer Phil Angelides claimed the Democratic nomination to oppose Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. After months of vitriolic campaigning, Angelides claimed victory early...

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