Review: Latest Reports from The Washington Posts ‘Post Politics’

Here are the latest reports from The Washington Posts ‘Post Politics’.

Sanders: No one will have majority of ‘real delegates’ on June 7

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — More than 5,000 people crowded inside and outside of this city’s Kaiser Permanente Arena, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) gave them a familiar warning: Don’t trust what you see on TV. “On Tuesday night, on the 7th, you’re going to hear from media saying that Hillary Clinton has received, whatever it is, […]

Conservative Tennessee attorney David French is urged to enter presidential race as independent

Tennessee attorney David French, who in recent years has become a prominent right-wing writer, is being urged by some conservative leaders to make a late entry into the 2016 presidential race as an independent candidate, according to two people close to him. William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard magazine and a former Republican […]

Sanders backers worry that Clinton will clinch nomination before California’s polls close

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — With just one week to go before this state’s primary, supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders are starting to ask whether media coverage will skew results by declaring Hillary Clinton the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. “Here’s what’s really bad,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, the executive director of the pro-Sanders union National Nurses United, […]

One group Trump donated to benefits fundraisers, not veterans
One of the charities that Donald Trump selected to receive a donation from his veterans’ fundraiser is a group with a rating of “F” from CharityWatch, and has been criticized in the past for spending less than half of its incoming donations on programs that help veterans. The Foundation for American Veterans received a donation of […]

California Gov. Jerry Brown praises Sanders on his way to lukewarm endorsement of Clinton

California Gov. Jerry Brown issued a less-than-enthusiastic endorsement of Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, calling her the best chance to defeat what he said would be a disastrous victory by Donald Trump. Brown waited until a week before his state’s June 7 Democratic primary, a vote that could embarrass Clinton on the day she is widely […]

Libertarian super PACs gear up for Gary Johnson

At least one super PAC that was left hanging after the end of the presidential bid of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will now focus on helping Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico who secured the Libertarian Party’s nomination this past weekend. Purple PAC, originally founded by former Cato Institute president Ed Crane as a […]

Trump rails against scrutiny over delayed donations to veterans groups

Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he’d given away the last $1.5 million that other donors had entrusted to him four months earlier, when Trump held a televised benefit for veterans’ charities. But, at the same time, Trump blasted the news media — in terms that were bitter, even for him — for asking about how, and when, he […]

Major environmental group makes first ever endorsement of Hillary Clinton

A major environmental group, the NRDC Action Fund, will endorse Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in its first-ever political endorsement in a presidential election. In a statement, the NRDC Action Fund, a political affiliate of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that the unprecedented endorsement is reflective of the need for left-leaning groups to unite against […]

In tough reelection fight, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman’s first TV ads focus on efforts to combat heroin epidemic

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), running for reelection in one of the most important contests in the battle for the Senate majority, is going up on television with his first TV ads of 2016, three commercials that seek to highlight his record fighting his state’s severe prescription drug and heroin addiction problems. The commercials, shared with […]

Clinton adds more campaign stops to avert a Sanders upset in California

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton has upended her campaign schedule, adding more stops in California, in an effort to prevent an embarrassing loss there to Bernie Sanders, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton originally planned to campaign for two days this week in New Jersey, but at the last minute canceled an event […]

Hillary Clinton marches in hometown Memorial Day parade

NEW CASTLE, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton marched in the New Castle Memorial Day parade on Monday morning, an event that has become an annual tradition in the town that she and former president Bill Clinton now call their home. The hamlet of Chappaqua welcomed Clinton, the former president and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with […]

Obama emphasizes troops killed in Iraq died in ‘combat’

President Obama’s remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday focused on the three American service members who were killed fighting the Islamic State militant group in Iraq. This time, Obama left no doubt that the missions that took their lives involved combat. When U.S. ground troops returned to Iraq in 2014, Obama said their focus would […]

Tomorrow, Trump will give more details about his donations to vets. Here’s what we still don’t know.

Last week — after intense pressure from the news media — Donald Trump made good on a promise he had made in January. He gave $1 million of his own money to a charity for veterans. (Trump called this reporter “a nasty guy” after I asked him whether my questions had prompted him to finally give the money.) On Tuesday morning, […]

Bernie Sanders did something special for this California farm town. He showed up.

VISALIA, Calif. — Charles Rothbaum has waited a long time for a presidential candidate to visit this traditionally red, Central Valley agricultural town. The last he can remember was Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee in 1988. Rothbaum, 70, was at that Dukakis rally. And 28 years later, almost to the day, he was at Visalia […]

As Trump feuds with ‘Pocahontas,’ Sanders appeals to Native Americans in California

FRESNO, Calif. — When Donald Trump began his campaign by accusing Mexico of sending drug dealers, rapists and other criminals into the United States, the political conversation quickly focused on Latinos. Something similar happened when Trump called for closing U.S. borders to all foreign Muslims. One minority group that hasn’t received nearly as much attention […]

Libertarians pick Johnson and Weld ticket after close contest

ORLANDO — William Weld, a former governor of Massachusetts who made a late-career leap to the Libertarian Party, won its vice presidential nomination Sunday after a close and raucous convention vote. “This is a national ticket,” Weld said. “We can offer something meaningful and realistic to the country.” Weld’s nomination, secured after a day of […]

Bernie Sanders: California primary ‘is the big enchilada’

The math is clear: To come from behind and win the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders needs a huge win in the last major contest of the Democratic presidential primary season — California. He acknowledged as much — that his campaign hangs on one last state — in an interview with Chuck Todd that aired […]

Donald Trump’s campaign tries to walk back his attacks on Republicans

After another week of controversies stemming from Donald Trump’s fight with members of the Republican Party, his campaign insisted it was all much ado about nothing. Trump’s top two advisers, Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort, went on Sunday morning talk shows to defend and, in some cases, reframe their candidate’s recent criticism and/or insults of New […]

Gary Johnson wins Libertarian presidential nomination

ORLANDO — Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson won the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination on Sunday, fending off five rivals from different factions on two closely fought ballots and securing more than 55.8 percent of the total vote. “I will work as hard as I can to represent everyone in this room,” Johnson said after […]

Marco Rubio: It’s a ‘safe assumption’ I’ll run for office again

After his failed presidential campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is not running for reelection, he doesn’t plan on running for governor of Florida in 2018, and he does not want to be Donald Trump’s pick for vice president. But Rubio said it’s a “safe assumption” that he will run for public office again at some […]

Bernie Sanders is ignoring Hillary Clinton. It might be the nicest thing he can do for her.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Bernie Sanders’s opponent in the California Democratic presidential primary is Hillary Clinton. That’s what the ballot says, anyway. But listening to the Vermont senator on the campaign trail here, you’d hardly know it. At Santa Barbara City College Saturday morning, Sanders spoke to a crowd of 6,000 people for almost an hour […]

Six candidates vie for Libertarian presidential nomination

ORLANDO — Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson got one step closer to the Libertarian Party’s nomination on Saturday, earning one of five places in Saturday’s televised debate and one of six slots on Sunday’s final ballot. He took the stage to “My Shot,” one of the themes from the musical “Hamilton,” a not-so-subtle hint that […]

Sanders wants Democratic rules committee co-chairs removed. The DNC says, ‘no.’

The relationship between the Democratic National Committee and Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) grew more heated Saturday after the DNC rejected his campaign’s request for the removal of the co-chairs of the standing committee on rules. In a letter sent Friday, the Sanders campaign labeled the committee co-chairs, former congressman Barney Frank (Mass.) and Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, as “aggressive attack surrogates” […]

Dick Van Dyke makes the case for older voters to support Bernie Sanders

SANTA BARBARA — Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke fired up the crowd at a Bernie Sanders rally here on Saturday, because, as he put it, he likes “to give promising young politicians like Bernie a break.” Sanders, who turns 75 in September, would be the oldest person ever elected president. But he is a whippersnapper […]