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'Never Trump' Movement Possibly Dealt Final Blow

Unbinding proposal rejected by Rules Committee

(Newser) - A major and perhaps final blow to the "Never Trump" movement: The Republican National Convention's 112-member Rules Committee rejected an "unbinding" proposal Thursday that would've allowed delegates bound to Donald Trump to use a "conscience clause" to dump Trump and choose another as the nominee....

Trump Delays VP Announcement After Attack in Nice

He says he still hasn't made a 'final, final' choice

(Newser) - Donald Trump had planned to reveal his VP pick at a Friday morning news conference but the big announcement has been put on hold. "In light of the horrible attack in Nice, France, I have postponed tomorrow's news conference," Trump tweeted Thursday night as news of the...

Trump Gives Weird Reason Why Palin's Not Attending RNC

Alaska is just too far away from Ohio, apparently

(Newser) - Sarah Palin won't be speaking at next week's Republican National Convention in Ohio, and Donald Trump explained to the Washington Examiner on Thursday why that is. "She was asked," Trump says, but "it's a little bit difficult because of where she is. We love...

Sources: Mike Pence Is Trump's Pick for VP

But the 'mercurial presidential candidate' still has time to change his mind

(Newser) - Multiple sources are reporting that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will be Donald Trump's running mate, but the New York Times cautions that the "mercurial presidential candidate" could still change his mind. Trump isn't scheduled to announce his choice until Friday. Three anonymous sources tell the Times Trump...

Ginsburg: I Shouldn't Have Trashed Trump

Supreme Court justice says she shouldn't have spoken about a candidate for public office

(Newser) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been roundly criticized since slagging Donald Trump in multiple interviews over the past week. On Thursday, the Supreme Court justice conceded that perhaps it wasn't a well-thought-out campaign after all, the Wall Street Journal reports. "On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press...

Trump: I'll Announce VP Pick on Friday

He says he's narrowed it down to 2, 3, or 4

(Newser) - After days of mounting suspense, the finale of Donald Trump's VP search will take place Friday morning. Trump tweeted Wednesday night that he will make the announcement in Manhattan at 11am. His tweet followed what CNN calls "frenzied, last-minute try-outs" in person and over the phone from the...

Trump Sues Former Campaign Aide for $10M

Sam Nunberg is accused of violating nondisclosure deal

(Newser) - In a highly unusual campaign dispute, Donald Trump is seeking $10 million in damages from his former political consultant Sam Nunberg, arguing Nunberg violated the nondisclosure agreement nearly every Trump employee is required to sign. Trump alleges Nunberg leaked confidential information to reporters. Nunberg, in court filings obtained by the...

Poll: Clinton Suddenly Trails Trump in Key Swing States

Including a massive 11-point swing in Florida

(Newser) - Did Hillary Clinton insult Dan Marino or something? A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows Clinton all of a sudden trailing Donald Trump in Florida by three points. Just a month ago, the same poll showed her leading by eight points. And that's not the only bad news for...

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Ginsburg Blew It With Trump Remarks

Critics say her disparagement of Donald was 'unethical' and costs her credibility

(Newser) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg would probably need something harder than a bottle of fine California wine to get her to vote for Donald Trump in November—in fact, she doesn't even want to think about him as president, as she told the AP in an interview last week before piling...

Newt Gingrich Out at Fox Thanks to VP Speculation

Meanwhile, here's who Hillary is vetting

(Newser) - Fox News says it is suspending its contributor agreement with Newt Gingrich "due to the intense media speculation" about him as a potential vice presidential candidate of Republican Donald Trump. Jay Wallace, executive vice president of news at Fox, said Tuesday the network thought it was best to stop...

Trump on Ginsburg: I Hope She 'Gets Off the Court'

He slams her SCOTUS justice's 'highly inappropriate' comments about him

(Newser) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been criticized by analysts for her recent anti-Trump remarks , and now Donald Trump himself is getting in on it. "I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly," Trump told the New York ...

Judge Rules in Favor of 'Never Trump' Delegate

Virginia can't force him to vote against his conscience

(Newser) - A GOP delegate from Virginia who says his conscience won't let him vote for Donald Trump scored a big victory in federal court Monday. The judge ruled that Virginia can't force Carroll Correll Jr. to vote for Trump because a state law requiring Republican National Committee delegates to...

Ginsburg's Trump Remarks Could Be Problematic

Critics say partisan comments could come back to haunt her

(Newser) - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is known for being outspoken but she should have kept her thoughts about Donald Trump to herself, critics say. The Supreme Court justice told the AP she couldn't imagine what the country would be like under Trump and joked to the New York Times about...

Anti-Trump GOPers Hatch Vice Presidential Plan

Sources say they're working on change to convention's Rule 40

(Newser) - Donald Trump gets to pick his own apprentices on reality TV—but the rules are different at the Republican National Convention. Anti-Trump Republicans trying to keep him off the GOP ticket have a Plan B: reject his vice presidential pick if they consider the choice unacceptable, NBC reports. In both...

Kristen Bell Has Something to Say to Donald Trump

'Zip it Don'

(Newser) - Donald Trump called out the six-pointed stars on a Frozen coloring book amid his own Star of David controversy, and Frozen star Kristen Bell was having none of that. "Zip it Don & get ur head outta ur ass. We've more important things 2 think abt today #AltonSterling...

Trump Holds Testy Meetings With House, Senate GOP

He vowed not to change, called senator a loser

(Newser) - A defiant Donald Trump made it clear he won't change his brash tone or message as he courted anxious Republican lawmakers Thursday, blaming the media for stumbles that continue to alarm GOP leaders and energize Democrats. In his second Capitol Hill tour in three months, Trump called for unity,...

No, Trump, Saddam Wasn't 'Good' at Killing Terrorists

Fact Checker gives him 4 Pinocchios on that one

(Newser) - Earlier this week, Donald Trump repeated a statement he's made before about Saddam Hussein: "He was a bad guy. Really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good." Well, the Fact Checker blog at the Washington Post has...

Trump Uses Disney's Frozen in Defense of Star Tweet

He also addressed his Saddam Hussein comments

(Newser) - Donald Trump didn't completely ignore Hillary Clinton's email issues during a rally in Cincinnati on Wednesday, but he definitely didn't ignore topics like Saddam Hussein, the Star of David, and news networks he dislikes. Trump slammed the likes of CNN and NBC for reporting that he had...

Jewish Son-in-Law: Trump's No Anti-Semite

Kushner says Trump is 'incredibly loving and tolerant'

(Newser) - "My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite," New York Observer owner Jared Kushner writes in an op-ed in which he explains why he is standing by the powerful billionaire whose daughter he is married to. "Accusations like 'racist' and 'anti-Semite' are being thrown around with a...

Employee Knocks Trump's Jewish Son-in-Law: 'How Do You Allow This?'

One of Jared Kushner's own employees pens open letter about Trump's Star of David tweet

(Newser) - Donald Trump isn't the only one taking heat for tweeting an anti-Hillary Clinton image with a Star of David . Now his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who owns the New York Observer, is dealing with fallout from one of his own employees. Entertainment writer Dana Schwartz penned a scathing open letter...

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