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Obama: ‘No Successful Businessman’ Thinks Donald Trump Is ‘Most Successful Businessman’

Getty Images President Obama said many businessmen in the U.S. aren’t exactly impressed with Donald Trump’s business acumen. “There’s no successful businessman in America who actually thinks the most successful businessman in the country is Donald Trump,” the president said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. “I know those guys, and so do you, and I guarantee you, that’s not…

Gov. Haley: I Wish Trump Communicated Differently

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says she wishes Donald Trump communicated differently because bad things result from divisive rhetoric, as evidenced by last June’s massacre in Charleston. The Republican governor said Thursday that divisive speech motivated Dylann Roof to gun down nine black parishioners at historic Emanuel AME Church. Police have said the white 22-year-old charged…

Billionaire Paypal Co-Founder Peter Thiel on List of Trump Backers

Noah Berger/Bloomberg via Getty Images Peter Thiel is known for backing some of Silicon Valley’s biggest success stories, from Facebook to PayPal, and now he’s throwing his support behind Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and board member at Facebook, is one of the pledged California delegates supporting Trump, according to a list submitted to the secretary of…

Donald Trump Wants Harriet Tubman on $2 Bill

A portrait of Harriet Tubman, African-American abolitionist and a Union spy during the American Civil War, circa 1870. Andrew Jackson (1767 – 1845), the 7th President of the United States of America, circa 1844. (Getty Images) (ABC News) – The Treasury Department’s decision to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman was met with mixed results….

Trump Won SC, Convention Delegates Eye Other Candidates

File COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Billionaire businessman Donald Trump handily won all 50 delegates in South Carolina’s first-in-the-South Republican primary in January but that doesn’t mean he will keep all that support at the party’s national convention. Establishment dissatisfaction with Trump and the possibility he won’t have the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination on a first vote means…

Presidential Hopefuls Looking for a Win in Wisconsin

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters go to the polls Tuesday for the Wisconsin Republican and Democratic primaries. Republicans will award 18 delegates to their statewide winner, and three more to the winners in each of the state’s eight congressional districts. Republican Ted Cruz is aiming to clean up in Milwaukee, John Kasich has been focusing on Madison and Donald Trump is…

5 Questions About 2016 Delegate Paths: Everything You Need to Know

Donald Trump smiles while speaking during a news conference at the Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, March 15, 2016. | Hillary Clinton speaks to her supporters, March 15, 2016 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Bloomberg via Getty Images | Getty Images (ABC News) — With more than six in 10 of the Republican delegates in the rear-view mirror, candidates…