Donald Trump

Trump Says He’ll Start Spending At Least $2 Million a Week

(ABC News) — GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said he’ll be spending at least $2 million a week starting Jan. 4 as the primary season kicks into high gear, after resisting buying advertising in his self-financed campaign. “I’ll be spending a minimum of $2 million a week and perhaps substantially more than that,” he said aboard his plane after boarding at…

Poll: Half of Voters Would Be ‘Embarrassed’ by Trump as President

(ABC News) — Fifty percent of American voters say they would be “embarrassed” if Donald Trump were president, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. The current Republican frontrunner, whose 28 percent support in this poll tops his competition for the GOP nomination, would make 23 percent of voters “proud,” the poll found. Other recent national polls…

Trump Makes Sexually Derogatory Remark About Hillary Clinton, Calls Bathroom Break ‘Disgusting’

(ABC News) — In one of his most vicious attacks yet against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump used a sexually derogatory remark in reference to her and said that her bathroom break during the last debate was “disgusting.” During a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump referred to Clinton’s performance in the 2008 election. “Even a race…

AP EXPLAINS: Why Trump Can’t Shut Down the Internet

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says the government must work with “brilliant people” in Silicon Valley to keep violent extremists offline, even if it means shutting down parts of the Internet. But what he’s proposing isn’t possible with today’s technology. And even if it were, such a move would likely hurt more than potential attackers, and it would hinder…

Nielsen: 18 Million Watched GOP Debate

NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican presidential debates continue to be a big television draw, with 18 million people tuning in to the confrontation from Las Vegas on Tuesday night. The Nielsen company said on Wednesday this made it the third most-watched among the five GOP primary debates that have taken place so far this year. The first one this…

Ted Cruz’s Surge in Iowa Has Donald Trump Playing Defense

Since Donald Trump and his helicopter descended on the Iowa State Fair back in August, the billionaire businessman has been the steady front-runner in Iowa, surviving attacks from fellow candidates, controversial proposals and a short-lived burst in two polls from Dr. Ben Carson. Now, seven weeks away from the Iowa caucus, Trump is fending off his biggest threat yet from…