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| Sanders lifted by West Virginia as Trump nears delegate majority – campaign live | Sanders lifted by West Virginia as Trump nears delegate majority – campaign live |
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| Donald Trump sees an InBev marketing stunt announced yesterday to temporarily rename Budweiser beer “America” as logical given how awesome the country is about to be: | |
| Peak Trump this morning on Fox and Friends: pic.twitter.com/s6c7SiAXbH | |
| Read more about America beer here: | |
| Related: Budweiser rebrands as 'America' in lead-up to US election | |
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| The House Republican leadership is holding its weekly news conference. Watch live here: | |
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| Senator Tom Cotton, the Republican military veteran from Arkansas who has made a name for his sharp criticism of the Iran nuclear deal and as the youngest member of the upper chamber, declined to rule out accepting a nod as Donald Trump’s running mate, after months in which he has praised Trump’s assault on Nato and said Trump “could be the commander in chief.” | |
| Cotton was asked by US News and World Report whether he would accept an offer to be Trump’s running mate. The following exchange ensued: | |
| A: (Laughs) I haven’t seen it floated out there. Like I said I’ve been focusing my political work on making sure that we hold the Senate and focus the rest of the time on my son. | |
| Q: So that’s not ruling it out? | |
| A: I wouldn’t rule it in either. | |
| So you’ll be voting for Donald Trump in November? | |
| I’ve said all along, I’ll support the nominee, because we can’t afford another term of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy or for that matter, economic policy at home. And now Donald Trump’s the presumptive nominee. So we obviously need to do some work to unify around our common and shared principles and Donald’s got the responsibility and opportunity to do that in the coming weeks. | |
| Trump said Tuesday that he had whittled his list of potential running mates to “a very good list of five or six people.” | |
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| Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Bernie Sanders scored an authoritative, 15-point victory over rival Hillary Clinton in West Virginia’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, adding a skip to his step as he turned to campaign in the forthcoming states of Oregon and Kentucky. | Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Bernie Sanders scored an authoritative, 15-point victory over rival Hillary Clinton in West Virginia’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, adding a skip to his step as he turned to campaign in the forthcoming states of Oregon and Kentucky. |
| Sanders did not gain much on Clinton in the delegates race, however, in which he trails by more than 280 pledged delegates with a dwindling number of contests to go (see delegate tracker below). “We are in this campaign to win the Democratic presidential nomination,” he said. | Sanders did not gain much on Clinton in the delegates race, however, in which he trails by more than 280 pledged delegates with a dwindling number of contests to go (see delegate tracker below). “We are in this campaign to win the Democratic presidential nomination,” he said. |
| Related: Bernie Sanders takes West Virginia as Donald Trump rolls on | Related: Bernie Sanders takes West Virginia as Donald Trump rolls on |
| Donald Trump, meanwhile, pulled to within 100 delegates of claiming a 1,237 majority Tuesday night after winning enthusiastic support from the primary voters of West Virginia and Nebraska. Visit our full results page here. | Donald Trump, meanwhile, pulled to within 100 delegates of claiming a 1,237 majority Tuesday night after winning enthusiastic support from the primary voters of West Virginia and Nebraska. Visit our full results page here. |
| Speaking of Trump, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have begun to review the next defense budget, which for some Republicans reveals the extreme tension between Trump and the traditional Republican defense establishment: | Speaking of Trump, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have begun to review the next defense budget, which for some Republicans reveals the extreme tension between Trump and the traditional Republican defense establishment: |
| Trump’s foreign policy is an inane jumble of jingoistic sloganeering, and the NDAA is a serious document,” said John Noonan, a national security aide to former presidential aspirants Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush. | Trump’s foreign policy is an inane jumble of jingoistic sloganeering, and the NDAA is a serious document,” said John Noonan, a national security aide to former presidential aspirants Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush. |
| Related: 'An inane jumble': Trump foreign policy splits GOP on issue party once agreed on | Related: 'An inane jumble': Trump foreign policy splits GOP on issue party once agreed on |
| Republican national committee chairman Reince Priebus on Tuesday night called Clinton’s defeat “embarrassing”, eliciting an outpouring of sympathetic replies on Twitter: | Republican national committee chairman Reince Priebus on Tuesday night called Clinton’s defeat “embarrassing”, eliciting an outpouring of sympathetic replies on Twitter: |
| Hi, @Reince. I made a little chart for you to put things into perspective. I think you may find it useful. pic.twitter.com/Lc724uI6pG | Hi, @Reince. I made a little chart for you to put things into perspective. I think you may find it useful. pic.twitter.com/Lc724uI6pG |
| Thank you as always for reading and please join us in the comments. | Thank you as always for reading and please join us in the comments. |