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It's no party in the U.S.A. Miley Cyrus cried over Donald Trump on Wednesday, March 2, hours after he won seven state victories in the Super Tuesday primaries. The singer — who is a huge animal lover — slammed the Republican presidential front-runner in an Instagram post, which has garnered more than 200,000 likes. She posted one photo of the business mogul, 69, posing with a female hunter. In a second graphic pic, the unidentified woman is holding up a dead mountain lion. "Yes. That is a tear rolling down my cheek dripping off the end of my nose..... This...

Just as GOP front-runner Donald Trump continued to shore up delegates, winning several Super Tuesday states, some top Republican strategists and donors began to line up behind a new effort to halt the Trump campaign's momentum. Jeb Bush's former communications director, Tim Miller, announced Tuesday that he would be joining the Our Principles PAC, an anti-Trump effort. Miller will focus on opposition research that will go to expanding the PAC's advertising campaigns - including research targeting endorsers and surrogates like Chris Christie. Other strategists and big name donors - like technology executive Meg Whitman, billionaire Todd Ricketts, and hedge fund...

WASHINGTON (SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP) -- Dr. Ben Carson suspended his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination Wednesday afternoon, bringing his outsider bid for the nomination to an end, officials close to the campaign told Sinclair Broadcast Group. Carson's campaign released an official statement announcing he would not be attending the Fox News GOP debate on Thursday...

Donald Trump’s seven Super Tuesday wins helped pad his substantial delegate lead – but not enough to dispirit his top rivals, who still see a path to toppling the Republican front-runner and taking the fight to the convention if necessary. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, at the very least, seem determined to compete for every vote through the March 15 contests, which could make for the most consequential night of the GOP campaign. That’s when the home states of Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich vote. And both states award every delegate on the table to...

New York real estate developer Donald Trump beat out his Republican rivals in America’s most Latin city Tuesday. Webb County, Texas is home to Laredo, where 96 percent of its residents consider themselves Hispanic. Laredo makes up 95 percent of the population in Webb County and is the county seat. It has the most Hispanics per capita of any city with more than 100,000 residents.

“Donald Trump using this night in a news conference that was, Megyn, a different environment. It was a different look and frankly it kind of looked presidential,” Bret Baier said. Kelly agreed. “Very smart,” she said. “Not only that, but holding himself out there, striking a reasonable tone. He wasn’t full of the normal bombast, there were a few jabs, but sounding presidential which sort of will help some of his detractors see him in a different light perhaps, and focusing most of his on Hillary Clinton.” It was a smart move, indeed. Trump’s shifting his focus to the general...

Just a sampling of how bad polls were lately. Incredible. Cruz typically outperformed polls by 6 to 20 points. OKLAHOMAActual Results: Cruz 34, Trump 28, Rubio 26. (Cruz +6 over Trump) Sooner/News 9: Trump 34, Rubio 21, Cruz 18 (Trump +16 over Cruz. Off by 22) Survey Monkey: Trump 34, Rubio 19, Cruz 19 (Off by 21) Monmouth: Trump 35, Cruz 23, Rubio 22 (Off by 18) The Oklahoman: Trump 29, Rubio 21, Cruz 20 (Off by 15) TEXASActual Results: Cruz 44, Trump 27 (Cruz +17 over Trump) Survey Monkey: Cruz 33, Trump 31 (Cruz +2 over Trump. Off by...

n. Ted Cruz is right: He is the most successful Republican this year not named Donald Trump. After Super Tuesday, he has won four GOP contests, including the primary in his delegate-rich home state, Texas. Marco Rubio has won just one contest, the Minnesota caucus, and John Kasich has won bupkis. The Republican nomination race has been a three-man fight for at least two weeks now, since Jeb Bush threw in the towel, and in his Texas-Oklahoma victory speech, Cruz asked his remaining non-Trump rivals — meaning Rubio, mostly — to "prayerfully consider" leaving him to fight Trump mano a...

Hillary Clinton set out 10 months ago to inspire and energize the Democratic Party, hoping to bring together the rising American electorate of black, brown, young and female voters into a durable presidential coalition. But buried beneath Mrs. Clinton’s wide-ranging and commanding victories on Tuesday night were troubling signs of a party that has not yet rallied to her call. Democratic turnout has fallen drastically since 2008, the last time the party had a contested primary, with roughly three million fewer Democrats voting in the 15 states that held caucuses or primaries through Tuesday, according to unofficial election results tallied...

Gone were the petty torments about the size of Donald J. Trump’s hands and the orange hue of his skin. In fact, Senator Marco Rubio was all business on Wednesday, leaving aside the mean jokes about Mr. Trump. Mr. Rubio spent the day in Michigan after a string of disappointing defeats in the Super Tuesday contests, rallying a rowdy but relatively small crowd compared with the ones he had been drawing.

In a super-blue state like Massachusetts, Super Tuesday was the Election Day that mattered. The outcome in November is a foregone conclusion: The Democratic presidential nominee will win the state by a landslide. So Tuesday's primary election was the only chance Bay State voters had to cast a ballot that might have an impact. I cast mine for Bernie Sanders. As a free-market, strong-defense, Reaganite conservative, I have voted Republican much more often than not. But heading into Super Tuesday, every indication was that Massachusetts Republicans, like GOP primary voters in most other states, were poised to give Donald Trump...

Donald J. Trump’s series of victories on Super Tuesday complicated the “Never Trump” movement that has been percolating in corners of the Republican Party, leaving the Manhattan businessman’s remaining rivals struggling for new ways to halt his march to the presidential nomination. After months of carefully plotting their primary state strategies, campaigns were left crunching numbers on Wednesday morning and dusting off history lessons about contested conventions and arcane ballot rules. On the face of it, campaigning proceeded as usual on Wednesday, with Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio set to touch down in Kansas and Michigan for rallies; Kansas...

Why I Changed My Mind and Joined the #NeverTrump Movement DAVID FRENCH March 2, 2016 Let me begin by saying that I was wrong. Weeks ago I said on a number of radio interviews that while I opposed Trump in the primary, I’d back him if he won the GOP nomination. I hadn’t yet seen — or had been unwilling to believe — the full extent of his contempt for the truth, his fondness for far-left conspiracy theories, and his sheer malice. When I saw Trump in full, my decision was easy: Never Trump. I have spent my entire adult...

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson announced Wednesday that he sees no “political path forward” after his Super Tuesday losses -- and will not attend the upcoming Fox News debate. “I have decided not to attend the Fox News GOP Presidential Debate tomorrow night in Detroit,” he said in a statement Thursday. “Even though I will not be in my hometown of Detroit on Thursday, I remain deeply committed to my home nation, America. I do not see a political path forward in light of last evening’s Super Tuesday primary results. “However, this grassroots movement on behalf of “We the People”...

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has suspended his presidential campaign after a dismal showing on Super Tuesday. Carson was one of the last five candidates remaining in the Republican presidential race. But he was unable to come in higher than fourth place in any of the 11 states to vote on March 1. In Massachusetts, he came in fifth, with just 2.6 percent of the vote. According to an Associated Press tally, Carson has earned just eight delegates so far. Frontrunner Donald Trump has 319, and 1,237 are needed to win the nomination. Carson's full statement is below: _______________________________________________ I have...

In winning Texas by 16 points, winning Oklahoma, winning (as of this writing) Alaska, and finishing second in Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, and Tennessee, Ted Cruz has now solidified his grip on second place in the ‎GOP presidential race. He increased his lead over Marco Rubio in states won, votes won, and delegates won--and unless Rubio can win in Florida in two weeks (or John Kasich can win in Ohio), Cruz may soon be battling Donald Trump one-on-one (more or less) for the Republican nomination. But how can Cruz beat Trump? The number-one thing that needs to be undone from the...

2016 Super Tuesday Results and GOP Presidential Analysis Now that Super Tuesday is over and tabulated, there are some clear trends setting in. Here is a table of data I am using to see the trends, and comment on the data: Click for a larger, readable image Going into Super Tuesday, some very definite trends had already been established in the GOP Presidential race. Bacisally it was the very steep trend line of Donad Trump in both the cumulative vote and the cumulative delgates from the first four primary contests, the last three of which he had won. Here's...

GOP presidential candidate Dr Ben Carson is suspending his presidential campaign after failing to win a single state or collect many delegates through Super Tuesday.

In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s solid and convincing performance on Super Tuesday, his enemies (who are my enemies by extension) started churning out desperate essays bemoaning the coming end of America. Some of the more telling headlines screamed: “Here’s how Rubio and Cruz can still take down Trump”; “Lindsey Graham: Oh God, We Might Have To Back Ted Cruz To Save Our Party;” “Trump is the next Barack Obama”; and my favorite considering the source: “Mitt Romney’s top strategist says Hillary Clinton would be a better president than Donald Trump.” These people are joined by Paul Ryan and...

Delegate rundown chart and a good Interactive Map.