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President Barack Obama in his most emphatic terms yet disputed the idea that Donald Trump will win this presidential election. “I recognize that there is a deep obsession right now about Mr. Trump,” Obama told attendees of a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser Thursday evening in Santa Monica, California. “And one of you pulled me aside and squeezed me hard and said, ‘Tell me that Mr. Trump is not succeeding you.’ And I said, ‘Mr. Trump is not succeeding me.’” Obama credited Trump and his primary rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, for exposing “some of the nonsense that we’ve been...

The president has criticized Trump's proposals three times in less than a week. “Oh, no. It's Trump,” a smiling Obama said when he was asked on Tuesday whether the GOP candidate’s policy proposals are hurting the U.S.’s image in the world. Then the president turned serious. “I am getting questions constantly from foreign leaders about some of the wackier suggestions that are being made,” Obama told reporters at the White House. He dismissed Trump’s proposal to force Mexico to pay for a multibillion-dollar border wall by cutting off immigrants’ ability to send money back to their home country as a...

The Obama administration is supporting several non-profit groups — with federal funding through a major White House initiative — that are part of an organized effort aimed at converting green-card holders into U.S. citizens in order to vote against Donald Trump, ... Through an initiative called Networks for Integrating New Americans initiative, which the White House formed in April 2014, the administration has partnered with the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), an immigration rights umbrella organization that has denounced Trump’s “hateful rhetoric.” In a recent post to its Facebook page, NPNA asserted that green-card holders “have the potential to...