Elections 2016

Continuing the postmortems on Tuesday night's vice presidential debate between Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine, a CNN contributor lambasted Pence's fact free answers and claimed that, if he did win, it was because he didn't appear to be as "crazy" as head of the GOP ticket.

It was only last week, when Donald Trump was slut-shaming former Miss Universe Alica Machado on Twitter over a non-existent "sex tape," that it was revealed that it was actually Trump who appeared in a soft core video for Playboy.

A military veteran was investigated by the Secret Service after he reportedly threatened to shoot GOP nominee Donald Trump at a campaign event in Virginia, NBC Washington reports.

According to the latest bombshell report from Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald, the recent report from the New York Times that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump took a massive financial hit in 1995 was not his first brush with business failure.

The Scottish-born winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry took a jab Wednesday at US presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has bragged that he was "smart" to avoid paying taxes.

Mike Pence performed quite well in Tuesday night's vice-presidential debate, and Republican nominee gave all the credit where it was due: To himself.

A Colorado mother said that supporters of Donald Trump harassed her and her disabled 7-year-old daughter at a rally this week.

Ford Motor Co executive chairman Bill Ford Jr. said on Wednesday he has met with Donald Trump to talk about the Republican presidential candidate's extensive criticism of the automaker's investments in Mexico.

The forces influencing the U.S. presidential election favor Republican nominee Donald Trump to win the popular vote - but even proven prediction models face "the most difficult election by far to predict accurately," a political forecaster with a three-decade winning streak said on Wednesday.

The television audience for Tuesday's U.S. vice presidential debate between Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine is expected to be 40 million to 50 million - in line with previous such matchups, according to media reports on Wednesday.

Although polls from earlier this summer showed the potential for a close race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in Arizona, more recent polls have shown Trump regaining a fairly consistent advantage.

Todd Graham, the director of debate at Southern Illinois University, graded both vice presidential candidates and came to the conclusion that Republican hopeful Mike Pence lost because he refused to defend his running mate.

CNN anchors are having a hard time keeping a straight face when Donald Trump's campaign surrogates make absurd claims. Wednesday it was Alisyn Camerota's turn. The host asked what Trump would do if a foreign leader insulted him, the answer was certainly laughable.