WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's reelection campaign has severed ties with some of its pollsters after the leak of months-old surveys showed him trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in key states, according to multiple reports.

The moves come ahead of the official launch of Trump's campaign at a Tuesday rally in the battleground state...Read more

After three years of scandal over Russia's interference in America's 2016 election, President Donald Trump drew a storm of criticism for saying he would not tell the FBI if a foreign country offered him dirt on an opponent.

Even after Trump backed off Friday and said he would indeed notify law enforcement, his maneuvering still raised questions...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- By her own telling, Margaret Hunter's marriage to Rep. Duncan Hunter was a love-at-first-sight relationship. It was a union forged in politics and mutual attraction that until recently appeared to be little short of a storybook romance.

Then known as Margaret Jankowski, the campaign volunteer and Crawford High School senior first ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A majority of American voters say they would be "very uncomfortable" voting for President Donald Trump in 2020, an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll shows.

Some 52% reported being very uncomfortable about Trump and another 10% had some reservations. That combined 62% compared with a combined 37% who said they were enthusiastic or ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Half of American voters say the Trump administration has gone too far on immigration enforcement, and optimism about the U.S. economy, while still high, has slipped over the past quarter as trade tensions ramp up, a Fox News poll shows.

The 50% who say enforcement of immigration laws has "gone too far" is more than double, 24%, ...Read more

Orlando activists are planning a London-style greeting for the president Tuesday when he launches his reelection campaign in Central Florida.

Organizers planning a rally near the Amway Center announced Saturday that they're bringing to town one of the giant Donald Trump baby balloons that have infamously trolled the president during his trips ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Eric Ueland, hand-picked by President Donald Trump to be his third legislative affairs director, has decades of experience in the D.C. "swamp" his soon-to-be boss loathes. But the former senior GOP aide will quickly learn it is the president alone who is, as one official put it this week, "the decider."

Ueland has been chief of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department backed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's refusal of House Democrats' demand for President Donald Trump's tax information, setting the stage for a widely expected lawsuit that will test the limits of Congress' powers to investigate the president.

In the 33-page opinion released Friday, Justice Department ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Seeking to stem a bipartisan furor, President Donald Trump said Friday that he would "of course" contact the FBI if a foreign government gave him dirt on his political opponents -- but not until after he looked at it first.

"If you don't hear what it is, you're not going to know what it is," Trump told Fox News. "I mean, how can ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Not every 2020 Democratic hopeful will get to go head to head with front-runner Joe Biden when the candidates meet for their first debate in Miami later this month, but the former vice president will be on the stage with some formidable rivals, including Sens. Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said he won't fire White House adviser Kellyanne Conway following a government watchdog's recommendation she be "removed from federal service" for disparaging Democratic presidential candidates in her official capacity as a senior White House adviser.

"No, I'm not going to fire her," Trump said Friday during...Read more

Our country is facing a national emergency. Not a single credible person in the federal government disputes the fact that foreign actors will continue to attack the infrastructure of our elections and interfere with how we choose our leaders. The president even told ABC News this week that he would consider listening to foreign governments with ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are honing their playbook for distancing themselves from President Donald Trump's comments while avoiding criticizing him by name or taking concrete action.

This strategy was apparent Thursday as GOP lawmakers made clear they disagreed with Trump's ABC News interview in which he said he would accept a foreign ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump, after two years of hammering home a simple, powerful defense -- "no collusion!" -- came under bipartisan fire Thursday after he said he would gladly "listen" if a foreign government offered him dirt on a political opponent, and asserted there would be nothing wrong with doing so.

The president's defiant ...Read more

Democrats on Thursday named the 20 candidates who qualified to participate in the first debate for the party's 2020 presidential nomination, and all of the best-known White House hopefuls made the cut.

The debate, to be televised live by NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, will take place in Miami on June 26 and 27, with 10 candidates on stage each night...Read more

Democrats on Thursday named the 20 candidates who qualified to participate in the first debate for the party's 2020 presidential nomination, and all of the best-known White House hopefuls made the cut.

The debate, to be televised live by NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, will take place in Miami on June 26 and 27, with 10 candidates on stage each night...Read more