Experts In The News
Ahead of the last presidential debate, Professor Tiffany Howard at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, discusses the global interest in the U.S. presidential election and what the candidates are saying about defeating ISIL.
Much of that may be due to the skillful wrangling of "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. But it ended with the candidates hurling a grab-bag of accusations and insults at each other. They exposed a divide with Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, who told CNN's Wolf Blitzer before the debate "we'll certainly accept the outcome of this election".
Donald Trump's faltering campaign and the open warfare it's triggered within his party are bound to hurt other Republican candidates. The question is, how much? Democrats went into this election cycle optimistic about taking back some of the many legislative chambers they lost in 2010 and 2014. Trump's problems give them a real chance.
For a man who built his unlikely political rise on his hardline opposition to immigration, Donald Trump hasn’t talked much about the issue lately—not since a surprise trip to Mexico and a scorching speech in Arizona in late August that put to rest speculation he was “softening” his tone. The issue hardly got a mention in the first two presidential debates, despite Trump's farfetched promise to build a wall along the southern border and to make Mexico pay for it.
As he completes his third term in the House, Rep. Joe Heck has established a solid, if unspectacular, record as a relatively moderate Republican who has advanced in the GOP caucus while scoring some modest legislative successes.
Catherine Cortez Masto’s time as a public servant over the last three decades reflects a low-key yet professional executive branch official who worked well with most. .
THIS ELECTION CYCLE has seen so many terrifying moments—the violent Trump rally in Chicago, the recent firebombing of a Republican field office in North Carolina, the Russian-sponsored hack of the Democratic National Committee. But none of these is quite as scary as the fact that during the third and final debate Wednesday night, Donald Trump refused to say whether he would accept the results of November’s election.
