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Donald Trump officially claims Republican nomination

Donald Trump earned enough votes to become Republicans' presidential nominee Tuesday, with his home state of New York officially putting him over the top.

July 19, 2016

Mike Pence touts congressional record, battles with Bush administration

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence played up the wars he waged against the Bush administration and GOP leaders on Capitol Hill, holding them up as a badge of honor before a group of conservative activists days after being tapped as presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's running mate.

July 19, 2016

GOP leaders stamp out anti-Trump push at Republican National Convention, skip roll call vote

GOP leaders steamrolled over anti-Trump delegates Monday, pushing through the party's rules binding delegates and ensuring Donald Trump will claim the nomination later this week.

July 18, 2016

‘Never Trump’ delegates gather signatures needed to force roll-call vote

Anti-Trump forces say they have gathered enough signatures to force a roll call vote on the Republican convention's rules package, hoping for a late groundswell of support to show the depths of antipathy toward Donald Trump becoming their nominee.

July 18, 2016

Donald Trump to garner support of Latino leaders

Latino leaders dramatically switched gears Monday by announcing their plans to endorse Donald Trump in the wake of the recent shootings in the United States and terrorist attacks overseas.

July 18, 2016

Anti-Trump forces adopt ‘Hail Mary’ strategy

The dump-Trump movement has yet to concede defeat.

July 18, 2016

Republican National Convention kicks off amid tensions of terrorism, cop killings

The Republican National Convention kicks off in Cleveland on Monday amid an atmosphere of heightened tensions, with last week's terror attack in France and the weekend slaying of three police officers in Louisiana fresh on the minds of delegates gathering in Cleveland.

July 17, 2016

Mike Pence accepts Trump running mate slot, urges party unity to defeat Hillary Clinton

Fresh off being tapped as Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence urged voters Saturday to "join us" in their campaign against Hillary Clinton, saying the presumptive Democratic nominee "personifies the failed establishment in Washington, D.C."

July 16, 2016

Reince Priebus fails to rein in anti-Trump delegates as convention looms

Republican leaders scrambled Thursday to defuse flare-ups that threatened unity ahead of their national convention next week, slapping down an effort to free delegates to vote for someone else other than presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

July 14, 2016

Mike Lee mum on dump-Trump plans

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is being tight-lipped about whether he plans to support a last-ditch effort to steer the nomination away from Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention.

July 14, 2016

Anti-Trump forces move to defy RNC, free delegates to vote their ‘conscience’

It is nearing time for the dump-Trump forces to put up or shut up, as they prepare for a final showdown this week on trying to free delegates to the Republican Convention to vote against presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.

July 13, 2016

Bruce Ash, RNC official, suggests support for anti-Trump effort is overblown

The chairman of the GOP's standing committee on rules said Wednesday he suspects the level of support for the stop-Trump movement is softer than the New York billionaire's opponents would suggest.

July 13, 2016

Republican platform mixes in Donald Trump ideas on immigration, trade

Donald Trump put his fingerprints on the new Republican Party platform, which embraces his border wall and disavows bad trade deals — but Trump skeptics won their own fights by protecting conservative language on religious liberty and gay rights.

July 12, 2016

Republican Party can bind convention delegates to Donald Trump

Virginia cannot impose criminal penalties on Republican convention delegates who refuse to vote for Donald Trump but the GOP can still force them to back the billionaire businessman, a federal judge ruled Monday.

July 11, 2016

Republican party seeks to wedge Donald Trump goals into platform

Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach wants to add a little Trump to the Republican Party platform this week by pushing a plank reflecting the presumptive presidential nominee's immigration message -- including his famed vow to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

July 10, 2016

House Republicans report positive meeting with Donald Trump

Donald Trump built bridges to House Republicans on Thursday in a closed-door meeting that Speaker Paul D. Ryan described as "great" -- but the billionaire businessman ran into trouble with Senate Republicans by exchanging pointed words with some of his critics who have refused to endorse him.

July 7, 2016

DNC activists greet Donald Trump at Capitol Hill with chants of ‘fraud,’ ‘sexist’

Activists from the Democratic National Committee welcomed the presumptive GOP presidential nominee to Capitol Hill Thursday with chants of "Dump Donald Trump!" and by labeling him a "fraud" and a "sexist."

July 7, 2016

Tea party group endorses Marco Rubio’s re-election bid

A national tea party group on Wednesday endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio's re-election bid, saying the Florida Republican is the strongest conservative in the GOP field despite missteps on the issue of immigration.

July 6, 2016

Donald Trump raises $51 million with RNC in June

Donald Trump raised $26 million for his presidential campaign in June, as well as $25 million more in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, according to the New York billionaire's campaign.

July 6, 2016

Carlos Beruff: Obama’s ‘got the toilets taken care of,’ but not ISIS

Florida GOP Senate candidate Carlos Beruff says the Obama administration has done more to advance transgender bathrooms than it has done to get a better handle on ISIS in a new television ad in which he calls on voters to "clean house" in Washington.

July 6, 2016