Republican party leaders rally to attack Trump, Cruz

Republican party leaders rally to attack Trump, Cruz

Leaders of the Republican party entered prevent defense mode this week with former Senator Bob Dole warning of "cataclysmic" failure and "wholesale losses" if voters select Sen. Ted Cruz as the party's nominee, and the conservative National Review magazine calling Donald Trump "a menace" to Republican principles.

The attacks on Trump, the populist New York billionaire, and Cruz, the conservative stalwart from Texas, come as polls show the two men pulling ahead of the pack both nationally and in key early primary states, leaving conservative leaders to ponder: which man would do the party more harm?

Clinton woos voters in bid to revive NH momentum
Democrats

Clinton woos voters in bid to revive NH momentum

Samantha-Rae Tuthill

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Hillary Clinton brought her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to New Hampshire Friday to try to seize back the momentum she once had in the Granite State with less than three weeks before its first-in-the-nation primary election.  

At her last stop, a town hall-style meeting at the Hillside Middle School in Manchester, U.S. Sen.  Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a three-term governor of the state, introduced Clinton with a reference to her stamina compared with other presidential hopefuls.

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