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Weld given leave at lobbying firm to run Libertarian VP campaign

BOSTON – Bill Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts and newly minted Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee, went on unpaid leave from his lobbying job in Boston on Monday, according to the firm's president. Stephen Tocco, the president and chief executive of ML Strategies where Weld is a

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Romney folds: Gives up on pursuit of Trump alternative

Mitt Romney has ruled out a third-party presidential bid and has stopped recruiting others to attempt their own, close advisers said Wednesday. The news suggests Romney has thrown in the towel on the #NeverTrump movement and resigned himself to the Republican Party's nomination of Donald Trump, as much

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Targeting Trump, GOP seeks loyalty pledge from 2016 hopefuls

Written by Steve Peoples WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican candidates for president started putting pen to paper on Thursday, pledging not to mount a third-party bid as they awaited news that front-runner Donald Trump might do the same.