“Tales From the Trail” has joined with the Reuters election live blog to bring you even more coverage of the race for the White House.
Tales from the Trail
Bernie’s brother captures social media in tearful tribute
PHILADELPHIA – It’s a tearful night for some Bernie Sanders supporters at this year’s Democratic National Convention, as delegates from all 57 U.S. states and territories cast their votes, handing Secretary Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nomination.
It wasn’t the year of Big Money after all
Donald Trump (R) criticizes rival Jeb Bush in a Republican primary debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, February 6, 2016. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
On-scene at the Republican Convention
Donald Trump formally accepts his party’s presidential nomination during the final session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar
The gender war of 2016
A voter fills out her ballot to vote in the Super Tuesday election at Sleepy Hollow Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia March 1, 2016. REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE
Harold Evans: ‘Experience is the new dirty word’
The candidates’ goal: the White House. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
“Donald Trump was a joke until he wasn’t,” writes Harold Evans in “The Presidency as Fantasy,” his commentary on the 2016 presidential campaign. As the Republican National Convention begins in Cleveland, Evans considers a race in which fiction has been treated as fact, insults are compliments and conventional wisdom has been proven wrong again and again.
The conventions’ biggest losers
Delegates take the state signs as souvenirs at the conclusion of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida August 30, 2012. It could be different this time around. REUTERS/JOE SKIPPER
Just what is that T doing to that P?
The new Trump-Pence logo has exploded the Internet with sexual references and bathroom humor. Just after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump unveiled running mate Mike Pence via his Twitter account, his campaign unveiled a graphic logo with their names and a T intertwined with a P, and much fun was had by all.
Bernie writes a book
Burying the hatchet: Sanders and Clinton in New Hampshire. July 12, 2016. REUTERS/Mary Schwalm
Whither Pence? RNC speakers list missing key name
By Reuters Staff
The list of speakers revealed so far for a Republican National Convention that Donald Trump vowed would be like no other has one notable absence among the New York billionaire’s potential vice presidential picks: Indiana Governor Mike Pence.