Bernie Sanders hunt for superdelegates in Georgia hits a snag
Bernie Sanders speaks to throngs of supporters in Prospect Park. AP file Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ increasingly narrow path to the Democratic presidential nomination rests almost entirely on...
View ArticleDonald Trump goes 5-for-5 in East coast races; Hillary Clinton boosts...
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. AP file. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton pulled closer to clinching their parties’ nomination with big victories in the five East Coast states...
View ArticleTed Cruz, Hillary Clinton win Georgia’s money race
Candidates Donald Trump, left, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speak during a commercial break in the GOP presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C. on Thursday. Scott Olson/Getty Images The Republican...
View ArticleYour guide to today’s Indiana primary
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight during an April 27 campaign stop in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) The Hoosier State is the...
View ArticleIn Bernie Sanders, W. Va. voters saw a more and less liberal president than...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks to his supporters during a campaign rally on Tuesday in Salem, Ore. Danielle Peterson/Statesman-Journal via AP Just in case you...
View ArticleThe down-ballot angst that accompanies Donald Trump’s GOP victory
Donald Trump at lunch with a “taco bowl” on May 5, Cinco de Mayo. AJC file Chris Perlera is the U.S.-born son of Salvadoran parents. But he is more than that. Perlera is both Hispanic and Republican —...
View ArticleDonald Trump eyes a defensive move in Georgia
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Spokane, Wash., last week. Trump is moving quickly to install political operatives in more than a dozen states, targeting Maine and...
View ArticleA bar bet on Donald Trump’s appeal to African-Americans
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center, joins a group of African-American religious leaders to speak to reporters in New York in November, 2015. Trump met with a coalition of 100...
View ArticleFormer ATL mayor Bill Campbell on the ‘blasphemous’ Braves move
Former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell in an AJC file photo. Kent D. Johnson, kdjohnson@ajc.com The Braves move from downtown to Cobb County has been called plenty of bold-faced names, but “blasphemous” is...
View ArticleDavid Perdue: ‘It’s time to let Trump be Trump’
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, right, talks with Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., in a 2015 file photo. AP/Susan Walsh Two kinds of Republicans will gather in Augusta on...
View ArticleAP: Hillary Clinton secures the Democratic nomination for president
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally on Monday in Lynwood, Calif. Clinton has commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive...
View ArticleYour guide to today’s primaries in California and elsewhere
Hillary Clinton at a rally Monday in Lynwood, Calif. (AP Photo) This is the end; my only friend, the end. Right? The Associated Press says Hillary Clinton has the Democratic nomination mathematically...
View ArticleGeorgia Baptist editor: Islam may be unworthy of First Amendment protection
Gerald Harris, editor of the Christian Index, speaks out in favor of a 2015 “religious liberty” bill at the state Capitol. Bob Andres, bandres@ajc.com Updated at 2:05 p.m.: A press release has arrived...
View ArticleUnder fire for comments on judge, Donald Trump declares himself ‘misconstrued’
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Billings, Mont., last week. Trump says comments on judge ‘misconstrued’ as an attack against people of Mexican heritage. AP file/Brennan Linsley...
View ArticleGood-bye, Bernie: Barack Obama endorses Hillary Clinton
President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders walk along the colonnade adjacent to the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday. Sanders was meeting with Obama in the Oval Office to discuss the...
View ArticleBernie Sanders and the disappearance of the polite and timely good-bye
President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders walk along the colonnade adjacent to the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday. Sanders was meeting with Obama in the Oval Office to discuss the...
View ArticleIn Orlando, Pulse patrons identify mass shooter as a club regular
Matt Mitchell, 42, of Orlando who was born and raised in Orlando, takes a moment on Tuesday to pray at a growing memorial for the victims of the mass shooting Sunday at the Pulse Nightclub. Red...
View ArticleHillary Clinton takes D.C., ends Democratic primary for White House
Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrives at the Capitol Hilton for a meeting with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in Washington on Tuesday with his...
View ArticleGeorgia Democratic chair fends off Bernie Sanders challenger
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at a 2015 debate. (AP Photo/John Locher) An obscure vote for chair of Georgia’s 117 member delegation to the party’s convention next month turned into a proxy battle...
View ArticleThe Cobb County millage reduction that would be approved on Election Night
Cobb County Chairman Tim Lee (AJC/Bob Andres) The runoff for chairmanship of the Cobb County Commission just got a little more interesting. Republican incumbent Tim Lee says increases in property tax...
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