Hillary To Hold First Major Rally Of Campaign At FDR Park In New York City.
June 5, 2015 - Since her announcement in early April the she was running for president, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has only held events in small settings. All that will change on June 13 when Clinton will hold a major kick off rally at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City.
The park located on Roosevelt Island is a memorial to FDR's 1941 "Four Freedom's Speech" where he outlined that people everywhere in the world ought to enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
In the race for the 2016 Democratic Party nomination the lasted poll shows Clinton with the support of 57% followed by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont with 11%, Vice President Joe Biden 8%, Senator Elizabeth Warren 7% and former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley with 4%.
Jeb Bush To Launch White House Bid on June 15
June 5, 2015 - Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has selected June 15 as the date to officially launch his 2016 run for the presidency.
While Bush has been traveling the country since the first of the year exploring a run for the White House , June 15 will mark his official entry in to the race.
The latest poll on the 2016 Republican nomination finds Bush tied at 12% with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker followed by Dr. Ben Carson with 11%.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is in fourth place with 9% followed by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas with 8% and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida with 7%.
Next up is former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee with 6 percent with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at 5%.
Latest GOP 2016 Poll Shows 5 Way Tie
May 31, 2015 - With roughly nine months to go before the Iowa Presidential Caucus, Republicans in the latest 2016 national poll show that a clear front runner has yet to emerge.
Tied at 10% each are former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Dr. Ben Carson, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee , Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
In the next tier of candidates is Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky with 7% and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas with 6%. Real estate entrepreneur is next with 5% followed by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie with 4%.
At 2% each are former CEO Carly Fiorina and Ohio Governor John Kasich. Registering at 1% in the poll are former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carlina and Louisianan Governor Bobby Jindal.
Registering at less than 1% among those polled is former New York Governor George Pataki and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.
Currently there are eight Republicans who have officially announcement that they are running for president, Cruz, Paul, Carson, Fiorina, Rubio, Huckabee, Santorum and Pataki.
Expected to join the growing list of GOP White House contenders in the coming weeks are Bush, Christie, Walker, Perry, Graham, Jindal and Kasich.
While the Republicans could potentially have as many as 15 candidates running , the Democrats are expected to have about 5 with former Senator Jim Webb of Virginia and former Governor Lincoln Chafee joining the already announced candidates of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Governor of Maryland Martin O'Malley.
O'Malley Launches Presidential Bid
May 31, 2015 - Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley,52, announced yesterday he was running for president in a speech at Federal Hill Park in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
Speaking before a crowd of nearly a thousand supporters, O'Malley said "today the American dream seems for so many us to be hanging by a thread. This is not the American dream. It does not have to be this way. This generation of Americans still has time to be great. We must save our country now. And we will do that by rebuilding the American dream."
O'Malley joins fellows Democrats former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders in the race for their parties presidential nomination.
It will be an uphill race for O'Malley as the most recent polling shows Clinton with 57%, Sanders 15% and Vice President Biden with 9%. Currently O'Malley is polling at about 1%.
The Presidential History Of The Bush Family In Campaign Buttons on campaignbuttons-etc
May 2015 - Should Jeb Bush follow his father President George H.W. Bush and his brother President George W. Bush to the White House it will mark the 7th time that a Bush family member has been on a national party ticket. Here is a photo essay as told in pictures of campaign buttons of the presidential history of the Bush family.