Sam Frizell

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Why James Comey Couldn't Keep the FBI Above Politics

As a rule, lawmen don’t like to say much more than they have to, and there is not a person who has met FBI Director James Comey who would size him up as less than...

By Sam Frizell

Your Questions About the New Clinton Emails, Answered

Friday’s announcement that the FBI is examining additional emails relevant to the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server has shaken up the presidential race. With just days before the election, it has resurrected Clinton’s email...

By Sam Frizell

James Comey Under Fire After Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Announcement

"He owes the public the full story"

By Sam Frizell

Clinton Calls on the FBI to 'Immediately' Release Information About Her Newly Discovered Emails

"We are 11 days out from perhaps the most important national election in our lifetimes"

By Sam Frizell

FBI Examining Hillary Clinton Emails Found in Anthony Weiner Probe

The FBI is examining additional emails related to Hillary Clinton‘s use of a private email server four months after closing its investigation, the bureau’s director said in a letter to lawmakers on Friday, a surprise...

By Sam Frizell

Michelle Obama Joins Hillary Clinton on the Trail

The audience in Winston-Salem, N.C., could be forgiven for forgetting which Democrat is running for President.It was Michelle Obama who had the last word at a rally on Thursday afternoon after being introduced by Hillary...

By Sam Frizell

Clinton Was Aware of Donald Duck Stunt But Denies Breaking Law

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it may not be a duck

By Sam Frizell

Trump, Clinton Warn of Doom in Dueling Speeches

The Sunshine State was treated to twin apocalyptic visions on Tuesday, when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both warned Florida voters in dark terms that the other candidate threatens the fabric of the nation.As the...

By Tessa Berenson Rogers and Sam Frizell

Millennials Finally Find Something to Love in Clinton

It wasn’t the granddaughter stories or celebrity selfies that convinced Mary Alice Kukoski about Hillary Clinton. The first-year college student at the University of Virginia was studying with a friend late last month when she...

By Sam Frizell

What Hillary Clinton's Insiders Know That Voters Don't-Yet

As Hillary Clinton prepared to launch her presidential campaign early last year, the former Secretary of State wanted her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to keep one last, lucrative speech on his schedule. Her husband’s...

By Sam Frizell and Philip Elliott

The Debate Showed the Limits of Clinton's 'High Road'

Hillary Clinton’s aides wanted their candidate to make an affirmative pitch about her own merits at Wednesday night’s debate and let Republican nominee Donald Trump sink into a morass of controversial remarks.But her performance will...

By Sam Frizell

Hillary Clinton Considered Surprising Running Mates

If it hadn’t been Tim Kaine, it might have been Tim Cook.Hillary Clinton’s aides considered the Apple CEO among a surprising array of potential vice presidential candidates, including business executives, lawmakers and military leaders, before...

By Sam Frizell

Inside Clinton Campaign's Response to the Trump Meltdown

Hillary Clinton’s aides are closely watching the spectacle of Donald Trump’s slow-motion collapse.Trump has nosedived in national polls since the leak of a 2005 tape showing him boasting about groping women, and his divided party...

By Sam Frizell

Clinton Adviser Suggests Trump Campaign Knew of Hacks

Hillary Clinton’s top adviser suggested on Tuesday evening that Donald Trump’s campaign had advance knowledge of the leak of internal Democratic emails that he said were obtained by Russian hackers. It was an extraordinary claim—presented...

By Sam Frizell

What the Town Hall Debate Revealed About Both Campaigns

The second presidential debate was a town-hall forum, a difficult format that works best for the candidate who connects with the individuals asking the questions.Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton fell short, for different reasons...

By Sam Frizell

Trump Openly Disagreed With His Running Mate on Russia

Donald Trump during the second presidential debate openly disagreed with his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, over the U.S.’s policy in Syria.The difference in policy became apparent when moderator Martha Raddatz stated Pence’s position...

By Sam Frizell

Clinton Stays Quiet as Trump's Campaign Burns

In the deafening roar that blew across television networks, front-page newspapers and Americans’ kitchen table conversations after the release of a recording of Donald Trump bragging about groping women, one voice was noticeably silent: Hillary...

By Sam Frizell

What Leaked Emails Reveal About Clinton's Campaign

The website Wikileaks published emails on Friday apparently belonging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, marking the latest results of a hacking operations on internal Democratic Party communications.If they are authentic, Friday’s late-afternoon dump...

By Sam Frizell

Democrats Grow Vocal About Obamacare's Shortcomings

When former President Bill Clinton suggested this week that President Obama’s signature health care law was “crazy,” it didn’t take long for Republicans to pounce. “Finally, a leading Democrat speaks the truth on Obamacare,” said...

By Sam Frizell

Mike Pence Showed Donald Trump How to Debate

Eight days after the Republican presidential nominee fell into trap after trap set by his Democratic rival, Indiana Governor Mike Pence put on a clinic for his running mate on how to avoid the bait...

By Zeke J Miller and Sam Frizell / Farmville, Va.
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