Jon Ward

LAS VEGAS -- Former GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich praised Mitt Romney's handling of Tuesday's controversy over Donald Trump's renewed questioning of President Barack Obama's birthplace.

"Governor Romney is not distracted. The Republican Party is not distracted. We believe that this is an American-born, job-killing president," Gingrich told reporters in...

LAS VEGAS -- "He doesn't want to talk about it."

Or so said Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's spokesman, on the question of where President Obama was born.

Cohen, in a phone interview, called the renewed controversy over Trump's questioning of whether Obama was born in the...

One private equity industry insider expressed displeasure with Mitt Romney's explanations so far in defense of his record at Bain Capital, which has come under attack from President Barack Obama's reelection campaign.

"He is driving me insane," emailed the insider, who asked to be anonymous.

He then laid out...

One private equity industry insider Thursday expressed displeasure with Mitt Romney's explanations so far in defense of his record at Bain Capital, which has come under attack from President Barack Obama's reelection campaign.

"He is driving me insane," the insider wrote. He then laid out a prescription for what he...

Mitt Romney's campaign released its second general election television ad Thursday. It is another iteration of what Romney will do on his first day in office.

Romney released his first "Day One" ad last week. The script for the second one is below, and you...

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney refused to give the green light Wednesday to a full discussion of his career in private equity at Bain Capital.

Time Magazine's Mark Halperin asked Romney twice whether he would "welcome" a discussion about his time in private equity. After the first question,...

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney has charged that President Barack Obama's campaign is engaging in "character assassination" by running ads that paint him as a heartless corporate raider.

Romney is making a point about not responding in kind.

The former Massachusetts governor says often -- almost daily --...

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu told reporters Tuesday that Mitt Romney's business record should be examined, but denounced President Obama's reelection campaign for "cherry-picking" the investments that went bad.

"I think the Bain record as a whole is fair game, and what you have to do is do an...

WASHINGTON -– Austerity is out. Growth is in. And Mitt Romney's campaign has taken notice.

Politicians in Europe and in President Barack Obama's administration can't get enough of the G word these days. "Growth must be a priority, at the same time as we put in place some fiscal...

A spokesman for Mitt Romney had a brief conversation Wednesday with Vice President Joe Biden at an Italian restaurant in Steubenville, Ohio, and challenged the vice president about President Barack Obama's energy policy.

Ryan Williams, the Romney staffer, told The Huffington Post by phone that he did not know Biden...

WASHINGTON –- President Barack Obama's reelection campaign, continuing its attempts to paint Mitt Romney as a ruthless corporate raider, went so far Wednesday as to suggest that if he were president, the Republican would not care whether more Americans had jobs.

"The goal of Romney economics has...

WASHINGTON -- A top adviser to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Tuesday that the insurgent presidential candidate will probably not endorse Mitt Romney for president.

"I would never say never," said Jesse Benton, national chairman of Paul's campaign. "I do not believe that that is likely."

Benton told reporters that...

WASHINGTON -- In the dead of the winter, as Mitt Romney campaigned across Iowa and New Hampshire, one of his senior strategists kept asking reporters the same question.

"Have you been to a job fair recently?" Stuart Stevens would ask. When the answer was almost inevitably in the negative,...

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Monday that he will no longer campaign in primary states that have not yet voted, but urged those who support his candidacy for president to continue organizing in states that have voted, in order to win delegates to the national convention.

"We will no longer...

British newspapers are reporting that GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney and UK Prime Minister David Cameron may meet in late July or early August, on the sidelines of the Summer Olympics in London.

Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom gave this response when asked about the reports: "Nothing to...

Mitt Romney's campaign is running Google search ads targeted to New York City users who go online looking for information about the commencement ceremony at Barnard College, where President Barack Obama is speaking Monday.

"Obama's Wasteful Spending," the ad blares, arguing that the president is "leaving graduates with an economy...

President Barack Obama's reelection campaign on Monday morning opened a new front in its election faceoff with presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, releasing documentary-style videos and a full website portraying Romney as a job-destroying corporate takeover artist.

The Obama campaign put out a two-minute video and a six-minute video featuring...

NEW YORK -- Mitt Romney will wade, ever so cautiously, into the debate over gay marriage during a commencement speech on Saturday at a Christian university in Virginia, his campaign said Friday.

"Marriage isn't the focus of the speech, but he will mention the fact that marriage is an enduring...

Former New York Gov. George Pataki called on President Barack Obama Tuesday to stop playing politics with the issue of gay marriage and to clearly state his position on the issue.

"It's very simple. Either you're for something or you're against it. And Vice President Biden has made it plain...

WASHINGTON -- A prominent Iowa Republican, and a major supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, did not hesitate to answer when asked recently how many of the Hawkeye State's 28 delegates he expects Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) to have heading into the national convention in Tampa this August.