Stories tagged with: gop

• Trump wins GOP, 'evangelical' vote in S.C. primary

  by Tom Strode, posted Monday, February 22, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Billionaire Donald Trump easily won the Republican primary Feb. 20 in the evangelical Christian stronghold of South Carolina, strengthening his frontrunner's status for the presidential nomination.

  Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Nevada caucuses the same day, providing an important victory after her 20-point loss in New Hampshire. The former secretary of state and first lady gained 52.6 percent of the vote, while Sanders, a self-described socialist, polled 47.3. Read More

• Huckabee tests GOP's social conservatism

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, February 03, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Despite backlash against former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's recent criticisms of "gratuitous profanity" and sexual immorality in America, GOP politicians and Baptist leaders agree that social conservatives still play a prominent role in the Republican Party.

  "There has been a huge push for fiscal conservatives to step out and lead in Republican policy issues and decision-making," U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Baptist Press. "But the vast majority of Republicans are social conservatives. They're also fiscal conservatives, but they're social conservatives first. While some people would say, 'Be quieter on those issues,' that's who we are." Read More

• GOP gains Senate; Southern Baptists win

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (9 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Voters gave the Republican Party a majority in the U.S. Senate in Tuesday's mid-term election, leaving President Obama without a Democratic-controlled chamber in Congress for the first time since he took residence in the White House nearly six years ago. Read More