Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., reached out to top Democratic donor Bernard Schwartz to discuss the 2020 presidential campaign during the weeks before she announced that she would make a run at challenging President Donald Trump, CNBC has learned. Schwartz, the CEO of BLS Investments, spoke to Gillibrand over the phone in recent weeks about the […] Read more

Most Americans agree with President Donald Trump that a “crisis” is taking place at the southern U.S. border. They just do not think the president’s proposed border wall will solve the problems. Trump has cast immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border as a “humanitarian crisis” as he argues for more than $5 billion to build the […] Read more

President Donald Trump doesn’t need a wall to stop undocumented immigration along the U.S. southern border, a three-time presidential candidate and well-known Libertarian Ron Paul told CNBC on Tuesday. Instead, the Trump administration should remove incentives for coming to America, said Paul, who also served 12 terms as a U.S. congressman from Texas, a state […] Read more

The election is coming! The election is coming! Two weeks from today, the country will head to the polls and offer us the first nationwide report card — not just on President Donald Trump, but also the Republican and Democratic parties. So at this point, what do we know? And what do we know we […] Read more

House forecast: Democrats will win 225 seats (and the House majority) while Republicans will win just 210 seats. A Democratic win of 202 seats and 262 seats is within the margin of error. Senate forecast: Republicans will hold 52 seats (and maintain control of the Senate) next Congress while Democrats will hold just 48. Anything […] Read more