An estimated 52 percent of Republican voters would have preferred someone else as their party's standard-bearer.

"I don't see any upsides to it," Love said Friday. "I don't see how this benefits the state."

Trump is unlikely to pick a woman or someone from a minority group as his vice presidential running mate because, well, that would be “pandering,” says his advisor Paul Manafort

Nation

Trump is expected to be officially nominated in July at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

After calling President Barack Obama "an animal" who has been trying to turn America into "just another country," a Republican U.S. Senate candidate is refusing to apologize.

In an effort to block Donald Trump from garnering the 1,237 delegates necessary to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced plans Sunday to join forces, CNN reports.

Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have upped the ante in what could serve as a reality television show instead a race for the most esteemed office in the world: President of the United States. The virtual sparring erupted Tuesday after Trump accused Cruz of using a G.Q. magazine picture of his wife, Melania, a former model, in an ad.

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday acknowledged increasing chances that the party will be facing an "open convention," noting the ongoing opposition posed against Trump by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Without a clear cut nominee, the party will have to resort to a floor fight to pick a nominee.

Arguing that Barack Obama should have selected a person of color to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, NewsOne legal analyst Damario Solomon-Simmons expressed disappointment with the president's Supreme Court pick.

Politics

For the past several months, the nation has seen Donald Trump's evolution from boisterous real estate mogul to the Republican Party's presidential front-runner.

In a talk aimed at slowing Donald Trump's momentum as the Republican presidential front-runner, Mitt Romney on Thursday came out swinging against the divisive candidate during an address in Salt Lake City.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and his supporters were roundly criticized and condemned as racists after a video surfaced of acolytes assaulting a Black woman at a Super Tuesday rally Louisville, Kentucky.