The wealthy executive who considered and then dropped a proposal to revive controversy over the relationship between President Barack Obama and his former pastor is a rising conservative maverick with ties to the Chicago Cubs baseball team. He’s also linked to a “super” political action committee that bankrolled an upset in Nebraska’s recent Republican Senate [...]

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sought to distance himself Thursday from a GOP-leaning independent group’s plan for a $10 million TV ad campaign renewing attention to President Barack Obama’s ties to his controversial former pastor. Obama’s campaign accused Romney of failing to show “moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his [...]

Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his party raised a combined $40.1 million in April.

President Obama’s campaign is calling on Mitt Romney to push back harder against plans by a conservative-leaning independent group to showcase Obama’s ties to his controversial pastor.

Vice President Joe Biden, campaigning in Democratic territory with high unemployment, went after Republican Mitt Romney’s business background Wednesday and cast him as a corporate raider more interested in profits than people.

As Mitt Romney closes in on nailing down the Republican presidential nomination, endorsements from prominent Republicans are slowing to a trickle. And some endorsements come with noticeable reservations.

Mitt Romney is trying harder than ever these days to stay on script — and keep his traveling national press corps at arms’ length.

George W. Bush has finally weighed on the presidential race — with a terse “I’m for Mitt Romney.”

An independent group favoring Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, monthlong advertising campaign in 10 states against President Barack Obama, further escalating an expensive TV ad war in presidential battlegrounds six months before Election Day.

Remember Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney a liar? Michele Bachmann saying Romney’s unelectable? Rick Santorum calling Romney “the worst Republican in the country” to run against Obama?