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George Pataki ended his presidential campaign on Tuesday, dropping a bid to capture the Republican nomination that never caught traction with a voter base clamoring for more conservative and anti-establishment candidates.

Former New York Governor George Pataki has dropped out of the Republican nomination race. CNN offered the following report:

George Pataki drops presidential bid

George Pataki ended his presidential campaign on Tuesday, dropping a bid to capture the Republican nomination that never caught traction with a voter base clamoring for more conservative and anti-establishment candidates.

“While tonight is the end of my journey for the White House as I suspend my campaign for president, I am confident we can elect the ... Read More >>

Donald Trump, the national front-runner, keeps his big lead in two of the three early states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, but now Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has moved past Trump into a lead of his own in Iowa.

Candidates who either start at the back of the pack or drop there later often pin their hopes on doing well in a single state, usually Iowa or New Hampshire, with the thought that a good showing there will catapult them into contention for the nomination. It’s not a bad strategy, but it does have a huge weakness – the difficulty in quickly building the sort of organization needed in the later states to remain competitive.

Politico this morning focuses on ... Read More >>

Florida’s Secretary of State announced the candidates, who will appear on the state’s March 15 primary ballot on Tuesday. Notably absent on the Republican side is former New York governor George Pataki, whose struggling presidential campaign has failed to muster enough interest.

ll right, with the last Republican presidential debate of 2015 tonight, we’re approaching a period when the Republican primary should really start to get going — when the field should start to consolidate. So to get a sense for how the dominoes may tumble, we’re going to play “Dropout Draft.”

The Utah Re­pub­lic­an Party an­nounced that 12 can­did­ates qual­i­fied for the state’s March 22 pres­id­en­tial caucuses. Former Vir­gin­ia Gov. Jim Gilmore (R) and former New York Gov. George Pa­taki (R) failed to make the cut.