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GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker — who has tumbled from top-tier status amid tepid debate performances and other missteps — will pull back from other early-voting states in favor of a heavy focus on Iowa, where he once led the field and has strong roots as a Midwesterner.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his team are working hard to calm their major donors — some of whom are worried that Walker is on a downward slide and did little to help his campaign in Wednesday night’s debate.

The media are full of reviews of last night’s debates, declaring some candidates winners or losers or assessing whether they did what they needed. Much of the attention is focused on businesswoman Carly Fiorina, who seems by most accounts to be the evening’s winner, as this Bloomberg View article suggests:

Carly the Conqueror

 No candidate took the stage with a greater opportunity, or higher expectations, than Carly Fiorina. That she proceeded to steal the show was the insta-conventional wisdom—and, in this case, ... Read More >>

CARLY, CHRISTIE AND MARCO. In that order.

Carly Fiorina became a big player in the GOP presidential field as a result of her performance in Wednesday night’s debate.

Wednesday night’s free-for-all of a debate among 11 Republican presidential candidates opened several new lines of attack against front-runner Donald Trump — and proved that Carly Fiorina belongs on the big stage, Iowa political experts and observers said.

The second Re­pub­lic­an pres­id­en­tial de­bate cer­tainly de­livered on its prom­ise: The 11 can­did­ates on stage at­tacked one an­oth­er, and fre­quently, over the course of a three-hour slug­fest at the Ron­ald Re­agan Pres­id­en­tial Lib­rary in Cali­for­nia. That ad­ded up to a good night for a hand­ful of the pres­id­en­tial hope­fuls. For oth­ers, it’s one they’d rather for­get.