2016 Campaign Watch

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum will officially announce his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination this afternoon. Santorum won the 2012 Iowa Caucuses and was the runner-up to Mitt Romney. The Washington Times provides more information on Santorum’s 2016 campaign announcement:

Rick Santorum expected to join crowded GOP 2016 field

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is expected Wednesday to dive into the 2016 GOP presidential race, where he will hope to prove that his second-place finish from four years ago was more ...

The winner of the 2008 Iowa Republican Caucuses, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, will be skipping the upcoming Iowa Straw Poll in August, reports CNN:

Former Iowa caucuses winner Mike Huckabee to skip straw poll

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, the 2008 Iowa caucuses winner, is running again for the GOP presidential nomination, but this time he’ll skip the state’s high profile straw poll.

Huckabee, who took second place in the 2007 survey, announced Thursday morning in a Des Moines Register op-ed that ...

The POLITICO Caucus is chock-full of interesting insights from leading Iowa and New Hampshire political insiders on the 2016 nomination contests. Leading off, whether Jeb Bush should compete strongly in the Iowa Caucuses:

Insiders say Bush shouldn’t ignore Iowa

Jeb Bush’s failure to invest time in Iowa is the main explanation for his seventh-place finish in the latest poll of likely Republican caucusgoers.

The POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan pulse-taking of the most important activists, operatives and elected officials in Iowa and New ...