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In Iowa, it’s down to Trump and Cruz
With 14 days to go, the race for Iowa has become a contest between two men the GOP hoped would have been marginalized by now.
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump stand alone at the top of the pack, separated by two to three points at most. According to the most recent Des Moines Register and Quinnipiac polls, their closest competitor, Marco Rubio, is running behind by double digits and no other contender stands a chance of walking away the winner.
Read More >>What top GOP hopefuls need to do in Thursday’s SC debate
With presidential primaries weeks, not months, away, the time has come for GOP candidates to make their moves to gain momentum just before the first voters begin to cast ballots.
Read More >>Cruz and Christie Gain in Popularity As Trump, Carson and Bush Stumble (POLL)
Ted Cruz has reached top-rank popularity among Republicans and Chris Christie’s favorability rating is most improved in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, while Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Jeb Bush all have stumbled in the battle for GOP hearts and minds.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton continues to far surpass Bernie Sanders in favorability among party regulars, and she’s vastly more popular within the Democratic Party than are any of the Republican candidates within the GOP base. Still, gender and racial gaps mark Clinton’s standings, and Sanders pushes back among young adults, independents and the better-off.
Read More >>GOP candidate lineup announced for Fox Business Network debate
Fox Business Network on Monday announced the candidate lineup for the Jan. 14 Republican presidential debates – and already one candidate has said he will not participate after not qualifying for the prime-time event.
Read More >>Rand Paul on the verge of being booted to undercard debate
Rand Paul is on the verge of being booted to the undercard stage in Thursday night’s Republican primary debate, while John Kasich appears to have successfully clung on to the main stage, according to a POLITICO analysis of recent polls done before Fox Business Network officially announces the lineup later on Monday.
Read More >>Trump soars, Bush sinks in latest N.H. poll
Donald Trump is now the choice of nearly one-in-three likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, while Jeb Bush, who once pledged that he would win in the state, plummeted to just 4 percent in the latest Monmouth University poll.
With less than a month before the New Hampshire primary, the Republican polls are showing significant movement, and a competitive battle for second and third place within the margin of error.
Read More >>How Long Can Rubio Wait for a Win?
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has been considered a leading candidate for the GOP nomination for several months, despite not leading or even polling in second place nationally, in Iowa, or in New Hampshire (he has been in second place in South Carolina for about a month and a half, barely ahead of a tangle of other candidates and well behind businessman Donald Trump). The question in many minds has been, when and where does Rubio have to finally win a ... Read More >>