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In the Senate, Ted Cruz stood with Rand Paul. On the campaign trail, he’s stomping all over him.

Cruz on Tuesday unveiled a coalition of libertarian supporters that is chock full of activists who backed Paul’s father, Ron Paul, in the two previous Republican presidential primaries.

Ted Cruz snags former Ron Paul supporters

For months, the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has quietly been courting libertarian-leaning supporters — people who once supported Ron Paul and ostensibly would have been inclined to back his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in the 2016 race.

Religious right doesn’t hand Trump a win but gives him a chance at Values Voter Summit

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump walked into the weekend’s Values Voter Summit with a Bible in hand and walked out the fifth-place choice in the annual gathering’s straw poll, underscoring just how much of a tough sell the billionaire businessman has in winning over the party’s influential religious conservative voters.

Poll: Carson ties Trump, Biden draws from Clinton

As Vice President Joe Biden considers a potential presidential campaign, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday shows a Biden candidacy would draw support away from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Ted Cruz’s big moment

If Ted Cruz is ever going to break through in the Republican presidential primary, the time is now.

Cruz has been the workmanlike conservative of the GOP field: a strong fundraiser but no Jeb Bush, well-liked by the activist right yet unable, so far, to generate the kind of breakout moments that have vaulted his anti-establishment rivals out of the single-digit doldrums.

Here’s what rival campaigns are telling Scott Walker’s backers Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/scott-walker-backers-poached-rival-campaigns-214019#ixzz3mmesfwco

Rival Republican candidates have launched a full-court press to pick off the most valuable parts of Scott Walker’s suspended presidential operation — an effort that began while the campaign carcass was still warm.