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Virginia’s Gilmore makes 17 GOP presidential candidates
The Republican presidential contest has grown to 17 candidates with Wednesday’s entry of Jim Gilmore.
Read More >>Candidates Scramble to Make Republican Debates
The first Republican debate will be held on Aug. 6 in Cleveland. Because only the top 10 candidates according to national polls will be on stage, six candidates and possibly seven (if Jim Gilmore enters the race by that date) will likely miss the cutoff. (“Likely” because in the event of a tie for 10th place, the tied candidates will be allowed on stage.)
Politico has an interesting article on several of the candidates who could be excluded from the first ... Read More >>
Let them debate!
It will be easy this year to identify the biggest losers in the GOP debates. They will be the candidates who aren’t on the stage.
Read More >>Gilmore says he will run for president
Former Gov. Jim Gilmore says he is running for president and plans a formal announcement in the first week of August.
Read More >>Five ‘Lanes’ in GOP Nomination Contest?
Phillip Bump has an intriguing analysis of the 2016 GOP nomination battle over at the Washington Post, arguing there are basically five ‘lanes’ in the contest that the different candidates are competing in. Huckabee and Santorum, for example, are seen as the two candidates expected to challenge each other for dominance in the ‘Evangelical’ lane (although others will certainly try to grab some of that vote as well).
The 2016 GOP presidential race, broken down into 5 ‘lanes’
Ted Cruz, we argued ... Read More >>