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Poll: Cruz closing the gap with Trump

Donald Trump’s perch atop the 2016 presidential polls is looking a little shakier this morning.

In the latest Quinnipiac University national survey released Tuesday, Trump leads Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by just four percentage points.

It looks like a quiet Christmas on Iowa’s campaign trail

Iowans will have some political respite around Christmas: The nonstop presidential candidate blizzard is forecast to die down for three days straight.

We haven’t had a three-day candidate-free spree since Thanksgiving, The Des Moines Register’s candidate visit tracker shows.

Donald Trump, the national front-runner, keeps his big lead in two of the three early states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, but now Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has moved past Trump into a lead of his own in Iowa.

Poll: Christie up to 4th place in New Hampshire

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has ascended to fourth place among likely New Hampshire primary voters, according to a Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll released Thursday.

Gov. Chris Christie has paid the $15,000 filing fee to qualify for the Kansas caucuses on March 5, bringing the total number presidential contests in which he’s on the ballot to 33.

Christie Could Face Rocky Road After New Hampshire

Candidates who either start at the back of the pack or drop there later often pin their hopes on doing well in a single state, usually Iowa or New Hampshire, with the thought that a good showing there will catapult them into contention for the nomination. It’s not a bad strategy, but it does have a huge weakness – the difficulty in quickly building the sort of organization needed in the later states to remain competitive.

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Chris Christie’s post-New Hampshire plan: A wing and a prayer

The past few weeks have been the best of Chris Christie’s campaign. He’s bagged important endorsements, gained ground in New Hampshire and his once-moribund campaign is suddenly getting a second look.