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At 27 percent, nationally Donald Trump maintains his frontrunner status among Republican primary voters, but Ben Carson is now closely behind him. Carson’s support has risen significantly since early August, when he polled at six percent. Carson is now at 23 percent, putting him in second place.

Pollsters: Don’t trust us to winnow GOP field

Pollsters surveyed by POLITICO have a unanimous warning for the Republican National Committee and the TV networks who are using public-opinion surveys to exclude presidential candidates from debates: Don’t trust polls to detect often-tiny grades of opinion in a giant field.

Donald Trump isn’t as popular as he’s cracked up to be in Iowa, and that could have significant implications for his presidential prospects.

At least that’s the conclusion of a new poll obtained by the Washington Examiner.

How the GOP gets to the final four

With the Governors Club members Scott Walker and Rick Perry gone, the bloated Republican presidential field is showing the inevitable signs of radical shrinkage by year’s end, with donors’ reluctance to bet on long shots.

The cruelest month of the 2016 race

October is when the 2016 campaign gets real.

Two debates are coming — one that will likely winnow the GOP field and one that could rearrange the Democratic race. A Benghazi hearing will either be a showcase or a feeding frenzy. And campaign fundraising reports are going to be making a lot of decisions for people, whether they like it or not.

Huckabee building a Southern firewall

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee rolled out leadership teams across four Southern states on Monday.

The Republican could be a serious force on March 1 in the so-called SEC Primary, named after the collegiate Southeastern Conference.

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.