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GOP candidates fight to survive in ‘undercard’ debate
Four Republican presidential candidates lagging in national polls squared off in a lively preliminary debate Tuesday night, fighting to move into the top tier of White House GOP hopefuls.
Read More >>Anticipating Tonight’s GOP Debate
Most of the Republican presidential candidates will appear in their fourth debate of the nomination process tonight. The main stage will feature a slimmed-down group, as two participants in previous debates, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, failed to qualify and will instead be relegated to the early event for lower-polling candidates.
The earlier debate will remain at four participants, however, as South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former New York Gov. George Pataki didn’t make ... Read More >>
USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings: SNL bumps Trump back up
Call it the Saturday Night Live effect: Donald Trump uses his appearance on the wheezing comedy show to vault back into first place in our weekly power rankings.
Our panel of political experts was pretty unanimous: show bad, Trump good.
Read More >>Everything you need to know about Tuesday’s Republican debates
When is the next Republican presidential debate?
The fourth Republican presidential debate will be Tuesday, November 10th, live from the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Read More >>Christie on track to get bumped from main stage at next GOP debate
It’s looking like Chris Christie may not make the prime-time debate stage at next week’s Fox Business Network/Wall Street Journal debate.
While Fox Business will not officially announce the lineup until Thursday, a new Fox News poll released late Wednesday puts the New Jersey governor at 2 percent.
Read More >>Why the Conventional Wisdom Has Been All Wrong This Election Season
Iowa GOP expects record turnout
Top Republican strategists are almost universally predicting a record-setting turnout at the 2016 Iowa caucuses, but there’s widespread disagreement between them over just how big turnout will be – and whether it will be high enough to lift political outsiders like Donald Trump or Ben Carson to victory.
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