Donald Trump is now the choice of nearly one-in-three likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, while Jeb Bush, who once pledged that he would win in the state, plummeted to just 4 percent in the latest Monmouth University poll.
With less than a month before the New Hampshire primary, the Republican polls are showing significant movement, and a competitive battle for second and third place within the margin of error.
Read More >>Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has been considered a leading candidate for the GOP nomination for several months, despite not leading or even polling in second place nationally, in Iowa, or in New Hampshire (he has been in second place in South Carolina for about a month and a half, barely ahead of a tangle of other candidates and well behind businessman Donald Trump). The question in many minds has been, when and where does Rubio have to finally win a ... Read More >>
On Saturday, with the New Hampshire primary precisely one month away and only four more weekends to catch people at home, an experienced observer of politics might assume that presidential campaigns in the state were pulling out all the stops on their voter contact efforts. Saturdays are a perfect day for canvassing, knocking on the doors of prospective voters and persuading them to vote for your candidate.
Read More >>The super PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is going after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
The pro-Bush Right to Rise super PAC is sending out mailers questioning Christie’s record as governor in its first direct attack at Christie in Iowa.
Read More >>In the January edition of AEI’s Political Report, we provide profiles of the 2012 Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada Republican electorates. What makes each of these electorates distinct? Will their profiles be similar in 2016?
Read More >>Three weeks until the first presidential nominating contest, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are running neck and neck in Iowa, while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are also locked in a tight race in the Hawkeye State.
What’s more, Clinton and Sanders are within the margin of error in New Hampshire, while Trump has built a 16-point lead in the same state.
A year ago, when he was just beginning to run for president, Jeb Bush declared that he was “my own man” and suggested he would run as far as possible from his famous last name.
Now, stuck near the back of the GOP pack and fighting for survival, the former Florida governor is calling in the cavalry — relatives and hundreds of others with long ties to the Bush clan who are gearing up to flood Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada in a push to get back into contention.
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