Recent News
Carson zooms past Trump in Iowa, second poll shows Read more
Ben Carson has a nine percentage-point lead on Donald Trump in Iowa, according to a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll out Friday.
In the poll — the second this week to find the retired neurosurgeon moving ahead of the billionaire real estate mogul — Carson leads with 28 percent of likely Republican caucus goers, followed by Trump at 19 percent.
Read More >>Rand Paul’s last, best chance is to run against Hillary the hawk
When Rand Paul speaks on college campuses, he has a simple message: “I’m not here to send you to war.”
Slumping in the polls and struggling to raise money, that’s increasingly the raison d’etre of Paul’s presidential campaign.
Read More >>CNBC Sets Lineups for Republican Debates Next Week
CNBC has set the stages for the Republican presidential debate next Wednesday.
The 6 p.m. undercard will feature Rick Santorum, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, George Pataki and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. They will be relegated to the early slot because their average national poll numbers in the last five weeks are below 2.5 percent.
Read More >>Poll confirms likely GOP debate participants
The stage at next week’s third Republican presidential debate is likely set, and the cast of characters who will participate in the prime-time panel this time around appears to be the same as the previous debate.
Read More >>Ad Blitz Fails to Lift Jeb Bush’s Numbers in New Hampshire: Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm Poll
A month of extensive New Hampshire advertising on Jeb Bush’s behalf has failed to boost his support and likely Republican primary voters there view him as inferior to frontrunner Donald Trump on most key attributes.
Read More >>The False Rise and Fall of Rand Paul
It was only a year ago that Rand Paul appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the headline, “The Most Interesting Man in Politics.” Time was hardly alone in this assessment. Paul was the subject of a lengthy front-page profile in the New York Times and came out No. 1 on Politico Magazine’s list of the 50 most influential people in politics. “Has the Libertarian Moment Finally Arrived?” Robert Draper asked in the New York Times Magazine.
Read More >>USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings: Trump back in charge
Four weeks ago, we were predicting the demise of Donald Trump. Today, his grip on the GOP nominating contest seems as strong as ever.
Twenty-one of the 30 political experts we survey each week gave first-place marks to Trump this week, his highest total since Week 3 of our Power Rankings survey.
Read More >>