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Iowa Poll: Trump blazes to lead; Carson quietly rises
Donald Trump has built up tremendous support in Iowa — he’s very wealthy, he loves the Bible and he’d be just terrific as president of the United States. And he’s very handsome.
Read More >>Trump tops GOP rankings
Donald Trump tops The Hill’s rankings of 2016 GOP candidates for the first time, as the race cranks up to a new level of intensity with debate season underway.
Read More >>5 donors supporting long-shot candidates
An Arkansas poultry tycoon sends a $3 million check to Mike Huckabee’s super-PAC. A Louisiana shipping magnate gives $1 million to the group supporting Bobby Jindal. And a cowboy hat-wearing evangelical multimillionaire says he will “definitely” spend more of his money on Rick Santorum.
Read More >>Rick Santorum on verge of pulling off second ‘Full Grassley’ in Iowa
Rick Santorum is on pace to have visited all of Iowa’s 99 counties this year before Labor Day — sending a message that he believes his best bet of winning the 2016 GOP presidential nomination starts with grinding out a positive result in the Hawkeye State.
Read More >>Iowa State Fair: What we learned
It was Donald Trump’s show, but several other presidential contenders played major supporting roles through a surreal opening weekend at the Iowa State Fair.
Read More >>Poll: Trump continues his post-debate rise
Donald Trump keeps helicoptering upward in the Republican primary.
The golf-course entrepreneur and presidential candidate is out in front once more in a new CNN/ORC poll of Republicans released Tuesday.
Read More >>A different way to slice the GOP race
It’s a commonplace to say that the Republican presidential contest, with its vast field, consists of races within a race. Pre-Trump, we could discern three sub-races — conservative, moderate-conservative, and evangelical.
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