The 2016 Republican primary detoured for a day beyond familiar Iowa and New Hampshire to a 7,000-capacity megachurch in the heart of Texas, where a half dozen candidates gathered to prove their Christian bona fides and to campaign for the hearts and votes of evangelicals.
Read More >>All the candidates for president have filed their fundraising reports for the third quarter with the Federal Election Commission, and the general view is that candidates have separated into three distinct categories: those raising enough money to mount credible campaigns in the early nominating contests as well as the later caucuses and primaries; those raising enough to fund one- or two-state campaigns in Iowa and/or New Hampshire and hoping to use early success in order to propel them into contention; ... Read More >>
Carly Fiorina’s campaign saw the pace of her fundraising pick up dramatically after she faced off with Donald Trump at last month’s debate, her quarterly campaign-finance filing shows.
Read More >>Republican and Democratic presidential candidates hauled in an enormous $144 million in the third quarter of 2015 but the vast majority of the money flowed into only a handful of campaigns, leaving the 2016 race distinctively stratified into the haves, the have-notes and the hopeless.
Read More >>See who is likely to make the cut, and who’s on the bubble, for the next GOP debate.
Read More >>Thursday is the deadline for presidential campaigns to submit their third quarter fundraising reports to the Federal Election Commission. Many campaigns — confident in their numbers or hoping to inoculate the response to bad ones — have already released top-line details. For all of them, though, it’s a moment that’s not unlike heading to the doctor for a particularly invasive examination.
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