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A new poll shows Ben Carson’s net favorability rating has dropped 12 percentage points, while Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz’s favorability ratings have each risen nine points.

The GOP presidential candidates’ favorability rankings have undergone some massive shifts, according to Gallup’s Daily tracking poll.

USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings: Carson slides, Trump soars

Ben Carson appears to be slipping.

For the first time since early October, Carson has dropped out of the top three in the weekly GOP Power Rankings.

All press is good press for Donald Trump, it seems. The brash billionaire said incoherent things about national security, and then gained after a confusing media mess about databases of Muslims. He spoke falsely about video of New Jersey Muslims celebrating after 9/11, and somehow even this has strengthened his support.

Chris Christie is betting tough national-security talk will overcome one of the biggest weaknesses facing a governor running for president — a lack of foreign-policy experience.

A ranking of GOP presidential candidates who can still make a case

For all the candidates, all the debates and all the unpredictability, the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 has taken a clear shape over the past month or so.

There is a four-candidate top tier that has separated itself from the rest of the pack.

After a string of strong debate performances and some key endorsements, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has displaced former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as the choice of Republican Insiders to be their most likely standard bearer in 2016.