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The case of Kim Davis — the Kentucky county clerk jailed for refusing to issue gay marriage licenses — has highlighted a deep cultural gap in the Republican Party. And no one has exploited that gap more than Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor running for president.

CNN moves prime-time GOP debate to 8 p.m.

CNN has moved its primetime Republican debate from 9 p.m. EST to 8 p.m., eliminating the long gap between its main event and the earlier forum for second-tier candidates, the network told campaigns in a conference call Tuesday afternoon.

Visiting 99 Counties in Iowa Doesn’t Get Candidates as Far as It Used to

In a state that prizes retail campaigning, nothing is more revered than “the full Grassley” — a politician’s visit to all of Iowa’s 99 counties, named for the state’s peripatetic senior senator, Charles E. Grassley.

Ben Carson has highest net favorability in 2016 GOP field; Donald Trump’s numbers jump up: Gallup

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has the highest net favorability of the 17 major GOP candidates running for president in 2016 among Republicans, with rival Donald Trump seeing the biggest increase over the past few weeks, according to survey results released Friday.

Donald Trump has built a bigger, more enduring lead in the polls than nearly anyone expected. He’s also upended the race for the Republican presidential nomination in another way: almost all the other candidates can be defined by their reactions to Trump.

Carson ties Trump at the top in Iowa poll

Ben Carson and Donald Trump are tied at the top of the Republican field in a new survey of likely Iowa caucus-goers with 23 percent each, according to the results of a Monmouth University poll released Monday.