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Decisive debate polls set for release
The fight to get on stage at next week’s Fox News Channel Republican presidential debate is about to become a lot clearer.
Read More >>The Granite State Bet: Magnet for GOP Underdogs
By Friday, John Kasich will have hosted six town halls in the Granite State in the week since he launched his presidential campaign. A super PAC supporting the Ohio governor is already running ads, sharing this early airtime only with a certain fellow contender from New Jersey.
Read More >>Trump’s rise hurts Rubio, Carson; helps Jeb Bush
Donald Trump’s explosive rise in the polls has come at the expense of every other GOP presidential candidate except for Jeb Bush and Scott Walker — who arguably have been helped by the businessman’s rise.
Read More >>The Kochs freeze out Donald Trump
The Koch brothers are freezing out Donald Trump from their influential political operation — denying him access to their state-of-the-art data and refusing to let him speak to their gatherings of grass-roots activists or major donors.
Read More >>Appeal of the family man? Donald Trump has ‘huge lead’ among Republican women voters, polls say
“Riding a wave of non-stop publicity, a new poll shows mogul Donald Trump solidly in first place among 256 likely Republican primary and caucus voters nationwide,” says pollster John Zogby, who reveals that the billionaire is now in the lead with support from 20 percent of likely primary voters overall. The percentage is even higher among women voters.
Read More >>Crowded Field of Dreams
Some 20 minutes after an appearance at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, that would dominate the news in the coming days, Donald Trump walked into the industrial-looking basement area designated for press conferences, surrounded by tough-looking men in slick business suits, ostensibly there to provide security but whose real role, one suspects, was to make the man they were following feel important. A wooden podium faced nearly a dozen television cameras and twice as many journalists, all arrayed in a semicircle about 10 feet away.
Read More >>Candidates Scramble to Make Republican Debates
The first Republican debate will be held on Aug. 6 in Cleveland. Because only the top 10 candidates according to national polls will be on stage, six candidates and possibly seven (if Jim Gilmore enters the race by that date) will likely miss the cutoff. (“Likely” because in the event of a tie for 10th place, the tied candidates will be allowed on stage.)
Politico has an interesting article on several of the candidates who could be excluded from the first ... Read More >>