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Trump leads ’16 GOP rankings one month from Iowa
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is the biggest upward mover in The Hill’s new rankings of the Republican presidential contenders, while Ben Carson has plunged.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has also strengthened his standing in the two months since our last rankings while former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has seen none of the momentum he so badly needs.
Read More >>Some advice for the candidates
My last bit of ghost-writing for a candidate was in 2012, and though my career as a secret scribbler stretches back to Richard Nixon’s The Real War in 1980, I’m pledged to neutrality this year until the GOP has a nominee.
Read More >>Kasich and Bush open up contrasting ad strategies
John Kasich launched his first television ad of the campaign season Sunday.
With a hard folk rock background, a narrator describes Kasich’s early challenges: “He lived a hardscrabble life in a rusty steel town. … When he lost his parents to a drunk driver, he had the faith to carry on.”
Read More >>How Jeb Bush Hopes to Save His Candidacy
Jeb Bush and his supporters still have a pile of money to spend, remnants of $100 million raised when he seemed early last year to be a sure bet. They have an expansive ground operation in New Hampshire. And allies have just begun a new ad campaign in Iowa.
Read More >>Race Heats Up in the Crowded ‘Establishment’ Lane
Although outside candidates have attracted a great deal of attention in the Republican nomination contest – candidates promising to upend Washington, D.C. – there are still a substantial number of voters who are more readily classified as establishment-friendly, or at least not anti-establishment. It seems likely that someone will claim the establishment mantle, and several press reports this morning and yesterday suggest the battle for these voters is beginning to heat up. From The Washington Post:
Iowa emerges as a free-for-all among GOP’s establishment ... Read More >>
Republicans Scramble to Pick Up Graham’s Supporters in South Carolina
Aside from the One Eared Cow Glass gallery and a shuttered Grice’s fruit basket shop, there is little in a half-mile stretch of South Carolina’s capital city that separates the state headquarters of Republican presidential rivals Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.
Read More >>Bush campaign shifts resources to early states in strategy shake-up
Jeb Bush’s campaign, searching for momentum in a race that hasn’t gone its way, is deploying nearly all of its staff in its Miami headquarters to early states and shifting millions of dollars in TV ad reservations.
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