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Jeb Bush shows signs of life in New Hampshire

No candidate can be happier to say goodbye to 2015 than Jeb Bush, whose months of futility in the face of Donald Trump’s attacks relegated him to an afterthought in a wild and unpredictable Republican primary. And yet, at year’s end, there are signs that people in New Hampshire, the state that could key an unlikely comeback, still take him seriously.

Poll: Cruz closing the gap with Trump

Donald Trump’s perch atop the 2016 presidential polls is looking a little shakier this morning.

In the latest Quinnipiac University national survey released Tuesday, Trump leads Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by just four percentage points.

It looks like a quiet Christmas on Iowa’s campaign trail

Iowans will have some political respite around Christmas: The nonstop presidential candidate blizzard is forecast to die down for three days straight.

We haven’t had a three-day candidate-free spree since Thanksgiving, The Des Moines Register’s candidate visit tracker shows.

A feistier Jeb Bush fights for a comeback in New Hampshire, one voter at a time

If you want to understand why former Florida governor Jeb Bush has fallen so far in the polls — and why he should not yet be counted out in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination — it helps to talk to Mark Donlevie.

Donald Trump, the national front-runner, keeps his big lead in two of the three early states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, but now Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has moved past Trump into a lead of his own in Iowa.

Beverly Bruce, a highly coveted endorsement in New Hampshire, came up to the Republican presidential candidate Saturday night, gave him a big hug, and whispered something in his ear.

Poll: Christie up to 4th place in New Hampshire

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has ascended to fourth place among likely New Hampshire primary voters, according to a Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll released Thursday.