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Campaign Ads Flood the Airwaves But Don’t Seem to Move the Polls — Report

The volume of ads airing in the Republican primary race is up 45% from the same period in 2011—but more ads aren’t necessarily pushing up poll numbers, according to a new report released Tuesday.

Tues­day night’s Re­pub­lic­an pres­id­en­tial de­bate in Las Ve­gas didn’t of­fer any ma­jor race-al­ter­ing mo­ments, but it did so­lid­i­fy the re­cent tra­ject­ory of the 2016 cam­paign. That’s wel­come news for Don­ald Trump and Ted Cruz, and a bad sign for Ben Car­son.

Winners and Losers from the 5th Republican presidential debate

Tuesday’s Las Vegas debate featured a series of high-profile skirmishes. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio battled over the National Security Agency and its metadata program as well as their stances on immigration. Jeb Bush went after Donald Trump hard, casting him as an unserious person; The Donald dismissed Bush as irrelevant because of his low poll numbers.

GOP debate winners and losers

The final Republican presidential debate of 2015 brought heated clashes between several major candidates in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, when national front-runner Donald Trump tangled with a newly assertive Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz repeatedly jabbed at each other.

National security dominated in a debate that featured limited sustained candidate clashes and not a lot of risk taking. No candidate truly excelled, and no one had a dreadful evening.

Jeb Bush scores top debate moment on Facebook

Jeb Bush may be struggling in the polls, but he won on Facebook on Tuesday night.

According to the social media site, which co-hosted the Republican debate along with CNN, Jeb Bush telling Donald Trump he “can’t insult your way to the presidency” was the top social moment of the debate on Facebook.

GOP Insiders: Rubio shined in Vegas

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finally went toe-to-toe Tuesday night in Las Vegas – and Rubio came out on top.

That’s according to Republicans in the POLITICO Caucus, our panel of the top activists, strategists and operatives in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.