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5 takeaways from the GOP debate
The increasingly raw fight between Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz provides the GOP race’s top subplot coming out of Tuesday night’s debate in Las Vegas – two skilled, 44-year-old senators scrapping to survive as the party’s not-Trump.
Read More >>Former Boston police czar Ed Davis backs Jeb Bush
It’s Ed for Jeb.
Former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis is backing former Florida governor Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, Bush aides said Monday.
Read More >>GOP Candidates Get Final Chance to Change 2015 Narratives
Las Vegas will host the final Republican debate of the year, giving many candidates their final shot in 2015 in at making an impression, changing or bolstering the current narrative, or demonstrating why they are legitimate contenders for the GOP nomination. As usual there is no shortage of pieces this morning advising the candidates on what they need to do and what voters ought to be looking for.
The Hill offers a succinct overview of tonight’s event:
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2016 Power Rankings: Why Marco Rubio Has the Inside Track
Marco Rubio, for the first time, has vaulted to first place in Hotline‘s Republican presidential power rankings—but it’s a spot he holds only by a hair.
Read More >>Debate Offers Jeb Bush a Chance to Take the Family Gloves Off
From George Bush to his two political sons, the Bush family has always been squeamish about messy, personal attacks on rivals, preferring to outsource the dirty work to aides.
Read More >>Showdown in Vegas: Trump, Cruz seek upper hand in crucial debate
The fifth and final Republican debate of 2015 — and the penultimate one before the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1 — will be held on Tuesday night in Las Vegas.
Nine contenders will take the stage for the main clash on CNN, but the most intense focus will fall on two candidates: businessman Donald Trump, who has led the national polls for several months, and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), who is rising fast and has snatched the lead from Trump in Iowa.
Read More >>Trump hits a new high in national poll
Donald Trump just got a little more vault in his ceiling. Nationwide, the polling-obsessed Manhattan multi-billionaire and leading Republican presidential candidate broke into the 40s on Monday.
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