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CNN moves prime-time GOP debate to 8 p.m.

CNN has moved its primetime Republican debate from 9 p.m. EST to 8 p.m., eliminating the long gap between its main event and the earlier forum for second-tier candidates, the network told campaigns in a conference call Tuesday afternoon.

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2016: Who’s Out, Who’s In?

Jim Gilmore, George Pataki, and Rick Perry are capable former governors with limited support who will (or should) soon withdraw. (Memo to Rick Perry’s $17 million Super PACs: Deploy the funds on targeted U.S. Senate races next year.) Governor Bobby Jindal is brainy but comes across as an esoteric policy wonk. Staying for the endgame will not help him win the vice-presidential nomination.

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Poll: Sanders leads Clinton in New Hampshire, closing in Iowa

Bernie Sanders has a solid lead over Hillary Clinton among New Hampshire Democrats five months ahead of the Granite State’s first-in-the-nation primary, and the Vermont senator is also gaining on Clinton in Iowa, according to NBC News/Marist polls released on Sunday.

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How Donald Trump rewired the 2016 campaign

This is not the race Jeb Bush expected to run. The plan was to craft a policy-focused campaign, with scores of policy aides hired to help him articulate meaty ideas on the trail and distinguish himself as a policy-oriented candidate. He expected to run “joyfully” and with a message of optimism.

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Visiting 99 Counties in Iowa Doesn’t Get Candidates as Far as It Used to

In a state that prizes retail campaigning, nothing is more revered than “the full Grassley” — a politician’s visit to all of Iowa’s 99 counties, named for the state’s peripatetic senior senator, Charles E. Grassley.

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Get ready for a second GOP debate with even more fireworks

The rapidly shifting dynamic of the 2016 presidential campaign will probably turn the second Republican debate into a far more contentious event than the first.

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Rand Paul opts to ‘go west’ to revive campaign

Near the end of a summer that saw him plunge in national polls among Republican voters, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul found himself in the East Gold Room of the Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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