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Republican Voters Slowly Begin to Rally Around Candidates

At a Marco Rubio rally the day after the Republicans’ fourth debate, Scott Bell pressed through a crowd to deliver a direct message to the Florida senator. “I’m all in,” he told Mr. Rubio.

Cruz, Trump neck-and-neck atop Texas poll

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck among likely Republican presidential primary voters in Texas, according to a new poll.

For Carson, Debates Have Played Limited Role in His Rise

For some Republican presidential candidates, the party’s first three primary debates have been pivotal proving grounds that have strengthened their campaigns or shaken their supporters.

Ben Carson isn’t among them.

Bush Makes a Comeback in Debate

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush may not have “won” the GOP debate last night (most are giving that victory to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio), but the consensus view seems to be that he turned in a good performance and was significantly improved from the first three debates. Bush came in tied for second, according to Politico’s survey of insiders:

Insiders: Rubio wins, Kasich bombs

The runner-ups for best performance, according to the survey, were Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina with 12 percent ... Read More >>

Tues­day night’s is­sue-heavy de­bate re­in­forced—rather than changed—the tra­ject­ory of the GOP primary. Un­like the pre­vi­ous three Re­pub­lic­an de­bates, there was no mem­or­able mo­ment, and what ar­gu­ments broke out were less per­son­al than ideo­lo­gic­al.

Practice has not made them perfect, but they are a heckuva lot better.

The top eight Republican presidential candidates all showed some benefits of four debates’ worth of experience. No one offered a super-stellar performance—and no one tanked.

5 takeaways from the GOP debate

Tuesday night’s Republican debate in Milwaukee wasn’t as much a neat romp as the previous three – but it represented a vital team-building exercise for a party that seemed to be pulling itself apart at the raucous Oct. 28^th CNBC scrum.