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Different Debate Skills, Styles for GOP Candidates

In recent days a number of media outlets have offered previews of tonight’s debate between the top 10 Republican candidates, and at least one has also looked at the earlier event featuring seven candidates who didn’t make it onto the main stage. Here’s a piece in Politico (with an unfortunate headline) on the earlier event:

How to Win the Losers’ Debate

How can you not feel a little bit sorry for Rick Perry? Arguably the most successful governor—certainly the longest serving—of a ... Read More >>

Rand Paul super PAC head indicted on 2012 campaign finance charges

Jesse Benton, a longtime ally of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) who heads a super PAC supporting his presidential campaign, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he concealed payments made to an Iowa state senator during Paul’s father’s 2012 presidential campaign in order to win support, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

The GOP debate: 5 things to watch

It’s one of the most anticipated Republican primary debates in decades, an unpredictable 10-way clash that includes a son and brother of presidents, three sitting senators, three sitting governors and one smash-mouth real estate mogul.

One by one, they crossed the stage to sit for a round of what amounted to presidential speed dating.

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders disagree on most issues, but the two presidential candidates have one thing in common: digital domination.

Another poll, another huge — and growing — Trump lead

It seems like only this morning that we were updating our “state of the debate” graphic and talking about how John Kasich was pretty secure in his position and how the center of gravity in the 2016 Republican race was Donald Trump in about every sense of the phrase. It seems like it was only this morning, because it was only this morning.

New Hampshire Voters First Forum: 5 takeaways

The candidate forum that drew 14 Republican presidential candidates to New Hampshire Monday night served as a practice round ahead of the first official GOP primary debate in Cleveland — and a chance for the candidates unlikely to qualify for Thursday’s prime-time event to stand on equal footing with the front-runners.