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Cruz wins statewide NC tea party caucus

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) won this weekend’s North Carolina Tea Party Constitutional Caucus with 51 percent support in the statewide voting.

“North Carolina is an important state for the Republican primary, and our campaign will continue to build our team in the Tar Heel state to ensure our campaign is competitive,” Cruz said in

Cruz, Carson wow evangelicals in Texas

The 2016 Republican primary detoured for a day beyond familiar Iowa and New Hampshire to a 7,000-capacity megachurch in the heart of Texas, where a half dozen candidates gathered to prove their Christian bona fides and to campaign for the hearts and votes of evangelicals.

Third-Quarter Fundraising Stratifies the Candidates

All the candidates for president have filed their fundraising reports for the third quarter with the Federal Election Commission, and the general view is that candidates have separated into three distinct categories: those raising enough money to mount credible campaigns in the early nominating contests as well as the later caucuses and primaries; those raising enough to fund one- or two-state campaigns in Iowa and/or New Hampshire and hoping to use early success in order to propel them into contention; ... Read More >>

Ben Carson, top GOP fundraiser this quarter, sees huge grass-roots support

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson raised $20 million during the third fundraising quarter, a staggering amount for the self-professed Washington outsider that not only places him at the front of the GOP fundraising pack but also puts a spotlight on his strong support among the grass roots.

Cash-rich Clinton towers over the GOP field

Republican and Democratic presidential candidates hauled in an enormous $144 million in the third quarter of 2015 but the vast majority of the money flowed into only a handful of campaigns, leaving the 2016 race distinctively stratified into the haves, the have-notes and the hopeless.

Ben Carson Spent More Than Two-Thirds of His Third-Quarter Haul

Republican Ben Carson’s campaign spent more than two-thirds of what it raised in the third quarter, with the bulk of its money spent on fundraising and digital marketing, the campaign said.

See who is likely to make the cut, and who’s on the bubble, for the next GOP debate.