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Christie on track to get bumped from main stage at next GOP debate

It’s looking like Chris Christie may not make the prime-time debate stage at next week’s Fox Business Network/Wall Street Journal debate.

While Fox Business will not officially announce the lineup until Thursday, a new Fox News poll released late Wednesday puts the New Jersey governor at 2 percent.

A new WBUR poll in New Hampshire shows establishment outsiders Donald Trump and Ben Carson are still leading in the Republican primary race there, but some of the other candidates are making new headway.

Lawrence Lessig’s bid for the presidency is no more.

The Harvard Law professor and internet pioneer launched his campaign just after Labor Day, and from the start, it was clear that to call his bid quixotic was to sell Cervantes’ protagonist short.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s victory in the second Republican presidential debate has made him the most important figure in the race. For the first time, there’s a candidate that conservatives and the establishment alike believe they can support.

USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings: Rubio reigns, Christie climbs

A good night on the debate stage has put Marco Rubio on top of our GOP Power Rankings for the first time, and it gave Chris Christie his first taste of the top tier.

Poll: Ben Carson leads Republican presidential field in Oklahoma

Support for his positions on moral issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage help make Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson the top choice among Oklahoma GOP voters for now, new polling data says.

September’s Republican debate was sandwiched between two seminal announcements that shifted the entire topography of the Republican primary. Days before that debate, which aired on CNN, GOP stalwart Rick Perry announced he was suspending his candidacy for President after receiving little traction (he failed to even make the “prime time” debate).