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Religious right doesn’t hand Trump a win but gives him a chance at Values Voter Summit

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump walked into the weekend’s Values Voter Summit with a Bible in hand and walked out the fifth-place choice in the annual gathering’s straw poll, underscoring just how much of a tough sell the billionaire businessman has in winning over the party’s influential religious conservative voters.

Poll: Carson ties Trump, Biden draws from Clinton

As Vice President Joe Biden considers a potential presidential campaign, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday shows a Biden candidacy would draw support away from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Presidential campaigns test new organizing models in Iowa

Carly Fiorina isn’t the only GOP presidential contender who’s testing new models for how to use super PACs to carry out some of the more expensive tasks of campaigning in Iowa.

The departure of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker from the 2016 presidential campaign helps to answer the question of who won’t win the GOP nomination, but with 15 candidates remaining, it’s a challenge to get a good feel for where the race stands now and where it might go from here.

The New York Times helps to clarify the issue with its look at who it believes is winning at the moment, developed by looking at ... Read More >>

The top 10 GOP candidates for president, ranked

The last time I ranked the 10 people most likely to wind up as the Republican presidential nominee this year, I had Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as the third-best bet to be the GOP standard-bearer. That was Aug. 2. On Sept. 21, Walker dropped out of the race, registering as a literal asterisk in his final poll as a candidate.

None of the three outsiders leading the Republican presidential race — Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina — are likely to win the nomination, and if they do, the GOP is likely to lose in 2016 in colossal fashion, according to the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.

Despite a debate performance last week that some analysts described as lackluster, Donald J. Trump is holding on to his lead in the field of Republican presidential candidates, according to two polls released on Thursday.