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No one will blame you if you can’t keep track of the Republican presidential field. It’s huge. If you count declared candidates, prospectives, and announced aspirants, you have 18 people from across the Republican ideological spectrum: Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum, Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. John Kasich, Gov. Rick Snyder, Gov. Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, Rick Perry, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. The field is so large that news networks have put limits on who can join the debates. Fox News, for example, will invite only candidates who placed in the top 10 of an average of national polls. Likewise, CNN will hold two debates: one for top-tier candidates, and one for the bottom tier. (One possible effect of this? Underdog candidates will pull every stunt they can to get onstage.)

Fiorina Expands Iowa Team By Adding Christopher Rants

The expansive list of 2016 Republican presidential candidates continues to grow. The latest addition, Carly Fiorina, provides the GOP field with something a little different, as Fiorina is likely to be the only major female candidate in 2016. Fiorina was in West Des Moines on Friday to speak at the Dallas County GOP’s speaker series.

Should Bush Fight for Iowa?

The POLITICO Caucus is chock-full of interesting insights from leading Iowa and New Hampshire political insiders on the 2016 nomination contests. Leading off, whether Jeb Bush should compete strongly in the Iowa Caucuses:

Insiders say Bush shouldn’t ignore Iowa

Jeb Bush’s failure to invest time in Iowa is the main explanation for his seventh-place finish in the latest poll of likely Republican caucusgoers.

The POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan pulse-taking of the most important activists, operatives and elected officials in Iowa and New ... Read More >>

Carly Fiorina officially entered the 2016 presidential race on Monday, but really she’s been running since late 2014. And in that time she’s managed to be everywhere without bringing disaster to her campaign. She’s responded to tough questions with clever answers and, on Monday night, showed that she could troll with the best of them.

That Carly Fiorina isn’t being summarily dismissed is a testament to her surprising political strength and value in a presidential contest set to feature the first woman at the top of the ticket.

Maybe his last name isn’t such a liability, after all.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush leads the GOP presidential field according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll. Bush was the first pick of 23 percent of the 251 Republican primary voters surveyed.

For Carson and Fiorina, the trick will be going from spoiler to contender

Before they got into politics, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina excelled in widely different fields: medicine for Carson, the computer business for Fiorina. But as presidential candidates, they have both been defined — and limited — by the same set of skills.