Recent News

Frontrunner angst: Bush lead evaporates, Clinton favorability hits 7-year low

After five months of forums, fundraising appearances and trips to the early states, the 2016 Republican nomination contest is as unsettled as ever, with no candidate receiving more than 11 percent support and seven candidates all within three points of one another, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush sit atop crowded 2016 GOP field: poll

Sen. Marco Rubio sits atop a jumbled 2016 presidential field in a new poll on the race, with fellow Floridian and former Gov. Jeb Bush close behind but with less support than about a month ago.

Scott Walker has an edge on other Republican contenders in the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll, winning the backing of 17 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers in the Hawkeye State. By another metric—the “Selzer Score”—he jumps even higher.

Poll: Many Iowa Republicans say ‘never’ to Trump

Likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers are open to many candidates in the big GOP field, a new Iowa Poll shows, but a majority are writing off one potential candidate: Donald Trump.

National poll shows no clear GOP frontrunner

The Republican field for 2016 is growing increasingly top-heavy, with no clear front-runner emerging in the latest nationwide Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.

Chris Christie planning fresh primary state swing

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) will travel to five states next month as he moves closer to launching a presidential bid, according to an itinerary obtained by The Washington Post.

Included are June stops in Iowa and South Carolina, as well as three separate trips to New Hampshire, where Christie’s advisers believe his hawkish fiscal pitch and loquacious style at town-hall meetings could revive his wilting prospects.

Chris Christie doesn’t give speeches so much as engage in performance art. How he speaks is as much a part of his message as what he says. At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference on Friday, after explaining his plan to manage the growth of entitlements, the New Jersey governor said he knows that Social Security is a “third rail of American politics,” but that’s why he’s meddling with it. “I just grabbed it and hugged it, everybody, because that’s what leadership is.”