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The debate over religious liberty in Indiana spilled over into Iowa Thursday as four presidential hopefuls pledged to defend the rights of parents who home-school their children to worship as they choose and educate their children as they wish.

Rick Santorum sets up ‘testing the waters’ account ahead of possible 2016 W.H. bid

Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has set up a “testing the waters” account in a clear step toward another run at the White House in 2016.

The account will allow Mr. Santorum to raise money to travel around the country as he weighs support for another run in 2016. He also has a nonprofit group called Patriot Voices and a political action committee with the same name.

Round one in the battle of anti-Establishment Republican presidential candidates goes to Sen. Ted Cruz.

In competition for the Tea Party’s vote in 2016, the Texas Republican has bested Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky with a campaign rollout that GOP strategists say exceeded expectations and was almost flawlessly executed. Announcing for president two weeks later, Paul accomplished nearly the opposite, forcing a swift recalculation about which candidate is best positioned to win over the party’s insurgent wing and vie for the nomination.

Ted Cruz has hit pay dirt — and he might have Jeb Bush to thank.

In his first week as a presidential candidate, the Texas senator raked in more than $4 million for his campaign account, including $1.5 million from major donors, and he has already brought in hundreds of thousands more dollars since. A herd of super PACs supporting Cruz brought in another $31 million, Bloomberg reported Wednesday — an eye-popping sum that has stunned more than a few competing Republicans.

O’Malley aiming for late May announcement on ‘colossal undertaking’

With the announcement of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid close at hand, one of her potential Democratic rivals, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, says it could be late May before he shares his decision about moving forward.

Why a Political Chameleon From Rhode Island Thinks He Can Beat Hillary Clinton

Lincoln Chafee is a soft-spoken, party-switching Rhode Island Democrat. And he thinks he deserves the Democratic nomination for president in 2016 more than Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Chafee says he plans to distinguish himself from other Democrats in the race, whether Clinton or another challenger, by touting his foreign policy worldview. When he was in Congress, he was one of 23 senators who voted against the Iraq War—and the only Republican senator to do so. He says Clinton’s yea vote should disqualify her from receiving the Democratic nomination.

Jeb Bush Can’t Be Nominated. Or Can He?

There are plenty of reasons to believe Jeb Bush, the former two-term governor of Florida, son of a former president and brother of another former president, cannot win the 2016 Republican nomination.

The problem for those of us who report on and analyze elections dispassionately is there are also plenty of reasons why Bush can and will win the GOP nomination. The tricky part is trying to figure out how decisive and predictive is each reason, positive and negative.