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Scott Walker says he can follow Reagan’s lead on foreign policy

White House hopeful Scott Walker said he won’t stray from his much-questioned approach of avoiding sharp, substantive talk on foreign affairs during his tours of Western Europe next week and Israel next month.

Marco Rubio gets a super PAC

Add Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to the list of Republican presidential hopefuls set to benefit from a super PAC.

Conservative Solutions PAC is launching on Thursday and will be led by J. Warren Tompkins, a longtime Republican operative. It will be staffed with a slate of veterans from major campaigns.

All in for Warren, liberals lack a Plan B

The “Run Warren Run” campaign’s devotion to Sen. Elizabeth Warren could prevent its growing network of liberal grass-roots activists from rallying behind another Democratic presidential candidate if the Massachusetts freshman senator sticks to her refusal to run, the group’s leaders said Wednesday.

In 2008, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the critical Iowa Republican caucuses by rallying the support of evangelical conservatives. The former pastor-turned-politician was out-financed by establishment candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney, but he nevertheless made a strong second-place showing in 2008, thanks to his standing among social conservatives.

If Huckabee makes a second bid for the presidency, as he has hinted he might, he’ll benefit from the base of support he built in Iowa eight years earlier. He can’t, however, take their support for granted.

Watch out Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul is gaining on you.

According to a new Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll, former secretary of state and likely 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has seen her lead in three swing states slowly slip away to potential Republican nominees.

Sen. Rand Paul raised a lot of eyebrows Tuesday when, in his speech announcing his presidential candidacy, he declared: “I see an America where criminal justice is applied equally and any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed.”

Christie Losing New Jersey Support?

Candidates for President typically count on strong support from their home state and like to point to their accomplishments and high approval levels as evidence they would be the best nominee for their party. It looks like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie may have trouble in this regard, according to a new poll reported here by Watchdog.org:

New Jersey voters flee as Christie chases White House

As Chris Christie applies for a job in the White House, he may want to think ... Read More >>