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Less than a day since Sen. Ted Cruz jumped head first into the 2016 GOP presidential race, conservatives are fighting over his electability, with Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer’s rip that “we already tried a first-term senator” taking fire from the right.

Even Krauthammer’s fans took to Twitter and Facebook to criticize him for being too quick to write the Texas senator off before his campaign even got going and the early primary and caucus states had a chance to hear his message.

Gov. Bobby Jindal said he will make his decision on a possible presidential run at the end of June.

Jindal’s chief political adviser, Timmy Teepell, said the Republican governor wants to wait until the state legislative session ends in June before announcing a 2016 presidential bid.

John Kasich’s first presidential bid fell victim to the Bush family more than a decade ago.

On the eve of his first political appearance in New Hampshire since then, Ohio’s scrappy Republican governor knows history could repeat itself should he challenge former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in the GOP’s crowded 2016 field.

“Jeb’s a very formidable political person,” Kasich told The Associated Press before his visit. Will Kasich run anyway? “All options are on the table,” he said. “I am the governor of Ohio, and, you know, nobody gets to the White House until they go through Ohio.”

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will be the choice of New York Democrats for president if Hillary Clinton is forced out of the race by her State Department email scandal, a prominent Democrat has told The Post.

The well-known New York Democrat also said that Clinton’s email scandal had “knocked her off her pedestal,’’ and compared her attempts to restrict access to her official email correspondence to those made by disgraced President Richard M. Nixon during the 1970s Watergate scandal…

Rand Paul, reacting to Ted Cruz, talks ‘winnability’

Rand Paul on Monday, in his first extensive comments since Ted Cruz officially announced his presidential candidacy, made the case that he’s the electable Republican candidate.

The Kentucky senator, hours after his Senate colleague jumped into the presidential race, suggested his more inclusive vision for the Republican Party makes him a more appealing general-election candidate.

“Ted Cruz is a conservative. But it also goes to winnability,” Paul said on Fox News’ “The Kelly File.”

Ted Cruz: Hillary’s wrecking ball

Hillary Clinton’s embattled pre-campaign team breathed a sigh of relief Monday as a central player in their grand strategy to win the White House strode boldly onto the 2016 battlefield.

His name? Rafael Edward Cruz, the Republican junior senator from Texas.

Democrats from both inside and outside the Clinton camp have groused for months that the all-but-certain candidate was moving too slowly in formulating and projecting a rationale for running for the White House outside of her gender and the dreaded “it’s my time” argument. She was relying too much on a platform of inevitability, they said — the same platform that doomed her bid in 2008. But those closest to the former secretary of state have counseled patience, arguing that a core element of Clinton’s plan was to get out of the way and let the dueling wings of the Republican Party savage each other while she floats above it all.

Cruz, they say, is Hillary’s wrecking ball…

Andrew Cuomo, Fading Contender?

Politico has a fascinating article on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, excerpted from an upcoming book on him by Michael Shnayerson, ” The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography.” It’s a good read on the man some think might be the Democrats strongest contender in 2016 if Hillary Clinton decides not to run or stumbles early. The title of the article is more suggestive of the idea his prospects are fading than the excerpts, but there are some nuggets in there ... Read More >>