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USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings: Cruz rises, Fiorina falls

Watch out, Donald Trump — Ted Cruz is sneaking up on you.

Political experts in our weekly ranking of the Republican candidates have seen a gradual rise for the Texas senator, moving him from 6th place last week to 4th place this week.

USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings: Trump back on top

Perhaps the reports of Donald Trump’s collapse were premature.

The Donald returns to the top spot in our Power Rankings this week.

Jindal Proposes Tax Reforms

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal today released his tax reform plan. As reported by The Advocate:

Bobby Jindal’s national tax plan would make all Americans pay, eliminate corporate income tax

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is offering up a national tax plan that would eliminate the corporate income tax and make all Americans pay federal income taxes.

Jindal’s plan, which he unveiled while campaigning for president in Iowa on Wednesday, calls for people to be divided into three tax brackets — the lowest at ... Read More >>

No consensus candidate for Iowa Latinos

The 2016 field of presidential contenders still has work ahead if one candidate, Democrat or Republican, hopes to emerge as a premier choice of Latino voters in Iowa.

Bobby Jindal is still talking when they turn off the lights at the Celebration Farm. It is two and a half hours after his town hall started, and he has finally finished chatting with the very last of the attendees who hung around to meet him one-on-one.

At 27 percent, nationally Donald Trump maintains his frontrunner status among Republican primary voters, but Ben Carson is now closely behind him. Carson’s support has risen significantly since early August, when he polled at six percent. Carson is now at 23 percent, putting him in second place.

Pollsters: Don’t trust us to winnow GOP field

Pollsters surveyed by POLITICO have a unanimous warning for the Republican National Committee and the TV networks who are using public-opinion surveys to exclude presidential candidates from debates: Don’t trust polls to detect often-tiny grades of opinion in a giant field.