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Donald Trump, the national front-runner, keeps his big lead in two of the three early states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, but now Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has moved past Trump into a lead of his own in Iowa.

Mike Huckabee cuts salaries of senior staff

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign, struggling with its low standing in the polls and underwhelming fundraising, slashed the salaries of senior staffers amid the departure of its top communications aide.

ll right, with the last Republican presidential debate of 2015 tonight, we’re approaching a period when the Republican primary should really start to get going — when the field should start to consolidate. So to get a sense for how the dominoes may tumble, we’re going to play “Dropout Draft.”

Four presidential candidates whose combined national polling numbers are in the low single digits, gathered on a debate stage in Las Vegas on Tuesday night with seemingly little hope of breaking into the top tier as the first nominating contests of 2016 approach.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz got their first real head-to-head skirmishes in the final debate of 2015, and still nobody set a glove on Donald Trump who holds commanding leads in the national polls.

Marco Ru­bio, for the first time, has vaul­ted to first place in Hot­line‘s Re­pub­lic­an pres­id­en­tial power rank­ings—but it’s a spot he holds only by a hair.

Huckabee: Top aide’s departure doesn’t mean campaign in trouble

Mike Huckabee says that losing his top spokeswoman isn’t a sign of things to come, and he’s still all in on the 2016 campaign.

Earlier Monday, Huckabee’s communications chief, Alice Stewart, confirmed to POLITICO that she was “no longer” with the campaign and that another aide would be taking over her duties.