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The Republican Primary Dropout Draft
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.”
Read More >>7 Moments That Mattered at the 5th Republican Undercard Presidential Debate
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.
Read More >>December debate leaves Trump, Cruz, Rubio as clear front-running trio
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.
Read More >>Santorum super PAC ad warns ‘WWIII is upon us’
The super PAC supporting Rick Santorum has a warning: “World War III is upon us.”
That message comes in the form of a radio ad from the pro-Santorum Working Again PAC, which is beginning to air the spot statewide in Iowa this week.
Read More >>Tuesday’s GOP debate: No prime time for Huckabee, Santorum, Pataki, Graham
CNN is inviting Gov. Chris Christie back to prime-time in the upcoming Republican presidential debate.
The New Jersey governor, who had been dropped from the main stage during the last debate, is one of nine Republican presidential candidates to qualify for the network’s prime-time event on Tuesday. Also among them: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who was “on the bubble” of qualifying late last week, the network said.
Read More >>Only Pataki fails to submit signatures for Virginia primary
All of the top Republican and Democratic presidential candidates appear to have fulfilled the requirements to appear on the Virginia primary ballot, avoiding a replay of the 2012 election when several failed to qualify.
Read More >>Paul May Not Qualify for Main Debate Stage
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is in danger of missing the cutoff for the main stage of the next Republican debate, according to Politico:
Rand Paul could be booted from main debate stage
Rand Paul, once considered the main contender for the anti-establishment GOP vote, will likely be pushed off the debate stage next week when CNN announces the lineup for the fifth Republican forum…. (To qualify for the main debate, a candidate must average at least 3.5 percent nationally or 4 percent ... Read More >>