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Did Ben Carson’s super PAC really raise $5 million?
The 2016 Committee, a super PAC supporting retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s presidential campaign, claimed to have raised more than $5 million during the first six months of 2015. But paperwork compiled by the Federal Election Commission shows it failed to come within $1 million of that fundraising figure.
Read More >>Trump, Sanders crush rivals in social media engagement
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders disagree on most issues, but the two presidential candidates have one thing in common: digital domination.
Read More >>Another poll, another huge — and growing — Trump lead
It seems like only this morning that we were updating our “state of the debate” graphic and talking about how John Kasich was pretty secure in his position and how the center of gravity in the 2016 Republican race was Donald Trump in about every sense of the phrase. It seems like it was only this morning, because it was only this morning.
Read More >>State of the race 6 months before Iowa caucuses
To size up how Iowa-centric the candidates’ schedules are, the Republicans and Democrats are ranked in order of days spent in Iowa since the day after the 2012 election through Saturday.
Read More >>Hotline’s GOP Presidential Power Rankings: The Trump Card
Jeb Bush retakes the top spot for the GOP nomination once again in our August rankings, but not because he’s the candidate who has dominated the conversation since we last ranked the field in early June.
Read More >>14 GOP candidates not named Donald Trump will participate in the same event tonight. Here’s what to watch.
Fourteen of the 17 major Republican candidates for president plan to participate in a candidate forum in New Hampshire Monday night, giving voters an early glimpse of most of the packed field in the same setting.
Read More >>Marco Rubio, not Donald Trump, charms the ‘very conservative’
The “very conservative” Republican is a much coveted voting bloc among the GOP presidential hopefuls, who officially number 17 now that Jim Gilmore has declared his candidacy. Yes, yes — all the candidates aspire to win over New Hampshire and Iowa voters, that’s a given. But staunchly conservative GOPers are also at the top of the wish list.
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