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Republicans see opportunities with a changing – and skeptical – black electorate
Cleveland was no place to be a Republican on Nov. 6, 2012. It started out well: The Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan presidential ticket made a surprise Election Day fly-in, thanks to internal polling that had the campaign thinking that it would take Ohio, and the White House. Then the votes came in, and Rob Frost, chairman of the Cuyahoga County Republican Party, watched precinct after precinct build President Obama’s lead. The historic lines of black voters, bent around city blocks, had made the difference.
Read More >>Kasich in, Perry out, and Trump Trump Trump: The latest on next week’s debate
Congratulations to Governor John; sorry about your luck Governor Rick. With the release of new national poll numbers from Quinnipiac University this morning, we have a new top 10 — the threshold for a slot in next week’s first GOP debate — for only the second time since May.
Read More >>Ben Carson faces high stakes at first debate
Ben Carson on Wednesday bought the suit he’ll wear to the first Republican debate.
The Hill gained exclusive access to Carson on a whirlwind morning trip through Washington, where he met with editorial boards, spoke to congressional lawmakers, cleaned out his old office at Johns Hopkins and was fitted for the suit he’ll wear on Aug. 6, when much of the nation will be introduced to him for the first time.
Read More >>Decisive debate polls set for release
The fight to get on stage at next week’s Fox News Channel Republican presidential debate is about to become a lot clearer.
Read More >>Trump’s rise hurts Rubio, Carson; helps Jeb Bush
Donald Trump’s explosive rise in the polls has come at the expense of every other GOP presidential candidate except for Jeb Bush and Scott Walker — who arguably have been helped by the businessman’s rise.
Read More >>Crowded Field of Dreams
Some 20 minutes after an appearance at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, that would dominate the news in the coming days, Donald Trump walked into the industrial-looking basement area designated for press conferences, surrounded by tough-looking men in slick business suits, ostensibly there to provide security but whose real role, one suspects, was to make the man they were following feel important. A wooden podium faced nearly a dozen television cameras and twice as many journalists, all arrayed in a semicircle about 10 feet away.
Read More >>Candidates Scramble to Make Republican Debates
The first Republican debate will be held on Aug. 6 in Cleveland. Because only the top 10 candidates according to national polls will be on stage, six candidates and possibly seven (if Jim Gilmore enters the race by that date) will likely miss the cutoff. (“Likely” because in the event of a tie for 10th place, the tied candidates will be allowed on stage.)
Politico has an interesting article on several of the candidates who could be excluded from the first ... Read More >>