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Carson closing in on Trump in the polls
Ben Carson is drawing ever closer to Donald Trump among likely Republican primary voters, according to the results of the latest Fox News poll released Tuesday evening.
Read More >>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.
Read More >>Pataki focusing his campaign efforts on New Hampshire
CBS/NYT Poll: GOP race - Donald Trump maintains lead, but Ben Carson gains
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.
Read More >>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.
Read More >>How the GOP gets to the final four
With the Governors Club members Scott Walker and Rick Perry gone, the bloated Republican presidential field is showing the inevitable signs of radical shrinkage by year’s end, with donors’ reluctance to bet on long shots.
Read More >>Poll: Carson ties Trump, Biden draws from Clinton
As Vice President Joe Biden considers a potential presidential campaign, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday shows a Biden candidacy would draw support away from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.