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A former top aide to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has formed a super political action committee to raise unlimited amounts of money to promote his likely 2016 presidential bid, documents filed with the Federal Election Commission show.

Keith Gilkes, a longtime adviser who ran the Republican’s 2010 campaign and served as a chief of staff, is listed on the documents as the group’s treasurer.

Lincoln Chafee is officially running for president. … Or is he?

Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island Governor who was a Republican and then an Independent and now a Democrat, announced on Thursday he is running for president.

Or did he?

Ted Cruz woos Orthodox Jews

Ted Cruz loves Orthodox Jews — and they love him back.

It’s a dynamic that allows the hard-line conservative presidential contender — a practicing Southern Baptist himself — to tap Orthodox donors more aggressively than any other 2016 candidate, as he zeros in on a small but potentially winnable slice of an otherwise deeply Democratic demographic.

Who is the GOP’s Strongest Candidate?

A couple weeks ago, one could see the stark contrast and difficult decision facing the Republican Party in the coming year. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was on a stage at Liberty University in Virginia, formally announcing his candidacy in front of 10,000 students at a well-orchestrated tent revival of sorts. Up in New Hampshire at about the same moment, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who has not announced his candidacy for president but seems to be getting closer and closer to doing so, was learning about the latest in 3-D printing research.

Hillary racks up endorsements for 2016

Ninety-nine lawmakers have endorsed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run for president, locking down over 40 percent of all Democrats in Congress, according to a survey by The Hill.

Seventy-one House lawmakers, more than one-third of the 188 Democrats in the chamber, as well as 28 senators, more than 60 percent of the upper chamber’s 46 Democrats, are in the former secretary of State’s camp.

Republican Carly Fiorina took a step closer to running for president, revealing Thursday that she is near a decision while blasting Hillary Clinton’s policies as “crushing the middle class.”