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Carson: ‘I believe our country is on the precipice’

He speaks Spanish flawlessly, has personal ties to Central America, and raised his family in the diverse melting pot of South Florida, but Jeb Bush trails Hillary Clinton among Hispanic voters in a possible 2016 presidential match up, according to ABC News/Washington Post polling.

Gov. Chris Christie’s potential path to the Republican presidential nomination is “getting more narrow every day,” according to a new poll.

The nationwide Monmouth University poll of Republican voters released today found Christie near the back of the pack of well-known Republican candidates, and trailing several in hypothetical head-to-head match ups.

Sanders wows Austin: Watch out Hillary, here comes Bernie

Bernie Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont, was in Austin for a couple of days last week, the tail end of a trip that took him to Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas, to see if there is the interest out here in America for him to run for president in 2016.

Sanders would be a novel candidate for the Democratic nomination for president because, for starters, he is not a Democrat, though he caucuses with them in the Senate. He is, in fact, the longest serving Independent in congressional history.

Rand Paul’s power players

For the better part of two years, Rand Paul has been positioning himself for a bid for the White House, backed by a brain trust that began as a group of scrappy libertarian conservatives and has since expanded into a team of seasoned operatives. The Kentucky senator has packed his political arm, RANDPAC, with advisers from across the country, many of whom are expected to transition to the campaign. Here’s a look at Rand Paul’s power map.

A lot can happen between now and then, but barring something truly unprecedented and totally unforeseen — a meteorite, a Benghazi revelation, a health scare, or a Martin O’Malley groundswell — on July 28, 2016, Hillary Clinton will step onto a stage in Philadelphia. There, surrounded by red-white-and-blue bunting and balloons — as well as Bill, Chelsea, baby granddaughter Charlotte, and tens of thousands of screaming Democrats — she will officially become her party’s presidential nominee. It will be a long-awaited and historic moment, the first time a woman (and the second time a Clinton) has topped a major party’s presidential ticket. And already some Republicans are licking their chops, while some Democrats are experiencing pangs of buyer’s remorse.

Rand Paul seems to stray from libertarian roots as he courts GOP base

When the presidential buzz began building around Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) a couple of years ago, the expectation was that his libertarian ideas could make him the most unusual and intriguing voice among the major contenders in the 2016 field.

But now, as he prepares to make his formal announcement Tuesday, Paul is a candidate who has turned fuzzy, having trimmed his positions and rhetoric so much that it’s unclear what kind of Republican he will present himself as when he takes the stage.