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Associated PressOctober 27, 2015

Responding to Ben Carson‘s surge in Iowa, Donald Trump said Tuesday he’ll stick with the presidential race, even if he loses the luxury of running from atop the polls. “I’m in it to the end,” Trump said in a telephone interview with MSNBC. Asked whether he could stomach running from behind, the billionaire businessman who […]

Associated PressOctober 26, 2015

Former President George W. Bush on Monday assured top donors to his brother’s presidential campaign that Jeb Bush will be a “fierce competitor” in the 2016 race for the White House and argued his experience as Florida’s governor will ultimately win over voters. The idea that “experience matters” was the theme of an on-stage conversation […]

Associated PressOctober 26, 2015

Republican front-runner Donald Trump is widely unpopular among the nation’s Hispanics, a new AP-GfK poll finds, challenging the billionaire’s oft-repeated assertion that he will win the Hispanic vote if he becomes his party’s nominee. The survey finds many of the Republican candidates running for president would probably struggle to win significant support among Hispanics in […]

Associated PressOctober 26, 2015

The Seminole Tribe of Florida now is asking a federal judge to let it keep blackjack at its casinos across the state. Florida and the tribe signed a deal in 2010 but the provision that allows blackjack and other banked card games expires at the end of this month. The tribe is supposed to remove […]

Associated PressOctober 26, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has picked up the backing of a Texas billionaire and the state’s lieutenant governor, his campaign said Monday. Darwin Deason, a technology entrepreneur, and his son, Doug, had given millions of dollars to the 2016 efforts of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who ended his bid for the White House […]

Associated PressOctober 26, 2015

Ben Carson is the only 2016 candidate for president who has never led a state or company or run for political office. No matter, he says. Surely someone who can perform life-or-death surgeries can run the country. Carson challenged the medical status quo as a storied neurosurgeon — cutting out half of a child’s brain […]

Associated PressOctober 26, 2015

The outside political group supporting Jeb Bush’s bid for president with tens of millions of dollars in television advertising is considering placing organizing staff in Iowa and New Hampshire, a move that would follow the decision of his formal campaign to refocus its efforts on the two early-voting states. Senior advisers to the group tried […]

Associated PressOctober 25, 2015

Vice President Joe Biden says he decided against running for president because he “couldn’t win,” not because he would have had too little time to get a campaign up and running. “I’ll be very blunt. If I thought we could’ve put together the campaign … that our supporters deserve and our contributors deserved, … I […]

Associated PressOctober 25, 2015

Florida wildlife officials closed two regions after the first day of bear hunting after the areas met the limit on the number of bears allowed to be killed during the first statewide hunt in more than 20 years. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission closed the east Panhandle and central Florida region after 99 […]

Associated PressOctober 25, 2015

A huge majority of Republican voters prefer an outsider candidate to one with experience in Washington, and most see political rookies Donald Trump and Ben Carson as possible general election winners, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Carson tops the field as the most positively viewed candidate among Republicans, the poll shows. Some things to […]

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Donald Trump says he’ll stay in to win, even if running from behind

Jeb Bush gets tout from brother as campaign focuses on Marco Rubio

Jeb Bush, followed by Marco Rubio, fare best in GOP presidential field among Hispanics

Seminole Tribe sues state over blackjack

Ted Cruz adds billionaire backer to presidential campaign

Ben Carson: Can a man of great surgical skill lead a nation?

Jeb Bush super PAC considering staff for early voting states

Joe Biden opted out on 2016 Dem race because he ‘couldn’t win’

Officials lean toward shutting down controversial bear hunt

AP poll: Republicans prefer an outsider candidate