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Associated PressJanuary 21, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday there’s nothing wrong with a little deal-making to get things done. “You know what? There’s a point at which: Let’s get to be a little establishment,” Trump told about 1,500 people at a rally at the Las Vegas South Point Resort and Casino. “We’ve got to get things […]

Associated PressJanuary 19, 2016

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump received a key endorsement from conservative heavyweight Sarah Palin, Tuesday. The former Alaska governor, and former running mate of Sen. John McCain in the 2008 presidential race, endorsed the billionaire businessman, Trump’s campaign said in a statement, noting that he is “honored” by the endorsement. The endorsement comes less than […]

Associated PressJanuary 15, 2016

Ted Cruz has said that after working on George W. Bush‘s 2000 campaign, being passed over for a senior position with the new administration was “a crushing blow.” Turns out, it was his own fault. Cruz was offered a job as White House associate counsel shortly after Al Gore conceded the race in December, but […]

Associated PressJanuary 13, 2016

Chris Christie is pressing people in New Hampshire to avoid voting for a first-time senator in the coming presidential primary as he holds out Barack Obama as an example of what can happen when they do. “The U.S. Senate is like school,” he told a packed firehouse Wednesday. “They tell you where to go, what […]

Associated PressJanuary 13, 2016

Jeb Bush says he misjudged the intensity of anger among Republican voters before his White House campaign and believes the country in 2016 is “dramatically different” than in past elections. Yet he insists he’s still a viable candidate, and one who has broadened his mission to include defending conservativism from GOP front-runner Donald Trump. “I […]

Associated PressJanuary 13, 2016

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says she’s open to the idea of being the running mate to the Republican nominee for president. Speaking on NBC’s “Today” Wednesday, Haley said she’s willing to have a conversation about running as vice president once a nominee is selected. “If a candidate wanted to sit down and talk, I […]

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2016

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are fighting for the favor of many of the same undecided voters across Iowa, where even some of the most attentive Republicans say they can’t make up their minds less than four weeks before voting begins. That was so among Iowans who gathered before sunrise to hear Rubio at a […]

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s campaign has issued 20,000 tickets for an event at a Burlington, Vermont, venue that has only 1,400 seats, city police said Wednesday. Police Chief Brandon del Pozo acknowledged that those numbers, plus expected protesters, could be a public safety issue. If a rock group sold that many tickets to the […]

Associated PressJanuary 6, 2016

It seems like only yesterday that skeptics of Barack Obama‘s birth in Hawaii rushed to the Supreme Court to try to block the son of an American mother and Kenyan father from taking office as president. The justices turned away those challenges as fast as they arrived at the courthouse door, much as lower courts […]

Ryan RayJanuary 6, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott says he won’t endorse in the 2016 GOP presidential contest, but he did come out Wednesday morning with kind words for Donald Trump. In an op-ed piece for USA Today, Scott said he feels affinities for the New York real estate mogul, comparing Trump’s “nontraditional” run for the White House to his own outsider campaign […]

Donald Trump: “A little establishment” doesn’t hurt

Donald Trump receives key endorsement from Sarah Palin

Ted Cruz rejected George W. Bush White House job offer

Chris Christie warns voters: Don’t elect a first-term senator

Jeb Bush sees conservatism at stake in 2016

Nikki Haley says she’s willing to discuss possible VP run

A Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio battle over undecided Iowans intensifies

Police say Donald Trump issues 20K tickets for 1,400-seat Vermont venue

Ted Cruz’s birth in Canada unlikely to cloud run for president

Rick Scott: Fellow outsider Donald Trump “has America’s pulse”