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Mitch PerryAugust 11, 2015

Donald Trump maintains a modest lead in Iowa in a new Suffolk University poll, but it claims the big winners from Thursday’s night GOP presidential debate are Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. Trump takes 16.6 percent support, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is next at 12 percent. Rubio is third at 9.6 percent, […]

Associated PressAugust 11, 2015

A former adviser who says he quit Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign is calling the billionaire real estate mogul the best bet to shake up a “broken” U.S. political system. Roger Stone says he resigned because he felt Trump was getting too distracted by marginal issues like his feud with Fox News personality Megyn Kelly. There […]

Guest AuthorAugust 10, 2015

Donald Trump wants it both ways: He wants to be brash and quotable and then when he’s asked about it, he wants to complain about the question and the questioner. Let me be honest: I’m not a Trump fan. I think he’s a single-issue candidate – immigration – that has gotten far because America is […]

Associated PressAugust 9, 2015

Donald Trump already slammed the president, the Democratic Party and his Republican rivals in the race for the White House, as well as immigrants from Mexico, the Chinese and Sen. John McCain for being a prisoner of war. To that fast-growing list he has now added Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly. The Republican Party […]

Mitch PerryAugust 8, 2015

Donald Trump is not backing down at all after being dis-invited to speak at tonight’s RedState gathering in Atlanta by organizer Eric Erickson. Erickson issued a statement around midnight on Fridaym saying that Trump was no longer invited to speak as the headliner for the second day of the conservative conference in Atlanta, which featured […]

Bob SparksAugust 6, 2015

The first debate among the top 10 Republican candidates is set for prime time on Thursday. Debate is not the right word. Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Scott Walker and other contenders will basically play to the base. Some will try to look presentable to independents at the same time. Most of us have […]

Mitch PerryAugust 4, 2015

The last national polls to be released before the first GOP presidential debate of the year takes place on Thursday are are in, and all have the same result: Donald Trump; leads in all four new polls out from CBS News, Fox, Monmouth University and Bloomberg. The CBS News poll is the latest, coming out at […]

Bob SparksJuly 30, 2015

President Donald Trump. Mr. Trump goes to Washington. How does that sound? He has become the rage a little over a month into his version of a campaign. Trump seems to have an attack line, along with a rapid response, for those among the 15 other candidates polling above 3 percent. The national media can’t […]

Phil AmmannJuly 23, 2015

As the first presidential debate approaches, staged by Fox News, 10 top-tier Republican candidates are sure to be asked at least a few tough questions. Hey, it could happen. One such hopeful is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who could face grilling on his inconsistencies over a government crackdown on online gambling – and how it […]

Peter SchorschJuly 21, 2015

Let’s get one thing straight. Donald Trump is not exactly Richard Holbrooke. He has somehow made even our own Alan Grayson seem mild-mannered and silver-tongued. And let’s also agree that his comments about John McCain’s military service were borderline insane. From a pragmatic political perspective, those words should have never been uttered because they will […]

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