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Matt Gaetz Was Dedicated To Being Trump’s Shield In The Mueller Investigation. So What Does He Do Now?
"I don’t know how I’d fit into this place in the absence of the president," the Florida congressman told BuzzFeed News. → Read More
Beto O’Rourke Is The Texan Everyone Is Talking About. The Other Texan Thinks He Will Still Be A Frontrunner.
“If the election were held tomorrow, I know that I wouldn’t win tomorrow,” Julián Castro says. “But the election’s not tomorrow.” → Read More
Tulsi Gabbard’s Team Is Talking To LGBT Groups About Her Past Anti-Gay Comments
Gabbard’s minimal public engagement with the controversy since saying she would run for president has left some Democrats baffled. → Read More
Tulsi Gabbard Says She Has Decided To Run For President
The Hawaii Democrat will be one of the youngest candidates in what could be a large 2020 primary field. → Read More
Trump May Want To Oust Some Republicans In 2018, But It Won’t Be Easy
The president continues to make explicit threats to House conservatives who defy him that he will put up primary challengers to beat them in 2018. But ousting incumbents in safe districts is diffic... → Read More
Donald Trump Doesn't Win Anymore
"The closer" blew it. → Read More
Republicans Just Gave Up On Their Health Care Bill
Republican leadership abruptly cancelled the vote, after "the president asked the speaker to pull the bill," a leadership aide told reporters. → Read More
Houston Republican Debate: Marco Rubio & Ted Cruz Attack Donald Trump
Houston — It had only happened once before in this GOP primary season, but Thursday night it happened repeatedly: Donald Trump was bested in a debate confrontation. “Today, we saw a report in one of the newspapers that, Donald, you’ve hired a significant number of people from other countries to take jobs that Americans could have filled,” Marco Rubio, standing to Trump’s right, said just minutes… → Read More
The Strangest Moments of Jeb and Barbara Bush's Derry Town Hall
Derry, N.H. — “I really didn’t plan on this,” Barbara Bush said, introducing her son Jeb Bush to the crowd gathered for a town hall at a middle school here. It was the first time the matriarch of the Bush family has hit the trail with her son since he announced his presidential bid, and her appearance — played in by the Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann” — comes as he is looking to reverse his fading… → Read More
Marco Rubio's Iowa Comeback
Des Moines — It’s all relative. That’s been the operating theory of Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign, which has confounded both political analysts and the press. And yet Rubio’s team has been firm in its belief that, by under-promising and over-delivering, it can generate the sort of excitement, energy, and yes, actual delegates needed to capture the Republican nomination. They even thought… → Read More
Final DMR/Bloomberg Poll: Trump Holds His Lead
Des Moines, Iowa — Forty-eight hours before the Iowa caucuses, the final Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll finds Donald Trump holding onto his first place spot, with Ted Cruz taking second, and Marco Rubio in a distant third. The poll, widely respected as the most accurate in the state, has Trump leading with 28 percent support, followed by Cruz with 23 percent. Rubio, despite rumblings of a… → Read More
Trump's Campaign Asks Rod Blum to Introduce Him at Iowa Event
Dubuque, Iowa — Donald Trump’s campaign has asked Iowa representative Rod Blum to introduce him at an as-yet-unannounced event here, National Review has learned. Blum has not endorsed, and tells NR he has no intention to. “I’ve campaigned with almost all of them, I’ve been on stage with almost all of of them, and I’ll introduce all of them. But I’m not going to endorse anyone,” Blum says after… → Read More
Chris Christie Charms Iowa Skeptics
Spend some time with Chris Christie and it's easy to see how he's gone from being a man who missed his moment to a serious contender for the establishment mantle. → Read More
Cruz vs. Rubio: An Immigration Confrontation
The immigration wars that bitterly divided the GOP in 2007 and 2013 have made their way, as it was inevitable they would, into the 2016 Republican primary. An argument that began in a measured way during Tuesday evening’s debate in Milwaukee carried over onto the campaign trail Thursday, with an intense back-and-forth between Florida senator Marco Rubio and Texas senator Ted Cruz, the candidates… → Read More
Milwaukee Republican Debate: Five Storylines to Watch
The GOP presidential hopefuls will descend on Milwaukee tonight for a fourth pair of debates, this time hosted by Fox Business. Just two weeks have passed since the candidates last debated in Boulder, Colo., a short turnaround that has left little time for any candidate to alter the narratives that emerged from that face-off. But with a new front-runner, a new lineup of candidates, and a new… → Read More
Joe Pounder Joins Marco Rubio Campaign: GOP Oppo-Research Ace to Help Florida Senator
Joe Pounder, a well-respected GOP operative, is joining Marco Rubio’s campaign as a senior advisor, in a late-season coup for the Florida senator. Pounder currently serves as president of America Rising, the GOP opposition-research group he helped found with Matt Rhoades, who served as Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign manager, and Tim Miller, who is now Jeb Bush’s communications director. He will… → Read More
House Speaker Paul Ryan?
The only Republican who does not want Paul Ryan to become the next House speaker, it seems, is Paul Ryan. But the former vice-presidential nominee and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee may be changing his mind. After issuing a statement immediately following House majority leader Kevin McCarthy’s withdrawal from the race reiterating that he will not seek the job, multiple sources tell… → Read More
House Speaker Race: Paul Ryan Courted by Republicans after McCarthy Drops Out
House Republicans want Paul Ryan to be speaker. The question is whether he can be convinced to take the job. After Kevin McCarthy unexpectedly dropped out of the race to replace John Boehner this afternoon in the face of conservative opposition, speculation was rife in a discombobulated Republican conference as to who might jump into the race. The biggest issue, most representatives agreed, was… → Read More
John Kasich: Medicaid Expansion Is Type of Policy that Could Reduce Mass Shootings
John Kasich pointed to his controversial expansion of Medicaid in Ohio today as an example of the type of action government can take to prevent mass shootings. “Look, part of the reason I expanded Medicaid is so people can get help, so that people can get some help at the community level.” Kasich said Tuesday when asked about the role of government in preventing gun violence. “Yeah, I think it’s… → Read More
Donald Trump to Veterans: I Will Fix Your Healthcare, Build Up Military
by Alexis Levinson September 15, 2015 11:01 PM Los Angeles — In a speech here Tuesday evening, Donald Trump promised that he would dismantle and fix the system by which veterans receive health care. Trump spoke aboard the USS Iowa, a decommissioned battleship used in World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War that now serves as a museum at the Port of Los Angeles. He was there at the… → Read More