Sep 16, 2015 – To me the Jeb Bush candidacy is the GOP mirror image of the Hillary Clinton candidacy. … presidential debate, billionaire developer Donald Trump is riding Republican voters’ wave of anti-establishment preference, polling … The rest of the GOP candidates fell below the poll’s margin of error.…

Sep 16, 2015 – With the CNN debate being held in the Reagan Presidential Library tonight, expect the Reagan comparisons by the Trump campaign and … grew up and identified as a Democrat, and talked extensively about how the Democrat party left him, leading to his defection to the GOP … Reagan’s introduction to politics came during the 1964 Presidential campaign, during which he campaigned prominently for the doomed…

Sep 15, 2015 – Promoted from the diaries by Leon… Normally, I detest those debate questions that ask the candidates for either a show of hands … However, Bret Baier’s first question at the FOX debate, “Will you promise to support the eventual nominee and NOT run as an independent … The GOP candidates debate this coming Wednesday, and here’s hoping that Jake Tapper follows Baier’s example, and starts off with a…

Sep 10, 2015 – Rand Paul (R-KY)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’P000603′ ] has become the latest GOP Presidential contender to throw a last-minute Hail Mary … in a desperate plea to reinject themselves as a relevant force into the GOP Presidential debate. … This year, though, was supposed to be a breakout year for GOP Presidential candidates.…

Sep 9, 2015 – One of the irritating things about the way the other GOP frontrunners have dealt with Trump is that they have interpreted Trump … Carson has been gaining on Trump, the GOP frontrunner, in recent polls. … And that’s really the most refreshing position of all, when it comes to this particular debate.…

Sep 25, 2015 – Fiorina’s speech was the only Presidential speech at the RedState Gathering that my daughter wanted to hear. She’s a big fan. … In fact, Fiorina’s 2016 Presidential campaign has been very impressive and she has been sharp. … In the 2010 California Senate debate between [mc_name name=’Sen.…

Sep 23, 2015 – GOP Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has decided he’s done with Fox News. Again. I know this because it was on Twitter. . …   victor in the Republican primaries, but he wanted to be sure he would be treated fairly by the GOP first.  … Get on with your campaign if you’re serious about a presidential run. If not, quit wasting everyone’s time.  …

Sep 22, 2015 – while the role of immigration in the voting patterns of Hispanic voters tends to be overstated, there is undoubtedly a risk that a GOP … That’s especially a potential lost opportunity for Rubio, who would be the first Hispanic presidential nominee (as would [mc_name name … In a televised debate in late October, he stated: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?…

Sep 20, 2015 – Republican presidential candidate, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, makes a point during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the … Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Simi Valley, Calif. … Terrill) In the second GOP debate the subject of Planned Parenthood and its baby harvesting operation came up.…

Sep 20, 2015 – In the first poll released after the Simi Valley GOP candidate debate, Carly Fiorina has catapulted to second place behind Donald … Trump: Carly Fiorina has rocketed into second place in the Republican presidential field on the heels another strong debate and Donald … The survey, conducted the three days after 23 million people tuned in to Wednesday night’s GOP debate on CNN, shows that Trump is still…

Sep 18, 2015 – That is the number of people who have watched a Republican Presidential debate to the number of people who have watched a Democrat … Presidential debate. … Either way, at minimum 25 million Americans have seen Republicans debate issues, disagree, and have a Presidential primary process.…

Oct 6, 2015 – I don’t think that this Simon Rosenberg fellow is exactly surprised about this: 1/7 days out fr 1st Dem debate, still no emails, … DNC sent me many emails asking me to watch GOP debates. … Governors: Always the go-to for Presidential candidates, and there’s a slate there.…

Sep 30, 2015 – Candy Crowley intervened in a presidential debate between Romney and Obama to correct, falsely as it turned out, Romney. … The headline from The Hill reads: GOP: Planned Parenthood wasted millions on ‘lavish’ travel, parties Nice use of scare quotes…

Sep 28, 2015 – Fiorina has been taking heat in recent weeks for her comments about Planned Parenthood during the second GOP debate, where she addressed … At the debate, Fiorina said those videos show an aborted fetus kept alive to “harvest its brain.” … Ever since the debate, Fiorina has defended her debate statement and in doing so has allayed a lot of the queasiness many pro-life…

Oct 15, 2015 – The antics of the GOP frontrunner on that subject have thrown the legacy media into a combination of discomfiture and elation. … Even though American Politics is becoming more and more like entertainment, we can’t have reality TV stars turn presidential candidate … At our Politicon debate, Coulter also argued that illegal immigration is tolerated because the Democrats need voters and businesses…

Oct 15, 2015 – At the first sign of some sputtering from the presidential campaign of “libertarian-ish” [mc_name name=’Sen. … The fact that two high-profile candidates for the GOP nomination are investing time and resources to court the liberty vote shows that … the rise of ISIS and President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, libertarian foreign policy ideals have fallen out of favor with the GOP…

Oct 15, 2015 – “Go home to Kentucky, Senator, and save your Senate seat before Kentucky’s voters take the incompetence of your Presidential campaign … What is the most endearing moment of Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign is also the most embarrassing. … But he has failed to get traction on any of those issues, has failed to stand out on any debate stage except to look stoned or serve…

Oct 14, 2015 – And, he bragged on a Democratic debate stage in Las Vegas, Nevada, about killing an enemy combatant – and a communist to boot. … David Harsanyi at The Federalist puts it like this: Now, Webb would be far more conservative than the GOP frontrunner, but his moderate … Webb is a presidential candidate for the party that nominated and elected JFK. Imagine if that Democratic Party was around today.…

Oct 13, 2015 – One would expect that CNN having conducted the GOP debate in a cage-match fashion that they would do the same for the Democrats. … CNN’s Anderson Cooper will moderate the first Democratic presidential debate this week, and unlike the previous Republican debate hosted … The second reason is to try to contrast the GOP debates, which have become heated at points, with a Democrat debate that is very polite…

Oct 8, 2015 – The GOP race is unexpected both in who inhabits the frontrunner’s space and which candidates have already bowed out. … The former secretary of state is scheduled to testify later this month before the GOP-led House Benghazi committee, where she will … On October 13, the first Democratic presidential debate will be held.…

Nov 15, 2022 – But it looks like questioning the result of the 2020 presidential election was an issue that negatively affected Republicans in the … Of the estimated 200 candidates who denied the result of the presidential election, about 22 of them won their races, according to … This debate will need to be settled if Republicans wish to have a hope of winning control of the White House.…

Nov 14, 2022 – The internet is flooded these days with posts like this: *NEW COLUMN* It’s time for the GOP to dump Trump the Grump, and go with … He very well may have lost the presidency in that first awful debate with eventual winner Sleepy Joe Biden, where Trump came off as … At the end of the day, however, I believe in American meritocracy, so whoever wants to throw their hat into the presidential primary…

Dec 9, 2022 – Seven GOP Congressmen disillusioned by Kevin McCarthy’s leadership on Friday released an open letter, addressed to “Dear Colleague, … “As we form the 118th Congress,” the letter begins, “any GOP Speaker candidate must make clear he or she will advance rules, policies … Incidentally, loyalists of “a certain GOP faction” glommed onto the “uniparty” label faster than Michael Moore grabbing a McDonald’…

Jan 5, 2023 – Obviously, this thing has to end somewhere — with hard feelings on both sides of the GOP internecine war presumably even more bitter … about what the battle itself portends for the broader fight to come, which will begin in earnest this spring as the race for the GOP … presidential nominee begins to heat up?…

Jan 10, 2023 – During the debate on the resolution establishing the Weaponization Subcommittee, defenestrated House Intelligence Committee Chairman … committee can use its expansive authorities to protect Donald Trump, those who perpetrated fake elector schemes to overturn the 2020 presidential … This is an attack on the Federal government’s credibility (see Ex-GOP Lawmaker Says House Investigations of FBI, CIA Will ‘Shred the…