Feb 5, 2016 – The first real primary of this presidential campaign is next Tuesday in a frozen Third World wasteland New Hampshire. … Trend Line To me there a few takeaways from this: First, all of these polls were taken after the January 28 GOP debate and, to the … The point being that he might have been hurt in Iowa by Iowans feeling that he’d dumped on them, personally, but the “afraid to debate…

Feb 5, 2016 – As I noted in Part I, it is mostly a myth that the GOP has repeatedly nominated moderate losers in presidential contests because voters … Since the start of presidential primaries in 1976, every winner of the Florida primary has won the GOP nomination, every GOP candidate … Pennsylvania Pennsylvania remains the Great White Whale of GOP presidential politics, with Romney getting close to his national vote…

Feb 2, 2016 – The combined strength of the top three bodes very well for the GOP winning Iowa’s 6 electoral votes in November, as it has looked like … Some of Trump’s loss was due to arrogant missteps – bailing on the last debate, underinvesting in GOTV. … Overall, of the 17 major GOP candidates, 9 have a decade or more of experience in elective office, and 6 of those have dropped out,…

Feb 19, 2016 – Most national polls, and the Real Clear Politics average for the South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary show Trump with a double-digit … Journal/NBC/Marist poll in South Carolina was conducted Feb. 15-17, after Trump’s abysmal performance during the CBS South Carolina GOP … Debate.…

Feb 15, 2016 – Rubio did it at Saturday’s CBS South Carolina Republican presidential debate and he did it Sunday on news shows such as Face the Nation … following video (if five minutes is too long for you there is a 90-second version you can watch here): At the South Carolina Debate … Marco stood on the debate stage and said that. But I would note not only that, Marco has a long record when it comes to amnesty.…

Feb 15, 2016 – presidential debate, Bush slammed Donald Trump on eminent domain. … He was playing to a clearly hostile anti-Trump crowd, knowing that the Trump supporters only received 20 tickets for the debate. … But, a normal society wouldn’t let someone like Donald Trump be a leading presidential candidate either.…

Feb 14, 2016 – before the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump had a hissy fit because Megyn Kelly was still going to be a moderator for Fox News at the debate … So he boycotted the debate, and instead decided to hold some sham event he claims he was doing all for the troops. … The Wall Street Journal has the story: GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s spontaneous approach is running roughshod over…

Feb 14, 2016 – aggrieved but no – The Weekly Standard shows how they decided to fundraise off the death of a SC Justice: “Breaking news from the GOP … debate stage: In tonight’s debate, the Republican presidential candidates were asked whether or not President Obama should nominate … (After last night’s debate, somehow it just seemed apropos.)…

Feb 13, 2016 – Republican presidential candidate, Sen. … Ted Cruz was the opening act of a Christian rock concert packed with 14,000 evangelicals Friday night, as the Republican presidential … candidates descended on Greenville, South Carolina ahead of Saturday’s CBS GOP debate.…

Feb 11, 2016 – Republican presidential candidate Sen. … Marco Rubio has generally avoided attacking his GOP primary opponents, and on Wednesday Rubio said  his recent debate flub  was due … Chris Christie successfully ambushed Rubio in the ABC Hew Hampshire GOP Debate which the biased media wing of the Democrats’ Party…

Feb 11, 2016 – Now, he’s in a very distant fourth, getting only 6% of the vote: Less than a month before the state’s presidential primary, Republican … Trump continues to lead an eight-candidate Republican field, with 30 percent of Oklahoma GOP voters reporting that they planned to … No other Republican candidate drew more than 5 percent support, and 7.7 percent of GOP respondents said they were still undecided.…

Feb 10, 2016 – But you convinced yourself you could parlay that into a successful presidential run and you badly miscalculated. … I wrote back in June of 2013 why you wouldn’t win the GOP nomination. Let’s face it. … Then came the debate, Mr. Former Federal Prosecutor. And you had your moment.…

Feb 29, 2016 – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during while speaking at a rally at Millington Regional Airport in Millington … He has a good shot of winning the GOP nomination based on what we have seen thus far. … In the last debate, Donald Trump was asked flat out, “How will you get Mexico to pay for the wall along the US/Mexico border.”…

Feb 29, 2016 – Everything is bigger in Texas, even Presidential primaries.  … The poll was taken before the debate, however, and before Rubio handed Trump his lunch both during the debate and at his rally the … He told the audience that he believes Texas is where he will begin his comeback to eventually become the GOP nominee.…

Feb 28, 2016 – Some polls were done before the debate, others included a day after the debate. … She begins by taking a swipe at the GOP frontrunner. … Paul LePage said GOP governors should write a letter “to the people.”…

Feb 27, 2016 – But now that he has successfully decked Donald Trump in a debate by getting in his face and has gone remorselessly on the offensive … This started when Rubio went after Trump in Thursday night’s debate; former George W. … Bush and Obama pollster Matthew Dowd, who has invested himself very deeply in Trump destroying the GOP and replacing it with something…

Feb 25, 2016 – Tonight at the CNN GOP Presidential Debate, Donald Trump was (finally) challenged about his disastrous Trump University fail by Marco … Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, $5 million out of some $40 million received by the university from 2005 to 2010, court…

Feb 25, 2016 – On Wednesday, the GOP chairman, perhaps wanting to show that he can match Mr. … Unlike the Democrats, the GOP actually has a primary where the votes of common people count. … The obvious answer is that they aren’t afraid for the GOP, they are afraid for themselves.…

Feb 25, 2016 – He’s been running for a presidential race most of this year,” Hardy said. … 45% of  US households will pay no federal individual income tax, according to 2015 tax year data  from the Tax Policy Center 10th GOP … Debate Tonight:  Debate starts at 8:30 ET on CNN.…

Feb 25, 2016 – As the primary wore on through the summer of 2015, it became clear that the GOP electorate was not interested in governors of accomplishment … I hoped to hear a rousing and fair debate between the two leading into Super Tuesday, where I would be able to make a decision based … No one can be a good President unless they can win a Presidential election.…

Feb 22, 2016 – Binary Choice One reason why the word “amnesty” is such an unhelpful one in the immigration debate is that different people use it … talk radio, Twitter and the internet would have you believe that “any amnesty of any kind, ever” is a very unpopular position in the GOP … of a path to legalization on principle is a minority position even among the small, focused universe of voters in Republican presidential…

Dec 2, 2018 – There is a fifty year pattern of behavior by the news media when it comes to Republican Administrations and Presidential nominees that … his “base” and surrounded himself with advisers who were reliable echoers of the most damaging Democrat talking points against the GOP … So let’s make no mistake, every GOP President entering the Oval Office is greeted by the media with a declaration of war.…

Dec 11, 2018 – revocation of former CIA Director and current MSNBC National Security Analyst John Brennan’s security clearance this August, a debate … Just ask former presidential candidate Herman Cain, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, activist Candace Owens, and now Supreme Court … Paris Dennard is a communications strategist and GOP political commentator. …

Nov 16, 2015 – spite of what the polls at the moment say, which is that Trump and Carson are way out in front of Rubio, virtually everyone on the GOP … At the CNBC debate I ran into people who actually worked for two of the other Presidential campaigns who confessed to me that they…

Nov 13, 2015 – Any day of the week Hillary will label the men (and woman) in the GOP field of candidates as being hateful toward females. … As the Democratic presidential candidates prepare for their second debate next weekend, a disputed moment of alleged sexism from the…