Nov 13, 2015 – get this down to a 2 or 3 candidate race (as it should be by early/mid March), time is already running short for the oversized 2016 GOP … They hold them still, and likely will continue to do so even if Jindal’s arch-rival in the Louisiana GOP, [mc_name name=’Sen. … He’s buried in national polls, unable to qualify for the main debate stage.…

Nov 12, 2015 – I’m not a fan of Chris Christie as a presidential candidate but when he focuses his attacks on Democrats, there may not be a better … mcid=’M000303′ ] and John Kasich tactic of attacking Republicans, he went after Hillary Clinton: As with the previous night’s debate … ’d said in the preliminary GOP presidential debate Tuesday night.…

Nov 11, 2015 – Going into the fourth GOP presidential debate, the libertarian Republican faced skepticism from several quarters about his ability … Paul’s debate performance was aggressive, he had passion, and he drove the discussion at several points. … Rand Paul could carve a niche for himself in the GOP presidential field by talking about the defense procurement issue and the need…

Nov 11, 2015 – Marco Rubio (R-FL)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’R000595′ ] won last night’s Fox Business GOP Debate. It is not surprising. … Rubio has the best political skill set of any of the presidential candidates. … BARTIROMO: Welcome back to the fourth Republican presidential debate.…

Nov 24, 2015 – From USAToday: Despite her falling poll numbers, businesswomen Carly Fiorina has one group of GOP voters in her corner. … The results indicated conservative Millennials are 80.8% “more likely” to support after Fiorina after the fourth debate — the highest … on Fox, she was relegated to the undercard debate. ³ – Ron Paul, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, and Jeb Bush…

Nov 23, 2015 – To pick a few examples: –Sanders in the last Democratic debate blamed terrorism on “climate change.” … is thin (it has dropped from six candidates to three) and started off with a famous and lavishly funded frontrunner, whereas the GOP … Buchanan got 20.8% of the national GOP vote in 1996, and all it won him was 4 states.…

Nov 20, 2015 – appearances, Democrats and liberal-progressive pundits are confident to the point of arrogant, gloating certainty about the 2016 presidential … and “historic” (first woman) nominee while Republicans are still going about the messy business of sifting through the 14 remaining GOP … despite coming from Vox) shows: The ratings for the first two main GOP debates swamped all prior records for primary debate audiences…

Nov 19, 2015 – This is continuing a trend that we have seen slowly develop basically since the second debate. … Trump and Carson remain in the lead, but their combined share of the GOP primary electorate has been slowly sliding from its high water … As much as we here in the blogosphere obsess about these things starting in about March of the year prior to a Presidential election…

Nov 18, 2015 – Predictably, Barack Hussein Obama went bonkers: Without directly naming GOP presidential candidates, the president blasted political … There is an easy rebuttal to this freshman-in-high-school-debate-club type of response by our Internet Troll-in-Chief. … My colleague, Leon Wolf, wrote at length on this presidential petulance earlier today.…

Nov 18, 2015 – The legislature headed toward the GOP as well. Bobby Jindal gave Louisiana a lot of hope. … Unfortunately, he was never able to capitalize on that in a Presidential race. … It is a pretty damning indictment on the whole debate process this year that a man with that resume could not make it on the main debate…

Nov 17, 2015 – and after calling the terrorist attacks in Paris a “setback” and getting pissy with the press on Monday, has begun to lash out at GOP … He decided to go all in and lash out at GOP Presidential candidates: And the president once again took aim at Republican presidential … “I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate…

Dec 16, 2015 – TedVCruz (R-Texas) discussed classified information during Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate. … “I’m having my staff look at the transcripts of the debate right now,” Sen. … Otherwise, the odds of ISIS monitoring the GOP primary debate approaches zero.…

Dec 15, 2015 – Who won this debate? Maybe everyone, maybe no one. … I personally thought Rubio and Christie sounded the most Presidential at this debate, not so much in substance as in talking in serious … (Christie remains a fantastic debater, but his problems with the GOP base are much more obvious when the debate focuses on domestic…

Dec 12, 2015 – I think that at least once every presidential election cycle we get a “brokered convention” boomlet. … For months, the GOP professional class assumed Trump and Carson would fizzle with time. … presidential race.…

Dec 10, 2015 – The shootings in San Bernardino put GOP presidential hopefuls in the spotlight. How they handled it was all over the map. … committed — or what I believe is a terror attack in California — would have been prevented by the expanded background checks,” the GOP … presidential candidate and Florida senator said Friday.…

Dec 10, 2015 – Hampshire after having been in double digits there in late August and early September following a big TV ad barrage, John Kasich’s presidential … Moreover, the idea that the GOP needs an Ohio-centric campaign is a fallacy. … Ted Cruz (R-TX)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’C001098′ ] at the second debate, similarly places him not only outside the GOP mainstream but…

Dec 25, 2015 – lights in an untenable position: Read the rest for the details, but the short version is that there has been vigorous internal debate … If she can’t motivate them, it will be extraordinarily difficult for her to be elected unless the GOP decides to do what it does best … For the GOP the problem comes easier. All you have to do is say that you approve of Obama’s action.…

Dec 23, 2015 – There is significant reason to be optimistic about the terrain in the coming presidential election, and our choices in this presidential … We know that, in the past five contested GOP presidential races, Republican primary voters picked George H.W. … Some are indeed voters the GOP needs to win a general election – but just as Obama did with the Jesse Jackson voters, the GOP can win…

Dec 21, 2015 – chamber=’senate’ mcid=’G000359′ ] has performed a great service for this country: he has decided to stop subjecting us to his Presidential … a doubt the most seasoned television personality in the Republican field, as a long-time fixture on the Sunday talk shows, his debate … Despite being wildly unpopular among the conservative base of the GOP, Graham has skated to re-election at home repeatedly, due mainly…

Dec 19, 2015 – Their candidate had been sparring with his rival on the GOP debate stage for two hours already. … Again all of this betrays the extent to which the Rubio camp has become creatures of the GOP establishment. … Attacks that don’t resonate with GOP primary voters but which are catnip to the establishment.…

Dec 19, 2015 – Marco Rubio (R-FL)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’R000595′ ] served as a lead GOP salesman.   … Ted Cruz (R-TX)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’C001098′ ]’s presidential campaign.   … There is still plenty of fertile ground for Cruz and Rubio to debate, if they wish to do so.  …

Dec 30, 2015 – In a statement her campaign said she wouldn’t be “pushed around” by Trump like his GOP rivals or “bullied and distracted” by the mogul … and why Donald Trump has earned the sky-high negative ratings that plague him with national voters, and the loudmouthed bully of GOP … During her first Senate race in 2000, when Clinton’s Republican opponent, Rick Lazio, invaded her personal space in a debate.…

Dec 27, 2015 – The endorsement by South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy of Florida Senator Marco Rubio in the GOP presidential nomination … Nonsense to be sure and a position that is well outside the mainstream of the nation and the GOP. … part by the public reaction to the Gang of Eight bill and in part by the quantum shift in the Overton Window in the immigration debate…

Sep 26, 2011 – The GOP-led House passed a continuing resolution Thursday, but Democrats, who control the Senate, oppose it because they say the $3.6 … A new wrinkle in the debate is that the Reid CR actually cuts spending for disaster relief because of a drafting error. … and liberal members of Congress are going for broke on the Blame-the-Tea-Party strategy—and that strategy is playing out in the debate…

Sep 4, 2023 – Back in June when Chris Christie officially declared his presidential candidacy, it was noted that he was receiving "endorsements" …  In the first GOP presidential debate, Christie famously made headlines for his takedown of fellow 2024 presidential contender … third-highest among Democrats following the first Republican presidential debate, with 12 percent who watched it saying he won, according…