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from the previous debate, which he will surpass.
He also gained 50k twitter followers during this debate, compare with the actual candidates debating on stage:
lol this is gonna be easy. Not one person the GOP is fielding can stand up to scrutiny. The more people learn, the more are converted. Join the team, he loves you.
Ted Cruz on Thursday received the endorsement of influential Iowa social conservative Bob Vander Plaats, advancing the Texas senator's bid to become the top choice of Iowa's Christian conservatives.
Vander Plaats revealed his intention to the Des Moines Register, ahead of a press conference to announce the decision at the Iowa State Capitol.
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"At the end of the day, we truly believe that Ted Cruz is the most consistent and principled conservative who has the ability to not only win Iowa but I believe to win the (Republican) nomination," he told the Register.
Ted Cruz will embark next week on a splashy swing through many of the states that vote on March 1, an effort to lock down support in those mostly Southern states before turning full attention to the first four voting contests of the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
The Texas senator, flying with staff and his family on a chartered plane, will do 12 events in 12 cities in one week, flying from Las Vegas to St. Paul, Minnesota, on Dec. 17 after the next presidential debate, and wrapping up on Dec. 23 in Oklahoma City. The fly-around tour, dubbed Take Off with Ted, will feature rally-style events in states including Minnesota, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The tour will be a highly produced endeavor apparently designed to help voters envision Cruz as a general election contender.
Rand Paul, once considered the main contender for the anti-establishment GOP vote, will likely be pushed off the debate stage next week when CNN announces the lineup for the fifth Republican forum.
Chris Christie, however, has clawed back in the polling thanks to a rebound in New Hampshire, virtually ensuring he will be promoted to the main event in Las Vegas on Tuesday, according to POLITICO’s calculations.
Based on national polls, only five candidates are at 3 percent or higher in surveys conducted since late October: Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush.
When he is president, Donald Trump declared upon receiving the endorsement of the New England Benevolent Police Association, a union representing police and corrections officers on Thursday, he will sign an executive order to make sure any person who kills a cop will get the death penalty.
I said that one of the first things I'd do in terms of executive order if I win will be sign a strong, strong statement that will go out to the country, out to the world, that anybody killing policemen, police woman, police officer, anybody killing a police officer, death penalty is going to happen, OK. Can't go. We can't let this go," Trump said at a hotel ballroom in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after his meeting with the group, according to The Associated Press.
Was this the trip that got cancelled, or is this a new one?
He has more cash than any other Republican candidate. He is organized in every county in the first four voting states. And he has served up one strong debate performance after another.
Now, not three months from primary season, rivals concede they have begun to fear Ted Cruz has an increasingly clear path to the Republican nomination.
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Anybody who thinks differently, said an operative with a rival 2016 campaign, is lying to you.
Rand Paul will be on the main stage at Tuesdays GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas after CNN tweaked its rules at the last minute to add a ninth podium for the Kentucky senator, the network announced Sunday.
The candidates who will be on the main stage: Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie and Paul.
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The top five candidates qualified as a result of their standing in national polls. Kasich, Fiorina and Christie who was in the undercard debate last month made the cut due to their poll numbers in New Hampshire. Candidates qualified if they achieved an average of 3.5 percent in national polls conducted since late October or 4 percent in either Iowa or New Hampshire.
your leading gop candidate
Nine candidates will appear in prime-time Tuesday night for the final Republican presidential primary debate of 2015, a critical event that will help shape the contest heading into the Iowa caucuses.
your leading gop candidate
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday evening became the third governor (current or former) to drop out of the Republican primary race for president. Its not exactly surprising; he had raised little money and never went very far in the polls. Still, Jindals inability to catch on, like that of the other two Republicans to drop out so far Rick Perry and Scott Walker shows that candidates who try to appeal to both the establishment and a more conservative part of the party may be stretching themselves too thin.
Carly Fiorina nailed it in the second Republican debate.
That's the assessment of GOP insiders in a special edition of the POLITICO Caucus, our weekly survey of the top operatives, activists and strategists in Iowa and New Hampshire. They offered their reactions immediately after watching Wednesday’s 8 p.m. prime-time debate in Simi Valley, California.
Sixty percent of Republican insiders called Fiorina the biggest winner of the evening — no one else was even close — pointing to everything from how she handled Donald Trump to her grasp of policy issues.
A New Hampshire Republican cheered, "The nation finally got a chance to see what we in New Hampshire have been intrigued and impressed by: a political outsider with some real policy chops and the demeanor to be considered a serious contender."
no doubt trump has thought about what its like to bang his daughter
Expressing confidence that American voters do not care if he lacks specifics, Donald J. Trump says he has yet to fully exploit his personal advantages over his Republican presidential rivals — chiefly his enormous wealth and celebrity — and that both will matter more to his political fate than debate performances like his shaky one this week.
Mr. Trump said in an interview that he was prepared to spend $100 million or more to become the Republican nominee and that most of it would go to galvanizing voter support in states with early nominating contests. While he boasted last month that he would spend $1 billion if need be, he said that a realistic amount would be far less and that he would count on the national Republican Party for financial help if he became the nominee.
Donald Trump unexpectedly announced Friday that he would skip a major Republican gathering to be held later in the day in South Carolina due to an unidentified “significant business transaction.”
Trump was one of 11 GOP presidential candidates slated to speak at the Heritage Action Presidential Forum at an arena in Greenville. The event is co-sponsored by two of the biggest names in South Carolina GOP politics: Gov. Nikki Haley and former Sen. Jim DeMint.
Trump’s campaign said his undisclosed transaction “was expected to close Thursday” but a delay made him unable to attend. “He sends his regrets,” the campaign said in a statement.
Sen. Rand Paul's plan to run for president and reelection to the Senate simultaneously is officially in motion.
The Kentucky Republican transfered $250,000 to the state Republican Party on Friday afternoon, the deadline for a down payment on the tricky maneuver that could cost as much as $700,000 to engineer.
By late Friday morning, Paul still hadn't transferred the funds, despite suggesting in a letter last month that he'd already made the deposit. But Paul's campaign had insisted it would meet its deadline and has simply been engaged in last-minute fundraising. Kentucky Republican leaders repeatedly voiced confidence that money would be delivered on time and the state party announced the transfer in a press release.
