The National Review Online’s Daniel Foster compiles a colorful portrait of Rand Paul’s venture into the Granite State this week and captures his delicate balancing act of being a GOP team player while sticking to...
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Would Marco Rubio still wage a bid for the presidency in 2016 if Jeb Bush decided to take the plunge? That’s the question Marin Cogan explores in her piece not yet online for The New Republic: ‘Forgive Me Mentor, For I Will Run.’ The answer she comes away with? Unlikely. Bush was a proud, prominent on-stage cheerleader the......
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s favorability rating is now at its lowest point since he took office, according to the Siena Research Institute. But at 64 percent, it’s still better than 2-to-1. The highlights from Siena: It’s down 3 points from last month Third consecutive month for a drop His re-elect number: 54% His slippage isn’t with Republicans,......
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The start of every run establishes a leader. And then the chase ensues. Hence, why we’ve branded our contribution to the great horserace dialogue, THE CHASE. It’s a running ranking system of the most likely 2016 nominees, with Clinton and Rubio starting at the top of thepack. But there will be plenty of movement over the next 43 months......
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Paul to keynote CEI dinner honoring transgender woman
Sen. Rand Paul will keynote the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual dinner next month on the same night the group honors a transgender woman. The Kentucky senator’s presence at the June 20 CEI gala is notable...
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‘They brought people up from Massachusetts for God’s sake’
The chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party is charging that Granite State Republicans were forced to bring in people from Massachusetts to fill the room for Gov. Bobby Jindal’s recent visit. “Bobby Jindal was...
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Conn. GOP Gov candidates carve out some distance from Walker
The headline was conspicuous enough: “Republicans Embrace Some of Walker’s Message.” Some? It was Connecticut New Junkie’s headline on its coverage of Gov. Scott Walker’s appearance at the state GOP’s Prescott Bush dinner Monday night....
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will headline the Orange County, California GOP’s annual Flag Day dinner next month. It’s June 14 at the Hyatt Regency Irvine and tickets start at $150 a person. “Our role at Flag Day is to bring prominent figures who can speak to issues of the day,” said chairman Scott Baugh in......
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Sen. Rand Paul became the first Republican candidate for president to visit each of the first three nominating states Monday after a stop at a party dinner in Concord, New Hampshire. He didn’t break new ground on the news front, but used more colorful language to describe how the GOP needs to broaden its appeal.......
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Not a 2016-centric piece, but a fun experiment for Esquire magazine nonetheless. I spent an entire week without Twitter and wrote about what I missed and what I learned. Read it HERE....
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Would Marco betray his mentor?