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Within a recent Washington Post article, describing all of the various Ted Cruz Super-PAC’s activities, the following paragraph sticks out (emphasis mine):
[…] At least eight independent political groups are jockeying to support Cruz now that he has risen in the polls as perhaps the strongest challenger to frontrunner Donald Trump. The dynamic has confused wealthy donors and brought disarray to the otherwise orderly political operation that surrounds the freshman senator from Texas.
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Washington DC – A top aide for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Monday ripped attacks on Bill Clinton’s past infidelity by GOP rival Donald Trump, saying Trump has gone “in the gutter.”
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta also issued a warning to Clinton’s Democratic rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to stay away from the topic.
“I hope he’s not going there,” Podesta said of Sanders during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” after the host noted it seems “there’s some piling on here” by Sanders. “He said that he’s going to run a positive campaign, that he wasn’t going to go in for personal attacks and I take him at his word on that,” Podesta continued. (more…)
The next GOP debate is Thursday January 14th on Fox Business Network. Fox Business has just announced the line-up for both the prime time, and second tier debate. The debates are being moderated by Neil Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo (prime time); Also, Trish Regan and Sandra Smith (kiddie debate) – LINK
There will be SEVEN candidates remaining on the prime time stage at 9:00pm: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and John Kasich.
There will be FOUR candidates dropped to the second tier (kiddie table) at 6:00pm: Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. (more…)
IOWA – Not long ago, Iowa’s Terry Branstad gained distinction as the longest-serving governor in U.S. history, pushing past the 20-year, 11-month mark with two years still remaining in his record-setting sixth term.
To call him an Iowa institution is a bit like saying they grow a lot of corn in the countryside, or that it gets cold in the winter.
Part of Branstad’s appeal is a studious anti-charisma. He is a dull speaker, conservative in a mainstream Republican manner and, while personally gracious, not the least bit dynamic. Think pressed turkey and mayonnaise on white bread. (more…)
Quinnipiac polling (full pdf below) shows Trump leading 31 to 29. The American Research Group (poll here) shows Trump leading Cruz 29 to 25. Both polls show both candidates closely spaced within the polling margin of error. The only other candidate with a reasonable chance appears to be Marco Rubio who holds 15% (Q-Pac) and 10% (ARG).
It is safe to say that Iowa is a two-man race between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, with Marco Rubio holding a solid, but distant, third place position. Jeb Bush and the rest of the candidates are down in low single digits in both polls. (more…)
Earlier today candidate Donald Trump held a rally and took questions from the audience in New Hampshire:
Pollster Patrick Murray (yeah, I know) from Monmouth University polling has a new poll of New Hampshire voters (full pdf below). Normally, given Murray’s extremely biased track record, Murray polls are ‘grain-of-salt’ reviews; however, this one does factually line-up with two prior recent New Hampshire polls.
Beyond the dominating top line figure of Trump at 32%, it’s worth noting the position of Kasich (14%). All of those millions expended appear to be paying off. However, unlike the last NH poll showing Bush also benefited, this time Bush is back to 4%.
The shift-shaping is all happening in a statistical distance far away from frontrunner Donald Trump, who continues to add to an already considerable lead.
Well behind Trump, Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, Christie and Bush are grabbing poll numbers like lotto balls in the dancing air machine. Here’s the historical look: (more…)
