Labeling him “a dangerous underdog” in the coming Republican scramble for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination with a speaking style “a cross between Atticus Finch and Tony Robbins,” BCC News begins it’s look at U.S. presidential politics with a closer look at Texas Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz.
Sen. Ted Cruz is first into the race. But some want to know whether he’s actually the first Canadian into the race. Donald Trump kicks off the birther questions for 2016.
Somebody at the New York Times doesn’t seem to care much for Ted Cruz.
Conservative icon Brent Bozell believes Sen. Ted Cruz has an “immediate edge” in the 2016 presidential race.
Conservatives are fuming and firing back after a group with ties to Speaker John Boehner spent $300,000 to attack conservative Republicans, including three Tea Party favorites.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich describs Hillary Clinton’s money problem as beyond problematic, calling it “toxic.” He also stipulated that fund raising in general is a big problem in American politics, especially at the presidential campaign level.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley targets the Tea Party on the trail in Iowa. Still, he might want to change his focus, if he hopes to overcome Hillary Clinton’s big lead.
According to an Atlanta Journal Constitution report, Georgia lawmakers supporting “religious liberty” efforts at the state Capitol doubled-down Wednesday by introducing a second bill to prevent government intrusion on faith-based beliefs.
While taking a good deal of criticism for his seeming lack of knowledge on foreign policy this week, Republican Ben Carson told Bloomberg Politics that he is in process of taking in a great deal of information in that regard.
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri is taking heat from Democrats for hiring his lobbyist son to run his 2016 re-election campaign.
Sources tell Breitbart News that Sen. Rand Paul will call on Hillary Clinton to return any money the Clinton Foundation received from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and any others that abuse the rights of women, given her ongoing campaign-like rhetoric supporting women’s rights.
The Latin Post reports that presumed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is set to name Amanda Renteria, who is the first Latina chief of staff for a congressional lawmaker, to her campaign team as national political director.
Democrat members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are now admitting that new net neutrality regulations may allow them to determine pricing for Internet service, an admission that’s seen as “a vindication to critics of the new Internet rules, who have long warned that the agency’s powers will give it unprecedented control over the Web,” according to a report from The Hill.
The Left appears increasingly flustered over events in the Middle East, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party’s declaration of victory in Tuesday’s elections isn’t likely to help matters much.
A New Hampshire-based tweet from prospective 2016 candidate Jeb Bush seemed harmless enough, but with two past presidents in his immediate family, associations may matter more when it comes to Jeb Bush — including who he informally claims to be taking advice from.
Citizens United has filed a new lawsuit against the U.S. State Department regarding “long-lingering freedom of information requests,” in effect asking the judge to compel them “to respond to four separate requests seeking documents that were filed in May and July of last year.
Civil Rights advocate Peter Kirsanow strongly opposes the nomination of Loretta Lynch to replace Eric Holder as Barack Obama’s Attorney General.
President Barack Obama had some laughs at the expense of Hillary Clinton’s email problem at this year’s Gridiron dinner. The New York Post‘s Ed Klein reports his senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, actually leaked the Clinton story to the media.
According to a report in The Hill, prospective GOP presidential contender Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke at historically black Bowie State University today, where he “frequently nodded to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s idea that there are ‘two Americas,'” and made his case for criminal justice reform.
A White House Vine post has Vice President Joe Biden doing bicep curls in celebration of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign, which has mostly “fizzled,” according to the Washington Post.
According to Bloomberg Politics, Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie now has “a core of powerful donors” of the sort he’ll need to compete with Jeb Bush in the GOP’s money primary.
The clock is ticking. Congress must deal with a key Medicare issue before March 31, and the stage is set for Republican leadership to cave once again.
As chairman of the Senate Space, Science, and Competitiveness Subcommittee, Texas Republican Ted Cruz is on a mission — to get NASA back on course regarding it’s original focus, space, and less on what many view as pseudo-science: global warming research.
As Politico reports, despite backing Barack Obama’s executive power grab on amnesty — and her belief that illegal immigrants share the same “right and the obligation to work” in America as citizens, including veterans — Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch is poised to be confirmed thanks to the support of some Senate Republicans.
Fueled by the media narrative that a number of Republican Senators sending a letter to Iran was an act of treason, a whitehouse.gov petition to that effect has been gathering signatures and easily broke the 100,000 signature barrier that forces a response from the White House.
