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EXCLUSIVE — The Long War: GOP Campaigns Brace For Potential Brokered Convention After Protracted Delegate Fight

Several GOP presidential campaigns are openly contemplating the increasingly likely possibility that a 2016 nominee won’t be selected before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in late July. If no candidate secures enough delegates by the time of the convention, then what would happen is what’s called a “brokered convention”—at which time things could get truly interesting.

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Ted Cruz Boxes in Marco Rubio on Immigration

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has boxed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) into a corner on immigration. Cruz has come out guns-a-blazing against Rubio all week, firing first and escalating the battle every time Rubio has responded. Now he’s taken the fight to a place where Rubio is caught in a glaring contradiction the likes of which haven’t been seen since his involvement in his landmark legislative achievement—a more-than-thousand-page immigration bill—in his short time serving in the U.S. Senate.

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Fight Night In Milwaukee: GOP Candidates To Debate On Fox As Obamatrade Dispute Grows

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — It’s fight night here in Milwaukee as 2016 GOP presidential candidates will debate on the Fox Business Network. This fourth 2016 GOP debate comes as Obamatrade—and specifically the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) portion of it—moves to the center of the campaign discussion, separating the various candidates.

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Dr. Ben Carson Signals Openness To Obamatrade’s Pacific Rim Trade Deal

This is the first time Carson himself has weighed in on Obamatrade, and the move comes after his spokesman Doug Watts previously told the Wall Street Journal he was open to it. Watts told the WSJ the day after President Barack Obama’s White House released the 5,544-page, 100-pound, several-feet-high-when-printed-out trade deal that Carson “believes the agreement does help to level the playing field in key markets and is important to improve our ties to trading partners in Asia as a counterbalance to China’s influence in the region.”

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Rubio’s Mentor Jeb Bush Speaks Out: ‘Marco Is A Risky Bet’

It’s the latest in a series of escalations in the open war between Rubio and Bush, a war that broke out in public on the debate stage in Boulder, Colorado, earlier this week–a round in the fight that Rubio clearly won. Now, Bush’s team is striking back harder.

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Marco Rubio Crushes Jeb Bush In CNBC Debate

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) so solidified his standing as the new establishment frontrunner on Wednesday evening here in the CNBC debate that Rubio’s team wouldn’t even comment on the poor performance by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

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