
The Washington Post notes Jeb Bush’s comeback tour looks like “a therapy session” and, intentionally, or not, may have said a lot more about why Jeb Bush is flailing and looking as if he doesn’t even want to be president than perhaps the paper had intended.
by Dan Riehl5 Nov 2015, 12:05 PM PST0

Jeb Bush went from thundering “We’re Americans, dammit!” in a stump speech, to surrendering to France for comments he made about the country’s work ethic.
by Dan Riehl5 Nov 2015, 6:37 AM PST0

Donald Trump officially filed for the New Hampshire primary today and took full advantage of the opportunity to slam both Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.
by Dan Riehl4 Nov 2015, 2:25 PM PST0

Dr. Ben Carson is in the 2016 presidential race to do two things: chew bubble gum, and destroy media narratives. And he’s all out of bubble gum.
by John Hayward4 Nov 2015, 7:35 AM PST0

The latest Quinnipiac poll, arriving one year before Election Day, shows all of the top Republican candidates except Donald Trump running ahead of Hillary Clinton.
by John Hayward4 Nov 2015, 6:46 AM PST0

Is it a Jeb Bush oppo-drop, or solid journalism? Whatever it is, Tim Mak at the Daily Beast reports on some close Florida associates of Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio that aren’t as far back in his past as he
by Dan Riehl3 Nov 2015, 1:26 PM PST0

Businessman and leading GOP presidential contender Donald Trump is going after Sen Marco Rubio on Twitter, writing Rubio “cannot be president” based upon a Breitbart report that Rubio “would keep Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for DREAMers in place until it was permanently codified through legislation.”
by Dan Riehl3 Nov 2015, 8:33 AM PST0

If members of the media wants to prove they can ask “tough questions” of Democrat presidential candidates too, they should grill Hillary Clinton and her putative rivals about whether they still believe in the Constitutional separation of powers, what purpose they think Congress serves, and how the Obama model of unlimited executive power can be squared with America’s republican system.
by John Hayward3 Nov 2015, 6:57 AM PST0

Sen Ted Cruz blasted Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from the Senate floor last night and has been expressing his displeasure with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for some time. Now it appears as though the Republican base is joining Cruz in his displeasure with McConnell, who is often seen as a weak leader by Conservatives.
by Dan Riehl30 Oct 2015, 1:39 PM PST0

Grassroots conservative group Citizens for the Republic has surveyed the wreckage of the CNBC debate, and is calling upon the Republican National Committee to let conservative media people moderate a debate.
by John Hayward30 Oct 2015, 12:11 PM PST0

It seems fair to say that Senator Ted Cruz has been one of the Left’s least favorite Republicans until now. He’s fiery, he excels at picking apart their ideology, he’s studied and mastered their methods to a worrisome degree, and he actually tries to do stuff in the Senate.
by John Hayward30 Oct 2015, 10:36 AM PST0

A leaked memo reveals that Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign has failed to knock on a single door in Iowa so far in this election cycle.
by Patrick Howley29 Oct 2015, 10:39 PM PST0

Senator Marco Rubio followed up a solid debate performance with a Thursday morning interview on CBS News. Hillary Clinton’s media is very, very upset that Rubio called her a liar, and refuses to back down from the charge.
by John Hayward29 Oct 2015, 1:35 PM PST0

Just about every pre-debate warm-up analysis predicted it would be a make-or-break debate for the second-tier Republican candidates… and it was. All four were aided enormously by the horrible amateur-hour of CNBC’s moderators, who should be looking for new jobs after their ridiculous performance, spewing Democrat National Committee talking points disguised as questions and talking over the candidates.
by John Hayward29 Oct 2015, 5:46 AM PST0

We need a fighter, not a healer in the White House. The presidency is not a nice-guy competition. We need someone with the know-how and determination to be a warrior for the battles that lie ahead. We do not need comfort food. We need to be told the truth.
by Robert Davi28 Oct 2015, 11:44 PM PST0

While businessman Donald Trump and former surgeon Ben Carson have been generating most of the headlines, Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign has been quietly building out what most concede is the kind of infrastructure one will need to win the GOP nomination.
by Dan Riehl27 Oct 2015, 12:36 PM PST0

Consumers of political news should understand that the biases of debate moderators are highly relevant. It doesn’t mean moderators with strong views are incapable of running a good debate, but the networks really ought to make portfolios of their moderators’ political history available for easy public consumption. It is fair to ask what sort of perspective these CNBC moderators bring to the presidential contest.
by John Hayward27 Oct 2015, 7:16 AM PST0

As he’s trying to firm up his sagging donor network, Jeb Bush’s campaign team is making it clear they view Sen Marco Rubio as his chief threat. So the Bush squad plans to start taking the battle to his fellow Floridian.
by Dan Riehl26 Oct 2015, 2:15 PM PST0

Going well beyond prudent cost cutting and a defensive posture, Team Jeb Bush will begin making such significant campaign cuts effective November 1, they can’t be seen as anything other than a big red flag that his bid for the GOP nomination is in serious trouble.
by Dan Riehl23 Oct 2015, 9:58 AM PST0

Hard on the heels of yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll comes a survey from the Des Moines Register that confirms Ben Carson is now the leading Republican candidate in Iowa, with Donald Trump slipping into second place, and Senator Ted Cruz nudging ahead of Senator Marco Rubio for third.
by John Hayward23 Oct 2015, 8:41 AM PST0

The brilliance of Trump’s campaign is his ability to expose and combat media lies and hypocrisy, instead of cowering from them.
by Robert Davi21 Oct 2015, 4:00 PM PST0

The Washington Post dropped something of a bomb on Joe Biden’s potential bid for the presidency tonight–although it remains unclear if it was the real thing or a placeholder.
by Dan Riehl19 Oct 2015, 9:11 PM PST0

My, but those Democrat candidates sure do have a lot of enemies! And they’re all law-abiding American citizens. The Party of Hate was in rare form during its Tuesday night debate. Everything they said was designed to split Americans into warring camps. Democrat voters were invited to embrace their victimhood, nourish their resentments, and vote for the candidate who promised to make other Americans suffer the most.
by John Hayward16 Oct 2015, 6:51 AM PST0

Ben Carson is going to suspend his presidential campaign for two weeks to hawk his book! This is unprecedented! It shows he’s not serious about running for president! It proves he doesn’t understand anything about how politics works! It’s the end of the world as we know it, and nobody feels fine!
by John Hayward15 Oct 2015, 12:25 PM PST0

In an interview with The Hill, Donald Trump warned of a stock market bubble on the verge of bursting, and slammed the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, which were roundly praised by the 2016 Democrats during their first primary debate on Tuesday night. Trump called Dodd-Frank “terrible” and said he would “absolutely” repeal it as President.
by John Hayward14 Oct 2015, 2:35 PM PST0