
The latest poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) fares the best among the presumed 2016 Republican presidential candidates against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with independent voters, and is one of the top three contenders overall against her.
by Sarah Rumpf7 Apr 2015, 10:29 AM PST0

As a new Monmouth University poll points out, while there’s “no single contender breaking from the pack,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie finds himself falling further behind, leading to a slew of bad headlines in his home state.
by Dan Riehl7 Apr 2015, 7:27 AM PST0

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Establishment Republicans are falsely smearing Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) with a million dollars worth of inaccurate attack ads on his foreign policy position as he announces his 2016 presidential campaign on Tuesday—something that shows off his viability as a serious contender not only for the Republican nomination but for the White House in a general election.
by Matthew Boyle7 Apr 2015, 4:32 AM PST0

His campaign operation, which is pretty much already fully functional nationwide and has been for months as a campaign-in-waiting, is much more sophisticated than his father’s campaigns ever were. He has a technology team building a social media apparatus based out of Austin, Texas, and bare knuckles grassroots activists in place in key states—and pretty much every state for that matter—coast to coast already.
by Matthew Boyle6 Apr 2015, 6:01 PM PST0

With the news breaking that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called himself “Hispanic” on his 2009 voter registration form—and that in 2012 he called himself Florida’s first-ever Latino governor—it’s worth revisiting a 2013 profile of him in the Washington Post that found friends of his referring to him as having “gone native” as a Hispanic.
by Matthew Boyle6 Apr 2015, 10:55 AM PST0

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s spokeswoman Kristy Campbell tells Breitbart News that a “paperwork error” was behind the false claim he made on a voter registration form in Florida that he is Hispanic.
by Matthew Boyle6 Apr 2015, 8:17 AM PST0

HOUSTON, Texas — About six or seven hundred hardcore conservatives gathered outside the new Houston campaign headquarters for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last Tuesday, an event at which he showed off his presidential prospects as the first declared candidate for 2016.
by Matthew Boyle6 Apr 2015, 4:04 AM PST0

Appearing on Breitbart News Sunday this weekend for the show’s Easter special, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said that he will make a decision officially whether or not he will run for president after the upcoming Louisiana legislative session—which starts later this month and ends around the second week of June—is over.
by Matthew Boyle5 Apr 2015, 7:02 PM PST0

A political action committee (PAC) has been formed supporting Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) in advance of his anticipated 2016 presidential campaign announcement. The United for Rand PAC is being announced in Washington, D.C. Senator Paul is expected to announce his bid for the presidency on Tuesday, April 7, at the historic Galt hotel in Louisville, Kentucky and then take off on a multi-state campaign tour stops in New Hampshire on April 8; Charleston, S.C., on April 9, Iowa City, Iowa, on April 10; and Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11.with
by Lana Shadwick3 Apr 2015, 2:10 PM PST0

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is reaping the benefits of being the first to officially enter the race. Recent public polling shows a surge of support for Cruz among Republican primary voters.
by Sarah Rumpf2 Apr 2015, 1:23 PM PST0

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will be visiting Iowa and South Carolina this week, for a series of receptions and town halls as he seeks to connect with Republican primary voters in these critical early primary states.
by Sarah Rumpf1 Apr 2015, 10:28 AM PST0

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tells Breitbart News that if he’s elected President, one of his first actions will be to undo all of President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders.
by Matthew Boyle1 Apr 2015, 6:05 AM PST0

New Jersey’s economy is struggling. Except, that is, for its medical system, which is being propped up, Chris Christie’s treasurer says, by ObamaCare payments.
by Rich Tucker30 Mar 2015, 12:24 PM PST0

Moves by some key allies of Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) show that he is nearing a decision about running for President, with plans being made to find a suitable successor to run for his Senate seat and an announcement expected to come within just a few weeks.
by Sarah Rumpf30 Mar 2015, 7:52 AM PST0

On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will be hosting a special Palm Sunday program discussing all of the most important recent news with a special focus on the crisis in the Middle East. Bannon will be discussing the 2016 presidential campaign, religious liberty in Indiana, the Hillary Clinton email scandal, and much more.
by Breitbart News29 Mar 2015, 12:42 PM PST0

Per a Washington Post report, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) claims that after the 2013 government shutdown over the Affordable Care Act both he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) “had their money spigot turned off by (GOP) leadership because blocking access to money is how leadership disciplines members.
by Dan Riehl29 Mar 2015, 10:25 AM PST0

They say “everything is bigger in Texas,” but Texas’ welfare rolls are shrinking, and presidential hopeful and former Governor Rick Perry (R) deserves a lot of the credit.
When Perry first became governor of Texas in 2000, the number of people enrolled in the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was well over 300,000. Since then, the number has declined to below 80,000, and a new study says key policy changes help explain why.
by Justin Haskins28 Mar 2015, 8:14 AM PST0

In late December, 2013 The New York Times whitewashed the Benghazi Islamist terrorist attack, claiming that based “on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault.”
by Roger Stone and Sam Nunberg27 Mar 2015, 1:11 PM PST0

Former Governor Jeb Bush (Florida) has a slight lead in New Hampshire among potential Republican Presidential candidates, but nearly a quarter of respondents were undecided ten months before the first-in-the-nation primary will take place.
by Sarah Rumpf27 Mar 2015, 10:32 AM PST0

A Florida presidential poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) reveals support for former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) has dropped five points since a similar PPP survey last June. Meanwhile, support for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) increased by 1 percent.
by Sarah Rumpf25 Mar 2015, 2:56 PM PST0

Apparently it is again okay to use the pejorative “uppity” against Americans who are members of a racial minority group. Ted Cruz is a historic Senator and presidential candidate, the first Cuban-American to join either club, and for that reason
by John Nolte25 Mar 2015, 7:29 AM PST0

According to a New York Times report, Sen. Ted Cruz is making some critical inroads in Iowa, including gaining the support of “more than a dozen party leaders for his statewide campaign.” Some of that support is coming from the state’s libertarians, or Liberty movement, generally assumed to be aligned with Rand Paul.
by Dan Riehl25 Mar 2015, 7:02 AM PST0

Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) will not be endorsing Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the Republican Presidential Primary. As Breitbart Texas reported, Cruz officially became 2016’s first Republican presidential candidate this week with a Tweet posted shortly after midnight Monday morning, followed by an announcement speech delivered at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
by Sarah Rumpf24 Mar 2015, 3:11 PM PST0

More than 10,000 people here at Liberty University’s convocation on Monday morning went wild as conservative Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced his presidential campaign, asking Americans to “imagine a president” who stands up for the values they believe in.
by Matthew Boyle23 Mar 2015, 10:28 AM PST0

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made his official speech announcing he was running for President in 2016 on Monday at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. His speech focused on the “promise of America” and asked listeners to “imagine” events in the past — both from his own family’s history and the nation’s — and to imagine a bright future for America, restored to the great “shining city on a hill.”
by Sarah Rumpf23 Mar 2015, 8:47 AM PST0