The ad, running in Iowa this month and titled “Values,” will air on the Fox News Channel in the Des Moines area, according to a statement provided by the Cruz campaign to Breitbart News.
As Rick Perry’s presidential campaign suspended paying staff, Breitbart News has learned that “over ninety percent” of the staff were staying on.
Two men were arrested for building a meth lab in a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Taco Bell where one of the men worked, police said on Wednesday.
(From The Ferenstein Wire) — The Republican field for president is massive, and conservative contenders are scrambling to stand out from the crowd. Polls tend to swing wildly from month-to-month, as new candidates enter the race or happen to get into a headline-making story.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker sank to a new low in his effort to fight with real estate mogul billionaire Donald Trump during an interview with Politico’s chief White House correspondent, Mike Allen, at a Koch Brothers-sponsored event in California this weekend. In the interview, Walker accused Trump of acting like a Democrat.
While Rubio’s funk continues, real estate magnate billionaire Donald Trump remains at the top of the Republican pack with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker nipping at his heels. At the same time, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is surging past Rubio underneath Trump, Bush and Walker, pulling close to the top tier of candidates.
After The Des Moines Register published a scathing editorial calling real estate billionaire Donald Trump a “feckless blowhard” who should drop out of the race, the GOP frontrunner banned the paper from an Iowa campaign event.
“What we need to be emphasizing … especially in the black community … we need to teach people to turn their dollars over on their own community,” Carson suggested. “Churches are places of great potential healing and insight in our society … there is such a thing as God’s word,” he said explaining he believes the church can teach America what is right and what is wrong.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is catching fire again on the campaign trail as the national conversation shifts to social and national security issues ranging from marriage to abortion to immigration to President Barack Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran and other national security matters.
WEST LIBERTY, Iowa—Rod Webber of Massachusetts attended an event with GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee Friday morning and attempted to challenge the former Baptist pastor on the bible and certain versus Webber believed didn’t fit with the Republican Party.
AMES, Iowa – Donald Trump ignited a political furor with his weekend comments about Sen. John McCain’s war record, but the first polling released since then shows no change in his standing.
After spending several days in Iowa, it is clear Republican voters in the Hawkeye state – no matter which GOP presidential candidate they support – agree it’s time to rein in the federal government, especially on issues such as marriage, education and healthcare.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa—During his 99 county campaign tour through the Hawkeye state, GOP presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) name-dropped here and there, as he spoke about reforming Washington.
Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal got big reactions from the Iowa Family Leadership Summit crowd on Saturday.
“Due to the overwhelming response for Saturday’s Rally in Phoenix, Arizona the venue has been changed to accommodate the thousands of people expected to attend and the event will now take place at the Phoenix Convention Center,” Trump’s press secretary Hope Hicks wrote in a press release.
The “Scooby Van” appears to be part of campaign history at this point.
“Hillary Clinton’s campaign is ‘worried’ about Bernie Sanders, whom a top Clinton aide described as a ‘serious force’ in the 2016 battle,” The Hill reports. “We are worried about him, sure. He will be a serious force for the campaign, and I don’t think that will diminish,” said Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Roughly two-thirds of Iowa Republicans tell pollsters there should not be a path to citizenship for illegal aliens.
The numbers come from a new Quinnipiac University poll. Trump barely trails former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in New Hampshire, and he is trailing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Iowa.
Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll noted that while Walker remains in front, new candidates entering the stage have made the race more “muddled.”
Perry himself is absolutely confident that his record and message will prove to be a winning combination in the minds of voters, telling Breitbart News, “I’ll be on the debate stage. I’m a lot more interested in what we’re going to say on the debate stage than whether I’m going to be there. I’ll be there.”
The Iowa Straw Poll had been a popular event for Republican activists in Iowa since 1979. It features music, food, and a fair-like atmosphere. It was a major fundraiser for the state Republican party, which would sell thousands of tickets, and a chance for presidential candidates to establish themselves as early frontrunners or for underdogs to gain traction.
Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, host Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will be announcing the launch of the Breitbart Primary: an interactive platform by which Breitbart readers can have their voices heard leading up to the selection of the 2016 Republican nominee for president. He will also be interviewing and speaking to a number of guests about the weeks most important news topics, including the massive Chinese cyber attack, shots fired across the Mexican border, and much more.
Republican presidential candidates acted as if two bomb threats on Saturday never happened.
R.D. Lampe with the Boone, Iowa police department confirms exclusively to Breitbart News that a bomb threat was called in to the Iowa Roast and Ride with a voice recorder. He later added that as that event was ending, a second bomb threat was called to authorities in Polk County. Lampe says that when bomb threats are made, it’s usually difficult to track down the caller. He says a number can be traced, but it’s usually a throw-away phone.
