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Lindsey Graham For President?

Will he run? And can he win? The senior senator from South Carolina may decide to run for president in 2016, a move that would muddy the primary waters.

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Cruz Applauded for Rejecting Ethanol Subsidies at Iowa Ag Summit

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) attended the Iowa Ag Summit over the weekend, along with several other prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates, and was alone among attendees in his outright rejection of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the ethanol subsidies that have a significant impact on Iowa’s agricultural economy. Despite the risk of opposing the RFS at an event sponsored by the agriculture industry in a critical early primary state, Cruz was unequivocal in voicing his opposition to the RFS and the crowd applauded his comments.

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Nebraska Coach Bans Basketball Team from Locker Room

On Sunday, after Iowa administered a good-old-fashioned butt-kicking to Nebraska in the Cornhuskers’s home arena, 74-46, Nebraska coach Tim Miles gave a butt-kicking of his own to his team, banning them from the locker room indefinitely and barring any player interviews.

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2016: Scott Walker Leads Another Iowa Poll

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker leads another very early Iowa poll. A Gravis Marketing poll conducted after Mitt Romney announced he would not make a third White House run found Walker in the lead with 24%. Fifteen percent of Iowa Republicans

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Ted Cruz Gets Praised by Sen. Chuck Grassley

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) once supported President Reagan’s amnesty for illegal aliens back in the 1980’s, but has since stated that he and others made a mistake in doing so. He now supports a piece-meal approach to immigration reform as opposed to a comprehensive approach to fixing the existing immigration problem.

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Jeb Bush to Campaign in Iowa

Republican Jeb Bush will campaign in Iowa and participate the the state’s first-in-the-nation caucus, according to multiple reports.

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2016: Iowa Poll Shows Mitt Romney Leading Crowded GOP Field

According to a Gravis Marketing poll of some 500 Iowa Republicans, Mitt Romney leads the field a year ahead of that state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. The 2012 GOP nominee earns 21 percent. The next candidate is also a familiar face with a familiar name. Jeb Bush, a former two-term Florida governor, picked up 14 percent. Scott Walker, governor of neighboring Wisconsin, took third among candidates. He picked up 10 percent.

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Andrea Mitchell: Jeb Could Do Well In Iowa

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell stated that Jeb Bush could do well in Iowa on Monday. “If you’ve got Huckabee actually going in again, and Santorum, and Rick Perry, and Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul, Jeb Bush could actually do well

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2016: Jeb Bush Will Skip Steve King/Citizens United Iowa Forum

Florida Governor Jeb Bush will reportedly skip an important forum in Iowa, which hosts the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating caucuses and where voters are much more conservative than Bush on illegal immigration. Citing a “scheduling conflict,” Bush reportedly declined an invitation