
Paul Ryan Refuses Establishment Plea to Run for Speaker
After House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suddenly dropped out of the race for Speaker, members of the Republican establishment urged Rep. Paul Ryan to reconsider running for the role.

After House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suddenly dropped out of the race for Speaker, members of the Republican establishment urged Rep. Paul Ryan to reconsider running for the role.

In an appearance at the Washington Ideas Forum in Washington, DC on Wednesday, 2012 Republican nominee former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) pledged to support the eventual GOP nominee, but he said he did not believe it would current front-runner Donald

The GOP establishment is apparently so worried about Donald Trump that it’s working with Democrats and even Islamists to attack nice-guy Dr. Ben Carson.

Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) campaign manager allegedly punched a senior adviser to the rival presidential campaign of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in the face on Thursday evening.

The second GOP debate of the 2016 presidential election takes place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley Wednesday evening–and, like past debates, California will share a spot onstage with the contenders.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Jake Tapper asked Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus if he is worried the GOP candidates’ immigration “tone and tenor” hurting the GOP with the Latino vote and end up costing them the White

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump commented on former Texas Governor Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and fellow GOP presidential candidates Bobby Jindal and Dr. Ben Carson on Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. In the

The Boston Globe reports that the “Mitt Romney diaspora” – that mighty “army of former aides and advisers from Romney’s long political career” – has spread out through the campaigns of 2016 GOP hopefuls, and come together in a “stem-to-stern effort that has united old comrades even as they nominally play for different teams: stopping Donald Trump.”

The Washington Post has decided to run an article from editorial page editor Fred Hiatt pinning blame for the Syrian catastrophe on President Barack Obama.

On Saturday, National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg penned a controversial column in which he rejected Donald Trump and his followers from the conservative movement. “Well, if this is the conservative movement now, I guess you’re going to have to count me out,” Goldberg writes.

Mitt Romney is disappointed by the Republican establishment’s inability to take out Donald Trump–which may pull him into a more active role in the 2016 presidential primary, reports Gabriel Sherman.

On her Tuesday radio program, conservative talker Laura Ingraham criticized National Review for a piece about the hopes of some that former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA), the 2012 Republican nominee, will enter into the already crowded field for the GOP’s

Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) refused to apologize Tuesday for comments she made a day earlier, saying that Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker is “really tightening the noose, literally, around African-Americans.”

While most of the permanent political class is still aghast that 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump put together one of most specific, pro-American worker immigration plans of anyone running for public office, he’s winning widespread praise from key experts on the issue.

Critics of Donald Trump’s rise in the Republican polls have now turned on large swaths of the Republican base in a fit of pique and frustration.

The first three TV spots for the revamped Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired Sunday night on CBS’ 60 Minutes.

Last week, Jackie Calmes, national correspondent for the New York Times and Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, released a study decrying conservative media’s influence on the direction of the Republican Party.

Thursday on Lubbock, TX’s “Chad Hasty Show” on KYFO, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to Mitt Romney’s criticisms that Cruz’s rhetoric was “is way over the line,” when he said President Barack Obama would be “the world’s

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), appearing on Chad Hasty’s radio program in Texas, hammered former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush over their weakness when it comes to standing up to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin told attendees at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Thursday morning in San Diego that if elected President in 2016, he would cancel the nuclear deal with Iran on day one in office. He also said that Planned Parenthood should be defunded for its role in benefiting from abortions.

Small donors to President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign have flocked en masse to support Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 2016 presidential run.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has clearly decidedly softened his anti-Donald Trump tone after attacks on the billionaire real estate magnate—his biggest 2016 intra-GOP competition at this point—have backfired.

The made-for-show-business showdown between the rising star of the Washington, D.C. GOP establishment and the controversial populist insurgent marks what might be the biggest ideological rivalry inside the Republican Party in the 2016 cycle. Trump, a bombastic flamethrower, has hammered Rubio-style Republicans for their support for amnesty for illegal aliens while not wanting jobs to first go to unemployed and struggling Americans. Rubio and his allies in the establishment of the party, on the other hand, have argued that Trump’s harsh rhetoric is not good for the Republican Party.
Now 11-time New York Times bestselling Ann Coulter is calling out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for attacking Donald Trump over immigration.

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee is using Facebook to poke fun at the Washington Post “Fact Checker,” giving it the coveted “Four Pinocchios.”