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EXCLUSIVE — The Long War: GOP Campaigns Brace For Potential Brokered Convention After Protracted Delegate Fight

Several GOP presidential campaigns are openly contemplating the increasingly likely possibility that a 2016 nominee won’t be selected before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in late July. If no candidate secures enough delegates by the time of the convention, then what would happen is what’s called a “brokered convention”—at which time things could get truly interesting.

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Scarborough: RNC, DNC Becoming Less Relevant

On Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough reacted to the news that a number of the Republican presidential campaigns have effectively pushed the Republican National Committee aside when it comes to having a role in future debates in

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GOP Candidates Have Had Enough of the RNC

Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign is fed up with a “messy debate process” put together by Reince Priebus’ seemingly incompetent Republican National Committee. So several, if not all, “Republican presidential campaigns are planning to gather in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening to plot how to alter” the debate process going forward by doing an end run around the RNC, Politico reports.

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Ben Carson: RNC, CNBC Should Release Debate Criteria ‘As Soon As Possible’

CNBC will host the debate, on October 28 in Colorado, but the network – along with the RNC – won’t reveal polling and cut-off criteria for the GOP candidates, something GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said is not fair. “I think it’s because they don’t know what the criteria should be, which is kind of unfair,” Carson told Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle during Breitbart News Sunday.

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Donald Trump Swings at Fellow GOP Candidates, but Not Carly Fiorina

No GOP presidential candidate competing with frontrunner Donald Trump was safe from criticism during Trump’s press conference Thursday afternoon from Trump Towner, where he announced he signed the Republican National Committee’s loyalty pledge vowing to support the Republican nominee and not run as a third-party candidate, other than Carly Fiorina. He didn’t say anything negative about the former Hewlett-Packard CEO.

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Ohio Male RNC Member Calls Carly Fiorina ‘Hot Babe’

CLEVELAND, Ohio: As GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina took her seat in an interview with David Webb for a special  which will air Wednesday evening on the David Webb Show, Webb asked the audience, “How many of you know what her Twitter

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Former RNC Staffers Join Jeb Bush’s ‘Different’ Presidential Campaign Team as SuperPAC Rakes in Huge Donations

Not only has Jeb Bush’s team developed an integrated campaign strategy among three related organizations that is highly sophisticated, it appears to have been able to staff up almost entirely from existing relationships within the RNC and Republican establishment. In contrast, Marco Rubio is apparently the only other candidate to date who has landed a staffer with a high profile RNC pedigree.