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Republican Debate Grades: Trump Actually Won This Time

Tonight’s Republican debate did little to shift the field. After tonight, Donald Trump will remain the frontrunner; Jeb Bush will continue to bring up the rear; John Kasich will continue to be the boil festering on the ass of the American public.

Republican presidential candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz gestures during the Republican Presidential Debate, hosted by CNN, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 15, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AFP PHOTO/ ROBYN BECK / AFP / ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read

Cruz: Rubio’s Attacks Are ‘Alinsky-Like’

At Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate CNN’s Dana Bash asked Cruz about the attacks Rubio made regarding Cruz’s vote for the USA Freedom Act, which restricted the National Security Agency’s cellphone-tracking metadata program. Cruz argued that Rubio’s attacks on him are untrue.

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EXCLUSIVE — Rick Santorum: GOP Presidential Candidates ‘Courageous’ Identifying ‘The Ideology’ of Radical Islam

GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum — the only GOP candidate to appear in person at the Nevada National Security Action Summit— told the crowd that the next president must “challenge the Islamic world to take seriously the threat within,” and told Breitbart News that fellow GOP candidates are “courageous” for identifying the ideology that poses a domestic threat.

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Jeb Bush’s Strategy Is Working Great… For Ted Cruz

True, the Bush name could be a liability, but probably less so against an equally dynastic opponent like Hillary Clinton. (Or, for Bush critics, running him would foolishly hamper the Republicans’ ability to make hay over the ascension of a hereditary Clinton monarch.) Jeb Bush had vast financial resources, a political organization second to none, gubernatorial experience, and all the Establishment support anyone could ask for.

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Marco Rubio Once Said an ‘Earned Path to Citizenship Is Code for Amnesty’

With the Iowa caucuses less than two months away, presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to dominate the field of candidates in the Republican primary race, but because Ben Carson has plummeted to third or fourth place in most of the national polls, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio have surged and could pose to challenge Trump’s top-dog status.

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GOP Whiffs on Reforming Refugee Program

As Republicans in Congress race to complete their work on an end-of-year spending package before the holidays, any attempt to reform or curtail President Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq is being left on the legislative floor.

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Scarborough on GOP Primary: We Now Have a Two-Person Race

On Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough explained why he now see the 2016 Republican presidential primary battle to now be between Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Scarborough was very critical of their opponent Sen. Marco