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Seven out of ten “Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters” say businessman Donald Trump is the GOP’s “strongest general election candidate,” based upon a newly released Associated Press-GfK poll. In effect, the GOP’s Washington-based political class is completely out of touch with GOP voters.

Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of several thousand supporters at a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump blasted former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for doing a poor job managing his own campaign’s finances.

Former President George Bush, 91 and frail, is straining to understand an election season that has, for his son and the Republican Party, lurched sharply and stunningly off script. And he is often bewildered by what he sees. “I’m getting old,” he tells friends, appraising today’s politics, “at just the right time.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood donors have given $5.5 million to candidates on both sides of the 2016 presidential race. Of those donations, 90 percent have gone to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

GOP establishment pick Jeb Bush may have raised $13.3 million for his struggling campaign, but only seven percent of that total came from small donors pledging under $200, the Wall Street Journal reports.

All told, Heather Larrison, The Larrison Group, and LKJ LLC received a combined total of payments in excess of $1.3 million from the Bush campaign and Right to Rise USA in 2015. Though the Bush campaign has not responded to our question, Bush donors may be asking that same question at an emergency meeting in Houston today.

A senior finance staffer for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign, who also runs a firm that has received payments from the pro-Bush Super PAC Right to Rise USA, may have been paid more than a million dollars so far in 2015, either directly or through companies she owns or has an ownership interest in, off of Jeb’s effort to become the third member of the Bush family elected president of the United States.

Going well beyond prudent cost cutting and a defensive posture, Team Jeb Bush will begin making such significant campaign cuts effective November 1, they can’t be seen as anything other than a big red flag that his bid for the GOP nomination is in serious trouble.

Hard on the heels of yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll comes a survey from the Des Moines Register that confirms Ben Carson is now the leading Republican candidate in Iowa, with Donald Trump slipping into second place, and Senator Ted Cruz nudging ahead of Senator Marco Rubio for third.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” host Megyn Kelly pressed Republican presidential hopeful former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) on his lagging poll numbers, particularly compared to his opponent, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump. Kelly asked Bush if he

Jeb Bush tweeted Thursday that Hillary Clinton “deserves scrutiny” for her role as part of an “incompetent foreign policy” in Benghazi, but in 2013, the current GOP presidential candidate awarded Clinton the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center on the eve of the first anniversary of the Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans.

President Obama is keeping a promise by vetoing the $612 billion defense policy bill, inviting reporters and photographers to watch him wield his veto pen in the Oval Office.

GOP presidential candidates are taking to social media to respond to Democrat frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi throughout the day Thursday, as Breitbart News reported in its live update blog.

The first poll out of Iowa in three weeks shows a massive surge for Dr. Ben Carson, who now leads Donald Trump 28% to 20%. Back in September, a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll had Trump beating Carson +5 in Iowa,

During a conversation with the Libre Initiative forum yesterday in Las Vegas, Jeb Bush was asked about his favorite superhero. After admitting he was an “old school” fan of Batman, Bush dropped a line to make him look hip with pope culture.

Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz stated that Democrats should “explain why they are choosing to stand with convicted felons like the murderer of Kate Steinle rather than with the American people” and that former President George W.

The underlying dynamic of this primary is grassroots Republican voters expressing their dissatisfaction with an elite that views them with contempt. Confirmation that the GOP Establishment — embodied by the Jeb Bush campaign — does indeed hold this mindset won’t improve the fortunes of its candidates.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough commented on the recent strength of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in recent polling, especially now that he has been on top of most polls for 100 consecutive days. Scarborough

The latest poll from ABC News and the Washington Post has Donald Trump still firmly in the lead at 33 percent, Ben Carson ticking up a bit in second place at 22 percent, and Senator Marco Rubio likewise edging up a few points for third place at 10 percent.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argued that “I think I could have stopped it” in reference to the September 11th terrorist attacks, “I would have taken him [Osama bin Laden] out,” and that “Iraq…turned out not to be the right

The New York Times previews Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer’s upcoming e-book Bush Bucks, an investigation of crony capitalism between the Bush political dynasty and its business connections.

Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld weighed in on the dispute between Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush over former President George W. Bush’s responsibility for September 11th by saying Trump “has managed to pull

Republican presidential candidate former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee argued it’s “as ridiculous as saying that George Bush had something to do with Hurricane Katrina” to say that former President George W. Bush had anything to do with 9/11 on Tuesday’s

GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is defending Donald Trump after backlash from the media and fellow GOP candidate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on his comment about 9-11 happening under President George W. Bush.

On Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough reacted to an interview posted on Bloomberg Politics with Mike Murphy, the head of the pro-Jeb Bush super PAC Right to Rise USA. In that interview, Murphy says some disparaging things

On Tuesday’s “New Day” on CNN, Republican presidential front-runner defended his response aimed at his GOP opponent former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), who had claimed in a debate earlier this month that the country was kept safe under former President

A top supporter of Gov. Jeb Bush is saying the GOP’s 2016 frontrunner, Donald Trump, is “dead politically” and won’t be President of the United States, despite being at the top of the polls. Trump is “a false zombie front-runner. He’s dead politically, he’ll never be president of the United States, ever,” Mike Murphy said in an interview with Bloomberg Politics.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump reached 41 percent approval in the latest national poll by Morning Consult of 2,017 registered voters, and 40 percent among 770 self-identified Republicans. When the 770 Republicans were asked to identify their second choice, Trump nudged over 50 percent with a gain of 11 points.

Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson are the favorites among GOP voters in the sunshine state, according to a Florida poll conducted by the University of North Florida (UNF), which found Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush not faring so well in their home state.

Republican presidential candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush criticized the Clinton administration’s approach to Osama bin Laden, and Republican fellow candidate Donald Trump’s foreign policy while also declaring, “We can’t take 250,000 refugees” on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News

Former Republican president George W. Bush told donors that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is his brother Jeb Bush’s most “formidable” opponent in the GOP primary, according to Politico. The attendees reported that Bush said “I just don’t like the guy.”

Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum weighed in on the spat between fellow Republican candidates Donald Trump and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush over former President George W. Bush’s involvement in 9/11 on Monday’s “After the Bell” on the

MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews praised Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for bringing up George W. Bush in relation to 9/11 and Trump “awakened us all to the fact that Jeb said something that just

GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush is defending his brother, former President George W. Bush, against GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s reminder that 9-11 occurred under George W. Bush’s watch. But the International Business Times (IBT) reports the hijackers on 9-11 actually obtained Florida drivers licenses – or I.D. cards – while Jeb Bush was governor, which allowed them to disappear into society.

Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh argued that while Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks about George W. Bush and 9/11 were “a vehicle” to “focus attention” on immigration, Democrats picked his comments up in a “bogus” attempt to clear Democratic

Danny Diaz, Campaign Manager of Jeb Bush for President, spoke Monday at the International Conference For Political Communications, which took place at the Academy of Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Breitbart News reached out to the campaign to ask why Mr. Bush’s top campaign official was in Germany this week in the midst of a hotly-contested campaign season.