Senator Rand Paul heads to Iowa today for the start of what amounts to a presidential exploratory tour, one that’s bucking some party orthodoxy as he mulls a 2016 bid and seeks to expand his base beyond the limited-government Tea...
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A grain bin is relocated near Sumner, Iowa.
Paul Talks Farm Subsidies Ahead of Iowa Trip
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at a joint press conference on November 4, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Christie Confronts 2016, Springsteen’s Bouncers, Fleece Jokes
The key to Chris Christie’s success? It must be the fleece. The New Jersey governor, a 50-year-old-old Republican who made headlines yesterday disclosing his secret weight-loss surgery, poked fun at his purported 2016 White House ambitions and the now-famous monogrammed...
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Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with her husband former president Bill Clinton as they attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center on April 25, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.
Bill Clinton: Hillary 2016 Speculation Waste of Time
Bill Clinton says it’s a waste of time to speculate about his wife’s ambitions for 2016. “That is the worst expenditure of our time,” the former president said today at a 2013 Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peterson Foundation. Hillary...
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Vice President Joe Biden at the South Carolina Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson Dinner May 3, 2013, in Columbia, SC.
Cruz, Biden: Early Eyes on Second-Tier Race, New Attacks, Old School
Republican Ted Cruz, as our friends at Politico point out this morning, will be roughly the same age as Democrat Joe Biden was when he launched his first campaign for president in 1987, should the freshman senator from Texas declare...
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In this frame grab from video, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio takes a sip of water during his Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, on Feb. 12, 2013,
Rubio Intervenes in Florida Primary Move
Sen. Marco Rubio was behind a last-minute change on the final day of Florida’s legislative session to move the state’s presidential primaryelection into compliance with national party rules. Rubio, a Republican, might well be on that ballot. But that’s not...
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Former Florida governor Jeb Bush autographs his new book 'Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution' before speaking at the Reagan Library on March 8, 2013 in Simi Valley, California.
Jeb Bush’s ‘Best Kept Secret’
“The success of conservative principles is the best kept secret in American politics,” Jeb Bush writes. And it’s all a matter of communication, he says. If what the Republican Party has here is a failure to communicate, the former Florida...
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Sen. Rand Paul introduces his father, Republican presidential candidate Rep Ron Paul on January 2, 2012 in Davenport, Iowa.
Rand Paul’s Ron Paul Advice
Like father, like son? Not if he knows what’s good for him, some are saying of Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky — suggesting that, for all the popularity his father enjoyed in his bids for a presidential nomination, he’ll need...
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Rand Paul Eyes 2016 as Reaching Out on Immigration, Race
It’s never too early for prospective presidential contenders to court their party’s core voters, and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky batted his eyelashes a bit today at a breakfast with reporters in Washington. He is “considering it,” the Tea...
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Republican Immigration ‘Hall Pass’ — 2016 and 2014 Explain it All
Early this morning, a bipartisan group of eight senators who have been working behind closed doors for months on the sort of comprehensive immigration overhaul that President Barack Obama has been seeking filed their bill in the Senate. Later this...
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Members of Newtown, Ct. clergy set up more than 3,300 grave markers on the Mall during a 24-hour vigil to support the gun violence legislation.
Senate’s Gun-Control Rebels: 16-2
What do Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Roger Wicker of Mississippi have in common? The same thing that Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mark Begich of Alaska have in common. They bucked their parties today in allowing...
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