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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Rick Santorum at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida, on Aug. 28, 2012.
Friess Checkbook Ready for Santorum
Investor Foster Friess’s $2 million in contributions to the super-political committee backing Rick Santorum was crucial to allowing the former Pennsylvania senator to continue his candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. If Santorum runs in 2016, Friess says, he’ll...
Read more »Bowles: One-in-Three Chance of Deal
One in three. That’s how Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s fiscal commission and a former White House chief of staff for Bill Clinton, rates the chances of approval of an agreement this year to avert the so-called fiscal...
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Mitt Romney during a Juntos Con Romney Rally on Sept. 19, 2012 in Miami.
Club for Growth: ‘Uncertain’ Expectations for Romney Presidency
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola says that, while his group views Mitt Romney as a better choice than President Barack Obama, it has “uncertain” expectations should the Republican candidate win the White House. “We don’t really know” whether Romney’s...
Read more »Pelosi: Obama Right Hitting Congress
President Barack Obama is right to run for re-election with rhetoric against the Congress, according to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. “He should be running against Congress,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Charlotte...
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