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N.H. GOP Issues Petition Urging Democratic Superdelegates to Vote for Sanders

Strange bedfellows have emerged in the 2016 presidential race, as the New Hampshire Republican Party has launched an online petition urging superdelegates in the Democratic Party to vote for Senator...

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Paul Krugman: Sanders Needs to Distance Himself from ‘Fantasy Economics’

Nobel Prize winning, progressive-leaning economist Paul Krugman said in an op-ed on Wednesday that the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign needs to distance itself from unrealistically rosy...

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Charles Koch Says ‘Bernie Sanders Is Right’ on Criminal Justice, Corporate...

Billionaire Koch Industries CEO Charles Koch says he agrees with U.S. Senator from Vermont and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders “that we have a two-tiered society that increasingly...

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Bush Drops Out After Donors Spend over $100 Million on 2016 Campaign

After a disappointing fourth-place finish in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary, former Florida governor Jeb Bush announced on Saturday that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican...

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Sanders Criticizes Two-Party System for Blocking Competition from Third Parties

At Thursday’s televised town hall among Democratic presidential candidates presented by MSNBC and Univision, Democratic presidential candidate and independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders...

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Trump Rips Cruz for Not Showing Up to Vote for Audit the Fed

2016 Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday to criticize rival candidate and Sen. from Texas Ted Cruz for his decision to skip a key vote on...

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Congressman Justin Amash Endorses Ted Cruz for President

Libertarian-leaning Republican Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan’s third congressional district was an early and loud supporter of Sen. Rand Paul’s quest for the Republican nomination in 2016. Now,...

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Rubio Says He Opposes Prostitution But Would Not Support Federal Ban

2016 Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator from Florida Marco Rubio took a states’ rights position on prostitution while campaigning on Monday in Nevada, where the world’s oldest...

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Jesse Ventura Says He May Run for President If Clinton Is Nominated Over Sanders

Former independent Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, who says he is leaning towards supporting U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders for president in 2016, indicated that he is considering getting...

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Ex-CIA Chief: ‘American Armed Forces Would Refuse to Act’ If Trump Ordered...

“I would be incredibly concerned if a President Trump governed in a way that was consistent with the language [on military tactics] that candidate Trump expressed during the campaign,” said former...

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GOP Sen. Ben Sasse Says He Will Vote Third Party If Trump Wins Nomination

In an open letter on Facebook which called Donald Trump supporters “well-meaning” and “right to be angry,” Republican U.S. Senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse said that he “cannot support Donald Trump” and...

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Trump’s Tea Party Leaders Ready To Win

The Donald Trump doctrine doesn’t fit neatly into any particular ideological box. He doesn’t agree 100 percent with the Republican platform, nor do his plans for economy fit perfectly within the...

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CNBC Silent So Far on Criteria for Next GOP Debate, Host Says ‘Goal’ to...

CNBC has yet to clarify the candidates’ criteria for inclusion in its upcoming economy-focused Republican presidential debate on October 28 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. However,...

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Romney Says He Would ‘Write In a Name’ or Vote Third Party If Trump Wins GOP Nod

Following last Thursday’s speech in which former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican nominee for president Mitt Romney attempted to rally Republicans against Donald Trump’s candidacy for the...

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Federal Reserve Governor’s Clinton Donation Raises Questions About Fed...

Federal Election Commission records indicate that Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard has contributed a total of $750 to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign over three different donations, which...

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Bloomberg Says He ‘Could Not Win,’ Will Not Run for President in 2016

Billionaire business magnate and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had previously said that he was considering running for president, announced on Monday that he will not launch an...

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Clinton on If She Would Drop Out If Indicted: ‘I’m Not Even Answering That...

At Wednesday’s presidential debate presented by CNN and Univision, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attempted to downplay the seriousness of an ongoing Federal Bureau of...

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Texas Republican Party Chairman to Step Down for Job on Rand Paul’s 2016...

Republican Senator Rand Paul’s presumptive 2016 presidential campaign just scored a major victory in its quest to win the prized Lone Star State. Despite the fact that Texas Senator Ted Cruz and the...

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Jeb Bush Supports NSA Surveillance Program to “Keep Us Safe”

Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida and rumored 2016 GOP Presidential candidate, defended the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program on Wednesday, calling it “hugely important” in the...

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CPAC Straw Poll Winner Rand Paul Battles The Bush Machine—Goldwater Style

WASHINGTON, February 28, 2015—As the winner of the past three Conservative Political Action Committee’s (CPAC) Straw Polls, Senator Rand Paul excels at generating meaningful political and economic...

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