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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says GOP front-runner Donald Trump must decide "how serious a candidate he wants to be," after failing to correct a questioner who said President Obama was a Muslim and not a U.S. citizen. "I wouldn't have permitted that," Christie responded when asked how he would have handled the same situation. "I would correct him. I'd say that the president's a Christian and he was born in this country. Those two things are self-evident." Thursday night in New Hampshire, in front of about 3,000 fans, the first questioner told Trump, "We have a problem in this...

According to a new CNN poll, almost one third of Americans now believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim. The poll found 39% of respondents thought Obama Protestant/Christian, 29% thought him a Muslim, 11% believed him to be non-religious, 4% thought him a Catholic, 2% thought him a Mormon, 1% thought him Jewish, 1% believed him something else, and 14% had no opinion. College graduates appeared to be the group most inclined to believe Obama’s protestations that he is a Christian; 63% took Obama at his word. Only 28% of those without a college degree believed Obama to be telling...

She says this on a podcast with Fox colleague Chris Stirewalt. Dana: Do you think any of them run as a third party? Stirewalt: No, Paul has been a loyal foot soldier for Mitch McConnell, he ain't gonna do that. And Ted Cruz ain't gonna do that. Could Trump still -- he's not gonna get -- Dana: I don't think it would be Trump. Stirewalt: Who would it be? Dana: I'm gonna hold my cards. She advertised this on The Five and gave a big Chessire Cat grin like she's not speculating, like she knows something. So: Who? Well, first...

A global warming activist named Megyn asked Trump what he'd do "to reduce pollution which is causing climate change." Or something like that. A train wreck ensues. ("Calm down fellas") By the end, Trump basically answers her quesiton by saying "Oh, you believe, how cute. Next question."

WASHINGTON -- The relatively rare moments of economic analysis and political outreach in the second Republican debate -- Chris Christie talking about income stagnation, or Marco Rubio lamenting the "millions of people in this country living paycheck to paycheck," or Ben Carson admitting the minimum wage might require increasing and fixing, or Jeb Bush setting out the necessary goal of accelerated economic growth, or John Kasich calling for a "sense of hope, a sense of purpose, a sense of unity" -- only served to highlight the opportunity cost of the Trump summer. Let me recall a little ancient history, from...

1. CNN's format was awful. The entire effort was intended to instigate fights between and among the candidates. They wanted a brawl. The early part of the debate was the worst -- right out of the box, piling on Donald Trump. Like Trump or not, this is a Republican debate. As I've been saying for a while, when will the RNC stop turning over the GOP debates to the media? I find these debate formats demeaning of the candidates and not particularly informative. 2. Twice now Ted Cruz was treated as a third-tier candidate. He received very little time and...

Republican Donald Trump slammed the Black Lives Matter movement tonight on The O’Reilly Factor. Trump added the Democrats who support the mob movement, “Are not fit to run for office.” “I think they’re trouble. I think they’re looking for trouble. I looked at a couple of the people who were interviewed from the group. I saw them with hate coming down the street last week talking about cops and police and what should be done to them. I think that it’s a disgrace that they’re getting away with it. I think it’s disgraceful how they are being catered to by...

Immigrants create far more businesses than native born Americans over the last 20 years. Immigrants are more fertile. And they love families, and they have more intact families. They bring a younger population...

Jeb Bush revealed his intentions early in December and the money quickly poured in. Scott Walker made a big splash at a speech to social conservatives in Iowa in January. Marco Rubio jumped in the race with great fanfare in April. For the rest of the spring, the Republican primary race was the Bush-Walker-Rubio show, with the former Florida governor, the Wisconsin governor and the Florida senator dominating the polls. Each made a compelling case to the base, and each was viewed as acceptable to the party establishment. Then, on June 16, Donald Trump jumped in the race. As the...

Joining Lou Dobbs earlier this week, Former Texas Governor Rick Perry was asked to explain his stance on illegal immigration and border security. “I think we need to flesh everyone out from the stand point of of just the rhetoric. When somebody says, ‘let’s build a wall,’ then I think it’s appropriate to say, it’s good to have this conversation, it’s good that we are having this conversation that now for thirty years, this border has not been secured. We’ve known it’s been a problem,” said Perry. Dobbs interjected that he doesn’t believe a single candidate talking about immigration issues...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady — and the feeling may be mutual. “Tom wants to make American great again,” Barstool Sports writer John Feitelberg tweeted Saturday alongside an image of what is apparently Brady’s locker. Inside it is a red baseball cap with Trump’s campaign slogan.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here is Shari in Valparaiso, Indiana, as we stick with the phones here on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi, Shari. Great to have you here. CALLER: Hi, Rush, glad to talk to you again. RUSH: You bet. CALLER: I have a question for you. First of all, do you remember how people have been calling you over the months and they've been all depressed about the country and upset with the direction we're going and saying that, you know, they think America is over and stuff like that? And you said to them that you didn't know...

Fusion and Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos will speak to Fox’s Megyn Kelly tonight on Fox News at 9 p.m. EST about getting kicked out of Donald Trump’s Iowa press conference after trying to ask questions about immigration. Ramos told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America that Trump absolutely gave the security guard the signal to remove him from the press conference.

Is that headline not a fair characterization of what he’s saying here? In what sense was his “right” to question Trump at that moment any greater than any other reporter’s? He says at one point in passing in the clip below, “I thought it was my turn,” but that’s obviously not true. Go watch the video from last night if you haven’t seen it already. Ramos starts speaking as Trump is stepping to the mic, before Trump can so much as look at him. Trump calls on another reporter and Ramos just keeps going. What he wants to say is...

Donald Trump ridiculed Rick Perry and Lindsay Graham for attacking him saying, “It’s one of the greatest honors I’ve ever had in my life, everyone that attacks me goes down to 0.” Trump, appearing on “Fox & Friends” Monday, said that, “you know the amazing thing, everybody that’s attacked me, you look at Perry, you look at this guy Lindsay Graham, I mean vicious attacks, they all went down to zero and now they are getting out of the race.”

Keene, New Hampshire (CNN)Jeb Bush on Thursday defended using the term "anchor babies" after Democrats hounded the former Florida governor and his presidential rival, Donald Trump, for using the term this week. "No, I don't. I don't regret it," Bush said sharply, growing testy with a questioner while talking to reporters. Pressed further, a more agitated Bush fired off: "No, do you have a better term? OK, you give me, you give me a better term and I'll use it. I'm serious." Interestingly, it was an answer that Trump gave almost verbatim the night before, also in New Hampshire, when...

On FOX Business' Mornings with Maria, presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke with host Maria Bartiromo about building the "Great Wall Of Trump." DONALD TRUMP: You know, interestingly, the wall on southern border, it's - really, if you think it's 1,000 miles but it's 2,000 miles, but a lot of it - some of it's done - it's done poorly by the way, what they have done is very poor, very poor work, a very poor job, and very -- not much of a wall. But you also have natural terrain which is automatically a barrier, which is a good thing....

Fox News host Dana Perino said during “The Five” Monday that she “would love to see” co-host Jesse Watters personally enforce what she called an “asinine” immigration policy he endorsed on the program. Watters and said that he was a fan of presidential candidate Donald Trump’s immigration plan, adding that it would perhaps be a good idea for the real estate tycoon to offer amnesty to those who went down to the border and helped him build his wall. Perino contended on the program that Trump’s plan was not feasible, also criticizing the candidate for saying he would revoke the...

Friday night on CNN, top GOP consultant Rick Wilson attacked 25% of Republican primary voters as “low information voters.” Saturday morning, Breitbart News reported this fact and argued that attacking our own voters as stupid might not be the key to victory. Monday, quite incredibly, Rick Wilson used a threat of rape against his own daughter as a political talking point to attack Breitbart News:

Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican, released a statement Sunday praising the immigration proposal from presidential candidate Donald Trump. ""This is exactly the plan America needs," said Sessions. "Not only would the plan outlined in this paper work, but more quickly than many realize. Most importantly, this plan reestablishes the principle that American's immigration laws should serve the interests of its own citizens. For too long, 'immigration reform' plans in Washington have served the special interests at the expense of working Americans." Sessions goes on to say that Trump's plan puts "working Americans foremost" and puts an emphasis on lifting...