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The latest GOP debate saw a slight uptick in ratings on Thursday night — especially if you factor in both of the networks tuning in. Shared by CNN and Telemundo, the debate grossed an overnight rating of 9.9 among metered market households, with a 9.0 rating for CNN's coverage a 0.9 rating for Telemundo's. With final numbers, the debate fetched 14.5 million viewers. That's up 1 million from the most recent debate. For a Republican debate, it's also the strongest of 2016. It just edges past the recent weekend affair on CBS, which had a 9.3 overnight rating that ultimately...

Regarding tonight's debate, it was a good night for both Cruz and Rubio because it helped them change the narrative. Cruz has had a bad couple of weeks in that department, but tonight should guarantee he wins Texas and a lot of the delegates there. And frankly that's more important to him than winning close states elsewhere and here's why -- the proportional delegate allocation. For example, in 2012 Santorum won 11 states but only 245 delegates total, or just about 80 more than Ron Paul. The game is delegates, not states (see my previous post on this today). Cruz...

Trump faced yet another MSM/D.C. orchestrated political debate ambush in Houston. Nearly every politician on the stage, the media, the audience, which was stacked with Bush's, lobbyist, influence peddlers, donors and media, were all gunning for Trump. And America once again saw this for what it was. The entire event was about getting rid of Trump and keeping everything in D.C. business as usual. But it's not going to happen for them. And the dozens of polls I've seen, very much support Trump overwhelmingly. I am slowly regaining hope for America. How must have Trump seen this when he entered...

The American people have weighed in on who "won" last night's GOP debate, and it's not even close. Donald Trump, according to an Independent Journal Review poll conducted by Google Consumer Surveys. Trump: 43.6% Rubio: 29.7% Cruz: 12.1% Kasich: 9.7% Carson: 5.0% (The poll also named Ben Carson as the candidate Americans most wanted to exit the race). Trump is the GOP frontrunner, having won 3 of the first 4 primaries, and he goes into Super Tuesday as the favorite nationwide.

Thursday on MSNBC following the Republican presidential debate hosted by CNN, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews suggested the campaign for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) had planted a “squealer” to react positively on Rubio’s behalf whenever the Florida senator offered a response.

The Libertarian Party of Mississippi is hosting the first Libertarian Presidential debate featuring 11 of the 12 announced candidates! The first video is the teaser video created by our organization at the request of LPMS Chairman Aaron Barksdale. The second video is the livestream which will also be featured on http://mslp.org/debate/.

Who won the Thursday, 2/25/2016, debate? Donald Trump Marco Rubio Ted Cruz I don't know. John Kasich Ben Carson

Wolf Blitzer and his fellow moderators questioned the winner of the past three nominating contests over everything from his unreleased tax returns to his horrendous polling numbers among Hispanics. Trump, though, remained largely calm throughout the night, giving nearly as good as he got during two-plus hours on the Houston stage. He didn't win every individual skirmish, but with more likely victories awaiting him on Super Tuesday, he won enough to leave Texas in the same position that he arrived: as the clear front-runner.

Is it over yet? Meanwhile, when we last tuned in at the Nevada Caucus, Donald Trump was terrifying the inept fools at the RNC who still haven’t figured out that a massive, populist uprising is taking place among the electorate. The GOP establishment is going to keep up the dirty tricks to ruin Trump all the way to Trump’s arrival at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now, after blowing 150 million on the inept candidate, Jebediah Bush, they’re going to pour millions into the Rubio campaign, in what will be another feeble attempt to turn an Honorable Mention candidate into the first...

So i'm watching the debate here, folks, and watching the Donald talk Winning! What do you folks -- there seem to be s many Trumpers here -- what do you make of this?

The five remaining Republican presidential candidates -- Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich -- will take part in Presidential Debate Number 10 on Thursday night. WHEN IS THE NEXT REPUBLICAN DEBATE? Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. WHERE IS THE DEBATE: The University of Houston's Moores Opera Center in Houston. WHAT TIME IS THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE: The debate begins at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time. WHERE CAN YOU WATCH THE DEBATE? The debate will be aired on Telemundo and CNN. HOW CAN YOU WATCH THE DEBATE LIVE ONLINE? The debate will be streamed live on go.cnn.com and also...

The debate will be carried live in Spanish via Telemundo, the only Spanish-language network to be sanctioned by the Republican National Committee, with questions likely to focus on issues facing Texas and southern states as well as the Latino community.

Houston (CNN)Everything's bigger in Texas -- and that's true of the stakes at CNN's Republican debate in Houston at 8:30 p.m. ET Thursday night, just days before Super Tuesday.

Sign up for tickets to the GOP presidential debate (yes... another one) in Salt Lake City on March 21. Trump and Cruz folks - we have to counter the Utah GOP that supports the Cabana Boy.

Trump to Skip Another FOX News Candidates Forum!Fox News announced their next GOP event today, a town hall style event hosted by Megyn Kelly.Four GOP Candidates will attend — BUT NOT DONALD TRUMP The two-hour voter summit taking place in Houston, The Kelly File: Face to Face With Candidates, will feature the four additional remaining Republican candidates, according to Fox News. Those men are Dr. Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. John Kasich, who will join the event via remote. Audience members will pose questions to the candidates who will be onstage one at a time,...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Republican National Committee announced it will be holding a presidential debate in Salt Lake City in March. The debate, which will be held on March 21 in Salt Lake City, was decided upon by the RNC's Debate Committee after the committee met on Saturday and decided another debate would be beneficial to the selection process. The March debate will be the first presidential debate the state of Utah has hosted. "Look at the punch Utah has nationally in Republican circles. The Republican committee recognizes that," Utah GOP Chairman James Evans said. "Utah has become a...

Donald Trump topped the first poll released Monday following the cage match debate on Saturday night. Trump leads all candidates by 17 points in the Palmetto State. All that 'Dubya' bashing didn't appear to hurt the GOP frontrunner much with South Carolina voters.

Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump leads GOP field in South Carolina by 22 points ahead of the next  GOP primary, according to a new poll. The CBS News “Battleground Tracker” poll released on Sunday morning shows Trump with 42 percent support. He’s followed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) with 20 percent support, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) with 15 percent support and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), who has seen a small surge after his second-place showing in New Hampshire, with 9 percent support. Cruz wins a plurality of voters who describe themselves as “very conservative,” but trails Trump among...

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mmediately after Saturday night's Republican debate, CBS News interviewed a nationally representative sample of debate watchers assembled by GfK's Knowledge Panel who identified themselves as Republicans or independents. Thirty-two percent of these debate watchers say Marco Rubio won the debate, beating out Donald Trump (24 percent) and John Kasich (19 percent), who are ranked second and third, respectively. Further down on the list are Ted Cruz (12 percent), Ben Carson (8 percent), and Jeb Bush (5 percent). The gloves come off in the CBS News Republican debate Republican debate: Donald Trump promises to cut use of profanity Marco Rubio is...