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Following a weekend of campaigning in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush plans to return to his former hometown of Houston Tuesday for a fundraiser. A spokesman declined to release details about the event, but it was advertised as a breakfast reception with a steep price of admission: $2,700 per person.

At the CNN Democratic town hall Monday night in Des Moines, Iowa Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley spent two hours answering voters' questions. One particular attendee who noticed the majority of the questions were aimed at domestic issues pivoted the discussion to foreign policy when Clinton was on the stage. This voter explained that, while he hadn't been fully committed to voting for Clinton next year, he said he was "gung ho" about her after watching all 11 hours of her testimony in front of the Benghazi Select Committee in October. At one point, he quipped that he...

Cruz is at 19% nationwide; no one else hits double digits WASHINGTON (CNN) —Donald Trump has hit a new high in the race for the Republican nomination, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, with more than 4-in-10 Republican voters nationwide now saying they back the billionaire. And more than two-thirds of Republicans say he's the candidate most likely to capture their party's presidential nomination. Trump has topped the 40% mark for the first time in CNN/ORC polling, standing at 41%. That more than doubles the support of his nearest competitor, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who notches 19% support in the...

I have never, ever had anyone tell me that he had too much ammunition. Not in a combat zone, not in a civil disaster, not even in peacetime. Never. Nor have I lived through a time where our governing class was so deeply corrupt, so utterly foolish, and so dangerously focused on the perpetuation of its own power that it risked bringing down everything we have built not merely in the United States but in the entire West. Right now, if you are watching the news, you have questions about the future. And the answer to all of them is...

During CNN's Democratic Town Hall Monday night, only one of the three candidates was asked about his age: Bernie Sanders. In response, Sanders touted his good health. Chris Cuomo did not ask Hillary Clinton, who is about 6 years younger than 74 year-old Sanders, about her age.

The Iowa Republican Caucus is a two-man race going down to the wire with Donald Trump at 31 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 29 percent among likely Republican Caucus participants, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is at 13 percent, with no other candidate above 7 percent.

Businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are in a virtual tie in Iowa where the primary season kicks off next Monday at the caucuses. A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday found 31 percent of likely GOP caucus goers in Iowa back Trump, a few points ahead of Cruz, who received 29 percent support. The poll found 13 percent back Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and no other GOP presidential candidate received more than 7 percent support. These results are unchanged from the last poll conducted in mid-January. SNIP The Quinnipiac survey polled 651 likely Republican caucus goers between...

How stupid and vicious do they think we are? That's a question that I think explains a lot of things about politics and society today -- and about this year's unpredicted presidential race. The "us" in that question are ordinary citizens and the "they" are political and media elites who hold them in contempt -- which they do over and over again by trying to obfuscate and cover up the source and motives of terrorist attacks. Barack Obama, who refuses to use phrases akin to "Islamist terrorism" is a prime, but far from the only, offender. His predecessor, George W....

Hillary Clinton took a swing at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump during Monday night’s CNN town hall in Iowa. “It’s a great country, despite what one of the Republicans says,” Clinton said during a vague answer to a question about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) socialism.

Elizabeth Warren must have been asleep. Otherwise General Electric, her arch enemy, would never have dared come into Warren's backyard, let alone announce that it was planning to transfer its headquarters to Boston. What a windfall for Boston. What an embarrassment for Warren.

Gregory III Laham, the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem and All the East, has proudly declared: “We, the Arab Christians, always defend Islam and our Muslim brothers – no one defends Islam like the Arab Christians do.”

With less than a week until the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump is facing an 11th-hour barrage of negative advertising - with a new anti-Trump group spending more than $1 million in a last-ditch effort to defeat him. Our Principles PAC, a newly formed super PAC set up by a former top aide to Mitt Romney, is set to begin airing a TV ad in Iowa that calls into question his devotion to conservative positions - and asks Iowa voters bluntly, "How much do we really know about Donald Trump?" The ad, which invokes Trump's past statements on hot-button issues like...

Commentator and former Fox News host, Glenn Beck is all in for Ted Cruz. After battling Trump and being forced to apologize to billionaire candidate Donald Trump, Glenn Beck has been on the warpath to promote Trump's closest competitor, Senator Ted Cruz. This past weekend, Beck, who has been known for his erratic behavior over the years, told The Hill that he prefers democratic candidate Bernie Sanders over Trump. That's not the craziest statement the Beck has made in his career by a longshot. In 2010, Beck reportedly told his audience that Obama was put in place in a conspiracy...

As ISIS rises, Democrat politicians forge down a slippery slope to destroy America’s First Amendment and prohibit all discussion of Islamic terrorism. After the San Bernadino ISIS-inspired terrorist attack, which left 14 dead and 22 others injured, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, America’s top law enforcement attorney, explained that her biggest fear was not more ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks, but “the rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric."

I've never attended an Iowa Caucus, and so I thought I'd research the process and describe it here. I would recommend that you view a short video by The Des Moines Register. I'm not allowed to post it here. So I'll post it below. IF THERE ARE ANY IOWA FREEPERS OUT THERE PLEASE WEIGH IN ON THIS DISCUSSSION. Basically speaking, the republicans do it one way, the democrats do it another way. HOW IT STARTS At 7 PM (CST) both parties meet, (in different locations)in all of Iowa’s 99 counties, in schools, veterans’ halls, other large venues and even homes....

If the Presidential election were held today and it was against the two leaders, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, it could very well be a virtual tie. The latest Zogby Poll has the two party leaders stuck in a mathematical tie at 45% each. "This headline is actually correct to the tenth of a percent," said John Zogby about the headline reporting on the poll that was conducted January 19th and 20th online. "The new poll shows a 16 point gender gap with Mr. Trump leading among men 50%-42% and Mrs. Clinton ahead among women 48%-40%." The poll also shows...

With the Iowa caucus less than a week away, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain the strong front-runners of their respective parties nationally. Trump maintains his lead with 39% support among Republican and Republican-leaning voters - a full 20 points higher than any other Republican candidate. On the Democratic side, Clinton is holding steady among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters at 51% - she maintains a 14-point lead over Sanders, who has 37% support nationally. These results are according to the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll conducted online from January 18, 2016 through January 24, 2016 among a national sample...

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Presidential candidate Donald Trump talks to CNN's Wolf Blitzer about his fellow presidential candidates and what he would do if he's elected.