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The New York Post reports that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is trying to position himself to the left of Hillary Clinton, hoping that a groundswell of progressive support will lead to a “Draft de Blasio” movement.

Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) has filed paperwork for New Day for America, a 527 nonprofit group intended to “assist in fundraising as he seeks to raise his national profile ahead of a potential run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016,” according to this Hill report.

Scott Walker is no wedding crasher. Barack Obama? Not so much.

According to a Politico report, “To many graphic design experts of both political stripes, Hillary Clinton’s new logo would be better off in the trash bin.”

When asked if speaking “truth to power” can get someone elected to the White House, said Christie, “I don’t know but if I run we’re going to find out because I’m not changing.” Also as to electability, he said, “I’m a Republican in New Jersey, come try that for a couple days,” pointing out that his state hasn’t elected as Republican to the U.S. Senate in 42 years.

Former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is the first high-profile speaker at the New Hampshire Republican Party’s “First in the Nation” leadership summit.

“Reporters Outnumber Voters as Hillary Clinton Opens Campaign in Iowa,” National Journal reports.

A Watchdog.org story claiming New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie avoided tax liabilities on a significant amount of money designated for official use is rapidly gaining traction in new media.

It’s no secret that after extremely significant and early buzz, too early perhaps, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been struggling to get back in the flow of the now ongoing Republican presidential primary.

While Republican Senator Marco Rubio may want to usher in a new generation in American politics, his slogan, which appeared on the front of his podium today, is hardly that.

With news that former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton intends to run for the White House in 2016, Republican Senator and presidential contender Ted Cruz reacted with a statement and video calling her out over her “failed policies” while in office.

The mainstream media may or may not give her a pass, but today was the first day of Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House in 2016, and it was a massive communications failure.

Is Bill de Blasio “ready for Hillary?” It’s complicated.

Some in Brooklyn aren’t “ready for Hillary.” And they’re making their opinion known.

No doubt in preparation for her anticipated official campaign announcement on Sunday, Hillary Clinton released a somewhat new epilogue for the paperback version of Hard Choices, which the Huffington Post was undoubtedly more than happy to publish.

Presumptive Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is on the record in regards to transparency. Unfortunately for her, a new Bloomberg item points out that’s not quite the case.

On Thursday, a pro-Rubio independent Conservative Solutions PAC, or Super PAC, was launched to support what will be Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s run for the White House in 2016.

Dr. Ben Carson made a big impression on a skeptical crowd at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s annual convention in New York City.

Ohio is a battleground. Bill Clinton hopes to reduce that by deploying a retired former congressman to run for the Senate.

If you’ve donated a minimum of$25,000 or raised at least $50,000 for Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise PAC, you can stay at South Beach’s swanky new 1Hotel on April 26 and 27 to attend a gathering of Jeb’s top bundlers.

In a move that just might chafe Hillary’s sizeable campaign apparatus, Politico reports that former Rhode Island governor and senator Lincoln Chafee, who became a Democrat in 2013, has formed a presidential exploratory committee and promptly “became the first member of the Democratic

According to a Politico report, likely Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was scheduled to appear at the Clinton Global Initiative Middle East and Africa Meeting in Marrakech on May 5-7, thanks to “a major donation from a Moroccan government-owned company” to the Clinton Foundation.

Being a woman doesn’t matter to the Left if have the wrong political views. Ask Sarah Palin, or Carly Fiorina.

The Sierra Club, backed by $50 million from Michael Bloomberg, will spend some $60 million, toward the goal of shuttering “half of all coal plants in the U.S. by 2017.”

A new poll suggests Josh Romney might prove to be a tough primary candidate for otherwise popular Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee. But there’s no indication from Romney he’s even interested in running, and since Lee is very popular in the state, it’s doubtful any challenge would be effective.

While Team Hillary in waiting is discounting whiskey glasses, newly announced 2016 candidate Rand Paul has launched his own campaign store.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told Univision he’s effectively “sightless” in his right eye despite over eleven hours of surgery after what he’s claimed was “a brutal exercise injury” he sustained at his home in Nevada.

Dr. Ben Carson spent part of his Easter Sunday popular New York R&B radio station WBLS, and on that Holy day he generated some headlines with his comments on faith.

As a new Monmouth University poll points out, while there’s “no single contender breaking from the pack,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie finds himself falling further behind, leading to a slew of bad headlines in his home state.

A new Quinnipiac poll has embattled Pennsylvania Democrat, Joe Sestak, dropping three points to Republican Pat Toomey on the heels of Sestak’s 422 mile walk across Pennsylvania as a means of kicking off his potential run for Toomey’s Senate seat.

As the reports on Rolling Stone’s journalistic fiasco make clear, author Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Rolling Stone’s editors failed to do the right—and professionally appropriate thing—time after time. Had they done anything akin to due diligence, the now-retracted mess of a story would never have seen the light of day, let alone have been enshrined in print.

Sen. Ted Cruz was the first into the presidential race, now he’s the first on the air. His Easter weekend ad features a religious theme.

Given former Representative J.C. Watts’ emphasis on minority outreach, along with Sen Rand Paul’s commitment to same, it should not come as a total surprise that Watts will reportedly endorse and share the stage with Paul when he formally announces his campaign.

As pointed out at the end of a two-minute NECN segment on Sen. Elizabeth Warren, even as she keeps repeating the “I am not running” mantra, she stops short of calling for an end to the Draft Warren movement when given the chance.

As the American economy sinks under a wave of underemployment and over regulation, progressives are gearing up to talk about income inequality.

In hopes of being able to immediately push back against any potentially misleading news reports coming from his early political meetings and events, Republican Jeb Bush’s ‘team in waiting’ is recording pretty much everything the likely candidate says, or does, in these still early days.