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In his 2016 CPAC address, Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) told his audience only a serious “principled, positive, proven” conservative candidate can win the general election.

According to a Politico report by Josh Gerstein, while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, former president Bill Clinton capitalized financially on “business proposals and speech requests” despite an existing ethical agreement.

Hillary Clinton used a paid speaking engagement and subsequent question and answer session at a Silicon Valley conference for women Tuesday to begin testing out her policy positions prior to the expected launch of an official 2016 campaign for the White House.

Public Policy Polling (PPP) numbers have Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker emerging as “a clear leader in the race for the first time,” according to a new release.

With a drop in popularity at home in New Jersey and negative national headlines for comments about vaccinations and travel habits and expenses, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appears to be reverting to a format that has helped his image in the past – the local town hall meeting.

Republican Jeb Bush wished his wife a happy 41st wedding anniversary with an old wedding photo via social media on Monday. Unfortunately, the likely contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination only has one photo of the big day.

Pennsylvania Democrat and likely Senate candidate Joe Sestak tweeted out a link to a dubious New York Times hit piece on Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Wei-Hock Soon.

A high-ranking New York Police Department official tells the New York Post that an expensive training program introduced by Mayor Bill de Blasio after the Eric Garner controversy has been “a big disappointment on the backs of the city because they’re paying for this course” to the tune of $35 million dollars for what many believe is a “waste of time.”

Calling Sen. Rand Paul’s rhetoric regarding the Federal Reserve “dangerous and irresponsible,” the Wall Street-backed establishment GOP is pushing back on what’s become a Paul talking point.

The Washington Post’s Robert Costa reports Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is in Washington, D.C., this weekend for the National Governors Association’s winter meeting. While there, he’ll also be meeting with Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist and other influential Republicans in his circle.

Claiming Republicans are “bamboozlin’ folks” for advocating tax cut policies to spur job growth, a “derisive” Barack Obama gave what the New York Daily News called “a red meat speech,” “preaching to a political choir at the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that Wisconsin Republicans plan to move forward with right-to-work legislation, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is now on record saying he’ll sign the legislation should it pass.

Calling it a ‘bubble’ around him, the New York Times reports that a fair number of one-time supporters of New Jersey Gov Chris Christie are either frustrated with the potential national candidate’s seemingly out of touch political team or have already moved on to other potential options for 2016.

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that donations from foreign governments to The Clinton Foundation were now not only being accepted, they’re on the rise just as the former First Lady is preparing a run for the U.S. presidency.

Saying Americans are “ready to fight back,” The Hill reports that “Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) acknowledged the effort to draft her in 2016, saying that progressive groups want her to run…”

While conceding that perhaps he “should have chosen different phraseology,” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is standing by Rudy Giuliani over controversial comments about President Obama the former mayor made at a New York City dinner party featuring Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker.

With Hillary Clinton looking to become the first female president of the United States, women voters are likely to emerge as an even more critical voter demographic than usual. That would explain why she seems to be going hard at messaging in that area so early in her effort, even prior to any official campaign launch.

A report suggests that while Jeb Bush was deliberately keeping a low political profile during the last two years, he was actually busy planning the equivalent of a “shock and awe” campaign to win the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 in the event he opted to run.

For those who genuinely remember former President Ronald Reagan and his administration, supply-side economics was a lynchpin of his presidency, and high-profile supply-side economists like Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, and Stephen Moore were considered key parts of his team.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush distanced himself from his family’s political heritage during a Chicago speech on Wednesday.

Is Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the current DNC Chair, considering a bid for U.S. Senate?

A Politico report claims she’s thinking about it.

Depending on which new poll you prefer, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is either up big, or extremely competitive in Iowa. Both polls are good news for his camp.

Claremont McKenna College student Lucas Agnew has decided to launch a PAC for Jeb to counter Hillary’s support amongst college students.

President Obama teed off again Monday, keeping his plans for three days of golf in California while violence erupted around the world. Photographers were not allowed to cover the game.

The New York Times dutifully, because Jeb Bush is a Republican, offers a long list of favors and advantages he took for himself as a member of his prominent political family. It ranges from large to small, with something of a humorous item buried down the rabbit hole of the end of the article.

If David Brock’s goal is to push back against negative coverage of Hillary Clinton, he has only increased it this week, fueling the media meme that Hillary Clinton is a divisive figure incapable of running a cohesive campaign.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released a statement applauding the FBI investigation of the murders of North Carolinians Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Deah Barakat on behalf of NYC’s “large and vibrant Muslim communities.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has taken his strong opposition to Barack Obama’s push for new net neutrality rules to another media level.

Following a number of bad headlines over an extended period of time, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s popularity among voters in his home state has taken a steep drop, seven points over two months, according to a new Rutgers-Eagleton poll.

Hillary Clinton may think she has all the time in the world before officially declaring her candidacy for the Democrat nomination. But not everyone agrees with her, including many Democrats.

The media isn’t overly interested in certain Obama college records he’s opted to not release, but they somehow found enough curiosity to look into Republican Scott Walker’s time in school—even going so far as to find teachers willing to discuss his grades.

Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) appeared determined to stay on his topic, when facing questions from the press in the United Kingdom on Wednesday.

Eight senior staffers at the New Organizing Institute (NOI) resigned after an appeal to the board to fire the group’s Executive Director Ethan Roeder, who was Obama’s top data guy during both of his campaigns.

Hillary Clinton’s current fundraising effort appears to be off to a slow start.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the first Republican to open an office in Iowa.

Newly-hired Jeb Bush campaign chief technology officer (CTO) Ethan Czahor is under fire for past tweets that referred to women as “sluts” and mocked gay men, but others have surfaced that have a racial bent.