2016 Republican Candidates

The city of Cleveland, Ohio has bought insurance in anticipation of large scale rioting at this summer’s Republican National Convention, Shane Ferro reports at the Huffington Post. He also begins to lay out a media narrative that Republicans may to blame for some potential violence.

Nearly two dozen Hispanic celebrities say they have signed on to an open-letter urging the Latino community to reject Republican presidential candidates because they are “pandering to the anti-immigrant base of the Republican Party.”

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump took swipes at fellow GOP candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during a campaign rally in New Hampshire Friday morning following Fox News’s GOP primary debate in Iowa, where Trump said Cruz “got pummeled.”

GOP presidential candidate former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore is still in the race for the Republican nomination – despite his zero percent support in the polls – but he has missed at least 14 state filing deadlines, which means his name won’t be on the ballot in those states when people go to vote.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump tops the GOP field with 39 percent in a new CNN/ORC poll released today, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) a distant second at 18 percent.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is suspending his presidential campaign, after failing to gain any traction or gain any support–even in his home state of South Carolina, the first primary in the south.

A new Morning Consult poll shows real estate mogul Donald Trump remains on top as the GOP frontrunner following Tuesday’s debate. Trump came in with 36 percent, down two percentage points since before the debate.

A WBUR poll in New Hampshire taken in the midst of Donald Trump’s comments about banning Muslims from entering the United States due to the risk of terrorism shows Trump’s proposal hasn’t damaged the GOP frontrunner. In fact, it may have helped increase his numbers.

Iowa’s Family Leader announced on Thursday that it won’t be endorsing any GOP presidential candidate before the Iowa Caucus, but it’s CEO, Bob Vander Plaats, issued an endorsement on Facebook for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

In a year-long analysis of ABC, NBC, and CBS morning newscasts featuring GOP presidential candidates, the Media Research Center (MRC) found “the broadcast networks have pounded the candidates with a blizzard of hostile and left-wing questions.”

Donald Trump leads the GOP field in South Carolina, according to a Fox News poll that shows Trump enjoys more than a 15-point lead over the next-closest Republican.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is leading the rest of the GOP field by roughly 20 points, according to a Reuters poll.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump came in 18 points ahead of the rest of the GOP field in a recent New Hampshire poll. Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) are gaining ground in New Hampshire, according to a new CNN/WMUR poll.

USA Today reports that 68 percent of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump supporters say they would vote for the real estate mogul even if he leaves the Republican Party.

Former New York Gov. George Pataki will not be on the GOP state primary ballot in Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas and Alabama, while former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore isn’t on the GOP state primary ballot in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Moments after President Obama finished his brief primetime address from the Oval Office on Sunday night where he repeated his strategy to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS), GOP frontrunner Donald Trump posted on Twitter, “Is that all there is? We need a new President – FAST!”

Five GOP presidential candidates provided specific ideas on how to prevent terrorist attacks, following the San Bernardino jihad shooting, while Democrats continue to push for gun control.

In the most recent CNN/ORC poll, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump leads the GOP field by 20 points with 36 percent, while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) jumped 12 points, moving in to second place.

GOP presidential candidates took to social media to express their thoughts and prayers for the victims and first responders involved in the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday. But the Democrat Party’s frontrunner Hillary Clinton took to Twitter to politicize the mass shooting.

Donald Trump is the clear frontrunner in the GOP presidential field as Dr. Ben Carson faded from second to third place, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. Marco Rubio moves into second.

More than 80 percent of conservative millennial primary voters are “more likely” to support Carly Fiorina, according to data collected during a recent presidential debate.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is endorsing GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), because King says Cruz “is the answer to my prayers, a candidate whom God will use to restore the Soul of America.”

The GOP 2016 rivals are split over whether or not the United States should accept additional Syrian refugees, but most of the candidates say the United States should not open its doors even wider.

Ten GOP presidential candidates spent their Halloween meeting with Iowa state voters at the GOP Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines, Iowa.

Heading into Wednesday’s GOP presidential primary debate, Dr. Ben Carson is throwing a heavyweight behind him – literally. UFC Champion Vitor Belfort endorsed the GOP presidential candidate on Tuesday after Carson visited Vitor and Joana Belfort’s gym and corporate facility.

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson moved up in Iowa to tie GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, but Trump remains the top pick among GOP voters in New Hampshire and South Carolina, according to a new CBS News poll.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the GOP frontrunner will not be the Republican Party nominee and that he will pick up Trump’s supporters when he gets out of the race.

GOP presidential candidate Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal aims to eliminate the corporate tax, an issue he addressed as he unveiled his tax plan Wednesday afternoon on a call with reporters where Jindal argued his plan simplifies tax code.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump maintains his lead in the early Republican primary states of New Hampshire and Iowa, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls conducted after the second GOP primary debate and Gov. Scott Walker’s withdrawal.

It’s almost like a love/hate story — a New York Times Magazine cover article describes how GOP frontrunner Donald Trump captured the attention of an anti-D.C., skeptical journalist.

Twenty-six Texas leaders are endorsing GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. The move comes as Fiorina returns to Texas, her home state, to speak at the National Women’s Business Conference in San Antonio.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) Chief Strategist Jason Johnson spoke exclusively to Breitbart News after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker suspended his campaign and encouraged other candidates to do the same to “clear the field.”

GOP presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker dropped out of the presidential race for the 2016 GOP nomination on Monday evening and encouraged other presidential candidates to do the same in order to narrow the GOP field.
Walker, once the favorite in Iowa according to July polls, recently dropped to tenth place in the Real Clear Politics average.

GOP presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will reportedly drop out of the 2016 GOP presidential race Monday evening.

Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) is endorsing GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for president. Paul’s campaign sent out a press release with the announcement and noted that Mulvaney will serve as the campaign’s Eastern States Co-Chairman.

Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) is endorsing GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. Jenkins will serve as Fiorina’s co-chair in Kansas, according to the Kansas City Star. Jenkins is ranked fifth among Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives.