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Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson has made his choice for president: Ted Cruz.

Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau hints that Americans should expect a Reagan-style speech from President Obama during tonight’s State of the Union address.

Vice President Joe Biden admits he thinks Donald Trump could win the presidency.

“The message that Donald Trump’s putting out has had adherence a lot of times during the course of our history,” Obama told Matt Lauer. “You know, talk to me if he wins. Then we’ll have a conversation about how responsible I feel about it.”

It’s been another tough week on the campaign trail for the Republican establishment as Chris Christie and Marco Rubio have begun attacking each other on the campaign trail. Both candidates are fighting to be the establishment choice in New Hampshire, while outsiders Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are leading the polls.

Rubio has dramatically increased the number of campaign events to kick off the new year, crisscrossing early primary states with fundraisers in key big cities that help fund their increased spending. He has abandoned frugalness to fund a private jet for his campaign use.

Vice President Joe Biden says that he has spoken privately with three potential Republican presidential nominees who have expressed their frustration with the current state of the presidential race in their party.

As the new year kicks off, Republican presidential candidates are scrambling to New Hampshire to make their case to voters – and to their political donors – that they belong in the race.

New York real-estate developer Donald Trump has dominated the Republican nomination campaign for months — but his strongest support doesn’t come from any of the organized blocs in the Republican party.

Establishment donor Stan Pate — the Marco Rubio contributor, Democrat donor and friend of Jeb Bush responsible for anti-Trump skywriting over Pasadena’s Rose Parade and three New Years Day Bowl games — says his assaults on 2016 Presidential candidate Trump aren’t nearly over.

Josh Kraushaar at National Journal writes:

With the dawn of 2016, there is hope that the long presidency of George W. Bush will finally be over.

A 2016 calendar and a cologne inspired by Russian President Vladimir Putin are the latest items for sale that Russians can purchase in order to “celebrate” him.

On January 1, California residents will have to accustom themselves to a number of new laws that will be implemented in the state. Here are some the laws that will likely have the most profound effect:

During a live Morning Joe interview aboard a campaign bus in New Hampshire Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took a shot at his opponent Marco Rubio for his absence in the state.

“With Senator Lindsey Graham’s announcement, Republicans lost our most qualified, thoughtful, fearless and honest presidential candidate, not to mention the candidate with the best (and it seemed sometimes the only) sense of humor,” McCain said in a statement after Graham’s announcement, lamenting that the “bifurcated debate structure” kept the South Carolina senator from reaching a wider audience.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie mocked Sen. Rand Paul for his increasingly negative campaign after a primary debate where he repeatedly challenged the New Jersey Governor and Sen. Marco Rubio.

It’ll be a David versus Goliath primary showdown between Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward and five-term incumbent John McCain. Ward recently upped the ante by announcing that as of December 15 she will step down from her position in the Arizona legislature.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush picks up the endorsement of another longtime Republican establishment moderate, with the announcement of Sen. Thad Cochran’s support. The Mississippi Republican is currently serving his seventh term in the Senate.

Sen. Rand Paul’s amendment would have designated 33 countries as “high risk” and placed moratoriums on refugee resettlement and visa issuance to nationals from those countries until the Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Director of National Intelligence certify and new processes to identify security risks.

During a fundraiser in Orange County, California 2016 Presidential hopeful Ben Carson weighed in on the San Bernardino terror attack suggesting a “moratorium” on bringing “suspicious” foreign nationals to the United States.

As Donald Trump’s lead amongst Republic presidential candidates shows signs of faltering, conservative blue-on-blue attacks will exponentially increase as those who feel they have the most to gain from the fall of “the Donald” position themselves against their rivals for the candidacy crown.

The latest Reuters tracking poll shows neurosurgeon Ben Carson jumping back into 2nd place in the race for the GOP nomination.

The 2016 presidential race is undergoing a sweeping reconfiguration, with national security taking on new prominence following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and the downing of Russian fighter jet by Turkey that has the U.S. and its allies calling for calm on both sides.

A drawn out Great Recession in the U.S. over the course of Barack Obama’s Presidency is prompting businesses to outsource operations to Mexico and contributes more to Mexicans leaving America than arriving, according to a new Pew Research study. If Pew estimates are accurate,

In our last epistle from the Bottomless Pit, we mocked the presidential ambitions of three Republican hopefuls: Jeb!, Ben Carson, and Donald Trump. And if you don’t like it, what’re you gonna do about it—tell us to go to hell?

A new poll shows that minorities, millennials, and single women are less interested in upcoming Senate elections than Republican-leaning voter groups.

Supporters of the self-proclaimed socialist Senator from Vermont and Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders have launched a new line of underwear they are calling “Bernie’s Briefs.”

Republican candidate Jeb Bush’s poll numbers have dropped to the single digits in the latest Quinnipiac survey, the first national poll released since last week’s third Republican presidential debate.

Chris Christie’s campaign is using a New York Times editorial calling for the New Jersey governor to drop out of his presidential race as an excellent opportunity to raise some more money.

Just last month, Republican Party officials scurried into Trump Tower to extract a loyalty pledge from a certain unpredictable billionaire real estate mogul turned presidential candidate.

The DSCC, the campaign arm of the Senate Democrats raised $12.4 million in the 3rd quarter filing period, but it is struggling with a $13 million debt load.

Vice President Joe Biden contested today that he, not Hillary Clinton, is the one who is closest to Obama and has more influence on his decisions in the White House.

Rick Santorum told those who attended a presidential forum in Texas that “Washington can work again with someone who is a conservative. The former senator and congressman from Pennsylvania touted his ability to work with Democrats to get things accomplished. He said that the White House is no place “for on the job training.”

When his Democratic opponents were ranting about how the United States should not have gone to Iraq, recycling talking points from the first few years of the last decade, Jim Webb, the former U.S. Senator from Virginia, articulated a vision for the future of America’s role in the world.

In one of the controversial highlights of the night at Tuesday’s first Democratic Party Presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton claimed that she is an outsider because she is a woman.