True, the Bush name could be a liability, but probably less so against an equally dynastic opponent like Hillary Clinton. (Or, for Bush critics, running him would foolishly hamper the Republicans’ ability to make hay over the ascension of a hereditary Clinton monarch.) Jeb Bush had vast financial resources, a political organization second to none, gubernatorial experience, and all the Establishment support anyone could ask for.
With the Iowa caucuses less than two months away, presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to dominate the field of candidates in the Republican primary race, but because Ben Carson has plummeted to third or fourth place in most of the national polls, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio have surged and could pose to challenge Trump’s top-dog status.
A new national poll from Monmouth University finds Donald Trump opening up a massive lead for the Republican nomination.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said if the Republican Party tries to prevent a candidate from winning the nomination that the establishment GOP is not happy about with a brokered convention, he is “out
During this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” on NBC, comedian actor Will Ferrell as former President George Bush came on stage to announce his candidacy to run for president again. In doing so, Ferrell blasted some of the GOP candidates. “Bush” mocked
During this week’s “Saturday Night Live” on NBC, Kate McKinnon came on as Greta Van Susteren in a mock-“On the Record.” As a guest, “Greta” welcomed Ted Cruz, played by Taran Killam, who called the United States Constitution his “close
2016 candidate Sen. Rand Paul warned GOP leaders that the party will split if the establishment launches a convention battle against the presidential candidate favored by the GOP’s grassroots.
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson slammed leaders of the Republican Party for a private meeting held this week, recently reported on by the Washington Post.
The Seven Stages of Grief are usually rendered as shock, denial, bargaining, guilt, anger, depression, and acceptance. The GOP Establishment’s emotional train is just pulling into Depression Station, and it will tarry there awhile before chugging reluctantly on to Grand Acceptance Junction.
A Fox News poll shows Donald Trump with 35 percent support in the South Carolina primary, putting him far ahead of his GOP rivals.
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s campaign is dismissing claims that they are pulling ads in Iowa and South Carolina.
This week on “Fox News Sunday,” Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said that simply having a lot of foreign policy experience is not necessarily a good thing when one considers Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has had the most of
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.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued that if one of the perpetrators of the San Bernardino attack passed background checks, that should end the conversation” about Syrian refugees and President Obama’s agenda “is not to protect the American people”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) hosted a press conference Thursday in Jersey City, condemning GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson on “Islamophobia” a day after two Muslims suspects massacred 14 people and injured at least 21 others in San Bernardino, California.
Several mainstream media reporters criticized GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson for the way he pronounced “Hamas” during his speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
Following the heinous December 2 attack that resulted in the deaths of 14 innocents in San Bernardino, CA, the New York Daily News ran a front-page story mocking GOP presidential hopefuls who prayed to God rather than calling for more gun control.
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.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) slammed Republicans Wednesday as a party of “hatred and division.”
The latest poll from Qunnipiac confirms Donald Trump is maintaining a solid lead over the rest of the Republican pack, with Ben Carson slipping a bit, and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida moving into second place.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is bashing GOP presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Dr. Ben Carson for denying that climate change poses a threat.
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson ripped the Obama White House for it’s call for Turkey to shut down its southern border with Syria while seeming to have little concern over the United
Republican strategist Karl Rove says Donald Trump has a chance to win the Republican presidential nomination.
On the November 29 airing of Face the Nation, Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson suggested the Planned Parenthood shooting shows that pro-lifers should “tone down their rhetoric.”
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” after meeting with Syrian refugees in Jordan, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said it was his belief Syrian refugees there wanted to be back in Syria. Discussing what he learned, Dr. Carson said,
Sources close to Dr. Ben Carson are pushing back on what they say is a false narrative being offered by GOP establishment consultant Karl Rove, in which Rove is attempting to give off the impression he is helping Carson to take on 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will announce next week that he is being endorsed by a coalition of 100 black pastors and religious leaders, reports say.
Pundits expected the terrorist attacks in Paris to shove the GOP’s primary race towards national-security debates and to boost the experienced pols, including Sen. Marco Rubio.
Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson is slamming Hillary Clinton’s new policy of no longer using the term “illegal immigrant.”
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson “is now hurt with the renewed interest after Paris, because he clearly doesn’t know anything about foreign policy” on Tuesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Krauthammer said,
A national survey by Pew Research Center reveals how distrustful the American public feels about the media; 65 percent say the national news media impacts the country negatively.
Monday, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson backed his opponent Donald Trump assertions that thousands of people in New Jersey cheered the World Trade Center coming down on September 11, 2001. An ABC News reporter asked, “Dr. Carson were American
In an interview from Cedar Rapids, IA with CSPAN’s Steve Scully taped over the weekend, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, reacted to an attack from the field’s current front-runner, Donald Trump. Carson
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd attacked the Republican presidential candidates for “playing on the politics of fear.”tics Todd said, “The Paris attack was roundly criticized for being tone deaf and dispassionate. The Republican presidential candidates have been
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” when challenged on his commander-in-chief experience, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said political experience is not necessarily the best because in medicine. Host George Stephanopoulos asked, “There has been a lot of focus this
This weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” on NBC opened with a mocking of “Fox & Friends” with Taran Killam playing Steve Doocy, Vanessa Bayer playing Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Bobby Moynihan playing the role of Brian Kilmeade. The faux “Fox & Friends” brought up the
HBO host Bill Maher argued GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s Seventh-day Adventist faith is “kind of a deal breaker for me” and complained that “the stupid media never asks Jesus freaks running for office two questions, do you believe the
Ben Carson’s comparison of Islamic jihadists, like the ones who killed 130 people in France last week, to “rabid dogs” is now being framed as a gaffe by reporters at the Washington Post.
The new poll shows that Trump’s support has gone up to 28 percent among Republican and independent voters who lean Republican. Meanwhile, Carson is now tied with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at 18 percent.
MOBILE, AL — Under recognizable Secret Service protection, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson addressed a crowd of a few thousand people at the University of South Alabama’s Mitchell Center Thursday.
