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GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s spokesperson Deana Bass told Breitbart News that fellow GOP candidate Donald Trump was right – CNBC planned to have a much longer debate until Trump and Carson negotiated it down to two hours, despite CNBC’s John Harwood arguing the debate was always going to be only two hours.

The consensus winner of the CNBC GOP Debate in Boulder, Colorado was Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in second. But New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie deserved the “most improved” award with a performance that could vault him back into serious contention.

Donald Trump was doing well at the GOP Debate on Wednesday evening until a blunder in which he claimed not to have called Marco Rubio “Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator.”

After Sen. Ted Cruz lashed out against the Republican debate moderators at CNBC, Comedian Bill Maher celebrated on Twitter.

BOULDER, Colorado—GOP presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum went after fellow GOP presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on the issue of increasing legal immigration, arguing that Graham’s position hurts the American worker.

As reports of a runaway military blimp filled cable news, MSNBC turned the coverage over to their breaking news reporter Brian Williams.

BOULDER, Colorado—The RNC divided up workspaces for each of the GOP presidential campaign staffs during Wednesday night’s GOP primary debate hosted by CNBC in Colorado—but the workspace for each campaign wasn’t quite equal, according to one Republican political consultant.

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 2016 candidate Carly Fiorina says Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton “flunks economics” if she believes the economy is better with a Democrat in the White House. “Whose economy is she talking about? The middle class has shrunk under the Obama administration,” Fiorina responded in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

The underlying dynamic of this primary is grassroots Republican voters expressing their dissatisfaction with an elite that views them with contempt. Confirmation that the GOP Establishment — embodied by the Jeb Bush campaign — does indeed hold this mindset won’t improve the fortunes of its candidates.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign is furious with 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump over Trump’s comments that the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened on Bush’s brother former President George W. Bush’s watch. But a review of the basic facts of the situation—and Jeb Bush’s own writings— reveals that even the Bushes admit that “leaky” immigration enforcement was a major driving factor in leading to the terrorist attacks.

Because Democrats are so rarely asked to qualify their support for abortion, they don’t have good answers to even the most obvious questions.

Political public policy polls may not be the best criteria to set presidential debate standards, according to several experts who explained their skepticism in detail with Politico and with whom Sen. Rand Paul’s communications director agrees.

While it may lack the size and luxuries of Aaron Spelling’s famed 56,000 sq. ft. mansion, actress Emily Blunt’s former residence is now up for rent on the lodging website Airbnb, and it is giving renters a chance to see how well America has treated the British-born leading lady.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina’s campaign is calling a report by MSNBC “absurd” after the reporter, whose wife works at Planned Parenthood, tried to discredit and challenge Fiorina’s statement about the Planned Parenthood videos at the second GOP primary debate.

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 Gov. Mike Huckabee tells Breitbart News exclusively that he wanted to jump into the discussion about Social Security and Medicare during the second GOP primary debate hosted by CNN, because “it touches every American.”

CARLY for America, a PAC supporting GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, put out a video after mainstream media reports challenged her statement at the second GOP primary debate hosted by CNN about the undercover Planned Parenthood videos with a fetus

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is ahead of fellow GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump in a new poll among New Hampshire voters.

It was a chastened Donald Trump that met CNN’s Chris Cuomo on the stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library after Wednesday’s night’s marathon GOP debate.

SIMI VALLEY — Retired neurosurgeon and presidential candidate Ben Carson responded to California Gov. Jerry Brown over climate change in the spin room at the GOP debate Wednesday night.

From my really great position, playing a bit of Romper Room, I was able to look down and see the “VIP” section. There was a host of big GOP establishment money types (not a whole lot of clapping for Trump from that last group).

Thursday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest criticized Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate by saying it seemed like a “tough day at the airport” with a “dozen people in suits, who were lined up in kiosks

SIMI VALLEY — Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump had an unexpected source of support outside the GOP debate Wednesday: a member of the Teamsters union.

The second GOP debate is over and inevitably you have argued with family members… you have waged war on Twitter….you have lost friends on Facebook… all in a futile effort to talk sense into so many people who watched the exact same debate but incomprehensibly did not see what you saw.

SIMI VALLEY, California — GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is ahead in the polls, but a new study shows he dominated the focus of the second GOP presidential primary debate Wednesday evening, as roughly 44 percent of the questions asked of the candidates involved or referenced Trump.

SIMI VALLEY, California — Following the primetime segment of the second GOP presidential primary debate hosted by CNN, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s senior communications advisor Hogan Gidley said he thinks the Governor “crushed it” with what little time he was given.

SIMI VALLEY, California — Former GOP presidential candidate and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann called out GOP presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on his immigration stance, as she live tweeted the second GOP primary debate.

Wednesday after CNN’s Republican presidential debate, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, author of “¡Adios America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole,” decline to walk back a tweet she had made about what she deemed to be pandering by

Conservative author and columnist Ann Coulter ignited a social media firestorm Wednesday evening when she tweeted about “f—ing Jews” during the GOP debate, mocking the candidates’ focus on Israel.

SIMI VALLEY, California — Republican presidential contender Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana told Breitbart News on Wednesday evening in the spin room of the GOP Debate that he sees the importance of fostering a stronger relationship between the United States and India, particularly as China’s influence grows in the region.

During the September 16 GOP debate, host Hugh Hewitt asked Jeb Bush if he supported states confiscating guns when a family member expresses concern about the mental state of a particular gun owner. Bush said he not only supports it but that “we need to encourage that kind of involvement.”

Former Sen. Rick Santorum bet most of his chips on the immigration issue during the Wednesday night GOP debates, likely gambling he can win some of Donald Trump’s pro-American supporters over the next few weeks.

Hundreds of journalists covered the GOP debate from the media filing center at the Reagan Presidential Library–and it seemed they could not get enough of frontrunner Donald J. Trump’s onstage performance.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) cracked a joke about California’s drought at the start of the GOP debate on Wednesday evening.