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White House: All GOP candidates should disavow Donald Trump

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The White House says any Republican presidential candidate too scared of the GOP political base to condemn Donald Trump shouldn’t be president. White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Trump’s plan to bar Muslims from entering the U.S. is disqualifying. He says every Republican presidential candidate should say that they wouldn’t support Trump if he is the GOP nominee. Earnest described Trump’s campaign as a “carnival-barker routine.” The White House is deeming Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims as harmful to the United…

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Donald Trump shrugs off GOP rejections of proposal to ban Muslims

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Donald Trump is standing by his call to block Muslims from entering the United States, even as the idea draws condemnation from rival Republican presidential candidates, party leaders and others as un-American and potentially dangerous. “I don’t care about them,” Trump told CNN Tuesday in a telephone interview, when asked about denunciation by GOP leaders. “I’m doing what’s right.” Trump’s call on Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” has drawn an unusually forceful…

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Jeb Bush spends millions on TV but has yet to rise in GOP race

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Jeb Bush and his allies are spending circles around his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. Yet for all the money they’ve invested — $26 million on television ads alone — they’ve yet to see a substantial return. Having fallen from summer front-runner to autumn afterthought, the former Florida governor made deep spending cuts to his campaign operation in October. But he and his backers plowed ahead with a television blitz three times the size of anyone else’s, while putting…

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Donald Trump to campaign in Sarasota on Saturday

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Republican presidential candidate front-runner Donald Trump returns to Florida for a campaign rally on Saturday. Trump’s rally will be held at the Robarts Arena in Sarasota, beginning at noon. He last visited Florida last month when he made stops before large crowds in Miami and Jacksonville. The latest statewide poll shows Trump leading with 36 percent, followed by Marco Rubio, 18 percent, and Ben Carson at 15 percent. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was in fifth place with 8.9 percent.…

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GOP candidates disavow Donald Trump’s call for Muslim database

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Republican presidential candidates on Friday swiftly condemned Donald Trump‘s call for requiring Muslims in the United States to register in a national database, drawing a sharp distinction with the GOP front-runner. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called Trump’s proposal “abhorrent.” Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Trump was trying to “divide people.” And Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has largely avoided criticizing Trump throughout the 2016 campaign, said that while he’s a fan of the billionaire businessman, “I’m not a fan…

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Donald Trump says he would consider closing certain mosques

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he would consider closing U.S. mosques with radical leadership because of the Paris attacks if he were elected president. “I would hate to do it, but it’s something that you’re going to have to strongly consider,” Trump told MSNBC in a telephone interview Monday. Trump and his rivals have been working to articulate how they would respond to last week’s attacks, which killed 129 people and left hundreds wounded. Trump, who has been pushing…

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Jeb Bush nabs high-level Congressional endorsement from Luke Messer

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Indiana U.S. Rep. Luke Messer — the House’s fifth highest-ranking member — endorsed Jeb Bush in his 2016 campaign for the White House on Friday. Messer chairs the Republican Policy Committee. He praised Bush for his know-how and bona fides as a reformer. “I’ve watched this primary carefully and believe Jeb Bush is uniquely qualified to lead our nation out of the morass created by the current administration,” said Messer in a statement. Though some two dozen other members of the House have endorsed…

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