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In lead up to Iowa, Jeb Bush wins endorsements from three former governors

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Less than 48 hours from the Iowa caucuses, Jeb Bush‘s campaign announced endorsements from three former governors: Frank Keating of Oklahoma; Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho and Rhode Island’s Lincoln Almond. Bush, who served as Florida governor from 1999 through 2007, also won praise Thursday in an op-ed penned by Mike Johanns, the former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. senator and governor of Nebraska. Johanns’ editorial appeared in the Daily Nonpareil, based in Council Bluffs, Iowa. According to campaign officials, the trio of…

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Marco Rubio attacks Hillary Clinton, not GOP rivals, in Iowa

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Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio sprinted toward the Iowa caucuses Sunday, avoiding direct confrontations with his opponents and instead, projecting a vision that looks more toward the general election. The Florida senator was in Cedar Rapids and Waterloo, part of a nine-day blitz across the state, campaigning with confidence to audiences numbering in the hundreds, as preference polls showed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and billionaire businessman Donald Trump ahead in Iowa. Iowans will vote in the country’s lead-off contest on…

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Marco Rubio betting on a long-haul strategy to win nomination

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Under pressure to emerge as the Republican mainstream’s presidential contender, Sen. Marco Rubio is increasingly relying on a national strategy as he lowers expectations for February’s primary contests. He’s betting big that Republican voters across the political spectrum will ultimately coalesce behind his candidacy in the state-by-state slog for delegates his team envisions for the months ahead. It’s a strategy fraught with risk for Rubio, who’s still fighting to break out among the pack of candidates looking up at New…

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At debate, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz assert their standing atop Republican field

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The rivalry between the Republican Party’s two leading candidates for president intensified in Thursday’s debate, which featured the most rollicking action to date. Yet rising tensions between billionaire businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz left little space for any of the other candidates to make an impression. With less than three weeks until Iowa’s leadoff caucuses, the renewed focus on the two candidates leading most preference polls suggests the overall shape of the 2016 contest may be solidifying…

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Marco Rubio shifts immigration focus to national security concerns

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Marco Rubio is increasingly portraying immigration as a national security issue rather than a question of what to do with millions of people in the country illegally, a sign of his evolving stance on a topic that remains one of his liabilities with conservative voters. “The issue is not the same one we had a few years ago,” Rubio told voters recently in New Hampshire. “This issue’s different now; we have radical jihadist groups that are using our immigration system…

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Inside the New Hampshire pitch to those who don’t want Donald Trump

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For all the passionate support Donald Trump has amassed in New Hampshire, many Republicans and independent voters are just as passionate about not voting for Donald Trump. They are an enticing target for the pack of Republicans off the front-runner’s pace, who seek to turn a second-place finish in the nation’s first primary — or maybe even an upset win — into validation they’re the candidate best able to challenge the brash real estate billionaire in South Carolina and beyond.…

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Ted Cruz, Donald Trump up in Iowa, but talk of “takedown” effort fades

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Three weeks before Iowa kicks off the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are generating overwhelming enthusiasm among Republican voters in the state, along with concern, though not panic, among the party professionals who believe both are unelectable in November against the Democratic nominee. Despite such fears, talk of a “takedown” effort aimed at either Trump or Cruz appears to have faded as the Feb. 1 caucuses in Iowa near. For now, there is nervous acceptance that two…

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