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Look who’s speaking Spanish: Republican 2016 contenders bring bilingual abilities to campaign

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Republicans are bringing something unique to the 2016 presidential campaign: an ability to speak to Americans in both of their main mother tongues, Spanish as well as English. Democrats can’t match it. Previous GOP candidates couldn’t. But now, paradoxically, the party that’s on the outs with many Hispanic voters over immigration is the party that has serious presidential candidates who are surefooted in their language. It remains to be seen how much Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio will use their…

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New Hampshire Republican voters relish crowded field

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For New Hampshire Republicans, the early days of the 2016 presidential campaign feel like an embarrassment of riches. The state’s notoriously fickle, independent-minded voters are relishing a wide-open Republican race and are in no hurry to crown a front-runner. Nearly 20 potential candidates — senators, governors, business executives and more — have paraded through the state in recent days to curry favor with voters and court party leaders. “The more, the better,” said Jim Blake, a Republican from Londonderry. The…

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Hillary Clinton patches relations with liberals at campaign’s outset

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This time, Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to be on liberals’ good side. As a presidential candidate in 2008, she opposed gay marriage, equivocated on granting driver’s licenses to people who were living in the U.S. illegally, and endured heavy criticism from rival Barack Obama on her stance on campaign finance. During the opening week of her second presidential campaign, Clinton showed she had retooled her positions to line up with the views of progressive Democrats. On Monday, she called for…

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Presidential contenders woo New Hampshire voters

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3:40 p.m. (EDT) Ohio Gov. John Kasich would like Republican voters in New Hampshire to hold off committing to a presidential candidate while he decides whether to become one. “Think about me, would ya?” he asked a roomful Saturday. “Don’t commit too soon.” “Let us all have a chance to breathe and get out.” The governor said he’s still mulling things over. “I’m trying to figure out what the Lord wants me to do with my life,” he said. “If…

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White House hopefuls gather in New Hampshire

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11 a.m. (EDT) Just down the street from the big gathering of Republican presidential hopefuls in Nashua, N.H., a leading Democratic voice is saying that all those Republican voices are the same. “With all of their shared extreme views they might as well just be one,” said Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. Wasserman Schultz says she’s in New Hampshire to draw a contrast between Republican and Democratic candidates. She says each Republican would take the country…

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Marco Rubio tells supporters he is running for White House

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Sen. Marco Rubio entered the presidential race Monday by offering the nation a younger generation of leadership that breaks free of ideas “stuck in the 20th century,” a jab at both Democratic favorite Hillary Rodham Clinton and his one-time Republican mentor, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Standing in front of a banner that proclaimed “A New American Century” and repeating that refrain throughout his kickoff speech, the 43-year-old Cuban-American used his first turn as a Republican presidential candidate to take…

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Hillary Clinton’s decision: The long road to a second campaign

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Around Christmas, Hillary Rodham Clinton set off on her annual holiday vacation at Oscar de la Renta‘s beachfront estate in the Dominican Republic. It was a somber and serious time for Clinton. De la Renta, whose relationship with the former first lady had blossomed from dress designer to close friend, had recently died and Clinton wanted to be there to support his widow. She was also wrestling with a final decision on whether to run for president. She arrived at…

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