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Marco Rubio to address Detroit Economic Club next week

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Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio will address the Detroit Economic Club next week. It’s the Florida senator’s first visit to Michigan since he announced his candidacy. Rubio will speak Aug. 20 at the economic club’s luncheon in a hotel in downtown Detroit. Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Rand Paul have made multiple trips to Michigan this year. Bush and Kasich also addressed the economic club. Seventeen Republicans are running. Michigan’s primary is March 8. Republished with permission of the Associated…

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A look at the big GOP post-debate winners and losers

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Carly Fiorina seems to be the biggest winner in polling since the GOP debate last week, says Harry Enten of fivethrityeight.com. “She gained ground in every poll taken after the debate,” he writes. “In five of the seven polls, the gain was six percentage points or more.” Scott Walker was the biggest loser. “This one surprised me a little, but the polling is clear. Walker is the only candidate who lost ground in every single post-debate poll.” Donald Trump gets a…

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New Rasmussen national poll has Donald Trump still up, but down 9 percent after debate

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“Has ‘The Donald’ Peaked?” That’s the headline of a new national public opinion survey of Republican voters from Rasmussen Reports that was released Tuesday afternoon. The survey shows New York City real estate magnate Donald Trump continues to lead the crowded GOP field of presidential candidates with 17 percent support. That’s a nine-percentage- point drop from a similar poll taken approximately two weeks ago and before last week’s debate, which had Trump up with 26 percent support nationally. The new survey has…

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Donald Trump continues to lead in polls from Iowa and nationally

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An online Reuters/Ipso poll of 278 self-identified Republicans taken after last Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate continues to show New York City real estate magnate Donald Trump dominating the GOP presidential field nationally. The survey has Trump at 24 percent, double the support of the next closest Republican, Jeb Bush, who is at 12 percent. That’s down from 17 percent from a Reuters/Ipso poll done before the Cleveland debates. Four candidates are tied for third with 8 percent support, including Marco Rubio.…

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Donald Trump defends record on women as presidential rivals pile on

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Donald Trump doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon, so his rivals are scrambling to figure out how best to handle the blowback from every new bout of bluster drowning out their campaigns. Lead the charge, if you’re the sole woman in the Republicans’ White House race and trying to crack the top tier for the next debate, by questioning Trump’s ability to withstand the pressure of the presidency. Belittle Trump’s claim to be a truth-teller by arguing that…

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GOP steels itself for uncertainty in White House race

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Republicans are steeling themselves for a long period of uncertainty following a raucous first debate of the 2016 presidential campaign. There are no signs that Thursday’s debate will winnow their wide-open field anytime soon. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Before the campaign got underway, Republican Party leaders developed a streamlined set of debates and a nomination calendar that aimed to avoid a messy fight. But few envisioned a field of 17 candidates, the explosion of outside money that…

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USF St. Pete political scientist Darryl Paulson says Donald Trump was GOP debate’s biggest loser

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Donald Trump was last night’s biggest loser in the first official GOP presidential debate heading into election season. That’s according to USF St. Pete political scientist and professor emeritus Darryl Paulson. “People watch [debates] not to see who wins, but to see who crashes and to me the guy who hit the rail last night was Donald Trump,” Paulson said during an interview with this reporter on WMNF’s Midpoint political talk show. Paulson described a long history of debate moments that…

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