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New poll has Donald Trump leading nationally – another has him up in NH and close in Iowa

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A week-and-half before the first major Republican presidential debate takes place , Donald Trump continues to be the biggest phenomenon in the race. A new CNN/ORC national poll has Trump leading the field with 18% support. Jeb Bush is just behind at 15%, within the poll’s margin of error. They’re joined at the top by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who gets 10 percent support. None of the other 14 candidates in the race get double-digit support in the national survey. And Trump is also running…

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Bobby Jindal’s jab at Jeb Bush not first to mock his comment on ‘losing the primary to win the general’

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On the first day of December of last year, Jeb Bush made a comment at The Wall Street CEO Council meeting that reverberates more than half a year later. Arguing for a more centrist GOP, Bush said a nominee should “lose the primary to win the general without violating your principles.” It was a bold statement, indicating that the former Florida governor wouldn’t be pandering to the base to win the nomination. The comment has angered some Republicans, who thought it a…

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Support for Jeb Bush grows in new WSJ/NBC News poll

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Potential support for Jeb Bush has edged upward in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released on Sunday, with the share of Republican primary voters who said they were open to his candidacy rising to 75 percent in June from 70 percent in April and just 49 percent in March. Preliminary numbers from the survey, which will be released in full on Monday night, also show that Marco Rubio has the highest margin of support among Republicans, with 74 percent who could see themselves…

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Jeb Bush sends out Happy Cinco de Mayo message en Español

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Don’t tell Laura Ingraham, Steve King, or some other Republican immigration hardliners, but Jeb Bush is commemorating Cinco de Mayo. Bush recorded a video message Tuesday to the entire U.S. Hispanic community, “and especially to our fellow Americans of Mexican origin,” as he says in the video. “Cinco de Mayo is an honorable date when Mexico, our neighbor, bravely defended itself against a foreign intervention,” he says. Although that event is confused in this country as somehow being Mexican Independence Day…

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Charlie Crist v. Marco Rubio makes cover of NYT mag

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The fiery Senate primary race between two Florida Republicans will be the cover story for this Sunday’s NYT Magazine, reports NBC News. That would be former House Speaker Marco Rubio and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. An excerpt from the article: “It is not uncommon for a party out of power to undergo an identity crisis and an internal bloodletting, and it is [Florida governor Charlie] Crist’s bad luck that his race in 2010 fits the frame of a philosophical debate…

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Karl Rove donates $1K to Marco Rubio

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Over the past few weeks, Florida GOP Gov. Charlie Crist has found himself being put on the defensive more and more in the primary thanks to the challenge by ex-state House Speaker Marco Rubio. While Crist has financially overwhelmed Rubio to date, there are many Republicans — particularly those in Flordia that are close to former GOP Gov. Jeb Bush — who have publicly become more comfortable airing their skepticism about Crist in public. One of those Republicans with close…

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