Must Ted Cruz win the February 20th South Carolina primary in order to have a clear path to the Republican nomination? In a word, no. While a distant second to Donald Trump could prove catastrophic, that is highly...
Tag - New Hampshire Primary
Clint Cline
Is Hillary in Trouble After Losing N.H.? (VIDEO)
Frank Cannon is president of the American Principles Project and a respected conservative political strategist with over 30 years of experience. I think the interesting thing is [Hillary Clinton] has exacerbated the...
Frank Cannon
N.H. Says Take Your Pick: Angry Populist or Angry Socialist?
So complete has the Washington political culture of both parties bred a climate that favors insider power structure and cronyism (both corporate and political), that it’s no longer able to hide it behind smooth talk and...
In S.C. Showdown with Trump, Cruz Needs a Winning Economic Message
So South Carolina is where the titans clash: where Donald Trump (clearly) is going to try to knock Ted Cruz out of the race, and where Cruz urgently needs to show he can go toe-to-toe with The Donald in the South before...
Maggie Gallagher
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After New Hampshire: Donald Trump vs. Ted Cruz
I want to take a look at each of the candidates in the Republican presidential field following Donald Trump’s rout in the First in the Nation primary state of New Hampshire. In a nutshell, I believe the race effectively...
Shane Vander Hart
Three Things to Watch For in N.H.
We correctly predicted the story out of Iowa would be Marco Rubio, as this Vox article details about his virtual tie with Donald Trump: What happened next? There was a massive wave of media coverage about how...
Kasich, Sanders Hold Early N.H. Leads as First Towns Vote
The tiny town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire — population of twelve — accompanied by two other small communities in the area cast the first votes of the New Hampshire primary when the polls officially...
Daniel Nichols
New Hampshire Decides — Four Things to Watch For
So now it comes down to the voters of New Hampshire. Despite the “Live Free or Die” motto, New Hampshire Republicans are not especially libertarian. They are just among the most moderate of Republicans...
How Can Rubio Recover?
Before the New Hampshire polls close tomorrow night, Marco Rubio should do two things — first, he should clarify his “robo line,” and second, he should move on from it. Although Chris Christie hounded Rubio on...
Kevin Dawson
“Live Free or Die!” Will Ted Cruz Inherit the Rand (and Ron) Paul Voters?
Time Magazine reports on Ted Cruz’s embrace of the Paul “liberty voters” in New Hampshire. Subhead: “The Iowa Republican winner appeals by trumpeting the gold standard, privacy rights and limits...
Ralph Benko
Rubio Won Saturday Night’s Debate . . . Electorally, Anyway
Okay, I have to admit it. Saturday night was rough for Marco Rubio. Even though he did an outstanding job appealing to social conservative voters — Rubio managed to specifically defend life and religious liberty in...
Jon Schweppe
How N.H. Common Core Moms Made Candidates Take Notice
New Hampshire is about to embark on a tradition like no other. We are about to go to the polls to elect a candidate in the primary election who will likely be a nominee for President of the United States. What most...
Ann Marie Banfield
Four Post-Iowa N.H. Polls Out
Four new polls taken since Donald Trump’s Iowa loss have now come out. They don’t really show Trump taking much of hit yet in New Hampshire, if you do poll-to-poll comparisons. ARG, for example, had Trump at...
Christie Attacks Rubio
New Hampshire is the last chance for Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and John Kasich to break into this race, and Christie is throwing down the gauntlet hard. Interestingly, he’s ignoring Ted Cruz and Donald Trump but...
Donald Trump Explodes on Twitter About His Loss in Iowa…
Donald Trump took a 13-hour break from Twitter after Monday’s Iowa caucus results where he finished second to Senator Ted Cruz. But now he’s back and . . . oh boy: My experience in Iowa was a great one. I...
Rubio’s Outlook Rising After Strong Iowa Finish
Last week, I wrote about Marco Rubio’s opportunity to rise in New Hampshire. It looks like this scenario might play out. With Ted Cruz defeating Donald Trump by a decent margin, and Rubio coming within 1 point of...
Terry Schilling
Anti-Common Core Ads Halt Kasich’s Surge in N.H.
As we reported last week, a group spent $1 million in New Hampshire running anti-Kasich ads that cite his support for Common Core (as well as his Medicaid expansion) as proof that (as the ad says, not me) he is not a...
Kasich Tries to Dodge His Common Core Support in N.H.
CNN reports Kasich was asked about Common Core by a voter: In Amherst, Kasich fielded one question on his support for Common Core standards by saying, “I don’t know what that really means, let me tell you...
The Four Most Likely Scenarios for Iowa, N.H., and S.C.
There have been a lot of theories and ideas thrown out lately about what will happen in the early primary and caucus states. I’ve read a lot of them and have decided to condense them all and give the top four most...
