Media Madness! Ranking the Worst #FakeNews Stories of 2017
While March is normally the month reserved for madness here in the U.S., since the election of Donald Trump last November, the mainstream media has made losing one’s sanity seem…
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Former Candidates Start to Coalesce Behind Trump
With the Republican primary race all but over, GOP leaders are slowly beginning to unite behind the party’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump. This includes three of his former rivals for…
Former Candidates Rick Perry, George Pataki Make Their 2016 Picks
Earlier this month, Sen. Lindsey Graham became the first ex-2016 presidential candidate to make an endorsement when he announced he was backing the candidacy of Jeb Bush. This week, two…
So Long, Rick, We Hardly Knew You
And so there are 16, as Rick Perry effectively ends his campaign (they always say the campaign is “suspended,” in case they can get FEC matching funds down the road).…
Two Warnings from Rick Perry, As He Goes
The 2016 presidential race had its first major casualty on Friday, as Rick Perry made the decision to suspend his campaign amid serious financial struggles and a failure to gain…
Perry Drops Out, Field Reduced to “Only” 16
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race on Friday, marking the first casualty of the 2016 campaign. Via CNN: The departure of Perry, who had little…
Three Candidates We Can’t Count Out. Not Yet.
As we head into the weekend, perhaps we could all use a little perspective. Is Donald Trump the front-runner? Sure. He’s dominating the polls right now. Does Jeb Bush seem…
The Common Core Report Card: Rick Perry Gets a B
In our Common Core report card, we graded Rick Perry and all of the GOP candidates based on the three following criteria: fighting the Common Core, protecting state and local decision-making…
ThePulse2016 Report Card: Common Core
Four years ago, Common Core was considered a “done deal,” uncontroversial and approved by Democrats and Republican leaders alike. It had been pushed into 45 states without notice to legislators…
Memo to GOP Governors: Nobody Cares About Your Experience
Half of the Republican presidential field is a current or former governor (9 of 17 candidates). As you might expect, before the first Republican debate on August 2, a plurality…
Perry’s Campaign Running on Empty
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign team in South Carolina is no longer being paid by his presidential campaign, according to a recent report by National Journal. Perry, whose performance…
At RedState, GOP Candidates Take Down Planned Parenthood
If you were disappointed that the candidates didn’t get enough time to talk about the Planned Parenthood organ selling scandal at Thursday’s debate, don’t worry. RedState held an Atlanta conference…
Perry: “I don’t do squishy on judges” (VIDEO)
Unlike, say, Chris Christie, whose record of judicial appointments in New Jersey was just awful, Perry has a point about Perry-type judges in Texas. Erick Erickson asked him, “If elected president,…
My Six Takeaways from the First Debate(s)
1.) The Fox News moderators were unfair. Trump is right: Brett Baier and Megyn Kelly weren’t just tough—they were blatantly unfair. The first question was a setup to get Trump. …
The Case for Rick Perry
The final lineup for Fox News’ Republican debate was announced yesterday, and former Governor Rick Perry was just barely edged out of the coveted tenth place, which would have given him…
Paul and Rubio Push Back on Media’s Planned Parenthood Shutdown Questions
The media keeps asking GOP presidential candidates whether they would be willing to shut down the government in order to defund Planned Parenthood. Rather than fall for this gotcha question,…
ThePulse2016.com Report Card: What GOP Candidates Said About Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling
On June 26, a narrow majority of Supreme Court justices struck down the traditional definition of marriage, ruling all 50 states must recognize same-sex unions as marriages. The four dissenters…
Has Perry Taken Trump Bashing Too Far?
Back in early June, just after Rick Perry’s announcement speech, I speculated as to whether the former Texas governor could bridge the Republican divide over immigration. Perry’s record on and…
Perry Blasts Trump on Immigration
Rick Perry recently released a video to respond to Donald Trump’s recent tweet about Perry’s record on immigration. Trump tweeted: Rick Perry failed at the border. Now he is critical…
Trump Draws GOP Fire for Suggesting Illegal Mexican Immigrants Are Rapists
Last week, The Pulse’s Carlos Mercader ended a summary of the recent fiasco surrounding Donald Trump’s ill-advised comments on illegal immigration with an urgent warning: if Republican candidates did not…
