Debate stage drama: GOP awaits top 10 announcement
By STEVE PEOPLES and KATHLEEN RONAYNE They crowded the stage in New Hampshire for a debate-style faceoff. But the jam-packed Republican field will be narrowed considerably for the first formal…
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Hispanic leaders want GOP field to condemn Trump’s ‘idiocy’
By STEVE PEOPLES Hispanic leaders are bristling at the largely tepid response by Republican presidential candidates to Donald Trump’s characterization of Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers. Several 2016…
New Hampshire Republican voters are relishing crowded field
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…
Vaccine skeptics find unexpected allies in conservative GOP
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI As vaccine skeptics fight laws that would force more parents to inoculate their kids, they are finding unexpected allies in conservative Republicans. Though the stereotype of a…
Possible GOP candidates pitch ideas at conservative forum
By THOMAS BEAUMONT The robust Christian right in early-voting Iowa plays an outsize role in helping determine the Republican presidential nominee, a political reality not lost on the parade of…