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WASHINGTON — Michele Bachmann may have given Rick Perry some cover from the HPV vaccine issue in the national media, but as the Texas governor arrives in Iowa on Thursday, conservatives in the first-in-the-nation caucus state still have doubts and questions about Perry, on that issue and others. Perry’s record on the HPV vaccine is “not [...]
WASHINGTON — The frontrunner status is starting to smart. If Rick Perry felt like a piñata during his first debate last week, the second debate on Monday night might have left the Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate feeling like the bashed-in fax machine in the movie “Office Space.” Perry responded ably to criticisms of his [...]
WASHINGTON –- If you listened closely to Rick Perry’s aides, it was possible to gather some clues Wednesday night as to what what the Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate may propose to do about Social Security. Perry’s top campaign adviser Dave Carney, speaking to reporters after the presidential primary debate at the Reagan library [...]
LOS ANGELES – Two close confidantes of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie slapped down the latest round of speculation that the Republican is considering a run for president, with one saying his travels around the country to raise money for the state party and the Republican Governors Association have been “misinterpreted.” “He has no plans [...]
WASHINGTON — Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has tried his best to carve out a niche within the Republican primary field as the one candidate who’s unwilling to dispense with logic in order to score political points. It’s what compelled one of his campaign’s most memorable moments,when he tweeted that he believed in evolution and [...]
AMES, Iowa — Michele Bachmann is Rick Perry’s main rival now in the battle to give Republicans a viable alternative to Mitt Romney. Tim Pawlenty’s campaign is on life support. And Ron Paul’s jaw-dropping straw poll result showed how much the Republican party has turned toward a robust, full-throated, small government conservatism. Those were the [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa -– The crowd waiting to hear Michele Bachmann speak at the Iowa State Fair on Friday was large, and restive. Bachmann, the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota, was 30 minutes late. There was a stir, and Bachmann arrived on a golf cart, with a coterie of aides and a large bodyguard or two. [...]
DES MOINES, IOWA – Watermelon and water. That’s all that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee handed out to supporters in 2007 at the Ames Straw Poll. But he ended up with a stronger than expectedsecond place showing — which led to him winning the Iowa caucuses in 2008 — because of one thing: organization. Craig Robinson [...]
NASHUA, N.H. – If Jon Huntsman was worried about the turbulence buffeting his Cessna of a presidential campaign –- which already had one working engine out and was losing altitude –- he was doing his best to hide it. “I’m just going to put you on notice,” the former U.S. ambassador to China said Friday, [...]
WASHINGTON – On July 21, Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty was followed around Iowa to multiple campaign stops by three young women wearing identical blue T-shirts that read “Iowa Energy Forum.” At an 11 a.m. stop in Webster City, high school student Jennifer Cantrick — one of the women wearing an IEF shirt — spoke [...]