With Ben Carson projected to win no states on Super Tuesday, many were left wondering whether the former neurosurgeon would end his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
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(ABC News) — The question everyone is asking: Why? Why is Ben Carson, the onetime Republican front-runner who is now polling mostly in the single digits, still in the race for the Republicanpresidential nomination? The campaign cannot say definitively if Carson will continue the race after Super Tuesday, noting that he assesses the race and makes a decision after every…
Gov. Chris Christie decided to endorse Donald Trump Thursday afternoon, hours before the debate in Houston
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ABC NEWS) — Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham unloaded on his party and the remaining Republican presidential candidates Thursday, joking that the GOP “has gone bats— crazy” and Sen. Ted Cruz’s Senate colleagues could get away with murdering the Texas senator on the Senate floor. “The most dishonest person in America is a woman, who’s about to…
(ABC News) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump celebrated his resounding victory in Tuesday’s Nevada caucuses, but almost as soon as he declared “we’re winning, winning,” he was already thinking bigger. “It’s going to be an amazing two months,” he said. “We might not even need the two months folks, to be honest, right?” The GOP front-runner’s confidence makes sense:…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ highest criminal court tossed the second and final felony charge against former Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday, likely ending a case the Republican says helped sink his short-lived 2016 presidential bid. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed the abuse-of-power charge, which was filed after Perry threatened — and then carried out — a veto…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential caucuses in Nevada, giving the billionaire businessman three straight wins in the race for the GOP nomination. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are vying for second place, far ahead of John Kasich and Ben Carson. Preliminary entrance polls taken of Republican caucus-goers show that nearly 6 in 10 are…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A North Charleston pastor is challenging U.S. Sen. Tim Scott in his bid for re-election. Pastor Thomas A. Dixon announced his decision at a news conference Monday. In a news release, Dixon says he is a “tireless advocate” and will work to reach out to people who feel they are underrepresented by current elected officials. Dixon…
Iowa and New Hampshire did their jobs. While we started the campaign cycle with 17 Republican presidential candidates, the specter of the nation’s first two voting states has culled the field to six.
