For the third straight year, Sen. Rand Paul won the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) straw poll. Sen. Paul won with 25.7% of the vote. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is seen as being in the top-tier of potential Republican candidates, got second place with 21.4%. Sen. Ted Cruz and […]
The communications advisor for Rep. Aaron Schock, Benjamin Cole, has resigned following the revealing of Facebook posts where he expressed racist views. Both BuzzFeed and the left-leaning ThinkProgress found his posts and put them online. In one, Cole wrote that President Obama should build a mosque on White House grounds. […]
The Republican National Committee has announced a new, sanctioned debate schedule that will have at least nine debates and twelve debates at most. There will be one debate each month until February 2016. The debates will begin later this year, in August. Both Fox News and CNN will get at […]
First broken by Mark Preston of CNN, the Republican National Committee has announced that they will begin their 2016 presidential convention on July 18. The convention will go from July 18 to July 21. The convention date is quite early, conventions are typically held in August and September. While conventions […]
Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) has announced that he will not run for President in 2016. Instead, he will instead focus on his role as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Ryan, who had ran with Mitt Romney as his running mate in 2012, gained national attention with his […]
