First on CNN: O'Malley to mingle with 2016 players at D.C. fundraiser
Washington (CNN) – Martin O’Malley will mingle with a handful of early primary state power brokers next week at a closed-door Washington fundraiser for a top South Carolina Democrat. The Maryland...
View ArticleBiden delivers 'Elizabeth Warren-type speech' at fundraiser
Washington (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden appeared at a closed-door fundraiser in South Carolina Friday and delivered what one attendee called “an Elizabeth Warren-type speech” about the struggles of...
View ArticleGreen billionaire prepares to attack 'anti-science' Republicans
Washington (CNN) - An environmental advocacy group backed by hedge fund tycoon Tom Steyer is set to unleash a seven-state, $100 million offensive against Republican "science deniers" this year, a...
View ArticlePerry dines with New Hampshire Republicans in Texas
Washington (CNN) – Rick Perry, the Texas governor and erstwhile Republican presidential contender, played host on Tuesday night to more than a dozen well-connected New Hampshire politicos – his latest...
View ArticleChristie chides Obama over VA 'disgrace'
Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) – Chris Christie sharply criticized President Barack Obama’s management of the Veterans Affairs scandal on Friday, calling the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric...
View ArticleOn southern road trip, Christie preaches compromise
Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) — Chris Christie swept into Tennessee on Friday and did all the things that Chris Christie does best. He raised a barrel full of money, for the Republican Governors...
View ArticleFirst on CNN: Santorum endorses McMaster in South Carolina runoff
Washington (CNN) – Rick Santorum is making another primary state pilgrimage, this time involving himself in a high-profile Republican runoff election in South Carolina. Santorum, a once and possibly...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren bashes Wall Street in West Virginia
Shepherdstown, West Virginia (CNN) – Elizabeth Warren doesn’t roll deep. The Massachusetts senator and reigning champion of progressives everywhere arrived right on time Monday afternoon for a campaign...
View ArticleFirst on CNN: Rubio to court South Carolina conservatives
Washington (CNN) – Marco Rubio, the Florida Senator and possible White House contender, will court some of the Republican Party’s most conservative voters with a visit to South Carolina next month....
View ArticleCompany men: The U.S. Chamber flexes its new political muscle
Washington (CNN) - The plot to save Thad Cochran was hatched at Off The Record, the subterranean bar inside the Hay-Adams hotel in downtown Washington. In mid-June, just days before the Mississippi...
View ArticleFirst on CNN: RGA urged Astorino to avoid meeting after Christie clash
Washington (CNN) — Rob Astorino, New York’s GOP candidate for governor, was urged not to attend a Republican Governors Association meeting in Aspen this week after publicly clashing with the group’s...
View ArticleDodging 2016 questions, Paul Ryan meets the press
Washington (CNN) - Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is known to glide through the hallways of Capitol Hill with headphones in his ears. It's a tactic he employs to...
View ArticleFirst on CNN: Romney and Christie teaming up for GOP fundraiser
Washington (CNN) — Mitt Romney is Jersey bound. The former Republican presidential nominee will team up with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for a fundraiser benefiting the New Jersey Republican Party...
View ArticleEmily's List attacks Tillis over equal pay in North Carolina
Washington (CNN) – Democratic candidates this cycle are working feverishly to exploit their party's edge among female voters, thrusting issues like equal pay, paid sick leave and women's health to the...
View ArticleHoward Dean: I hope Hillary Clinton becomes president
Washington (CNN) - One year ago, Howard Dean, the former Democratic presidential contender and avatar of progressive sentiment, sat in a hotel lobby at the annual Netroots Nation conference in San Jose...
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Foley killer featured in Republican campaign ad
(CNN) — The masked man appears briefly, for only a frame or two, but it’s startling nonetheless. The not-yet-identified killer of kidnapped American photographer James Foley is featured in an ominous...
View ArticleIn South Carolina, Rubio heals wounds on the right
ANDERSON, South Carolina (CNN) - Marco Rubio came to South Carolina this week hoping to win over the kind of conservative hardliners who turned on him last year as the Senate immigration reform bill he...
View ArticleO’Malley moving political staff into South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) – As he builds support for a possible Democratic presidential bid, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is dispatching political staffers to work on two key races in South...
View ArticleClinton in Iowa: Fresh start or deja vu?
"It's been seven years, and a lot has changed," Hillary Clinton said Sunday in her first visit to Iowa since the state dealt her presidential campaign a devastating body blow. But there was a moment in...
View ArticleThe secret weapon of Iowa Democrats: Obamadale
For a small band of supercharged Democratic organizers, the pleasant Des Moines neighborhood of Beaverdale goes by another name: Obamadale. The moniker was bestowed three years ago by a motley crew of...
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