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Republican Primary 2016
February 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
Trump asserted his dominance over Cruz early in the debate.
February 7, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Jeb’s best moment in the whole campaign is this grimace as ABC screwed up announcing the candidates.
February 7, 2016
Brian Beutler
Prediction!
Prediction!
February 7, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Tonight’s debate will have six bullies and one persecuted nerd: Marco Rubio.
February 6, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Everything You Need to Know about Saturday’s GOP Debate
Donald Trump is beginning to realize he might lose, but the GOP establishment is still on the ropes.
February 6, 2016
Brian Beutler
Will Marco Rubio Finally Be Tested?
His positions are different in kind, and more extreme, than those of recent Republican nominees, but have received no scrutiny. Maybe that will change in Saturday's debate.
February 5, 2016
Laura Reston
Donald Trump no longer looks inevitable, and Republican PACs are stepping in to tank his campaign.
February 5, 2016
Jeet Heer
We Need Agatha Christie in New Hampshire, Not Chris Christie
The animosity among the remaining Republican candidates would make a perfect murder mystery.
February 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Barbara Bush’s family values, then and now.
February 5, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Why is America’s most popular governor endorsing Chris Christie?
February 5, 2016
Laura Reston
Ad Wars 2016: Can John Kasich Score by Going Positive?
While the other Republicans assail each other in New Hampshire, the Ohio governor tries a radical experiment. Plus: This week’s ad round-up.
February 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Barbara Bush thinks Jeb is “relatively funny.”
February 4, 2016
Jeet Heer
Marco Rubio might want Rick Santorum to stop endorsing him.
February 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ben Carson’s pyramid scheme, er, campaign is starting to collapse.
February 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
How not to win the Republican primary.
February 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The Christie-Bush alliance against Marco Rubio is going just about how you think it would.
February 3, 2016
Brian Beutler
Rubio: You can’t be happy unless you’re rich ... except in America.
February 3, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Who nominated Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize?
February 3, 2016
Jeet Heer
Who’s the Ugly Loser Now?
Donald Trump can't accept defeat gracefully. That will hurt him at the polls.
February 3, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Republicans can’t keep their spanking fantasies about Hillary Clinton to themselves.

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