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Gov. Scott Walker’s lead in Iowa of the 2016 Republican presidential pack — twice as high as his nearest rival, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. There is a horse race for second place, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) at 13%, Ben Carson at 11%, Mike Huckabee at 11% and Jeb Bush at 10%. No other candidate is above 5% and 9% are undecided. Key finding: “Tea Party supporters make up 32% of likely caucus-goers and Walker gets 33% of that Tea Party vote.”
If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus, and we can put a pic line into your body and we’re flushing with, say, salt water, sodium cardonate, through that line and flushing out the fungus. These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective
— Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R), who wants to ease health care rules because she has friends who left the country to find end-of-life treatments, Jon Ralston reports.
I would think, as we approach the 50th anniversary of Selma, that Republicans should be more sensitive about what they’re doing to this woman.
— Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), quoted by Bloomberg, on the stalled nomination of Loretta Lynch as Attorney General.
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Margin by which Scott Walker leads the Republican presidential field, followed by Ben Carson at 18%, Jeb Bush at 17% and Mike Huckabee at 10%, according to a new Public Policy Polling national survey. No other potential candidate gets more than 5% of the vote.
46% to 40%
Margin by which Hillary Clinton leads Jeb Bush in a possible presidential match up, according to a new Elon Poll in North Carolina.
I’m still trying to decipher if this is God’s calling. You’ve got to be crazy to want to be president of the United States. You’ve got to be crazy. To look at what it does to a person and a family, you’ve got to be crazy. But you should only do it if you feel that God’s called you to get in there and make a difference.
— Gov. Scott Walker (R), quoted by the Wall Street Journal.
Every single day Joe Biden says something that would end my career if I said it once.
— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), quoted by NH Journal.
We’ve had presidents in the past who have abused power. But when that has happened: When Richard Nixon abused power, Republican senators stood up to him and said, ‘Mr. President, you’ve gone too far.’ In fact, it was Republican senators who went to the Oval Office, … and said, ‘Mr. President, it’s time for you to resign.’ What is strikingly missing are Democratic senators who have more commitment to the Constitution and rule of law than they do to their party.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), quoted by Business Insider.
Presidential candidates have to answer all kinds of questions. Sometimes they are relevant or germane to the event they’re at or the campaign at large — and sometimes they’re not. But how they answer, even these ‘gotcha’ questions – designed as a litmus test of rationality – can be revealing of their mindset, their depth and their mettle as a candidate.
— Domenico Montanaro, writing for “PBS Newshour.”
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Number of days Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), “who is flirting with a presidential run, spent in places other than Louisiana in 2014. “In 2013, he was gone about 74 days,” the Baton Rouge Advocate reports. “Only one of those trips seems to have been for official state business — an economic development foray to Asia.”
