U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann made it official earlier today, formally announcing her candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in her birthplace of Waterloo, Iowa. Bachmann, a darling of the Tea Party movement, told a crowd of about 200 people gathered outside the historic Snowden […]

Real estate broker and homebuilder David Hunsicker plans to challenge House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Virginia’s 7th congressional district. Hunsicker, a retired Air Force pilot who flew combat missions in Vietnam, has run for Congress twice previously, most recently losing a 2008 Democratic primary […]

Saying that he has yet to hear one of the Republican presidential candidates outline a comprehensive approach to dealing with the country’s grave debt crisis, former Gov. George Pataki of New York appears to be inching closer to a possible presidential bid of his own. […]

Hoping for lightning to strike in next year’s South Carolina primary — a key early battleground state in the Republican presidential sweepstakes — former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum generated some thunder on the right this weekend when he announced several key additions to his fledgling […]

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann appear headed for a real dogfight in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus, according to a poll published earlier this evening by the Des Moines Register. The poll, based on telephone interviews of 400 likely Republican caucus-goers, shows […]

Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, who will make a pair of television appearances tomorrow in advance of her formal declaration of candidacy on Monday — appearing on both CBS’s “Face the Nation” and “Fox News Sunday” — is running a 60-second radio spot in Iowa […]

American Crossroads, one of two outside organizations founded by Karl Rove and former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie that played such a large role in the 2010 mid-term elections, is launching a new television commercial slamming President Obama on the economy. The hard-hitting 30-second spot, which is […]

New Jersey governor and Republican rising star Chris Christie appeared on Friday’s TODAY Show with Matt Lauer to discuss a landmark pension reform package that passed through the state’s legislature this week. The changes are expected to save more than $100 billion over the next […]

U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter of Michigan — the darkest of dark-horse candidates — secured a spot in the Ames Straw Poll yesterday, the clearest indication yet that the folksy, guitar-playing congressman is seriously considering jumping into the fray. Long regarded as the most prominent straw […]

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann told the National Right to Life convention in Jacksonville, Florida, earlier today that the GOP shouldn’t nominate somebody who hasn’t been consistent on the issue of abortion. Without mentioning frontrunner Mitt Romney by name, the Minnesota congresswoman said that this was […]