David Sherfinski

Rick Perry in N.H.: America not going to choose another ‘young, untested’ U.S. senator

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said during the first day of a two-day swing through New Hampshire Wednesday that Americans will not choose another "untested" U.S. senator to be the country's chief executive after electing President Obama.

February 12, 2015

Hillary Clinton bests Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Jeb Bush in New Hampshire match-ups

Though former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush leads a host of potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates in a new poll on New Hampshire, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky comes closest to former Secretary of State and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton in a general election match-up.

February 12, 2015

Jeb Bush tops 2016 GOP field in Virginia

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush leads a field of potential 2016 GOP presidential contenders in Virginia and comes the closest to the Democratic favorite, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a new poll out Thursday.

February 12, 2015

Rand Paul: ‘Hillary’s war’ in Libya contributed to rise of Islamic State

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said Wednesday that President Obama's strategy in combating the Islamic State terrorist group is not working thus far — but that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton deserves a lot of the blame for tumult in the region as well.

February 11, 2015

Ted Cruz knocks Obama, ‘photo op foreign policy’ in blistering speech

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said Wednesday he hasn't seen a "seriousness of purpose" in confronting the Islamic State terrorist group, as the White House sent a request for the authorization for use of military force to fight the group to Congress for consideration.

February 11, 2015

Dick Cheney to keynote NRCC March dinner

The House Republicans' campaign arm said Wednesday that former Vice President Dick Cheney will headline their annual March dinner next month.

February 11, 2015

Ted Cruz: Leave same-sex marriage up to the states

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, is renewing a push for legislation that would leave the decision of whether to recognize same-sex marriages up to individual states and said he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment later this year outlining that marriage is a policy question for state legislatures.

February 11, 2015

Marco Rubio: Geographic limits on IS authorization would tell them ‘where they can go to hide’

As President Obama prepares to send an authorization for the use of force against the Islamic State terrorist group to Congress, Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, warned against imposing geographic limits on such a request.

February 11, 2015

Scott Walker political group sets up shop in Iowa

A new political group affiliated with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has set up shop in Iowa as organizational efforts in the early presidential state start grinding into gear.

February 11, 2015

Virginia bill orders attorney general to defend state laws in court

The Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill on Tuesday designed to require the state's attorney general or a designee to represent the commonwealth in cases challenging the state's laws or the state Constitution, a little more than a year after Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced he would not defend the state's ban on gay marriage.

February 10, 2015

Rand Paul to Florida this week for local GOP events

Fresh off a trip to Iowa last weekend, Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, is encroaching onto the turf of two potential 2016 GOP presidential rivals later this week and will attend two local Republican events in Florida.

February 10, 2015

Obama’s ‘evolving’ gay marriage view was a sham, he favored it in 2008: Axelrod

In his new book, former Obama political strategist David Axelrod writes that the president favored same-sex marriage during the first presidential campaign but said publicly that he supported civil unions and purportedly had been "evolving" on the issue while in office.

February 10, 2015

Jeb Bush posts e-mails, first chapter of e-book

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has posted a trove of communications from his time in office to a new website, as well as the first chapter of an e-book that spans the early portion of his time in office as Florida's chief executive.

February 10, 2015

Jim Webb, Martin O’Malley headed to Iowa in April for local Democratic dinner

Two potential 2016 contenders on the Democratic side, former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, are scheduled to headline the Polk County Democrats' annual spring awards dinner in Des Moines in April.

February 10, 2015

Chris Christie headed back to Iowa next month for Ag Summit

Organizers announced Monday evening that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will join a host of other potential 2016 GOP hopefuls at the Iowa Agriculture Summit March 7 hosted by entrepreneur and philanthropist Bruce Rastetter.

February 10, 2015

Virginia Senate bill calls for runoff vote in close elections

Virginia's GOP-led Senate passed a bill Monday that would require candidates for statewide election and for the U.S. Senate to win the outright majority of votes on Election Day or else face a runoff with the second-highest vote-getter.

February 9, 2015

Bernie Sanders: ‘I would have been stronger than President Obama’ on big banks

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont Independent, said that while the economy is better off than it was six years ago, he would have been more aggressive than the president in confronting the big banks after the 2008 financial crisis.

February 9, 2015

Bernard Sanders claims far-left lane in Democratic presidential race

Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders, who is eyeing a 2016 run as a Democrat for president, staked out an economic agenda Monday that is far to the left of his most liberal colleagues, including advocating a government-run Medicare-for-all health care system.

February 9, 2015

Scott Walker to United Kingdom to shore up economic ties

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is heading overseas Monday for a trip to the United Kingdom as he has risen to the top or near the top of recent polling on the 2016 GOP field in the early presidential states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

February 9, 2015

Ted Cruz on Rick Perry’s ‘young, untested senator’: ‘People occasionally throw rocks in politics’

Sen. Ted Cruz sidestepped an indirect critique from fellow Texan and former Gov. Rick Perry Sunday, complimenting Mr. Perry for his tenure as the state's chief executive.

February 9, 2015