By CARL HULSE
With three of his colleagues running for president and with ties to other contenders, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader would not offer any endorsements but said that “the key to the White House and the key to the Senate majority for us lies in the purple states.”
Published: December 16, 2015 at 12:00AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The state’s elections chief says he is confident that problems encountered in last month’s election will be fixed before a high-stakes presidential primary in March.
Published: December 13, 2015 at 12:00AM
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A former deputy in Pike County who was indicted in an on-duty episode involving a fleeing driver and an off-duty shooting of the former deputy’s neighbor was released after turning himself in, a spokesman for the Ohio attorney general said.
Published: December 13, 2015 at 12:00AM
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The University of Wisconsin voted to adopt a resolution stating that the university should not shield people from ideas or opinions they find unwelcome or offensive.
Published: December 13, 2015 at 12:00AM
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By TRIP GABRIEL
The poll suggests that the Texas senator’s campaign is gathering momentum and that there could be a long Republican nomination fight ahead.
Donald J. Trump, who continues to lead most national polls, was second in the Iowa poll, with 21 percent naming him as their first choice, compared with Mr. Cruz’s 31 percent.
Ben Carson, after leading an October survey by the same pollster, commissioned by The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics, tumbled to 13 percent. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida had 10 percent. No other candidate had double-digit support.
The survey, by one of Iowa’s most respected pollsters, comes as Mr. Trump is increasingly hoping that a win in Iowa, whose caucuses are less than eight weeks away, will be a lightning strike on his way to the nomination.
“If we win Iowa, I think we run the table,” Mr. Trump said on Friday at a rally in Des Moines. He is far ahead in polls of the other early-voting states.
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