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While Trump may have a firm hold on the lead spot, “29 percent of GOP voters say they “would definitely not support” him, according to the poll. Marco Rubio over former two-term Gov. Jeb Bush as their presidential nominee.

Donald Trump has slipped as several rival candidates have gained on the 2016 GOP front-runner, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll following the second Republican debate. She’s above water against Trump by just two points (45-43).

At the Values Voter Summit, a gathering of social conservatives in Washington DC, Trump received an angry response after calling his fellow Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio “a clown”. The bad news for Marco Rubio: That means Donald Trump is now paying...

Carly Fiorina out-performed Hillary Clinton in a poll released Thursday morning by Quinnipiac University. Retired surgeon Ben Carson is in second, averaging about 8 points less than Trump, followed by Fiorina, about 4.5 points further back. It also found Fiorina surging.

In his hasty retreat this week, Walker urged other Republican hopefuls polling badly to withdraw as well, so that the party could begin to coalesce around a candidate not named Trump.

Speaking with reporters after Bush’s speech, the president and CEO of the chamber said he did not expect the protesters but understood why they showed up. The louder voices …

Especially the way moderators invited the candidates to have at each other. During one particularly busy five-day stretch in August, Trump did nine phone interviews across broadcast and cable networks, four of which took place on Sunday shows.

On ensuring the interests are addressed if he’s elected president: “Nobody will take care of women (better)”.

Trump was in Nashville to court tea party-leaning voters at a conference hosted by the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, which describes itself as “a grassroots movement to take back the Republican Party for the vast and disenfranchised majority of its...

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But the scrappy Ohioan and 18-year veteran of the House of Representatives has trotted out essentially the same formula for putting his party back in the Oval Office. Even when they bother his supporters, those voters shrug them off and stay committed.

If the conventional wisdom is right, many Republican voters are enjoying their Trump flirtation, but will get more serious as the caucuses and primaries to select an actual commander-in-chief draw closer. That Trump event tonight set to be his biggest ever.

Bush is among a crowded field of Republicans seeking that party’s nomination. Bush asked a reporter who questioned whether he regreted calling Americans with undocumented parented “anchor babies”.

One of the GOP’s most anti-establishment senators, Ted Cruz of Texas, also ticked up in the poll after the debate, coming in third with 10 percent compared to his previous 6 percent.

“You give me a better term and I’ll use it”, Bush snapped at reporters. “He’s going down like a rock”, Trump said to laughter.