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Reince Priebus Warns: Anybody Who Mounts A Third Party Bid Is Handing The Election To Hillary Clinton

The Hill reports: Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on Friday slammed the prospect of a third-party presidential campaign, saying it would ensure a Hillary Clinton White House. “The amount of time, energy, money, and also its a guarantee to elect Hillary Clinton. When people start to take a breath and let some of this calm down, people will understand …

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Priebus Blames Media For Trump Rally Violence [VIDEO]

Raw Story reports: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday charged that CNN was fueling violence at Donald Trump’s rallies by spending too much time reporting on violent incidents at his campaign events. After a weekend of protests and clashes at Trump rallies in Utah and Arizona, Priebus told CNN host Alisyn Camerota that Trump had “called for the …

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RNC Fires National Review From GOP Debate Sponsorship Over Its Anti-Donald Trump Issue

The Washington Post reports: The Republican National Committee has ended a debate partnership with National Review after the venerable conservative magazine devoted its new issue to a “symposium” of reasons why voters should reject Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “We expected this was coming,” the magazine’s publisher Jack Fowler wrote in a blog post late Thursday night, just 90 minutes after …

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Lost In The Backlash: Nikki Haley Promised That Next GOP President Will “Respect Modern Families”

Yesterday all of Teabagistan went insane over South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s swipe at Donald Trump during her GOP-vetted response to Obama’s final State Of The Union address. Largely lost in the renewed GOP-Trump civil war, however, was Haley’s promise that the next Republican president will “respect differences in modern families” – a fairly clear reference to gay marriage. The …

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GOP Meets To Prep For Brokered Convention

Via the Washington Post: Republican officials and leading figures in the party’s establishment are preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as businessman Donald Trump continues to sit atop the polls in the GOP presidential race. More than 20 of them convened Monday near the Capitol for a dinner held by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, and the …

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GOP Candidates Plot Debate Revolt Against RNC

The GOP presidential field is so unhappy with this week’s CNBC debate that they are actually plotting a revolt against their own party. Politico reports: Republican presidential campaigns are planning to gather in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening to plot how to alter their party’s messy debate process — and how to remove power from the hands of the Republican …

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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: Joe Biden Not Running For President Is “Major Blow” To The Democrats

“The Vice President’s decision not to enter the 2016 race is a major blow for Democrats, who now will almost certainly be saddled with their unpopular and scandal plagued front-runner Hillary Clinton. Vice President Biden was the most formidable general election candidate the Democrat Party could have fielded, and his decision not to challenge Hillary Clinton greatly improves our chances …

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Priebus: The GOP Is “Cooked” If We Lose In 2016

RNC chairman Reince Priebus said yesterday that the GOP will be “cooked as a party for quite awhile” if they fail to win the White House next year. Via the Washington Examiner: “Our job as a national party is to elect Republicans, and it generally means House, Senate, presidential,” Priebus said. “We’re viewed at in a presidential year as the …

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Trump Signs GOP Pledge, Won’t Run As Independent

CNN reports: Donald Trump has signed the pledge. The Republican presidential front-runner met privately with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus Thursday afternoon, and soon after, came out to the lobby of Trump Tower to declare that he has signed a loyalty pledge. This means Trump has promised to support the party’s eventual nominee — whoever that may be — …

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RNC Chair Reince Priebus Pleads With Donald Trump: You’re Hurting The GOP

Via the Washington Post: The head of the Republican National Committee, responding to demands from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his inflammatory comments about immigration that have infuriated a key election constituency. The call from Chairman Reince Priebus, described by donors and consultants …

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PFAW Slams RNC Over AFA-Paid Trip To Israel For Dozens Of GOP Legislators

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GOP: We’ll Build On Success Of Our Bold Innovative Ideas In The New Congress

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Reince Priebus Takes Victory Lap

“America is tired of Obama’s failed policies.”

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LGBT And Civil Rights Groups To GOP: Denounce The FRC’s Values Voter Summit

A coalition of LGBT and civil rights groups today published a full-page ad in the Washington Post, demanding that the GOP denounce this weekend’s Family Research Council Values Voter Summit. Here is the text in full: Dear Mr. Priebus, Fifteen years ago, your predecessor called for party members to shun the Council of Conservative Citizens because of the group’s “racist …

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RNC Vs DNC On Hobby Lobby

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GOP Launches New Campaign: Another Clinton In The White House Is Nuts

The Republican Party has launched a bizarre campaign featuring the “HRC Squirrel” – a giant sports mascot-type who has been showing up at Hillary Clinton’s book signings. As you can see, the squirrel has a Twitter account. RNC chairman Reince Preibus appears in the below clip.

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NEVADA: Tony Perkins Cheers After Las Vegas Withdraws Its Bid To Host The 2016 Republican Convention

One month after the Nevada GOP dropped opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion from its platform, the Republican National Committee announced this afternoon that Las Vegas has withdrawn its bid to host the 2016 convention. Heidi Hayes, spokeswoman for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, said timing played a big role in the decision to withdraw the bid. “After …

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Priebus: Hillary’s Health Is Fair Game

Via Talking Points Memo: Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus provided back-up to Karl Rove on Sunday, arguing that it’s “fair game” to discuss Hillary Clinton’s health and age. And like Rove, Priebus isn’t entirely convinced that the former secretary of state will run in 2016. “I think that health and age is fair game,” Priebus said on “Meet the …

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SCOTUS Rules That Limits On Total Campaign Donations Are Unconstitutional

The US Supreme Court today ruled that limits on total individual campaign donations are unconstitutional, effectively giving the nation’s mega-wealthy even more power over election results. The ruling comes in the long-festering McCutcheon Vs Federal Elections Commission case. The justices ruled 5-4, in a decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, that limits on the total amount of money donors …

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