Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:09 AM EST
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday ridiculed rival Mitt Romney's call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants as an "Obama-level fantasy" that would be inhumane to long-established families living in America. Romney, for his part, accused Gingrich of pandering to a Hispanic audience and said Gingrich himself had supported self-deportation in the past.
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Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:32 AM EST
Mitt Romney has ex-POW John McCain vouching for him. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum highlights his time on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And former House Speaker Newt Gingrich frequently calls himself an "Army brat" who grew up on military bases.
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Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:56 AM EST
Mitt Romney is "a Massachusetts moderate" who "can't be trusted" on abortion and other core Republican values. Newt Gingrich has questionable judgment for "teaming up with Nancy Pelosi," the Democratic lawmaker the GOP loves to malign. Rick Santorum is a "serial hypocrite" with "a record of betrayal."
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Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:02 AM EST
Rick Perry is pouring on the down-home charm as he seeks a campaign revival in South Carolina, betting that geographic kinship will pay off now that the GOP presidential race is finally shifting to his comfort zone.
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Sun Jan 1, 2012 5:13 PM EST
Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann plan to make their next — and possibly last — stands in South Carolina instead of chasing the rest of the GOP presidential pack to New Hampshire.
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Sun Jan 1, 2012 9:08 AM EST
Desperate for a late lift in Iowa, Republican Michele Bachmann is increasingly stressing a distinction in the presidential field: She's the only woman competing for the nomination.
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Fri Dec 30, 2011 1:45 PM EST
Republican Michele Bachmann's closest congressional ally has offered kind words for the presidential candidate but stopped short of an outright endorsement that could lift her back-of-the-pack campaign.
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Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:09 AM EST
Encountering small crowds and fresh viability questions, Republican Michele Bachmann slogged into the final weekend of Iowa caucus campaigning Friday looking for any spark to her flagging bid.
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Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:10 PM EST
Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday that she has "decided to stand aside" and is ending her bid for Republican presidential nomination after her last-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
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Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:24 PM EST
Her GOP presidential bid in danger, Michele Bachmann describes in a new memoir two times where she thought a curtain had fallen on her political career, including an early election loss that made her swear off future campaigns.
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Wed Nov 2, 2011 7:48 PM EDT
The Minnesota Vikings' chances for getting a decision this year from state lawmakers on financing for a new football stadium plummeted Wednesday, pushing resolution of the issue past the date when the team's current lease binding it to Minnesota runs out.
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Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:54 PM EDT
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann criticized a directive by President Barack Obama to ease student loan debt as an "abuse of power" that will give people incentive to dodge debt.
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Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:11 PM EDT
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is out of the race for president — but still deep in debt.
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Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:43 AM EDT
Searching for a campaign boost, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann attached a catchy slogan Tuesday for a newly packaged 11-point proposal for repairing the U.S. economy.
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Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:57 PM EDT
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he might have stayed in the Republican presidential race longer had he known it would be this volatile.
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Mon Oct 3, 2011 5:51 PM EDT
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is losing her pollster and senior adviser in a staff exodus that raises questions about the viability of her White House bid and her campaign finances.
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Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:35 PM EDT
A prominent bioethicist has offered $10,000 to charity if Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann can prove her claim that a vaccination caused mental retardation.
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Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:20 AM EDT
Pigeonholed as a right-wing disciple, Michele Bachmann is offering herself as a presidential candidate who can unite the GOP's disparate base and appeal to Republicans of all ideological stripes.
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Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:24 PM EDT
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Wednesday definitively ruled out a 2012 campaign for the U.S. Senate after ending his Republican bid for the White House a few days ago.
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Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:22 AM EDT
The surest place to find Michele Bachmann on Sundays this summer is at a worship service somewhere in Iowa, offering the testimony of a Republican presidential candidate who has long tied her political beliefs to her faith.
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Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:02 PM EDT
From her first campaign to her latest, Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann has used her time as a foster parent to help create an image of a family-focused Christian driven by compassion and social conviction.
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Thu Aug 4, 2011 12:57 PM EDT
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty said Wednesday that President Barack Obama's previous jobs as a community organizer and law professor didn't prepare him for the White House. And, Pawlenty said, Iowa shouldn't repeat the mistake of voting for another charismatic politician who lacks experience.
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Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:42 PM EDT
Republican Michele Bachmann says scrutiny of her husband is out of bounds as she seeks the Republican presidential nomination. But her rules have changed since she attacked Democrat Barack Obama over comments his wife made three years ago.
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Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:56 PM EDT
Republican Michele Bachmann has $3.6 million in the bank as her presidential campaign enters its next phase, provided that she draws down her Minnesota congressional fund entirely.
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Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:51 PM EDT
For Michele Bachmann, the laugh line doubled as a clear message that she thinks she's ready for the rough-and-tumble of presidential politics.
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