Politico:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are the top picks for their party’s tickets in 2016, a new poll shows.
Twenty-four percent of Republicans and independents who lean Republican, say they would likely support Christie for the GOP nomination, according to a CNN poll released Friday.
CNN reports support for Christie, who won reelection in a landslide victory earlier this month, is up 7 percentage points from September.
Christie extended his lead among other GOP contenders with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul trailing Christie at 13 percent, followed by Rep. Paul Ryan at 11 percent, and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 10 percent the only other Republican White House hopefuls to get double-digit support, CNN reports.
With 9 percent of the vote is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has 7 percent, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum each have 6 percent.
For the Democrats, Clinton has an overwhelming lead with 63 percent of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic saying she would be their top choice for the nomination.
Coming at a distant second is Vice President Joe Biden with 12 percent, followed by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren with 7 percent, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with 5 percent and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley with 2 percent.
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CNN Poll Assess Potential 2016 POTUS Field
November 29, 2013
RNC Moves to Freeze CNN & NBC Out of 2016 Debate Sked
August 16, 2013
CNN:
The Republican National Committee approved a resolution Friday vowing to sideline CNN and NBC from the presidential primary debate process in 2016 unless the networks abandon plans to produce programs about Hillary Clinton.
CNN recently commissioned a documentary film about Clinton, the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state, that is scheduled to run in theaters and on CNN sometime in 2014.
NBC, meanwhile, is developing a dramatic miniseries about Clinton, who is considering a second presidential bid and would almost certainly enter the race as the Democratic frontrunner in 2016.
“For the first time our party rules allow us to take action on these debates. So it is time that we do what’s right for our party and our candidates. And by the way, it is the right thing to do for our voters,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said at the meeting.
In a statement released after the vote, CNN responded: “CNN Films, a division of CNN Worldwide, commissioned a documentary about Hillary Clinton earlier this year. It is expected to premiere in 2014 with a theatrical run prior to airing on CNN. The CNN broadcast date has not been determined. This documentary will be a non-fiction look at the life of a former First Lady and Secretary of State. The project is in the very early stages of development, months from completion with most of the reporting and the interviewing still to be done. Therefore speculation about the final program is just that. We encouraged all interested parties to wait until the program premieres before judgments are made about it. Unfortunately, the RNC was not willing to do that.”
The seven-point resolution, which passed by voice vote, describes the television projects as “little more than extended commercials promoting former Secretary Clinton,” promises that the RNC “will neither partner with these networks in the 2016 presidential primary debates nor sanction any primary debates they sponsor” unless they halt production of the programs.
The language also notes that Robert Greenblatt, the chairman of NBC Entertainment, contributed to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and President Barack Obama’s re-election bid in 2012.
The measure goes to the heart of what Republican insiders believe was a major problem for the party during the 2012 primary process – a marathon debate schedule that kept GOP candidates off the campaign trail and led several of them to make a string of damaging statements in full view of the national electorate.
Republican nominee Mitt Romney staked out hard-line immigration positions in several primary debates — he famously called for illegal immigrants to “self-deport” — and the comments were used against him to devastating effect by the Obama campaign during the general election.
A group of Republican officials who were asked to draft a post-election “autopsy” report and plot a path forward for the party called the number of primary debates in 2012 — 20 in all — “ridiculous.”
The RNC “shall endeavor to bring more order to the primary debates and ensure a reasonable number of debates, appropriate moderators and debate partners are chosen, and that other issues pertaining to the general nature of such debates are addressed,” Friday’s resolution said.
Preibus Tells CNN They’re Cutting Akin Loose
August 21, 2012
CNN Political Ticker:
“We’re not going to send any money toward that race or spend money on the ground in that particular race, RNC Chairman Reince Preibus told CNN
Romney Defends Work at Bain in Rlund of Net Interviews
July 13, 2012
Politico:
Mitt Romney defended his tenure at Bain Capital in an interview on CNN.
“I was the owner of the entity that was filing this information, but I had no role whatsoever in the management of Bain Capital after 1999. I left in February of 1999,” Romney said. “There’s nothing wrong with being associated with Bain Capital, of course.”
He was responding to reports that emerged yesterday suggesting that he played a formal role managing Bain Capital for three years after 1999 until 2002.
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