Other Republican candidates, including Jon Huntsman, said they wouldn’t compete in Nevada if the state maintains its current caucus date.
Bachmann hasn’t been able to convince any of her colleagues, even in the Tea Party caucus, to support her presidential bid.
AMES, Iowa — Tensions reached their apex Thursday night during the Fox News/Washington Examiner GOP presidential debate, sending Republican enthusiasm through the roof with less than 48 hours until the Ames Straw Poll gates open Saturday.
Newt Gingrich says he has six times as many Twitter followers as all the other GOP presidential hopefuls combined, and he’s right: His 1.3 million followers trumps even Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann, who has more than 67,000 followers. But a new analysis by a tech company shows that all is not as it seems: Only 8 percent of those followers are “actual people,” with the rest made up of spammers, business accounts and private or anonymous users.
Rep. Michele Bachmann is the third presidential candidate to be “glitter bombed” by activists, suggesting that such actions are congealing into a full-fledged campaign to toss glitter at anti-LGBT politicians. Like Tim Pawlenty and Newt Gingrich before her, Bachmann was subjected to showers of glitter Saturday because of her statements about LGBT people and for her support of controversial anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean.
The Minnesota Family Council, the prime mover behind an anti–gay marriage amendment to be listed on the 2012 ballot, has a history of involvement with Bradlee Dean, the controversial head of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide ministries. Both groups have claimed credit for getting the amendment passed through the Minnesota Legislature.
Mixing classic rightwing economics and Christianist populism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a rapt crowd in a Minneapolis hotel Tuesday night that “government is taking from the overly happy and redistributing to the insufficiently happy.” Gingrich was addressing the Minnesota Family Council’s Annual Dinner at the downtown Minneapolis Hilton Hotel, where he shared top billing with a prerecorded speech by Rep. Michelle Bachmann.
Forget Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Minnesota will play host to a religious right event in May that’ll feature two potential presidential contenders. Rep. Michele Bachmann will join Newt Gingrich for the Minnesota Family Council’s annual fundraising dinner May 17 in Minneapolis. The event, called “Reconnecting Faith, Family and Freedom,” will feature Gingrich’s film “Rediscovering God in America,” which was produced by Citizens United.
Potential presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and his wife will be in Minneapolis in May to present their film “Rediscovering God in America,” a Citizens United production. The event is hosted by the Minnesota Family Council, according to an event listing on the Newt Gingrich’s campaign website. The film recounts Gingrich’s assertion that the founding fathers envisioned a religious United States and decries secularism.
In the lead-up to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, our sister site in Iowa enlists local journalists, academics, political consultants and pundits to help take the pulse, albeit unscientifically, about how various candidates are perceived in the Hawkeye State. In its first edition of the 2012 cycle, the Iowa Independent’s Power Rankings puts Mike Huckabee in first place if the caucus was held today, but Minnesotans Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann also place in the top five.
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