©2016 Bloomberg View O086W36JTSEA (Bloomberg View) — National Review’s Tim Alberta and Eliana Johnson report a potentially important development: The emergence of an Anybody-But-Cruz-(Except-Trump) movement from the soon-to-be ashes of the Iowa campaigns of Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. It would seem that some social conservatives, including a few currently supporting

©2015 Bloomberg News NZ0I896KLVR5 (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump is calling for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” his campaign said on Monday, until “our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” “Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the

©2015 Bloomberg News NYM03N6KLVRAp (Bloomberg) — Ted Cruz moved to seize his Iowa moment on a cold Sunday evening at a gas station convenience store in a town of under 1,000 people. The Depot Express in Van Horne was packed to capacity with nearly a hundred voters in the state

©2015 Bloomberg View NYNHE66JTSEB (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump is unique. But he’s not without antecedents, and it’s not hard to locate his performance in some well-worn grooves of American politics. Substitute the word “segregation” for “immigration” in Trump’s rhetoric, for instance, and it recalls the bitter bite of Alabama’s

©2015 Bloomberg News NYC27H6S972X (Bloomberg) — Ted Cruz’s moment has arrived. Less than 10 weeks before Iowa voters their cast the first votes of the presidential campaign season in Feb. 1 caucuses, a new Quinnipiac poll shows the Texas senator statistically tiedwith Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump for the lead in

©2015 Bloomberg News NY39236JIJV1 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. strengthened efforts to discourage corporate inversions by making the deals more difficult and limiting the benefits of the transactions, just as an iconic American firm considers shifting its legal address abroad to cut its taxes. Inversions — deals where U.S. companies take

©2015 Bloomberg News NY3C9J6S972B (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump questioned Ben Carson’s qualifications to be president during an appearance Thursday evening in Iowa, highlighting a New York Times story this week that quoted an adviser to the retired neurosurgeon saying he’d been unable to teach the candidate about the Middle East.

©2015 Bloomberg View NXKJ2B6JTSED (Bloomberg View) — In the race for the Republican nomination for president, Ben Carson and Donald Trump are basically co-leaders in the polls. For now, they dominate the Republican field. Carson is running an “outsider” campaign, has no significant experience in politics or government and reveals

©2015 Bloomberg News NWSF4N6JTSE9 (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump still has some things to learn about presidential rival Ben Carson. Trump defended his comments about Carson’s Seventh-Day Adventist faith on Sunday. “I know nothing about it really. I’m a Presbyterian and I had mentioned that, and I did say I don’t know about it.

©2015 Bloomberg View NTYQEQ6KLVRB (Bloomberg View) — Just as everyone decided Donald Trump would lead the Republican presidential polls for the next several months, Ben Carson tied him for the lead in an Iowa survey released Monday. No, Carson probably isn’t actually leading in Iowa. A Bloomberg poll released over the