©2015 Bloomberg News NZBF3P6KLVR4 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky will be on the prime-time stage for the next Republican presidential debate on Dec. 15, sponsor CNN announced Sunday. Donald Trump, who’s spent much of the primary race atop polls of the party’s crowded 2016 field, will again

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NY5ECK6S972A (Bloomberg) — Seated at a table designed to look like Thanksgiving and reminiscent of the Last Supper, seven Republican presidential candidates gathered Friday for an Iowa forum where there were more fireworks from the audience than from a stage that lacked front-runner Donald Trump. After quelling several outbursts

Scott Walker The Wisconsin governor is building his campaign around what many conservatives see as his signature accomplishment: taking on unions. In his 2014 memoir, Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and A Nation’s Challenge, Walker recounts his successful battle to strip organized labor of collective bargaining rights. It was this victory that catapulted

©2015 Bloomberg News NP31XY6JTSEF (Bloomberg Politics) — Every few hours, the campaigns of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul send out a donor message about his fight against the PATRIOT Act. In each one, this coming Sunday is marked as a do-or-die moment to block the most loathed provisions of the law.

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJZXZJ6KLVRD (Bloomberg Politics) — At 11:45 a.m. on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, Senator Rand Paul tweeted: https://twitter.com/SenRandPaul/status/advertised, the link took people to a Pinterest page purporting to belong to Hillary Clinton. Instead, it had been put together by Paul’s camp. There was a “Power Couple” board, with shots of the Clintonian Mr. &

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJM0J86S972E (Bloomberg View) — If you play the odds, the Republican presidential nomination will go to one of these final four: Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul or Scott Walker. Last April, I calculated the odds for each like this: former Florida Governor Jeb Bush at 4-to-1; Wisconsin