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From the Washington Post: Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who briefly led the Republican presidential race before his campaign began an extended public implosion, will tell his supporters in a statement Wednesday afternoon that he does not see a “path forward” and will not attend Thursday’s debate in Detroit, according to two Republicans familiar with his plans. Carson, however, will …

Sorry about that, Florida. Via CNN: GOP operatives told CNN early Wednesday morning that they’ll push Ben Carson to drop out of the Republican presidential race, and instead run for a U.S. Senate seat from Florida. It’s unclear how receptive the retired neurosurgeon will be to their pleas. Carson did not appear to be going anywhere as Tuesday night drew …

Tonight’s final pre-Super Tuesday GOP debate begins in Houston at 8:30PM Eastern. The event will be broadcast by CNN and you can watch online at this link. Watch along with us and weigh in. Wolf Blitzer will moderate and asking questions will be CNN’s Dana Bash, right wing radio host Hugh Hewitt,and Telemundo’s Maria Celeste Arras.

The polls have closed in South Carolina and the first results are starting to trickle in. Embedded below is a bootleg live-stream of CNN’s coverage. Watch along with us and weigh in.

Tonight’s GOP debate, which will feature a winnowed field of six candidates, begins at 9PM Eastern from South Carolina. Moderators are Face the Nation anchor John Dickerson, CBS News reporter Major Garrett, and Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal. CBS is live-streaming the debate here and a bootleg feed is posted below. Watch along with us and weigh in. …

From Politico: Ben Carson isn’t ruling out being Donald Trump’s running mate. “I certainly would sit down and discuss it with him,” Carson said Tuesday when asked by Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network if he would consider being Trump’s vice president. But whoever it was offering him the position, the retired neurosurgeon said he “would have to have major …

From CNN: Sen. Ted Cruz knowingly misstated CNN’s reporting during Saturday’s Republican primary debate, despite the fact that CNN’s reporting was correct all along. Cruz blamed CNN for a message his campaign sent to supporters the night of the Iowa caucuses suggesting Carson was going to suspend his campaign. “My political team saw CNN’s report breaking news and they forwarded …

Death & Taxes recaps last night’s bungled opening to the GOP debate: Saturday night’s GOP debate got off to an inauspicious start when Ben Carson apparently did not hear the moderators call his name, signaling his turn to walk out on stage, the result of which was absolute chaos. The disastrous effects of Carson’s misstep were amplified by the fact …

The Washington Post reports: Ben Carson, the famed neurosurgeon whose bid for the Republican presidential nomination has struggled to keep pace with rivals, will cut more than 50 staff positions Thursday as part of an overhaul and downsizing of his campaign. Salaries are being significantly reduced. Carson’s traveling entourage will shrink to only a handful of advisers. And instead of …

Here we go! Buzzfeed reports: Donald Trump says he will probably sue over the results of the Iowa caucuses, accusing Ted Cruz of committing voter fraud to win. In an interview on Boston Herald Radio on Wednesday, Trump criticized the Cruz campaign for spreading a CNN report saying Ben Carson would not travel to New Hampshire and South Carolina after …

Politico reports: Donald Trump on Wednesday ratcheted up his rhetoric after his loss in the Iowa caucuses, accusing Ted Cruz of “illegally” stealing the election in a tweet that he subsequently deleted. “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he illegally stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong any [sic] why he got more votes than anticipated. …

It turns out that Ben Carson was right when he accused the Cruz campaign of lying to Iowa voters about him dropping out of the race. CNN reports: The day after winning the Iowa caucuses, Ted Cruz issued an apology to Republican rival Ben Carson for falsely telling Iowa caucusgoers that the retired neurosurgeon planned to quit the race, calling …

Last night Ben Carson accused the Cruz campaign of spreading rumors that he was dropping out of the race. Fortune reports: Ben Carson was incensed as the results of Monday night’s Iowa caucuses rolled in, accusing the winner of spreading falsehoods about him at caucus sites. Carson’s team claimed that Cruz’s campaign deliberately sent emails to supporters to spread false …

As his campaign continues to come of the rails, Ben Carson today turned on his longtime adviser Armstrong Williams. Via the Wall Street Journal: Ben Carson said his top outside adviser and longtime friend Armstrong Williams is dishonest – a failing he also attributed to political opponents and the media that has covered his campaign. “Armstrong is not necessarily the …

In his latest campaign clip, Dr. Stabby assures a nervous America that his years as a brain surgeon qualifies him above all others to protect the nation and “make the right decisions when a crisis erupts.” Watch below.

Via Mediaite: Dr. Ben Carson took to Facebook Tuesday to entreat his followers to take a stand against “liberal progressives,” asking them to “change your profile picture to you holding a ‘In God We Trust’ sign if you believe God should remain a core principle of our nation.” “Carson cares about God and America. Obama cares more about his climate …

Via Salon: Saturday Night Live was merciless in its mockery of the 6th Republican Debate that was on Fox Business News on Thursday. The cold opening of the show featured Fox moderators claiming that if at any point poll numbers dropped during the debate a loud gong would sound and they’d be pulled off stage. If only the real debates …

“It’s beyond ridiculous that you take the most abnormal situation and then you make everyone else conform to it. That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. That’s one of the very reasons that I have been an outspoken opponent of things like gay marriage. I don’t have any problem with gay people doing anything they want to do. You know, it’s …

“The way it works now is they target you and they have all kind of hate speech ridicule, if there’s a way they can bring action against you they will do that, try to ruin your life. Look at all the people who because of their religious convictions and their belief in what the Bible says have lost their livelihood …

Via the Des Moines Register: Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson at a campaign rally with 500 people in Cedar Rapids shouted out to a fifth-grade class: “Who’s the worst student?” Carson’s question, intended as a joke in an anecdote about how he felt in elementary school, prompted immediate hand pointing toward one student from more than half a dozen classmates …