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Candidates thought they had a winning argument in this idea of religious liberty. religion is popular. turns out birth control is more popular and democrats have become very skilled at putting this argument on their terms and convincing people that republicans are trying to take away your birth control and we have seen republicans from cory gardner in colorado to chris christie becoming very uncomfortable getting anywhere near this subject. >> this isn't the first time chris christie's used that argument on a social issue. last fall when they declined to move forward with the state challenge t...

Cory gardner, joni ernst, monica webbe and tom cotton will fly to tampa. the fund-raising may also benefit the winner of the august 26 republican primary in alaska. this week was not so bright when it comes to jeb bush's iowa prospects. he was tied with christie for the highest negative rating of any republican tested in a new quinnipiac poll. his positive rating was even lower than christie's and he fared the worst against hillary clinton, trailing her by double digits. it's pretty clear, though, that jeb has a tough time. speaking of florida republicans, let's move to marco rubio. it's pre...

Door on 2016 pretty effectively with david gregory yesterday. take a listen. >> i'm not running for president. i've said that so many times. as you know, we just had this conference here in park city, utah. i brought a number of of the 2016 contenders here to meet with my fund-raisers. had i been running, i wouldn't be doing that. look, i want to find the best candidate for us to take our message to the american people. >> that's the only way he didn't sound like a candidate, though, with david. he's already changed his stump speech to attack hillary more than he attacks obama, which is what a...

Mitch mc connell is in niz own primary fight until may, has a tough re-election. he wants to be senate majority leader. that comes before the 2016er's priority and you won't have agreement on the 2016 message on immigration or taxes until you get 2016 nominee. it might be the smarter, long term thing. i just don't think it's practical in the middle of a midterm. >> it's also true that voters' memories can be short. look at how angry voters were with the government shutdown back in october. now that's all water under the bridge. people have moved on to new and different issues so maybe if you g...