Shaquille Brewster

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Wrapping up her three day trip through the first-in-the-nation primary state, Carly Fiorina was feeling the momentum that has propelled her to second place here in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll, declaring at her final stop “I’m a frontrunner.” “I think what these latest polls show is that when people get to see me, they get to hear me, they get to know me, the more they support me,” she said earlier in the trip. But Fiorina’s rise in the polls has been m…

DENVER -- Republican senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul vowed Tuesday to attempt to block the bipartisan budget agreement that raises the debt ceiling and funds the government to 2017. “I think that it is a horrible - I can’t even, it’s hard for me not to use profanity in describing it,” Paul told reporters before a rally here. “It’s a bill that shows a careless disregard for debt,” he added, vowing to do everything he can to stop it. The deal, announced Tuesday by outgoing House Speak…

Hours after Ben Carson told reporters he remembers seeing American Muslims celebrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, his campaign said the GOP presidential candidate was “thinking something differently” and does not remember such reaction in the U.S. “Dr. Carson does not stand by the statements that were reported today. He was hearing and thinking something differently at the the time,” Carson communications director Doug Watts said in a statement on Monday. “He does, however, recall and had his…

Hours after suggesting in an interview Wednesday that he’s considering major “personnel changes” to his troubled campaign, presidential candidate Ben Carson said in a written statement that he has “100 percent confidence” in his current team. In the statement, released hours after a pair of interviews in which he hinted at a major staff shakeup, Carson said, “We are refining some operational practice sand streamlining some staff assignments to more aptly match the tasks ahead, but my senior tea…

Omaha, Neb.— A day after suspending his campaign activities in the aftermath of a fatal car accident that took the life of a campaign volunteer, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson announced he will resume his campaign Thursday “with a heavy heart.” “I do so filled with the inspiration of Braden’s life story,” Carson said in a statement posted to his Facebook page. “He poured his heart into this campaign knowing this election is about something bigger than ourselves – it’s about returni…

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst will introduce GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson at two campaign events, just days before the state’s presidential caucus, NBC News has learned. While the separate appearances are not expected to be endorsements, the Carson campaign hopes the events will give the retired neurosurgeon both legitimacy and momentum as he tries to close the deal with the state’s voters. Ernst, the popular freshman senator, will join Dr. Carso…

NBC’s Shaquille Brewster discusses voter canvassing effort in Illinois just about 100 days away from the midterm elections. Republican super PAC has deployed thousands of volunteers across 34 districts with the congressional leadership fund to protect the house Republican majority.

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg admitted Tuesday after a report that his campaign unintentionally contracted with a service that used prison labor to help make calls for his campaign. The Intercept reported that Bloomberg’s campaign, through a third-party vendor, contracted with a New Jersey-based call center ProCom that, in part, used prison labor. In at least one instance, The Intercept reported, Oklahoma inmates were used to make calls on behalf of the New York City billio…