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The Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group made up of conservative Christians influential in the sphere of voters targeted most heavily by Michele Bachmann, has said they will not endorse a Republican presidential nominee before the state holds i
Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign never really took off — but does his “hilariously pointless” 2012 run really qualify him as the “least influential person in the world?”
GQ thinks so.
The chairman of the Minnesota DFL Party had some unusually kind words for presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Monday, comparing her to liberal icon Paul Wellstone.
To be clear, DFL chairman Ken Martin dismissed her political ideology, but sa
Over the weekend, Michele Bachmann again accused Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich of supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants and released a letter the former House speaker signed in 2004 to try and prove it.
In the letter, Gingrich
WASHINGTON — Michele Bachmann’s congressional office released one statement, her presidential campaign released another.
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann tried, apparently unsuccessfully, to teach NBC funnyman Jimmy Fallon how to properly say the word “Minnesota” during an appearance on his show last night.
Bachmann was in New York to meet with Donald Trump an
Michele Bachmann will return to Minnesota this week for a Black Friday book signing at the Mall of America.
Bachmann’s book, “Core of Conviction,” hits shelves Monday. Her Barnes and Noble signing will start at 8:00 a.m.
Michele Bachmann is in New York City today to meet with Donald Trump and tape an episode of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” CNN reports.
The meeting with Trump is Bachmann’s fourth with the real estate mogul who teased a presidential run of his own
Michele Bachmann’s memoir “Core of Conviction,” on sale Monday, tells of Bachmann’s rise through the political ranks and brings readers right up to her current, flagging run for president.
The Associated Press got a copy of the book, which describ
Michele Bachmann, doubling down on her message of not settling for anything less than a consistently conservative Republican presidential nominee, released a new web video Monday hitting several of her rivals for past ideological missteps.
The vid
Two new national Republican nomination polls show Herman Cain’s support waning, to the benefit of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Herman Cain, the leading Republican presidential candidate who once deflected categorization as the political “flavor of the week” by comparing himself to Häagen-Dazs black walnut ice cream, told GQ he has the perfect ice cream flavor for Michele Ba
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On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Michele Bachmann said the child sex abuse scandal that has embroiled Penn State University is a “horrific” event, and she’d seek out the coach invo
Just minutes after Saturday night’s CBS News-National Journal Republican presidential debate, the Michele Bachmann campaign accused debate organizers of “outragous manipulation” by suppressing the number of questions she would receive.
A campaign s
A group of “Occupy” protesters interrupted a Michele Bachmann speech in South Carolina on Thursday, causing the candidate to briefly leave the stage.
Bachmann was delivering a major foreign policy speech when a group of protesters in the audience s
Here’s the moment the pundits are talking about today, when Rick Perry awkwardly grasped for the identity of the third public agency he would abolish as president.
Perry has been a pretty terrible debater (in September he tried to call Mitt Romney
Michele Bachmann said President Obama should apologize to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a remark Obama reportedly made during a G20 event last week.
“Today we learned in word what we have already seen from President Obama thr
It turns out Michele Bachmann’s new catchphrase “frugal socialist,” which she used in a not-so-subtle shot at presidential rival Mitt Romney yesterday, was not introduced by the Minnesota Congresswoman.
The University of Minnesota’s Smart Politics
Jim Pinkerton, a former speechwriter and adviser for Presidents Bush (41) and Reagan, helped write Michele Bachmann’s finished, forthcoming autobiography, Politico reports.
Pinkerton is a Newsday columnist and a Fox News contributor, according to h
Michele Bachmann has so far avoided criticizing Herman Cain directly on the issue of the decade-old sexual harassment allegations that dominated the news last week.