Romney ups stakes for volatile GOP field
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Mitt Romney said Friday that presidential rivals Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee need to raise a jaw-dropping $20 million in the next few months to join him in the top tier of the Republican GOP field, raising the stakes in a nomination fight altered by a tumultuous week.
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The contest for the Republican presidential nomination remains without a clear front-runner in a field of candidates still scrambling to find a message.
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For months, much of the finger-pointing over negative campaigning in the Republican presidential race has been directed at Mitt Romney.
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Courting party faithful Saturday, Republican Mitt Romney promised to return a wayward GOP to its core principles while rival John McCain portrayed himself as the most qualified to take charge of the country amid dangerous times ahead.
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Mitt Romney has worked relentlessly to win the Republican presidential nomination for the past three years, and if he's going down, it won't be without a fight.
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Republican Mitt Romney, who surprised his presidential rivals last month with his one-day, $6.5 million haul, added nearly $1 million more to the till Thursday as candidates faced the reality that dollars distinguish the legitimate hopefuls from the pretenders.
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Republican  presidential candidates turned their attention to South  Carolina on Wednesday with their White House race as wide open  as ever with a win by Mitt Romney in Michigan.
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John McCain and Mitt Romney looked ahead  on Wednesday to the next sprawling battles in a heated  Republican presidential race that is about to have one less  combatant -- former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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Republicans Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani ramped up their presidential campaign spending in the second quarter of the year, with Romney outpacing his contributions with an aggressive media strategy.
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Republican presidential hopefuls Thursday headed to a verbal face-off, five days ahead of Florida's key primary, with Mitt Romney and John McCain leading opinion polls and ex-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani battling to stay in the race.
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Republican Mitt Romney, his family and supporters vowed to carry his campaign into the vote-rich Super Tuesday contests next week after narrowly losing Florida's primary to rival John McCain.
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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney jumped into the race for the White House seeking to win the Republican Party nomination by touting family values, small government and a hard line against terrorism.
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Mitt Romney edged ahead of Republican rival John McCain in early vote counting Tuesday, seeking to revive his weakened presidential candidacy with a hard-fought victory in his native state.
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Now, the Republican presidential nomination battle shifts from the typical tack of achieving inevitability to one where candidates work to amass the most delegates.
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Republican Mitt Romney cast his win in the Michigan primary as "a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism," setting the stage for a nomination battle with John McCain and others now likely to extend through the Super Tuesday contests on Feb. 5.
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Republican presidential  contender Mitt Romney, fighting for his political life, said on  Monday he expects to win New Hampshire's primary vote but even  a defeat would not stall his bid for the White House.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday he wants all delegates seated at next year's GOP National Convention, but he also wants Iowa and New Hampshire to lead off the nomination contests.