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While Marylanders have three more months before the state's primary election on April 26, the Times checked in with some of Carroll's elected officials at the county and state level to discuss what candidates they are supporting in the 2016 presidential race.

The GOP establishment could help themselves by convincing most of their candidates to follow South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's lead and drop out of a race they can't win. Sen. Marco Rubio would be the primary benefactor of this strategy. A contest between Trump and Rubio might boost Rubio who, I believe, is best positioned to beat the eventual Democratic nominee, Secretary Hilary Clinton, in the fall.

Two well-known Maryland Republican officials will oversee Marco Rubio's presidential bid in the state, the Florida senator's campaign said Monday.

Though his support has slipped across the country, retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson maintains a narrow lead for the Republican nomination in Maryland, a new poll for The Baltimore Sun and the University of Baltimore has found.

Marco Rubio is best equipped to beat Hillary Clinton in a general election for the presidency, says Cal Thomas.

In Milwaukee, Rubio shows why he may be the best positioned of any Republican candidate running for president

Of the top three GOP presidential candidates, for whom would you vote today: Donald Trump, Ben Carson or Marco Rubio?

This week in politics: Rubio is up, Bush and Trump are down, and Chris Christie cannot be contained (in volume, anyway).

For a party that's obsessed with ever-increasing estimates of the national debt, Republicans sure are willing to punch big holes in the budget with radical tax cutting plans.

Who had a better showing in the most recent GOP presidential debate, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio or Ohio Gov. John Kasich?

Carly Fiorina may be the only GOP candidate who can credibly take on Donald Trump's bluster, says David Horsey.

Fox News was the big winner in the GOP debate, targeting the individual vulnerabilities of each candidate.

C-SPAN's "Voters First Forum" lacked Donald Trump but featured Ben Carson, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul Marco Rubio at St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire.

What will life be like under Obama's power plant rules? Pretty good, if Maryland is any guide.

Phase out Medicare? That isn't necessary or prudent

The Donald's recklessly insensitive assault on John McCain finally stiffened the other Republicans' spines, says Jules Witcover.

The party's right-wing quest for philosophical purity may well have found its 2016 nominee in Scott Walker. But as a general election candidate next year, he would find it hard going, with or without a running mate like Marco Rubio.

In order from most recently announced, here are the announced candidates for the 2016 presidential election.

The Republicans' three amigos -- Rubio, Cruz and Bush -- look about as phony to many Latinos as the trio of actors-pretending-to-be-Mexicans played by Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short in the 1986 movie, "Three Amigos!"

As long as so much money is available, particularly from a relative handful of wealthy fat cats and special interests, and ambitious politicians and their well-paid hired guns stand ready to spend it, the election marathon is likely to endure — starting ever earlier each four years.

Only one presidential candidate voted for war with Iraq: Hillary Clinton.

Republican presidential hopefuls are at war with each other over the budget for war.

Instead of nonstop attacks on Obama, GOP candidates should adopt a positive and future-focused agenda.

Ted Cruz is disregarding the general election by targeting the conservative right wing for the primary, says Jules Witcover.

Ted Cruz is the first but won't be the last GOP contender for 2016; Democrats should demand the same diversity of choices for their nominee.

GOP presidential candidates want to talk inequality, but the House is still stuck on makers and takers.

Obviously, Jeb Bush has his strengths. He is a smart and capable man who is more than merely his last name. He may have skills and strategies (and certainly the money to augment them) that can compensate for his liabilities. But it seems obvious to me that the GOP needs a plausible "change" candidate, and so far, he's not it.

Republicans who refused to disavow Rudy Guiliani's bizarre statement about Obama showed themselves nothing but haters,

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the vanilla candidate, says Jonah Goldberg -- not the favorite, not hated.

Jeb Bush easily chased off Mitt Romney from running for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, Witcover writes.

House effort to tie DHS funding to a reversal of President Obama's immigration orders looks like another empty gesture from the GOP

Will neo-cons rule a new GOP Congress?

There seems to be only one year that is not an election year, and that is the first year of a new president's first term.

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Rubio is trying to stand up for Cuba, but sanctions only hurt Cubans

As a former prisoner of war who experienced torture, John McCain has more standing than any of his Senate colleagues when it comes to rendering judgment about the CIA's Bush-era "enhanced interrogation" program.

President Obama's order will spare millions from deportation and inches U.S. toward a more rational immigration policy

Only former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida has the potential to best Mitt Romney for the nomination if he decides to run

Uber has pulled off what few others can these days: The beloved car service has united politicians of all persuasions. Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians are all vying to outdo each other in portraying the popular ride-sharing company and its political struggles to avoid regulatory strangulation as a poignant validation of their individual world views.

Neither Hillary Clinton nor Jeb Bush are objectionable as presidential candidates, but are these really the only two families from which solid candidates can come?.

Of the prospective GOP presidential nominees, none has yet developed the credentials to claim rightfully to be next in line.

A prediction: Hillary Clinton may be running against Rand Paul come 2016