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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he hopes Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination for president — and that he would be open to running as his vice president.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeb Bush is ready to launch a presidential campaign months in the making with a focus on the "most vulnerable in our society."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a three-week flirtation with another run for president, Mitt Romney said definitively on Friday that he will not seek the White House in 2016.

Comments from leading political figures who spoke Saturday at the Iowa Freedom Summit, a gathering of social conservatives set to play an important role as the early voting state helps determine the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee: