If Obama is re-elected, “I think that’s the position he’ll be trapped into taking, because once you go down that road, it becomes almost impossible to make a U-turn and get out of it," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) said to Newsmax in an interview. “If you look at the policies the president has pursued, they haven’t worked. This presiden

“I misspoke. I wish I wouldn't have said it that way. I made the same thought part of my speeches over the last year or two which is that I'm really concerned about middle income Americans. I want to help middle income Americans. I want to get people out of poverty, into the middle income category," Mitt Romney told Sean Hannity tonight.

"No I have not -- as yet, as yet," Holder said when House Oversight and Government Reform Chair Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked if he had disciplined anyone. "I'm certainly going to wait and see what I get from the Inspector General," Holder explained, adding that he would also take the majority and minority committee reports into consideration. (via

“Countdown” guest host David Shuster consults Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, to get his take on John Boehner’s latest attempt to force the issue of the Keystone XL pipeline by attaching it to an upcoming bill. Says Israel, “This is why the American people no longer trust them, and this

Newt Gingrich runs a new web advertisement showing how similar some of Romney's policies are to President Obama's policies.

“Did I tell you I met him at a fundraiser?” Ann Coulter said to Sean Hannity on his nationally syndicated radio program. “I went up to him. I was about to leave. But I said — I just wanted to go up to him and tell him, ‘You owe me and you better be as right-wing a president as I’m telling everybody you’re going to be.’” (h/t

"It really wouldn't be surprising if Donald Trump supports Mitt Romney, because they both like firing people and they've both made millions doing it," DNC Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said about the endorsement on MSNBC.

"Every single dollar he spent was on negative ads. I think he had one positive radio ad in the Hispanic community, and 99% of his ads were negative. Almost all of his rhetoric was negative. And he executed very well. His aides all boasted about that in the newspaper about what a great negative campaign they ran against Gingrich down there in Florid

"Maybe this is the way you do things in Idaho, or wherever you're from. (h/t Washington Examiner)

Obama, on behalf of his reelection campaign, announces their strategy to court African-American voters, a voting bloc that he heavily secured during his first run. In 2008, Obama received 95% of the black vote. Obama's campaign statement is below. Today, we're announcing the 2012 launch of African Americans for Obama. There's no b

"You know that brutality, say, for instance, what we just witnessed in Florida that brutality via $17 million in negative ads in a 65 to 1 negative ad ratio that was mounted against Newt Gingrich, which I think did result in him falling there in the polls and in that primary. That brutality will help Obama only if Americans can concede Obama's poin

"This is bad," syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said about Romney's remark that he is not concerned about the poor. "It's not just the day after a big win in Florida. He only spent a whole day on a soundbite that has been taken o

Michelle Obama competed in a push-up contest with Ellen DeGeneres on her daytime show that airs on broadcast television. Obama went 25 push-ups until DeGeneres stopped.

Bill O'Reilly previews the 2012 election race. He believes it will be Romney vs. Obama in 12 battleground states. He criticizes Romney's recent comments on the "very poor."

Chris Matthews, Dee Dee Myers and David Corn talk about Newt Gingrich's staying power in the GOP race.

Lawrence O'Donnell, Howard Fineman and Howard Dean talk about Romney's comment about the "very poor."

Fred Barnes, Rick Klein and Charles Krauthammer discuss viewer emails with host Bret Baier.