The Road to 2016: GOP race heads to South Carolina

The road to the 2016 presidential campaign shifts from New Hampshire to South Carolina, with leading GOP contenders Jeb Bush and Scott Walker both set to visit the first-in-the-South primary state this week.

Ted Cruz wraps up his first New Hampshire visit of the year with a Monday morning appearance at the Politics and Egg breakfast at Saint Anselm College. The Q&A session is a staple in the first-in-the-nation primary state.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is also looking at making a presidential bid, is also in New Hampshire and will hold a town meeting this afternoon in Manchester.

Here's what else is making political news in Paste BN and our network partners across the country:

House may subpoena Clinton e-mails

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said the full House may be forced to go to court to get Hillary Rodham Clinton's private e-mail server.  Paste BN's Fredreka Schouten reports this is a last-ditch option for Gowdy if the leading Democratic presidential candidate does not agree to turn the server over to an independent arbiter.

Courting Iowa's evangelical voters

The Des Moines Register takes a look at the role of Christian conservatives, who make up a large part of the Iowa presidential caucuses. Jason Noble reports "appealing to that constituency also means abiding rhetoric seen by some as strident and even hateful. It means adopting priorities that even some fellow Republicans would prefer to see de-emphasized in the national political debate."

Arizona gov avoids Obama confrontation

Remember when then-Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer pointed her finger at President Obama on an airplane tarmac in 2012? Gov. Doug Ducey, the Republican who succeeded Brewer, was careful to avoid such a scene. The Arizona Republicreports Ducey rejected a suggestion from Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and Rep. Ruben Gallego to hold up their index fingers to suggest "we're No. 1" when Obama visited Phoenix last month.

What Ted Cruz means to Florida's Space Coast 

There was a time in 2013 when thousands of Kennedy Space Center  contractors were furloughed because of the federal government shutdown and they blamed their plight on Sen. Ted Cruz and his filibuster against Obamacare. Fast forward to today and the Texas senator "suddenly matters to the Space Coast in a constructive way," writes Matt Reed of Florida Today. That's because Cruz, a GOP presidential hopeful, now leads a Senate panel that oversees NASA's spending and budget priorities.

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