Breaking news: Brownback to quit GOP race
It looks like Fox News can take away one of those nine podiums for the Republican presidential debate in Orlando on Sunday.
The Times' Mark Z. Barabak has confirmed that Kansas conservative Republican Sen. Sam Brownback will quit the GOP presidential race, probably in an announcement tomorrow. Brownback has consistently lagged in the polls and in fundraising. And he already said that he'd drop out of the race if he didn't finish at least fourth in the Iowa caucuses.
Mark has the details here now.
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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