Topic: Jon Huntsman

Mitt Romney scored an overwhelming win Sunday in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, trouncing chief rival Rick Santorum on the Caribbean island even as the two rivals looked ahead to more competitive contests this week in Illinois and Louisiana.

"The best and most effective way to balance the budget is through booming economic growth and prosperity. I know. That is how we did it the last time we balanced the budget, when I was Speaker of the House, and it stayed balanced for four straight years. And that is how we would do it again if I am elected President," writes the candidate in this Guest Blog.

"I am running for President to offer more than just a change in policy. I am offering a dramatic change in perspective and philosophy," the candidate writes in this Guest Blog.

White House hopeful Mitt Romney widened his lead over rival Newt Gingrich to 11 percentage points in Florida, according to Reuters/Ipsos online poll results on Saturday, up from 8 points a day earlier.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took the fight to chief rival Newt Gingrich on Thursday in his most aggressive debate performance yet, five days ahead of Florida's primary vote.

Offering no explanation, the Iowa Republican Party has declared Rick Santorum as winner of the Iowa caucuses, days after saying incomplete vote results precluded it from doing just that.

CNBC.com ranks the 10 richest people who have sought the U.S. presidency since 1992. Some of the people who made the list might surprise you, but what’s more surprising is who didn’t make it. Click ahead to see the 10 richest people who ran for president in the last 20 years.

The Republican presidential hopefuls attacked front-runner Mitt Romney's business record and his failure to release his tax returns on Monday, looking to halt his growing momentum during the early stages of a debate in South Carolina.

Jon M. Huntsman Jr. dropped out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy a week before he had hoped to revive his campaign in the South Carolina primary. He endorsed Mitt Romney.

Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy a week before he had hoped to revive his campaign in the South Carolina primary.

Mitt Romney’s carefully tended network of Republican donors has been rendered functionally less important by “super PACs,” through which some wealthy individuals are financing a costly advertising barrage to attack his record, The New York Times reports.

A new survey shows a large discrepancy in how American Mormons view the two Mormon candidates for president, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman. But many doubt that America is ready to elect a Mormon president, The Christian Science Monitor reports.

Ron Paul's solid second-place finish in New Hampshire is in many ways the more telling outcome in a race where Mitt Romney’s dominance was never in doubt. The New York Times reports.

Mitt Romney won broad support from conservatives and moderates and was widely viewed as Republicans' best hope of defeating President Barack Obama in this fall's elections, preliminary exit polls of voters in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary showed.

Latest returns from New Hampshire showed Romney with 37 percent of the vote, followed by Texas Rep Ron Paul with 24 percent and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman with 17 percent,