Alex Pappas

Alex Pappas - Alex Pappas is a political reporter at The Daily Caller. His work has also appeared in the Press-Register in Mobile, Ala. and The Washington Examiner in D.C. He's a graduate of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn.

4:37 PM 01/23/2012

An aide to Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is accused of rolling his wife up in a carpet and beating her. (more)

9:11 PM 01/21/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum were shoved and a baby stroller was left knocked over after a group of “Occupy” protesters disrupted his election-night gathering and threw glitter on him Saturday night. (more)

5:43 PM 01/21/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has won South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary. (more)

1:06 PM 01/21/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich continues to rally his supporters before Saturday’s primary here by bashing the liberal media. (more)

9:24 PM 01/20/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- During a campaign rally the night before South Carolina's primary election, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich accused a heckler who interrupted his speech of being a supporter of Mitt Romney. (more)

6:01 PM 01/20/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell endorsed Mitt Romney’s campaign for president on Friday and told a rally of supporters that both character and values matter when selecting a nominee to run against President Obama. (more)

3:13 PM 01/20/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Don’t waste your vote on me. (more)

12:14 PM 01/20/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Hundreds of students at the College of Charleston are gathering in front of the school’s Randolph Hall for Friday’s rally featuring comedian Stephen Colbert and former presidential candidate Herman Cain. (more)

11:05 PM 01/19/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Another tea party leader says she sees signs that grassroots conservative activists are getting behind Newt Gingrich in the Palmetto State ahead of Saturday’s primary. (more)

8:29 PM 01/19/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Talk about a scolding. (more)

4:59 PM 01/19/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Thursday made an endorsement in the Republican presidential race, but it wasn’t an actual candidate running for president. (more)

12:21 PM 01/19/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Those who showed up at the Hyatt to see Rick Perry announce his withdrawal from the Republican presidential race were confused by what they saw in the hotel parking lot: Herman Cain's campaign bus. (more)

12:08 PM 01/19/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Even though he dropped out of the Republican race for president this year, Rick Perry has not given up hope of one day occupying the White House. (more)

12:06 PM 01/19/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican presidential race on Thursday, two days ahead of the South Carolina primary, and endorsed Newt Gingrich in an apparent effort to stop Mitt Romney from winning the nomination. (more)

9:25 AM 01/19/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Daily Caller has learned that 100 tea party leaders from 25 states will announce Thursday that they are supporting Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and will form a coalition called Tea Partiers With Newt. (more)

11:14 PM 01/18/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Have the tea partiers found their man to challenge President Obama? (more)

4:08 PM 01/18/2012

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The top strategist for the Tea Party Express told The Daily Caller that the organization isn't quite ready to endorse a candidate in the presidential election, but admitted that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich seems to have the most buzz among tea party activists heading into South Carolina's primary. (more)

11:39 PM 01/17/2012

If you live in one of 13 select cities across the country, it’s likely you’ve seen the “I am a Mormon” ads on billboards, on TV or even on the side of a bus. (more)

1:41 PM 01/17/2012

The Washington Examiner's Byron York reports that Mitt Romney's presidential campaign "has not yet accepted invitations to participate in two high-profile debates leading up to the January 31 Florida primary." (more)

1:22 PM 01/17/2012

Newsweek accomplished at least one thing by running a cover story calling the country’s critics of President Obama “dumb” --- they awoke the mama grizzly. (more)

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