Welcome to Trail Guide, your host through the wilds of the 2016 presidential campaign. It’s Wednesday, Jan. 13, and here’s what we’re talking about:
- Is a battle brewing between President Obama and Donald Trump on the campaign trail?
- Analysis: In State of the Union, Obama aims to have a say in which candidate follows him
- Jeb Bush’s super PAC is spending a lot of money on advertising, but it’s not helping boost his poll numbers
- The Republican debate lineup for this week is set, and Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina did not make the cut
- Paul will skip the so-called “happy hour” debate to campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire