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They were at each others' throats at this time four years ago, but John McCain stood beside Mitt Romney today to endorse his former opponent in the New Hampshire primary. McCain, who defeated George W. Bush here in 2000 and beat Romney in 2008, said, "it's with some nostalgia that I return to this place that I love so well" -- but his main job is to help "make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States." Granite State voters, he said, can help Romney wrap up the GOP nomination quickly.

It was standing room only as Mitt Romney briefly took time out from Iowa to campaign in Republican strongholds in New Hampshire, where he holds a wide lead approaching the state's first-in-the-nation primary.

The tense campaign between Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney heated up further on Monday in New Hampshire, where Romney's lead in opinion polls has shrunk in recent weeks.

The polls of the two earliest states in the presidential nominating contest both show significant progress for Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, who has moved up about 20 points in each state since October.

New Hampshire's largest newspaper on Sunday endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the 2012 GOP presidential race, signaling that rival Mitt Romney isn't the universal favorite and potentially resetting the contest before the state's lead-off primary Jan. 10.

Five former staffers on GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann's New Hampshire campaign team issued a joint statement today explaining the reasons for their mass departure, blaming it on tensions between them and the national staff.

Today it's about dueling GOP presidential endorsements as Rick Perry touts the backing he's getting from Steve Forbes and Mitt Romney boasts support from former New Hampshire governor John Sununu.

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign on Saturday said that two of its staff members in New Hampshire have quit, partially confirming local reports that all of the Minnesota Republican’s staffers in the first-in-the-nation primary state had resigned.

Mitt Romney extended an olive branch towards one of his leading GOP rivals and continued to attack President Obama's Iraq policy on Saturday, as he made an appearance in a state he's counting on to launch him towards the Republican presidential nomination.

Republican candidates have been test-driving themes and previewing attack lines online for months, foreshadowing the TV ad war that's all but certain to start soon in Iowa, New Hampshire and other early voting states.