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How to celebrate Halloween in 2016 style

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Need a last-minute Halloween costume? Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has you covered.

The doctor-turned-politician is selling a "Scrub Top Halloween costume" on his online store for $35, complete with a name tag that says "Dr. Ben Carson, Pediatric Neurosurgeon."

"Treat friends and neighbors alike as you walk your neighborhood with this Carson-approved style. You're guaranteed to take home extra candy," the costume description reads.

Carson's web store has a small disclaimer that says, "Extra candy is not actually guaranteed, but you looking awesome in this costume is!"

Paul's presidential pumpkins

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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul chose to show off his Halloween spirit with pumpkins and parties.

The Republican presidential contender hosted a party in Iowa to celebrate the candy-glorifying holiday. He arrived dressed as the national debt, wearing a red turtleneck printed with the words "$18 trillion" -- a costume Paul called "the scariest."

Having a great time at my Halloween party in Iowa! My costume is still the scariest.

Posted by Rand Paul on Friday, October 30, 2015

Ahead of the holiday, Paul's campaign also promoted themed jack-o'-lantern stencils, including outlines of the Kentucky senator and his signature torch. Instructions on how to carve the pumpkins were posted to Facebook.

Student supporters at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania thought their stencils turned out fairly well:

Trumpkins galore

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The formula for a winning jack-o'-lantern: Donald Trump + a pumpkin = a Trumpkin.

Former Richard Nixon aide Roger Stone tweeted out a pumpkin carved earlier this week in the likeness of the GOP front-runner, calling it "amazing," "classy" and, most importantly, "YUGE."

One New Hampshire resident even entered her own Trumpkin into a fair's pumpkin contest:

And there's more:

"Hipster Hillary"

HillaryClinton.com

During her time in the public eye, Hillary Clinton has undergone several wardrobe transformations -- a fact that her campaign team is capitalizing on this Halloween.

On her campaign website, Clinton's team has several "do-it-yourself" costume ideas up, ranging from the "Hipster Hillary" of her Wellesley College days, to the "Cold Shoulder Hillary" of Bill Clinton's White House tenure, to the "Texts from Hillary" outfit from her stint as secretary of state.

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Hillary Clinton campaign website

During an appearance on CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," Clinton spoke about the DIY costume ideas. Colbert added another Benghazi-hearing-themed suggestion to the list: "People can just go to the party dressed up any way they want, but they have to stay for 11 hours."

Babies feel the Bern

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, greets Sarah Young Bear-Brown and her son Maddox Tubby after talking to tribal members of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa/Meskwaki Nation during a campaign event at the Meskwaki Nation Settlement near Tama, Iowa, Sept. 4, 2015. REUTERS

It began with a #babiesforbernie hashtag. Now, with Halloween here, baby Bernies are now a full-blown movement.

Babies dressed as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders are taking over social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter, and it's just as adorable as you'd expect.

Here's a selection of some of the best white-haired, vaguely Benjamin Button-esque Halloween costumes:

A photo posted by @moonrosegypsy on

Ben feels the Bern. #babiesforbernie

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Feelin the bern! #babiesforbernie #bernbabybern #feelthebern

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