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Larry GriffinMarch 13, 2016

A music festival promoting Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders drew a large crowd in Orlando Saturday night, mixing a rock concert atmosphere with a final push to draw votes for Sanders before Tuesday’s primary. Christened “Bernie Fest,” the event drew a varied crowd of all races, ages and orientations, some clad in collared shirts and slacks, and […]

Brendan FarringtonMarch 13, 2016

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Florida’s winner-take-all Republican presidential primary was supposed to help former Gov. Jeb Bush or Sen. Marco Rubio. That was the thinking when the GOP-dominated Legislature changed the state’s primary date to the third Tuesday in March, the earliest date it could hold an election that will award all 99 Republican delegates to one candidate. But […]

Scott PowersMarch 12, 2016

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A new poll conducted by Florida Atlantic University gives commanding leads to Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton headed to Florida’s presidential primary on Tuesday. The survey, conducted Tuesday through Friday by FAU’s Business and Economics Polling Initiative, gives Trump 44 percent, followed by a tie between U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and […]

Bill RuftyMarch 11, 2016

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Motorists nearly always complain about the traffic on Interstate 4, but in the last two days with the Democratic and Republican primaries Tuesday, many on the crowded highway have been presidential candidates. On the Democratic side, both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders worked Orlando, Kissimmee and Tampa Wednesday and Thursday. […]

Mitch PerryMarch 11, 2016

Rick Scott sought to clarify his earlier refusal to condemn Donald Trump‘s comment that “Islam hates us” Thursday afternoon. “There are people that love this country. There’s people that don’t love this country. What we do know, and it’s no surprise, is that radical Muslims don’t like our country,” Scott told reporters before Thursday night’s GOP […]

Mitch PerryMarch 10, 2016

A multicultural mix of citizens – many under the age of 30 – flocked to the Florida State Fairgrounds on Thursday afternoon to see the unlikely progressive icon from 2016 – Bernie Sanders, the 74-year-old Jewish socialist from Vermont who is bringing excitement and passion to a Democratic presidential race that otherwise seemingly would a be non- eventful […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 10, 2016

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Chelsea Clinton may be a campaign surrogate for her mother. But in terms of political savvy, Chelsea is her father’s daughter. An event Thursday evening at the All Saints Early Learning and Community Care Center saw Clinton, who has a young child herself, demonstrate an ability to deftly pivot from conversations with children about whether […]

Scott PowersMarch 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders compared the movement he wants to lead and the economic changes he wants to achieve when president with the rise of the labor, civil rights, women’s and gay movements. He also assured a Kisismmee rally Thursday that there will be pain, but it’s the right thing to do. “My point is that change never […]

Mitch PerryMarch 10, 2016

Hillary Clinton continued her three-day swing through the Sunshine State on Thursday by speaking to a rapturous crowd of approximately 600 admirers at the Ritz Ybor nightclub in Tampa’s Ybor City, where she said that she was ready for whomever the Republicans will nominate for president in a general election contest. “People ask me all the […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 10, 2016

It’s been a very Florida-centric day for the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Clinton press shop has sent out reminders of Bernie Sanders‘ comments from 1985 on Cuba and Nicaragua, popular points of defense among the left at the time. However, most of Clinton’s push has been about 2016 issues. And in her sights: Florida Gov. Rick Scott, […]

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