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A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2016

Monday, the Marco Rubio for President campaign announced Rubio’s National Security Advisory Council, which will lend “considerable expertise to Marco’s efforts to make the case for American leadership in an increasingly uncertain world.” Among the major players on the team, which has a distinctly post-9/11 Republican feel, are Elliott Abrams, former Deputy National Security Adviser […]

Scott PowersMarch 7, 2016

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Fresh from his resounding win in Puerto Rico and in need of an even bigger prize, Marco Rubio‘s campaign has turned to appeal to Florida’s Puerto Rican community to help make a difference on March 15. The Rubio campaign rolled out four prominent Central Florida Puerto Rican Republican surrogates Monday, Daisy Lopez-Cid, Dennis Freytas, Luis Martinez […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2016

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The map supposedly looks better for Marco Rubio as the primaries continue. But apparently that map doesn’t include the Wolverine State. A Monmouth University poll released Monday regarding Tuesday’s Michigan Primary shows Rubio in a distant fourth place, at 13 percent, ahead of the Tuesday vote, and currently out of the running for delegates. Donald Trump […]

Martin DyckmanMarch 7, 2016

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Donald Trump doubled down on war crimes in that gutter-level brawl the other night, insisting that military personnel who have been trained to refuse illegal commands would not dare to disobey his orders to torture terrorism suspects and murder their families. “They’re not going to refuse me,” said the would-be egotist-in-chief. “If I say do […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 7, 2016

A rash of anti-Marco Rubio advertisements could be hitting Florida’s airwaves soon. On Monday, POLITICO reported that Keep the Promise I, the main super PAC backing Ted Cruz, is planning to air several advertisements taking aim at Rubio in his home state. The ads take on Rubio on several issues, including sugar subsidies and his […]

Mitch PerryMarch 7, 2016

Wouldn’t it be interesting, as comedian Sarah Silverman noted on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, for all of the candidates — Republicans and Democrats — to debate at one time? The differences between the two parties standard-bearers would become event more evident. Take the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, for example. During Thursday night’s GOP debate […]

Associated PressMarch 7, 2016

Marco Rubio finds his Oval Office ambitions squeezed by Donald Trump‘s outsider ambush and the Republican Party’s resulting identity crisis. The Florida senator has struggled to reconnect with the kind of voters who sent him to Capitol Hill six years ago as a tea party favorite, instead watching them fuel Trump and his closest challenger to winning […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 6, 2016

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has two rallies in Florida set for Tuesday evening. Sarasota and the Nocatee Town Center in St. Johns County will experience “Marcomentum” after a victory Sunday in the 23-delegate Puerto Rico primary. The Sarasota rally starts 5 p.m. at Dolphin Aviation Hangar at 8191 N. Tamiami Trail. Doors open at 4 p.m. […]

Associated PressMarch 6, 2016

Sen. Marco Rubio has won Puerto Rico’s Republican primary, his second win of the race for the GOP presidential nomination. It wasn’t clear how many delegates the contest awards him. The U.S. territory’s three super-delegates have committed to Rubio. If a candidate gets more than half the votes, he gets all the delegates. If no […]

Jim RosicaMarch 6, 2016

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You can admit to drinking goat’s blood, dropping LSD and having rape fantasies, but defend a neo-Nazi and it’s No Canada For You. Augustus Invictus, the Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate from Florida, said in a press release this weekend he had been denied entry to The Great White North on his way to a Vancouver speaking […]

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Pro-Ted Cruz super PAC taking aim at Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio sets Tuesday evening rallies in Sarasota, St. Johns County

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Augustus Invictus blocked from entering Canada over neo-Nazi client