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Danny McAuliffeOctober 9, 2018

Emergency officials in Leon County are predicting Hurricane Michael will be the “strongest” and “most extreme” storm in decades to hit Florida’s capital city. Speaking to reporters Tuesday in Tallahassee, county Emergency Management Director Kevin Peters said Hurricane Michael is nearly a Category 3 storm. He anticipates it will make landfall at that strength on Wednesday […]

Guest AuthorOctober 9, 2018

Are politics in Florida truly descending to the lowest level? We ask that because of articles appearing around Florida in which the Ron DeSantis campaign accuses Mayor Andrew Gillum of being anti-Israel, and Chris King along with Gillum of being anti-Semitic. As the rabbis of two major Jewish communities in Florida, we object to any […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 9, 2018

With four weeks before the primary, Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis brought on yet another seasoned hand for his campaign’s stretch run. Florida Politics learned Monday evening that operative Tim Baker joined the campaign last week in a senior leadership role, offering strategic and political guidance. Baker, one of a series of recent staff moves in DeSantis […]

Danny McAuliffeOctober 9, 2018

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It took less than a day for Hurricane Michael to make partisan sparks fly. Democratic candidate for Governor Andrew Gillum took to Twitter Monday evening to respond to vague criticisms offered by President Donald Trump earlier in the day at a stop in Orlando. “Don’t come to my state and talk trash about my city while we […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 9, 2018

Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis isn’t leaving the campaign trail despite Hurricane Michael approaching the Panhandle. However, he will be using his upcoming events on the peninsula to marshal supplies from supporters for the storm-impacted, as the barometer drops and the October Surprise of this campaign becomes ever more imminent. At events in Tampa on Tuesday, as […]

Jim RosicaOctober 8, 2018

A new poll shows “a narrow lead” for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum over his Republican counterpart, Ron DeSantis. But the poll, by the Florida Southern College Center for Polling and Policy Research, has a roughly 4½-point margin of error, and Gillum’s lead is just over 3 points. Gillum received just over 47 percent support, compared […]

Jacob OglesOctober 7, 2018

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum enjoyed another high attendance rally in a deep red part of Florida, this time Martin County. Gillum addressed about 1,500 people in Stuart after completing a boat tour of areas on Florida’s east coast struck by toxic algal blooms. “Crowds of this size in Martin County are unheard of,” said […]

Jacob OglesOctober 7, 2018

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Lieutenant Governor candidate Chris King joined Democrats statewide in expressing outrage over comments made Saturday by U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz during a political event in Cape Coral. “Our election should and must be about real people facing real issues, and not hyperbolic propaganda used to fearmonger and gin up their base,” King said. Gaetz on […]

Jacob OglesOctober 7, 2018

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The Reform Party 25 years ago posed a serious threat to the two-party system—then largely vanished. But Darcy Richardson, Florida’s Reform Party candidate for governor, hopes to make the third party into a force in the Sunshine State this year. “We’re trying to refine the party and bring some new life into it,” says Richardson, […]

Jacob OglesOctober 7, 2018

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz criticized Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum for overseeing a rise in crime as mayor of Tallahassee. “I don’t know whether to call him Andrew Gillum or ‘Andrew Kill-‘em,’ ” Gaetz said. Gaetz suggested the nickname during a campaign swing through Southwest Florida with Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis on Saturday. Democrats […]

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Tallahassee braces for strongest storm ‘since 1894’

Rabbis Steven Engel, Jack Romberg: Take anti-Semitism out of Florida politics

Ron DeSantis campaign brings in operative Tim Baker for final stretch

‘Don’t come to my state and talk trash about my city’: Andrew Gillum pushes back against Donald Trump

Bring hurricane relief items to campaign stops, Ron DeSantis asks

Florida Southern College poll: ‘Narrow lead’ for Andrew Gillum

Andrew Gillum draws major crowd in deep red Stuart amid algae crisis

Chris King, other Democrats express outrage over Matt Gaetz attack on Andrew Gillum

Darcy Richardson, Nancy Argenziano rekindle Reform Party dreams

Matt Gaetz labels Andrew Gillum ‘Andrew Kill’em’; Democrats decry attack