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Associated PressOctober 26, 2015

Ben Carson is the only 2016 candidate for president who has never led a state or company or run for political office. No matter, he says. Surely someone who can perform life-or-death surgeries can run the country. Carson challenged the medical status quo as a storied neurosurgeon — cutting out half of a child’s brain […]

Peter SchorschOctober 26, 2015

Welcome A-Schorsch! After a week at sea aboard the Disney Fantasy, I am tanned, rested and ready to return to writing about the Florida politics. Here are 10 things I think I think about the latest political news from the Sunshine State. Hillary Clinton pretty much locked up the Democratic nomination — Biden not in. Benghazi […]

Mitch PerryOctober 26, 2015

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the working week. Well, we’re 98 days until the Iowa caucuses, a political lifetime away, right? Well, yes and know. The trend there had been set, but that turned upside down last week when Ben Carson swooped over Donald Trump in two polls taken from the Hawkeye State. Now, I […]

Jac VerSteegOctober 25, 2015

It’s “Crazy Peak” time for Republican presidential candidates. At the moment, that favors two candidates with Florida ties: Donald Trump and Ben Carson. When the peaks flatten, as Trump’s might already be doing, two other Floridians – Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio – will benefit. But Rubio will benefit more than Bush. The “Crazy Peak” […]

Associated PressOctober 25, 2015

A huge majority of Republican voters prefer an outsider candidate to one with experience in Washington, and most see political rookies Donald Trump and Ben Carson as possible general election winners, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Carson tops the field as the most positively viewed candidate among Republicans, the poll shows. Some things to […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 24, 2015

Say what you will about GOP Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, he knows how to draw a crowd. Even an hour before his rally was to start at the Jacksonville Landing, a hundred or so Trump fans lined up, looking less like a political movement and more like dinner rush queue at the Golden Corral buffet. […]

Phil AmmannOctober 24, 2015

After a pivotal week, the presidential race has become a tale of two parties on sharply different trajectories: Hillary Rodham Clinton has tightened her grip on the Democratic nomination while Republican concern is reaching new heights. Some officials are even considering what could turn into a GOP civil war to stop Donald Trump — with […]

Brendan FarringtonOctober 24, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump mocked former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in his own state on Saturday, saying recent campaign cuts show he’s not ready to be president. “Here’s a guy who wants to run our country, and he can’t even run his own campaign. And you know what? He’s cutting back big,” Trump told […]

Associated PressOctober 24, 2015

For months, Jeb Bush‘s campaign insisted it was too early. Too early to worry about the Republican presidential candidate’s sluggish poll numbers. Too early to fret over the rise of unorthodox candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Too early to question if the one-time front-runner is merely a pedestrian candidate. But with just over three […]

Mitch PerryOctober 23, 2015

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Although Joy Ann-Reid no longer has her daily show “The Reid Report” on MSNBC, she remains a regular fixture on the cable news network as a national correspondent. She also continues to write stories online at places like the Daily Beast, and you can now call her an author. Her book, “Fracture: Barack Obama, the […]

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