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Mitch PerryNovember 24, 2015

Donald Trump leads in Iowa in a Quinnipiac poll released on Tuesday, but barely — and his closest competitor is not Dr. Ben Carson, but Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Trump narrowly leads Cruz, 25-23 percent, a doubling of support for Cruz since the last Quinnipiac poll in Iowa taken last month. Carson is third with […]

Associated PressNovember 18, 2015

Idaho billionaire Frank VanderSloot said Wednesday he will support Republican Marco Rubio for president, adding another prominent donor to the Florida senator’s endorsement list. “He’s clearly, in our opinion, the brightest of the bunch,” said VanderSloot, founder and chief executive of the health care products company Melaleuca. “He has a great understanding of what it […]

Mitch PerryNovember 16, 2015

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is accusing Marco Rubio and other Republicans of descending to the bottom of the barrel in their partisan responses to the Paris terrorist attacks. “This weekend our three Democratic candidates for president held a substantive conversation about keeping our country safe that remained serious and demonstrated respect for voters,” Wasserman […]

Mitch PerryNovember 16, 2015

The rhetoric coming from the two-day cavalcade of Republican presidential candidates that took place in Orlando this past weekend changed halfway through due to the Paris terrorist attacks, but not as much as you might think. That’s because for many of the candidates, criticizing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton‘s foreign policy achievements/objectives has been the stock […]

Associated PressNovember 16, 2015

Bring on Donald Trump, and Ben Carson, too. That’s what Democratic insiders are saying about the Republican outsiders who sit solidly atop preference polls in the race for the GOP nomination for president. They are far more worried about GOP candidates who have experience in office, with Marco Rubio cited most often as the strongest […]

Associated PressNovember 15, 2015

For most presidential candidates, a compelling personal history is an essential item in the campaign tool kit. Think Hillary Rodham Clinton and her campaign statements about fighting for women. Marco Rubio and his biography of the immigrant family that made good. Carly Fiorina and her “secretary to CEO” career path. Ben Carson and his up-by-the-bootstraps […]

Brendan FarringtonNovember 15, 2015

Several Republican candidates for president Sunday accused President Barack Obama and his former secretary of state, Democratic Party front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, of failing in the fight against Islamic State militants as the terrorist attacks in Paris became a focal point of the nomination race. Carly Fiorina, the former tech CEO, criticized the Obama administration […]

Mitch PerryNovember 14, 2015

If you’ve followed any of the stump speeches of the 15 Republican candidates still standing in the race for the presidential nomination, you know that everyone of them spends considerable time criticizing what they call the fecklessness of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton‘s foreign policy. So in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris […]

Associated PressNovember 12, 2015

For months, Marco Rubio‘s campaign team in South Carolina operated out of a staffer’s garage, plotting strategy for the first-in-the-South primary from freshly painted yard sale furniture and tiny classroom desks. The shoestring budget setup was a point of pride for the Republican presidential candidate’s team. Now, with Rubio enjoying a burst of momentum as […]

Mitch PerryNovember 12, 2015

Florida will become ground zero for the GOP presidential campaign this weekend in Orlando, when the Republican Party of Florida kicks off it’s three-day Sunshine Summit with a speech by former Vice President Dick Cheney, followed by two days of speeches from 13 of the 15 candidates running for the nomination. On Monday night however, […]

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Ted Cruz soars to 2nd place behind Donald Trump in new Iowa poll

Marco Rubio wins support of Idaho billionaire Frank VanderSloot

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says GOP has gone too far in responses to Paris terrorist attacks

Mitch Perry Report for 11.16.15 — A post 11/13 world?

Survey of Democratic super-delegates: Marco Rubio is top 2016 threat

Beware too-good-to-be-true personal stories from 2016 trail

GOP candidates use Paris attacks to take aim at Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton at Florida GOP summit

Carly Fiorina says she is the leader the world needs in a time of terror

Marco Rubio’s low-budget campaign looks to ramp up as voting nears

Sunshine Summit set to kick off