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A.G. GancarskiNovember 13, 2018

During the campaign battle against Sen. Bill Nelson, Gov. Rick Scott‘s operation routinely chided the third-term Democratic incumbent for being “confused” or otherwise detached from what’s going on. Remarkably, just two days after accusing the Nelson campaign of “fraud” on Fox News Sunday, Scott’s campaign is pivoting to a new message for Tuesday: The Senator is barely […]

Jacob OglesNovember 10, 2018

Republican Rick Scott’s Senate campaign today called on incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson to call it quits and forgo a statewide recount, but the Democrat remains confident he can still win the election. A final tabulation of unofficial election results as of Saturday showed Scott holding a 12,562-vote edge on Nelson. “The voters of Florida have […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 16, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott is dedicated largely to post-Michael recovery these days, and a new ad from his campaign is designed to remind voters of that fact. “With the campaign nearly over, let’s take a behind the scenes peek at both candidates,” the narrator observes. Scott is “leading hurricane recovery, directing relief efforts, and even housing state […]

Mitch PerryJune 28, 2016

Carlos Beruff, the last man standing between Marco Rubio being renominated by the Republican Party of Florida to run for re-election to the U.S. Senate, gets crushed by the GOP incumbent in a poll conducted last week. A survey by Gainesville-based GOP polling firm Data Targeting, done on the day before and the day of Rubio’s announcement last week […]

Mitch PerryJune 20, 2016

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No word from Marco Rubio regarding his political future, but the Florida Senator is already getting grief from the campaign of one his possible Republican opponents as he decides whether or not to run for re-election to his U.S. Senate seat. Chris Hartline is the spokesman for Carlos Beruff, the Manatee County developer who says he won’t […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 22, 2016

These are interesting times in the GOP primary for Florida’s United States seat. Evidence has emerged that Carlos Beruff, the Manatee homebuilder, is getting some traction with his TV ad-driven outsider campaign. Gov. Rick Scott spoke highly of Beruff this week in Sarasota, and said he would not endorse between Beruff and Carlos Lopez-Cantera, saying that both would “do a good […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 21, 2016

In Florida’s crowded GOP U.S. Senate primary, every move is subject to scrutiny. Fundraising trips have especially been eyeballed. And especially when a candidate’s messaging is laden with “grassroots” and “anti-establishment” memes. We reported last week that Carlos Lopez-Cantera has scheduled a $500-per- person fundraiser on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. The first campaign to message against […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 16, 2016

As the campaign of Carlos Beruff unfolds, questions have emerged over statements he made before his candidacy and after. One such statement had to do with Cuba, an issue of particular interest in this campaign in this cycle. In December 2014, after an American-Cuban prisoner swap, the Bradenton Herald claimed that Beruff told them that […]

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