Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Mitch PerryFebruary 8, 2017

In its first week in office, the Trump administration froze new scientific grants at the Environmental Protection Agency. That fueled concerns amongst some in the scientific community that it will be a rough four years in Washington. Since the presidential election, more than 5,000 scientists, including many Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter urging President Trump and Congress […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 8, 2017

National Republicans, in an effort to boost their majority for the midterms, are targeting top House Democrats over the next two years – including Florida’s Charlie Crist and Stephanie Murphy. POLITICO first reported on the list of 36 lawmakers coming from the National Republican Congressional Committee, with a particular focus on “blue-collar parts of the […]

Darryl PaulsonFebruary 8, 2017

Voters who supported Donald Trump for president did so because they liked his free-speaking ideas, his attacks on the political establishment and his promise to “make America great again.” President Trump has repeatedly stated that he would have won the popular vote for president if not for massive vote fraud. Does Trump believe that Russian […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 8, 2017

Morris Communications, the parent company of the Florida Times-Union and the St. Augustine Record, launched a right-wing website recently. (Note: the headline is not redundant, so save your jokes.) The company, which created a kerfuffle last year by endorsing Donald Trump as an “agent of change” in the T-U and other corporate properties, has doubled down on its […]

Associated PressFebruary 7, 2017

The 2016 election is never far from President Donald Trump‘s mind. When Trump met Tuesday with a group of sheriffs from around the country, he saw not just lawmen but battleground states. Trump talked about his victories with officials from Pennsylvania and North Carolina. And when a sheriff from Minnesota introduced himself, Trump said if […]

Associated PressFebruary 7, 2017

She tugged 13 envelopes from a cabinet above the stove, each one labeled with a different debt: the house payment, the student loans, the vacuum cleaner she bought on credit. Lydia Holt and her husband tuck money into these envelopes with each paycheck to whittle away at what they owe. They both earn about $10 […]

William PatrickFebruary 7, 2017

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, sparked a predictably hostile response from Democrats. But Gorsuch’s record on criminal justice reform offers a rare opportunity for bipartisan agreement. Gorsuch tipped his hand at a gathering of conservative attorneys in Washington, D.C., three years ago […]

Associated PressFebruary 5, 2017

Since President Donald Trump opened the gold-infused ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort almost 12 years ago, it has been a popular rental for the American Red Cross, hospitals, medical researchers and other charities for fundraising galas where the wealthiest donors are wined and dined, often netting $1 million or more. But Trump’s election puts charities […]

Associated PressFebruary 5, 2017

Melissa McCarthy lampooned White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch where she taunted reporters as “losers,” fired a water gun at the press corps and even used the lectern to ram a Wall Street Journal journalist. “SNL” opened with Alec Baldwin reprising his President Donald Trump and phoning foreign leaders […]

Associated PressFebruary 4, 2017

trump-immigration-order-halted-02.04.17-3500x2248.jpg

The Latest on a lawsuit by Washington and Minnesota seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s immigration ban (all times local): 7: 20 p.m. The White House says it will seek an emergency stay of a federal judge’s order that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries. White House spokesman […]

Tag: Donald Trump
Buccaneers QB Teddy Bridgewater. Image via AP.

Bill Nelson says any attempt to intimidate scientists ‘must be stopped’

Charlie Crist, Stephanie Murphy among top GOP targets for 2018

Darryl Paulson: We are not the same; the immoral equivalency of President Donald Trump

Florida Times-Union writer featured on Morris Communications right-wing website

Donald Trump still fixated on 2016 election results

Voters await economic revival in a part of pro-Trump America

SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch and ‘over-criminalization’

Activists: Charities must move galas from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

With Melissa McCarthy playing Sean Spicer, ‘SNL’ cranks up Donald Trump satire

Federal government seeks stay of immigration order