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Darryl PaulsonDecember 21, 2016

(Part 2 of 2) In the first part of this series, I discussed the process and candidates used by the Republican and Democratic parties to select their national party chairperson. We will now look at the process and candidates used to choose the Florida Republican and Democratic chairs. After a disastrous showing by the Florida […]

Darryl PaulsonDecember 20, 2016

(First of two parts) The state and national elections are over. At least most of them are over. Still to be decided is the person who will chair the Florida and national party organizations. Is it much ado about nothing, or do party chairs make a difference? Selecting the party chairperson is normally easier for […]

Mitch PerryNovember 21, 2016

In New York City today, Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to give a “major speech” on the presidential election’s impact on the city. De Blasio wants help from the feds to pay for the additional security costs in dealing with the fact that the president-elect’s home is literally in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. […]

Mitch PerryNovember 16, 2016

Lifelong Democrat Bob Buckhorn admits it’s been rough adapting to a world where Hillary Clinton won’t be the next president. The Tampa mayor went all-out for the party’s presidential nominee, including a weekend winter trip to New Hampshire just days before the first primary in the nation last February. And while Clinton did take Hillsborough County (along with the other major […]

Associated PressNovember 9, 2016

The Latest on the U.S. election: 3:25 p.m. — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is proposing that she and President-elect Donald Trump “put aside our differences” and work together to rebuild the American economy for working people. A favorite of liberals, Warren has waged bitter wars of words with Trump. She’s called him a “pathetic coward” […]

Mitch PerryNovember 5, 2016

Looking over the thousands of adoring fans who had waited for hours to see him speak, Donald Trump kicked off his 50-minute speech at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa on Saturday morning by comparing his audience to Hillary Clinton’s campaign appearance with two of the biggest celebrities in America on Friday night in Cleveland. “We don’t need Jay Z to fill […]

Associated PressOctober 24, 2016

A defiant Donald Trump blamed his campaign struggles on “phony polls” from the “disgusting” media on Monday, fighting to energize his most loyal supporters as his path to the presidency shrinks. With just 14 days until the election, the Republican nominee campaigned in battleground Florida as his team conceded publicly as well as privately that […]

Associated PressOctober 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton‘s campaign asked former President Bill Clinton to cancel a speech to a Wall Street investment firm last year because of concerns that the Clintons might appear to be too cozy with Wall Street just as the former secretary of state was about to announce her White House bid, newly released emails show. Clinton […]

Associated PressOctober 7, 2016

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Hillary Clinton is responding to a video of rival Donald Trump making lewd comments about women in 2005. The Democratic presidential candidate said on Twitter, “This is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president.” Trump issued an apology after the video emerged of him making sexually charged comments. He called it “locker room […]

Diane RobertsSeptember 13, 2016

According to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton does not appear presidential. As he remarked in an ABC television interview last week: “Well, I just don’t think she has a presidential look, and you need a presidential look.” A presidential look. Hmm. Let’s think this through. Could it be the hands? Everyone knows presidents should have small […]

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Elizabeth Martinez Strauss. Image via campaign.

Darryl Paulson: Selecting party chairs: The Florida experience

Darryl Paulson: Selecting the national party chairperson

Mitch Perry Report for 11.20.16 — Bill de Blasio’s big moment?

Bob Buckhorn says it’s a time for soul searching in the Democratic Party

Elizabeth Warren proposes truce with Donald Trump

Donald Trump talks up his support from blacks and Latinos in Tampa speech

Donald Trump rejects ‘phony’ polls, insists ‘we are winning’

Emails show concern over Bill Clinton’s Wall Street speech

Hillary Clinton says video of Donald Trump is ‘horrific’

Diane Roberts: What Donald Trump means by ‘looking presidential’