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Mitch PerryMarch 8, 2016

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Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican presidential field nationally, according to a new survey published Tuesday by ABC News/Washington Post. But his support seems to be slipping slightly. Trump is at 35 percent, Ted Cruz is at 25 percent, Marco Rubio is at 18 percent, and John Kasich is at 13 percent. In January, a similar […]

Associated PressMarch 7, 2016

Marco Rubio finds his Oval Office ambitions squeezed by Donald Trump‘s outsider ambush and the Republican Party’s resulting identity crisis. The Florida senator has struggled to reconnect with the kind of voters who sent him to Capitol Hill six years ago as a tea party favorite, instead watching them fuel Trump and his closest challenger to winning […]

Mitch PerryMarch 5, 2016

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Although Marco Rubio and his camp continue to say that he will win Florida in the winner-take-all GOP presidential primary March 15, there’s been little statistical evidence to date indicating that might be possible. Until now. A poll taken by The Tarrance Group released Saturday shows Donald Trump continuing to lead in Florida, but only by 5 percentage points over […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 4, 2016

The Sun Sentinel of South Florida and the Orlando Sentinel have endorsed Hillary Clinton in advance of Florida’s March 15 Democratic primary. The Sentinel also endorsed Marco Rubio on the Republican side, while the Sun Sentinel refused to do so. Both papers are owned by the Chicago-based Tribune Publishing Co., but often do not mirror […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterMarch 4, 2016

The Sun Sentinel won’t to endorse in the Republican presidential primary, the newspaper’s editorial revealed this week. In an editorial posted Friday, the editorial board said it was “not going to make an endorsement in Florida’s March 15 Republican presidential primary because the kind of person who should be running is not in the race.” […]

Associated PressMarch 4, 2016

The 16.9 million people who saw Fox News Channel’s coverage of the Republican presidential debate on Thursday have made it the fourth most-watched debate in a primary season ever. The Nielsen company said Friday that’s also the fourth most-watched Republican debate of the 2016 campaign cycle — a testament to the extraordinary interest these events […]

Associated PressMarch 3, 2016

And then there were four. Ben Carson‘s departure from the GOP presidential race means the quartet of remaining Republicans on the debate stage Thursday night get more time for attacks as Donald Trump treads a path to the GOP nomination and his three rivals try to trip him up. Cheered on by many Republican leaders, […]

Scott PowersMarch 3, 2016

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In a desperate appeal Thursday, Mitt Romney drew on passion and bluntness he never showed in his 2012 presidential campaign as he called on Americans to reject Donald Trump as a phony, a fraud, a misogynist, a bully and a vulgar man. Speaking from the Hinkley Institute in Utah, Romney blasted Trump’s economic policies, saying they […]

Associated PressMarch 2, 2016

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, emboldened by commanding victories Tuesday across large swaths of the country, are beginning to focus on each other in the race for the White House. Clinton previewed a “love and kindness” message while Trump traded his typical rollicking rallies for a sober media conference where he pressed his […]

Guest AuthorMarch 1, 2016

There is a reason Marco Rubio is acting like Donald Trump. Math. If you believe averages of Real Clear Politics (RCP), with 306,619 GOP mail votes cast, Trump, polling at 40.3 percent, is dominating Rubio, polling at 20.8 percent, at 123,566 to 63,776 mail votes. Let’s assume turnout pops and 2,000,000 Republicans vote in the […]

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