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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 […]

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

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Saying it was not a day for politics as usual, Ohio Governor John Kasich still got partisan on Saturday at the Sunshine Summit in Orlando on Saturday afternoon. His entire speech was centered around the battle against terrorism in the wake of the attacks in Paris on Friday night, “I don’t know if this is the […]

Mitch PerryNovember 14, 2015

How little respect has Jim Gilmore received in his quixotic bid for the presidency this year? Well, when your poll numbers are considered to be so paltry that you’re not even invited to the early non-prime time GOP presidential debates, that’s a pretty good sign about what the party (and cable news executives) thinks of you. […]

Peter SchorschNovember 14, 2015

The hundreds of activist Republicans attending the Florida GOP’s Sunshine Summit are waking up to a different world than the one they went to sleep in last night. A series of attacks targeting young concertgoers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed at least 120 people in the deadliest violence to strike […]

Associated PressNovember 14, 2015

It’s no longer a safe assumption that one of Florida’s two most popular Republicans will carry the presidential primary in their home state, as most of the GOP candidates turned their attention Friday to the state’s winner-take-all primary. Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush no longer lead the polls in Florida, where Republicans […]

Mitch PerryNovember 13, 2015

Happy Friday to you all, and what a weekend it will be as virtually the entire Republican presidential field (including Jim Gilmore!) makes its way to Orlando for the next two days for the Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit. We’re off to the event shortly ourselves, so let’s be succinct: Will we hear more […]

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, […]

Associated PressNovember 11, 2015

Donald Trump is just fine with eight candidates on the debate stage, and he wouldn’t mind if a few more disappear before the next one. “We started off with 17, and one by one by one they’re disappearing,” Trump told a New Hampshire crowd Wednesday morning. “It’s a beautiful thing to watch as they go […]

Phil AmmannNovember 11, 2015

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Relations between presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush are “fine,” even as footage from the Milwaukee Republican Party debate show some tension between the two Floridians. As reported by Corrine Cathcart of ABC News, Bush appeared to brush off Rubio’s attempt to speak with him during a commercial break at the debate Tuesday night. […]

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

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

John Kasich says NATO should invoke Article 5 in wake of Paris attacks

Jim Gilmore blasts “fascist talk” on immigration among Republicans

Paris attacks cast a dark cloud over Florida GOP’s Sunshine Summit

No longer a given that Florida will support Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush

Mitch Perry Report for 11.13.15 – All aboard the Sunshine Summit

Sunshine Summit set to kick off

Donald Trump: It’s “beautiful” to watch GOP rivals drop out

Despite apparent tension, Marco Rubio says things are “fine” with Jeb Bush