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Peter SchorschJune 29, 2017

As Democrats speak out on health care bill, Rubio’s listening tour continues No one is certain when, if ever, the Senate will vote on its current version of the health care bill, but we now know it will be after July 4. The level of opposition to it, measured in decibels, is well known, while […]

Associated PressJune 21, 2017

Iowa independents who helped Donald Trump win the presidency see last year’s tough-talking candidate as a thin-skinned chief executive and wish he’d show more grace. Unaffiliated voters make up the largest percentage of the electorate in the Midwest state that backed Trump in 2016, after lifting Democrat Barack Obama to the White House in party […]

Scott PowersSeptember 2, 2016

Americans For Prosperity, the conservative organization founded by the Koch brothers that deluged television with electioneering commercials the past two cycles is pushing its grassroots efforts now. At its annual “Defending the American Dream” summit in Orlando Friday, AFP leaders stressed their ground-level organization in states like Florida to push business-friendly candidates in U.S. Senate […]

Mitch PerryJuly 19, 2016

If I’m Joni Ernst, I’m a little p.o.’d this morning. The Iowa senator and some others came on to the stage at “The Q” last night at 11:15 p.m., as delegates were flooding out of the arena. They were leaving after hearing a very hawkish Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn rail against political correctness, among other […]

Associated PressJuly 17, 2016

Former presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio — the latter by video link — are among those set to speak at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Military leaders, members of Congress, actors, faith leaders and family members of presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump are also set to speak in […]

Mitch PerryJuly 7, 2016

If you remember when we first heard about the tea party in early 2009, its supporters talked about having a pox on both houses — that is, they felt Republicans and Democrats were part of the same dirty cesspool that is Washington, D.C. A lot of things have changed since then, but I became a bit […]

Mitch PerryJuly 6, 2016

Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst, 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, and Daniel Hannan, a British member of the European Parliament, are some of the bold-faced names that will be part of Americans for Prosperity’s “American Dream Summit” to take place at the Orlando County Convention Center September 2-3. “This year’s Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando is going to […]

Phil AmmannJuly 5, 2016

Gun control, immigration and money to combat the Zika virus top the congressional agenda as lawmakers sprint toward the political conventions this month and a seven-week summer recess. Amid all that, Republicans plan to squeeze in a meeting with Donald Trump Thursday. The House and Senate have just eight legislative days before their break, and lawmakers […]

Associated PressJune 27, 2016

Donald Trump has finally acknowledged that to best compete against Hillary Clinton he needs more than the bare-bones campaign team that led him to primary success. But many of the most experienced Republican political advisers aren’t willing to work for him. From Texas to New Hampshire, well-respected members of the Republican Party’s professional class say […]

Associated PressJanuary 25, 2016

Marco Rubio is all over the map in Iowa. Quite literally. Having spent little time in the state’s rural Christian conservative northwest, the Republican presidential candidate dropped in to Sioux County for the first time last week, then bounced across the state two days later to speak with some of Iowa’s more fiscally conservative voters […]

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The Delegation for 6.29.17 — Insights from the Beltway to the Sunshine State

Donald Trump returning to Iowa, where he may find remorseful independent voters

Americans For Prosperity focusing on Florida Senate race and on grassroots efforts

Mitch Perry Report for 7.19.16 — Donald Trump’s short attention span theatre

Former rivals, military leaders, actors to take stage at RNC

Mitch Perry Report for 7.7.16 — Tea Party Patriots heart Marco Rubio

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst to headline AFP Florida’s summit in Orlando in September

Guns, immigration and Zika top agenda as Congress returns

Many experienced GOP strategists unwilling to work for Donald Trump

Marco Rubio’s Iowa crisscross approach bends caucus campaign norm