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Associated PressDecember 22, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has moved quickly to pick up key members of Lindsey Graham‘s financial network in South Carolina after Graham suspended his campaign. Graham’s withdrawal from the 2016 race for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday has opened up opportunities for his former rivals, particularly in his home state of South Carolina. […]

Associated PressDecember 21, 2015

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has ended his 2016 presidential campaign. The South Carolina senator posted a video Monday, saying he was suspending his campaign. He said he had run “a campaign we can be proud of” that was focused on the nation’s security. Republished with permission of the Associated Press.

Associated PressDecember 15, 2015

Florida’s presidential primary ballot will feature 13 Republican candidates and three Democratic ones. Monday was the deadline for candidates to ask to have their name removed from the March primary ballot. Bobby Jindal, who suspended his presidential campaign in November, was the only candidate who asked to be dropped from the ballot. Florida Republican voters […]

Mitch PerryNovember 30, 2015

Republican Party of Florida Chairman Blaise Ingoglia delivered a letter to Secretary of State Ken Detzner on Monday with a list of 14 GOP presidential candidates who have qualified to be on the Florida presidential preference primary next March. The letter lists Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey […]

Phil AmmannNovember 18, 2015

Jeb Bush and his supporters have spent more than twice that of any other candidate or outside group on TV ads in the 2016 presidential race. And what does the former Florida governor get for nearly $20 million, asks Mark Murray of NBC News. Apparently, not much. Bush’s poll numbers are currently languishing in the […]

Associated PressNovember 18, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Wednesday called for the U.S. to send more troops to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State. “This is the war of our time,” the former Florida governor said at the Citadel five days after Islamic State militants attacked Paris and killed 129 people. “Radical Islamic terrorists have […]

Mitch PerryNovember 13, 2015

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham gave an extremely low-key speech at the Sunshine Summit in Orlando on Friday afternoon, concentrating on foreign policy and his concern that the Republican Party could be blowing the Hispanic vote with candidates’ tough talk on immigration. Graham isn’t going anywhere in the GOP presidential race, and he essentially acknowledged […]

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 7, 2015

For months, Republican presidential candidates with dwindling bank accounts and negligible support in polls have been finding reasons to stay in the 2016 race. Now, a few must weigh whether they can keep competing after being downgraded or excluded from Tuesday’s fourth GOP debate. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee […]

Mitch PerryNovember 6, 2015

Nobody seems to be more upset about how the whole debate process for the Republican presidential candidates than Republicans. This, even after the RNC made such a big deal about how they were going to take control of the process this time around, after feeling they were hijacked by liberal moderators such as John King […]

Tag: Lindsey Graham

Jeb Bush picks up several Lindsey Graham backers in South Carolina

Lindsey Graham ends his 2016 presidential campaign

Florida primary ballot set: 13 Republicans, 3 Democrats

RPOF lists 14 for March presidential primary; includes Bobby Jindal, but not George Pataki

What does Jeb Bush get for $20 million in TV ad buys? Not much.

Jeb Bush calls for U.S. ground forces to fight Islamic State

Regarding Islamic terrorists, Lindsey Graham says he’d “kill every bastard he could find”

Sunshine Summit set to kick off

Unpopular GOP candidates mulling when to pack it in

Mitch Perry Report for 11.6.15 – Chris Christie stuck in happy hour debate