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Mitch PerryOctober 6, 2015

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For those who were hoping that the Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit next month might be a flop, time to move along now. The RPOF on Tuesday announced that Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum are the latest GOP candidates who will participate in the party’s Sunshine Summit, to be […]

Mitch PerryOctober 5, 2015

Blaise Ingoglia and the Republican Party of Florida’s big Sunshine Summit is looking a lot better than it was a couple of weeks ago. That’s when only native sons Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio had committed to the mid-November fundraising event for the RPOF, creating the possible scenario of the majority of Republican presidential candidates […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 30, 2015

Has the Donald Trump phenomenon peaked? Not exactly, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released on Wednesday, that shows the NYC real estate magnate maintaining a double-digit lead in the GOP presidential sweepstakes. Trump is at 23 percent. Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina are tied for second with 13 percent each. Marco Rubio comes […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 30, 2015

Marco Rubio talks policy and his own personality in a quick Q&A with the Skimm, the daily email newsletter designed for millennial women. The Florida Senator, who has had a topsy-turvy relationship with primary voters in the GOP presidential polls since declaring his candidacy back in April, has now become the favorite of the media […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 29, 2015

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The Republican Party of Florida on Tuesday announced that four presidential candidates will attend its Sunshine Summit in Orlando this November. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida have confirmed their attendance, state party chairman Blaise Ingoglia said in a […]

Phil AmmannSeptember 27, 2015

Donald Trump is aiming his massive ego at a new target: Marco Rubio. Trump calls the junior senator from Florida “a clown” who was “sweaty … overly ambitious,” as well as financially unsuccessful and “absent” from the U.S. Senate. Nevertheless, Bill Day’s latest shows Rubio might just prove more of a challenge to the real-estate […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2015

Jeb Bush assured reporters in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Tuesday that, “We are in it for the long haul,” and said he thinks he’ll be able to pick up Scott Walker supports in Iowa. Though he has nabbed one such Walker backer – Iowa State Rep. Terry Baxter – he’ll need a whole lot more if […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 20, 2015

After Carly Fiorina earned nearly universal praise as the big winner of last week’s Republican Presidential debate from the Reagan Library, the big question was whether that praise would translate into a bump in her poll ratings, which have languished in the lower tier this year. The answer to that is a definitive yes. According to a […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 17, 2015

CNN, of course, with probably the highest ratings in its history. As in the Fox News debates, the ratings can be attributed to Donald Trump, who took center stage. I still believe Trump was correct in asking the network to donate money from the profits of the telecast for a charity, such as for our […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 17, 2015

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Speaking on Fox and Friends Thursday morning, Marco Rubio defended his remarks in Wednesday night’s presidential debate about missing more votes than anyone else this year in the Senate. “When there is a vote that’s meaningful and serious, we are there and doing our job,” he told the cable new network’s morning show. Hours later, […]

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Marco Rubio says he’ll show up in Senate when vote is “meaningful”