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Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterNovember 6, 2016

Jimmy Buffett has a message for Floridians: Get out and vote. Buffett is scheduled to perform at a get out the vote rally for Democrats Hillary Clinton, Patrick Murphy, and Charlie Crist on Monday. The Florida music icon will be joined by Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, the vice president’s wife. The event […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 6, 2016

The most notable thing about Sen. Marco Rubio‘s last visit to Northeast Florida as a 2016 candidate: one last illustration of the fact that while he never actually got comfortable with the idea of Donald Trump as GOP standard bearer, one of his strongholds of support — Duval County — made peace with it long ago. Consider […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterNovember 5, 2016

Sen. Marco Rubio is making his closing arguments in his final TV spot. According to the Rubio campaign, 30-second spot, called “Debt,” is meant to discuss each generation’s “debt and duty to the next. “America is the greatest country in the world, and keeping it that way is every generation’s debt to the next,” he […]

Scott PowersNovember 5, 2016

Outside groups spent more than $6.3 million last week alone to support Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio‘s re-election campaign, while other groups spent $2.3 million last week trying to help Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy defeat him. Much of that spending is leading to advertising that will run through the weekend and into early next […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 4, 2016

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All dressed up with nowhere to go on Saturday night? No problem in Jacksonville. The Duval GOP has you covered, inviting you to a free “surprise dinner party” with Marco Rubio. Duval Republicans are working hard, “celebrating and campaigning all day on Saturday,” before playing hard, by “pulling out all the stops to welcome Florida’s […]

Peter SchorschNovember 4, 2016

With four days before The. Most. Important. Election. Ever. comes to its conclusion, it’s difficult to separate the signal from the noise when it comes to polling and predictions. Right now, everyone is as much an expert about politics as they are in theories about how “Game of Thrones” will end. So many people are […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 3, 2016

President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Donald Trump both made plays in the Jacksonville media market Thursday. Each man gave a speech; Trump in the early afternoon, then President Obama later on. One man looked presidential. The other was left gasping for air. Donald Trump gave a speech intended as a blasting indictment of Hillary Clinton, yet the optics under-delivered. There are […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterNovember 3, 2016

Another day, another poll showing Sen. Marco Rubio ahead in the Sunshine State’s U.S. Senate race. A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday shows Rubio has a 6 percentage point lead over Rep. Patrick Murphy. According to the poll, 50 percent of respondents backed Rubio, compared to 44 percent for Murphy. Five percent of voters said […]

Larry GriffinNovember 3, 2016

A group of Republican lawmakers appeared in Lake Mary Thursday afternoon to sing each others’ praises and hopefully motivate anyone who hasn’t voted to go out and do so — preferably to re-elect Marco Rubio, John Mica, Bob Cortes, and other Republicans. Rubio, Mica, and Cortes painted the race as a particularly dire one; for if […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterNovember 2, 2016

With less than a week until the election, the race in Florida remains tight. A new CNN/ORC poll found Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are essentially tied in Florida. The poll found 49 percent of likely Florida voters said they were backing Clinton, while 47 percent said they supported Trump. Libertarian Gary Johnson received 3 […]

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Joe Biden, Jimmy Buffett to hold GOTV rally in St. Petersburg on Monday

‘Victory Lane’ reveals division between Marco Rubio, Northeast Florida Republicans

Marco Rubio makes closing argument in new TV ad

Outside groups spent $8.6 million on Florida’s U.S. Senate race last week, mostly helping Marco Rubio

Duval GOP slates ‘surprise dinner party’ for Marco Rubio

The smartest guy in the room thinks Hillary Clinton will win Florida

President Obama taught Donald Trump a political lesson in Jacksonville

Marco Rubio has a 6-point lead over Patrick Murphy in new Florida poll

Marco Rubio appears in Lake Mary to get out the vote and opine on Patrick Murphy scandal

Florida poll: Hillary Clinton at 49%, Donald Trump 47%