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Mitch PerryAugust 27, 2015

Jeb Bush‘s not-so-great week got worse Thursday. The former Florida governor began it by defending his use of the controversial term, “anchor babies.” Then he said it was more of an Asian issue than one involving Latino immigrants. Later it was reported that there have been money issues with his campaign, with some staff members’ paychecks that […]

Jim RosicaAugust 26, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is calling Donald Trump’s GOP candidacy a “big wake-up call to the professional political class.” She spoke Wednesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program with hosts Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Panhandle congressman, and Mika Brzezinski. Fiorina, the 60-year-old former Hewlett-Packard CEO, stands at 5.5 percent in Huffington Post’s latest average […]

Phil AmmannAugust 25, 2015

Donald Trump has once again dropped an ideological firebomb – “anchor babies,” this time – right in the middle of the GOP presidential race. Despite it being a term clearly offensive to a large number of American immigrants, each of the GOP candidates has begun “parroting the leader” in a shameless bid to out-Trump The Donald […]

Ryan RayAugust 25, 2015

Liberal public interest group End Citizens United endorsed Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. The group — founded to fight against “dark money in politics” that it says is corrupting the federal government in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC — says that Murphy […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 25, 2015

Bad news for Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio in a Tuesday Public Policy Polling poll taken in New Hampshire. Bush languishes at 7 percent, tied for fourth with Scott Walker. Rubio fares even worse, at 4 percent, tied with Chris Christie and the rapidly fading Ted Cruz. Atop the poll? Donald Trump, laps the field at 35 percent. He is 24 […]

Mitch PerryAugust 25, 2015

Rick Scott has been governor of Florida for over 5 1/2 years now, but other than his two election-day victories, he’s been more down than up when it comes to his personal approval ratings throughout his controversial tenure. That’s why the governor and his supporters have to be giddy this morning, after a Quinnipiac poll […]

Associated PressAugust 24, 2015

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was the hands-down favorite of an Americans for Prosperity gathering this past weekend, if the number and volume of ovations during five presidential candidates’ speeches to Tea Party activists was the measure. At the other end of the spectrum was former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a newcomer to events […]

Mitch PerryAugust 24, 2015

A new Quinnpiac poll of Floridians shows that despite the increasingly harsh rhetoric about immigration in the GOP presidential primary, a majority of Floridians (53 percent) support allowing most undocumented immigrants to stay in the country and eventually apply for U.S. citizenship. An additional 12 percent say the undocumented should be allowed to stay in the U.S., […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 22, 2015

Republicans “want to take us backwards,” Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday morning, taking specific aim throughout her comments at Florida Republican Presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. Wasserman-Schultz pivoted into a critique of many members of the Republican field on equal pay issues, saying that “not only do […]

Mitch PerryAugust 21, 2015

Happy Friday — or will it be in Tallahassee? In the spirit of Larry King‘s classic USA Today columns, here we go … All eyes are on the Capitol today to see whether the Senate will go along with the House’s plan on redistricting, a process that’s supposed to be completed by high noon … None of […]

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Jeb Bush trails Donald Trump by 21 percentage points in new Quinnipiac national poll

Carly Fiorina takes on Donald Trump on “Morning Joe”

Bill Day’s latest: Donald Trump drops “anchor” while GOP parrots the leader

Patrick Murphy picks up endorsement from left-leaning group End Citizens United

PPP Poll: Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush in single digits in N.H.

Rick Scott right side up in new Q poll, 45-44 percent

No surprise: Tea Party activists prefer Ted Cruz over Jeb Bush

Poll shows most Floridians favor path to citizenship, oppose Planned Parenthood funding cut

DWS lambastes Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio in Iowa

Mitch Perry Report for 8.21.15 — Jeb’s SNL moment