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Mitch PerryFebruary 10, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has suspended her presidential campaign, a day after she finished seventh in the GOP presidential pack in New Hampshire, getting a little over 4 percent of the vote. “This campaign was always about citizenship — taking back our country from a political class that only serves the big, the powerful, the wealthy, and […]

Mitch PerryOctober 19, 2015

It’s not surprising that Donald Trump has touched upon the third rail of post-9/11 politics by mentioning the inconvenient fact that George W. Bush was president when America was hit by its worst terrorist attack in the lower 48. No, what’s surprising is that Trump didn’t go there when the occasion came up during the […]

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 […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2015

It was one of the lighter moments of last week’s 3-hour long GOP presidential debate from the Reagan Library. We’re referring to when Jeb Bush confessed that he indulged in smoking cannabis. “Forty years ago I smoked marijuana, and I admit it,” Bush told the audience, responding to Rand Paul’s criticism that Republicans want to criminalize recreational marijuana […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 17, 2015

Whatever you think about who “won” or “lost” Wednesday night’s debate extravaganza from the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, can even the most ardent political junkies agree that nearly five hours of presidential debates maybe a bit too much to handle? My God, that show needed an editor. By the time the question about […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2015

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NextGen Climate, the San Francisco based environmental organization dedicated to putting climate change at the forefront of American politics, has released a new digital ad featuring footage of Ronald Reagan as a way to prod Republicans to begin addressing climate change. The ad, called “Common Sense,” featuring the former President addressing Congress and the nation in his […]

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Carly Fiorina suspends her presidential campaign

Mitch Perry Report for 10.19.15 – Jeb Bush tries nuclear option on Donald Trump

Marco Rubio says he’d order up Tex-Mex in his first meal in the White House

New Donald Trump video suggests Jeb Bush still indulging in pot

Mitch Perry Report for 9.17.15 – The good, bad and ugly from Simi Valley

Ahead of GOP debate, NextGen Climate uses Ronald Reagan clip to push on climate change