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Staff ReportsJune 19, 2018

President Donald Trump‘s job approval rating is split 48-49 percent among Florida registered voters, “higher than how he performed nationally,” according to a new POLITICO/AARP poll released Tuesday. That rating was 43 percent approving and 52 percent disapproving, said Tyler Sinclair, managing director of client services at Morning Consult, which conducted both polls. Sinclair and others discussed […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 19, 2018

Former Republican Party of Florida Chair Leslie Dougher has reinvented herself as a gadfly for Sen. Bill Nelson’s re-election campaign in recent months, including protesting at his events. Dougher, Gov. Rick Scott‘s choice for RPOF chair years back, has also not been averse to filing elections complaints against Scott’s opponent. January saw a Senate Ethics Complaint filed against Nelson, […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 19, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott, the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, urges Florida voters to “think again” when it comes to an ad claiming Sen. Bill Nelson is an “independent” voter in the Senate. “Nelson votes with Democrats over 90 percent of the time,” the digital ad released Tuesday by Scott for Florida asserts. “He voted with Obama […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 18, 2018

Even as Republicans (such as former Gov. Jeb Bush) decry President Donald Trump‘s policy of separating migrant children from families at the Mexican border, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is framing Gov. Rick Scott‘s response as lacking. Scott has stated his opposition on the policy, with the most forceful declaration on Monday, as the Governor and U.S. Senate candidate blamed the […]

Danny McAuliffeJune 18, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott is accepting invitations to participate in three fall debates leading up to the November election, in which he will try to oust incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. Among the network hosts: CNN, Telemundo 51 in Miami, and Jacksonville’s WJXT Channel 4 (co-hosted by the Jacksonville University Public Policy Institute). Dates and […]

Scott PowersJune 18, 2018

In a statement released by his U.S. Senate campaign, Republican Gov. Rick Scott insisted that he continues to support the requirement that health insurers not discriminate against people with pre-existing medical conditions. The statement puts Scott at odds with the apparent strategy of President Donald Trump, whose Attorney General Jeff Sessions indicated in recent court […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 17, 2018

Here in Florida, our politicians message around Father’s Day with tweets and Facebook messages of pure, uncut sentimentality. Yet, at various outposts near the U.S./Mexican border, a different narrative unfolds between parents and children. President Donald Trump’s administration is under scrutiny for its decision to warehouse immigrant children in former Walmarts and other holding areas. […]

Danny McAuliffeJune 16, 2018

Jeff Greene, a billionaire developer from Palm Beach and the newest Democratic option for Governor, is using the upcoming Father’s Day holiday to call for an end to the Donald Trump administration’s practice of separating migrant children from their parents at the border. In a statement Saturday, Greene said the policies are “inhumane.” He framed […]

Staff ReportsJune 16, 2018

Who cares? And what do they care about? Those were two very telling — but perhaps overlooked — questions recently surveyed by the Florida Chamber. By determining how voters feel about the state’s direction and what tops their list of priorities before they head to the ballots, the Chamber’s latest poll helps to inform guesswork […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 15, 2018

Suspended Jacksonville City Councilors Katrina Brown and Reggie Brown are going to have their legal fates decided this summer in a federal court relative to an alleged scheme to defraud. Meanwhile, the fate of their Council seats will be determined by Gov. Rick Scott. Since the two are not resigning, both Democrats are leaving it to a Republican to […]

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Created Equal’s new ad targeting Amendment 4

AARP polls Florida on Donald Trump approval, U.S. Senate race

Leslie Dougher files another election complaint against Bill Nelson campaign

New Rick Scott ad urges voters to ‘think again’ about Bill Nelson’s independence

Bill Nelson slams Rick Scott for failure to condemn border family separation policy

Rick Scott accepts trio of fall debates

Rick Scott rebuts charges that he’d favor removal of pre-existing conditions coverage

Father’s Day message: Florida Republicans defend family separations at Mexican border

Jeff Greene: Father’s Day is a reminder of ‘inhumane’ immigration policies

Takeaways from Tallahassee — Closer look at November

Rick Scott not ready to commit to Jacksonville City Council picks