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Mitch PerryOctober 25, 2016

The conventional wisdom in Florida is that the Hillary Clinton campaign has created a much more robust infrastructure in the state compared to the Donald Trump campaign. There are now 82 Hillary For America/Florida Democratic Party field offices in the state, dozens more than the Trump campaign. Clinton and her allies have spent more than $50 million […]

Mitch PerryMay 3, 2016

More details are emerging regarding Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in Florida. According to a memo from Craig Smith with Hillary for America, the campaign’s Florida headquarters will be in Tampa, though a specific site has not been announced. Though rumors had circulated that Tampa would be the central office, it was not confirmed until Tuesday. Last Friday […]

Mitch PerryMay 2, 2016

The imagery coming out of California late last week wasn’t extremely alarming, but it was instructive. Protestors, many of them black or brown, went a bit nuts at Donald Trump campaign appearances Thursday night in Orange County on Thursday night and to a lesser extent on Friday in Burlingame, just south of San Francisco (and […]

Mitch PerryApril 30, 2016

Simone Ward will direct Hillary Clinton‘s Florida campaign. The 38-year-old Ward had been serving as the national political director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the past year, the first African-American ever to do so. According to a biography of her published in The Atlantic, Ward began her political year while still attending Oklahoma City University, where she […]

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