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A.G. Gancarski has 224 articles published.

A.G. Gancarski has written a weekly column for Jacksonville’s Folio Weekly since 2003. His writings on politics, culture, and sport have appeared in the Washington Times, the Daily Caller, and the American Conservative. His radio and TV appearances include frequent contributions to WJCT-FM (Jacksonville’s Public Radio station); additionally, he has been a guest on Huff Post Live and the Savage Nation radio show. Gancarski can be reached at [email protected].

Assault charges filed in Jupiter against Donald Trump campaign manager

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Legal troubles may be in the offing for the often surly Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for Donald Trump, after assault charges were filed against him in Jupiter on Friday. Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields claims, and witnesses corroborate, that Lewandowski handled her roughly after a Trump rally in Jupiter, grabbing her arm and leaving bruises. “Trump acknowledged the question, but before he could answer I was jolted backwards,” she wrote Thursday. “Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me…

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In series of Tweets, Hillary Clinton slams Rick Scott on abortion rights

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It’s been a very Florida-centric day for the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Clinton press shop has sent out reminders of Bernie Sanders‘ comments from 1985 on Cuba and Nicaragua, popular points of defense among the left at the time. However, most of Clinton’s push has been about 2016 issues. And in her sights: Florida Governor Rick Scott, as a few Tweets, signed “H” so you know they are from her, indicate. At issue: the Governor potentially signing into law HB 1411, which includes several…

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Norman Braman leads Carlos Lopez-Cantera financial leadership team

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Tuesday has already been a good day for the Carlos Lopez-Cantera campaign for the GOP Senate nomination, as he unveiled his Financial Leadership Team, one which CLC says will “ensure we have the resources necessary to win in August and November.” The biggest name: billionaire Norman Braman, a supporter of Marco Rubio, one whose priorities include a traditionally strong relationship between the United States and Israel. Braman has a long history of knowing what Lopez-Cantera can do politically. “I have known Carlos Lopez-Cantera for…

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Poll: Floridians wants Ben Carson to join Senate race

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Five Republicans are in the United States Senate race. Yet if you believe a statewide poll released Monday, a lot of voters want Ben Carson to jump in. 56 percent would “definitely vote for Carson,” with another 29 percent saying it’s “too soon to say.” Carson was over 50 percent in all regions but Northwest on “definitely,” which was at 42 percent, and 48 percent in that region opted for “too soon to say.” The poll run without Carson had David Jolly in…

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Even in Jacksonville, Marco Rubio faces enthusiasm gap

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Jacksonville is one of the keys to Marco Rubio‘s narrow path to the GOP nomination, and the road show came to the Morocco Temple Saturday. Rubio, who arrived in Jacksonville en route from an earnest, well-received address at CPAC in DC, has to win urban areas like Jacksonville to win the state. On Tuesday night, he identified “even up into Jacksonville” as one of the areas in the Sunshine State that he expects to break favorably for him, as opposed to…

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Rick Scott to attend D.C.’s Gridiron Club dinner Saturday

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott loves to laugh, and jokes will be served with his dinner Saturday night, at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, D.C. The Gridiron Club dinner offers a cavalcade of self-deprecating jokes, and Barack Obama has been a master of the format, offering a unique meta-discourse on the gap between the public persona of his centrist Democratic administration and his more private inclinations. The highlight this century, in terms of Presidential routines: George W. Bush looking under desks and…

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David Jolly won’t endorse in GOP presidential primary

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According to recent polls, David Jolly is the front runner in Florida’s GOP U.S. Senate race. Any hopes, though, that political capital would be lent to a presidential candidate were dashed Tuesday night. Max Goodman, Jolly’s political director, sent out the briefest possible statement: “Rep. David Jolly will not be endorsing in the Florida primary.” Many Florida Republicans are locked in behind Rubio. Jolly, however, is not one of them.

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