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Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at [email protected].

Donald Trump assures Orlando throng “If we win Florida, it’s over”

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Republican front-runner Donald Trump found his anti-establishment crowd in full throat in Orlando Saturday and assured them “If we win Florida, it’s over!” In an hour-and-12-minute speech to a raucous crowd at a packed University of Central Florida basketball arena, Trump offered few policy statements and little new. But he brought the bluster, vowing that he could negotiate deals no one in government today can do, that he can be tough like no one else, and that he would protect…

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Hillary Clinton campaign plans Puerto Rican-style “Caravana para Hillary” in Orlando

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The Hillary Clinton for president campaign plans a rally aimed at Orlando’s Puerto Rican community with a “Caravana para Hillary” (Caravan for Hillary) Saturday through the center of the city’s Hispanic community. The campaign is organizing supporters and activists from various backgrounds, including Puerto Ricans, Caribbean-Americans, and Dominican-Americans to drive in trucks and cars throughout Orlando to showcase their support. The caravan will begin at 1811 S. Semoran Blvd. in Orlando at 11 a.m.

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Carlos Lopez-Cantera highlights his family’s Cuba history in first campaign video

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Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera wants Floridians to know his love of America comes in part from his family’s flight from Cuban oppression, in a new video ad released by his U.S. Senate campaign. In the 60-second spot called “Freedom,” Lopez-Cantera tells the story of how his grandfather was arrested and detained in Cuba in 1960, and how, upon release, he gathered his family and fled with just the clothes on their backs. The video includes grainy, black-and-white stock footage of 1960…

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Patrick Murphy gets NARAL Pro-Choice America endorsement in U.S. Senate race

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U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy grabbed a break-though progressive endorsement Monday as NARAL Pro-Choice America picked him over U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson in Florida’s Democratic U.S. Senate race. NARAL Pro-Choice America Senior Vice President Sasha Bruce called Murphy “fearless” in fighting to defend and expand Americans’ reproductive freedom.” “Patrick has been fearless in going up against the anti-choice majority in Congress and pushing back against the Republican-led smear campaign targeting Planned Parenthood and other health care providers,” she continued in a statement…

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Exclusive analysis: Florida GOP candidate committees hold $20 million advantage over Democrats

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Florida Republican incumbents and candidates are collecting ten times as much money in independent political action campaigns than are Democrats. A FloridaPolitics.com review of 140 such PACs affiliated with office holders or candidates ranging from Gov. Rick Scott to state representatives finds a nearly complete dominance of the political financing strategy. More than 100 Republicans have PACs to support their messages, policies and election campaigns, and combined they finished January with more than $22 million in the bank. Meanwhile, Democrats are affiliated with…

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Rich Nugent: Support of Dan Webster was merely tactical

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As his colleague U.S. Rep. Dan Webster prepares to run against his former chief of staff to replace him in Congressional District 11, U.S. Rep. Rich Nugent wants it known his only support for Webster was tactical, not longterm. On Monday, Webster, a Winter Garden Republican whose own Congressional District 10 was dramatically changed through redistricting, announced he was moving to CD 11 to take on Justin Grabelle for the Republican nomination there. On Tuesday Webster said he had a good…

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Marco Rubio not yet locking in Jeb Bush’s Florida Hispanic backers

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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio always had an uphill battle to win Florida’s Republican Hispanic support away from Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential race, and now that Bush is gone there appears to be no automatic switch. Bush, who dropped out after a disappointing showing in South Carolina Saturday, had developed powerful loyalty among a generation of Hispanic Republicans because of the ways he included and supported them during his two terms as governor. Consequently, Bush always was eyeing Florida’s March 15…

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