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The best of the rest from Tuesday’s primary elections

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While attention was paid to big-name races, a plethora of undercards also played out in Tuesday’s primary election: Mike Prendergast’s gamble paid off. Gov. Rick Scott’s former chief of staff left his last job as head of the state’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs to run for Citrus County Sheriff. Current Sheriff Jeff Dawsy decided not to run for re-election. On Tuesday, Prendergast won the Republican primary over two opponents with nearly 54 percent of the vote. He next faces Michael Klyap, an…

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Associated Industries of Florida’s political shop foresees under 20% primary turnout

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A tout sheet circulated by Associated Industries of Florida shows internal projections of just under 20 percent turnout for today’s primary election. “We … believe statewide turnout is headed to 19-20% or close to 2.5 million total votes,” writes Ryan Tyson, AIF’s Vice President of Political Operations. To be precise, Tyson and Co. are predicting 2,425,718 votes cast out of 12,370,930 registered voters, for a percentage of 19.6 percent. To compare, the 2014 primary saw 18 percent overall turnout and 2012’s primary had about 21…

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State posts “book closing” info for August primary

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Florida’s registered Democrats now outnumber Republicans by nearly 4.7 million to 4.4 million for the Aug. 30 primary election. The state’s Division of Elections released “book closing reports” late Friday, which “provide statistical information on active registered voters who are eligible to vote in the election as of the book closing date,” Aug. 1. Those reports also show the count of white voters at a little more than 8 million, with 1.65 million black voters and 1.9 million Hispanic voters.…

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Jeb Bush talks about daughter’s battle with drug addiction, recovery process in new advertisement

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In a new ad airing in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush talked about his daughter’s battle with drug addiction. As first reported by WMUR in New Hampshire,  the advertisement is the first paid spot in which the former Florida governor talks about his daughter. The station reported the advertisement also touches on a top issue facing New Hampshire and the nation. The 60-second spot — called “Recovery” — was filmed during a town hall meeting in Dover on Jan. 5, according…

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