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Florida GOP using Hillary Clinton’s own words — OK, barks — to fact check her

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The Florida GOP is using Hillary Clinton’s own words — or in this case barks — as a way of fact checking her. In a new Republican Party of Florida video, Clinton is shown barking after clips of her making statements in the past. The video, according to a Florida GOP release, is meant to highlight why voters find Hillary Clinton ā€œdishonest, untrustworthy and out-of-touch with the American people.ā€ During a speech in Reno on Monday, Clinton barked like a dog.…

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Carly Fiorina suspends her presidential campaign

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Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has suspended her presidential campaign, a day after she finished seventhĀ in the GOP presidential pack in New Hampshire,Ā gettingĀ a little over 4 percent of the vote. “This campaign was always about citizenship — taking back our country from a political class that only serves the big, the powerful, the wealthy, and the well connected,” the former Hewlett-Packard CEO said in a statement released at 3 p.m. eastern time. “Election after election, the same empty promises are…

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New Jeb Bush ad uses Rick Santorum’s stumble to take a shot at Marco Rubio

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Jeb Bush is jumping on Rick Santorum’s inability to name an accomplishment of Marco Rubio, using the footage of in a new television advertisement. As first reported by CNN, the 60-second spot will start running in New Hampshire on Saturday. The advertisement features clips from an interview with Santorum on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday. During the interview, Santorum struggles to name something Rubio had done during his first term in the Senate. After showing about 30 seconds of Santorum…

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.5.16 – “An artful smear”

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Good morning from Nashua, New Hampshire. I have to admit that my first thoughts this morning are not what happened at last night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, but will I make it safely to Manchester this morning to see Sanders. Folks, it’s snowing pretty hard in southern New Hampshire this morning (7:10 a.m.). I ran around in a parking lot about an hour ago to get a workout in, but the snowflakes are piling up. This California…

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.3.16 – Will Democrats debate Thursday night?

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Good morning from Nashua, New Hampshire, where I’m extremely annoyed at the level of service at my motel – which will go nameless – for at least one more day. Working on little sleep due to excessively exuberant day laborers who couldn’t shut up until the wee hours of the morning in the room adjoining mine, IĀ look forward with driving up north this morning to check out “Marco-mentum,” the term that the Rubioites have applied to their man, after he…

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Rick Scott still won’t commit to Donald Trump endorsement

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Gov. Rick ScottĀ hewed to his usual job-growth message Wednesday afternoon in an appearance on CNN’s “Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin.” The interview was part of a swing through Washington D.C. this week to network with Republican leaders and address national media. Scott said it was “still early” when asked whether he would publicly endorse GOP presidential candidateĀ Donald Trump, whom Scott wrote glowingly about in a USA Today op-ed this month. However, he left open the possibility of declaring a favorite before…

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Mitch Perry Report for 1.22.16 — Conservative intelligentsia makes last-ditch effort to dump Trump

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Who says that Donald Trump doesn’t bring people together? In what could very well be something The Nation magazine might publish next January if Trump runs the table to become our 45th president, theĀ National Review’s newest editionĀ contains a scathing editorial blasting the GOP front-runner, calling him a “menace to conservatism,” and contains short essays by 22 “prominent” conservative thinkers critical of Trump’s candidacy. I use parenthesis in describing the contributors to the conservative bible, because, well, one of them is…

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