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Jim DeMint backs Marco Rubio

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Conservative Sen. Jim DeMint’s backing of Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate race is the latest salvo in an internal Republican struggle over who will lead the way in salvaging the GOP’s damaged brand. On Tuesday, the South Carolina Republican will endorse Rubio, a 38-year-old former state House speaker, bucking the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s endorsement of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a moderate who has periodically found himself at odds with right-wing elements of his party. National Republicans argue that…

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Lindsey Graham endorses Charlie Crist

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) endorsed Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s Senate bid, choosing the moderate governor over conservative Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio. “I am very pleased to hear that you are running for the United States Senate to succeed my good friend Mel Martinez,” Graham wrote in a letter to Crist. “I enthusiastically support and endorse your campaign, and I look forward to joining you soon on the campaign trail.” U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham Endorses Governor Charlie Crist for the…

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American Spectator article blasts Charlie Crist, Florida’s GOP establishment

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Considering recent history, it should come as no surprise that with what promises to become an exciting 2010 Senate primary race shaping up in Florida between a substance-free, moderate-to-liberal governor and a conservative former speaker of the Florida House, the Republican establishment has lined up to give the liberal governor a big, wet tongue kiss, and has not so subtly tried to elbow the conservative aside. These guys clearly miss Arlen Specter already, and are searching for his replacement. Rest…

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