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Mitch Perry Report for 4.29.15 — Hillary Clinton (finally) gets a challenger

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We finally have a challenger to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential nomination contest. Seventy-three-year-old Vermont independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders officially announces his candidacy today, though he says he won’t give a big speech noting the event until May 26. “I’ve been traveling around the country for the last year trying to ascertain whether there really is grass-roots support in terms of people standing up and being prepared to take on the billionaire class,” Sanders tells USA Today. “I believe…

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New Iowa poll shows Marco Rubio moving up to second place

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Scott Walker has a double-digit lead over the rest of the Republican field in Iowa, according to a new poll. But Marco Rubio is ascendent. Walker is at 23 percent support in a Public Policy Polling survey released this morning. Coming in second now is Marco Rubio with 13 percent. Jeb Bush is next at 12 percent. Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul are tied for forth with 10 percent support. Ted Cruz is at 8 percent, Ben Carson at 7 percent, Chris…

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Hillary Clinton campaign about to ramp up in Florida

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Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign will be kicking off a major grassroots organizing effort starting next week, sending staffers to all 50 states in the country to begin building up a network of volunteers to start getting selling the message on a Clinton candidacy. It’s being called the “Ramp up Grassroots Organizing Program,” and will be led in Florida by Sandy Ducane, a Fort Lauderdale native and University of Florida alum. Ducane served as the Regional GOTV director in 2014 for the Iowa…

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Jeb Bush tops CNN’s latest GOP presidential poll, but trails Hillary Clinton by 17 points

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Although he’s hardly breaking away, Jeb Bush leads the GOP 2016 presidential field in a new CNN/ORC International Poll released Monday morning. And Marco Rubio appears to finally be gaining some traction. However, both would be crushed by Hillary Clinton if the election were to be held tomorrow. Bush tops the GOP field with 17 percent, followed by Scott Walker at 12 percent. Rubio is tied with Rand Paul in third place in the poll with 11 percent. That’s a…

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New Hampshire Republican voters relish crowded field

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For New Hampshire Republicans, the early days of the 2016 presidential campaign feel like an embarrassment of riches. The state’s notoriously fickle, independent-minded voters are relishing a wide-open Republican race and are in no hurry to crown a front-runner. Nearly 20 potential candidates — senators, governors, business executives and more — have paraded through the state in recent days to curry favor with voters and court party leaders. “The more, the better,” said Jim Blake, a Republican from Londonderry. The…

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Hillary Clinton patches relations with liberals at campaign’s outset

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This time, Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to be on liberals’ good side. As a presidential candidate in 2008, she opposed gay marriage, equivocated on granting driver’s licenses to people who were living in the U.S. illegally, and endured heavy criticism from rival Barack Obama on her stance on campaign finance. During the opening week of her second presidential campaign, Clinton showed she had retooled her positions to line up with the views of progressive Democrats. On Monday, she called for…

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New PPP survey shows Jeb Bush in trouble in New Hampshire

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A new poll published by Public Policy Polling shows Florida Republicans Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio need to do a lot of work to become competitive in New Hampshire, the site of the first Republican Presidential Primary election next January. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is looking very strong, leading with 24 percent support. That’s 10 percentage points higher than the second-place Republican, Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. And what’s most impressive is that Walker was only at 3 percent when PPP surveyed New…

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