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Donald Trump, Ben Carson first and second in latest Florida presidential poll

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The latest Public Policy Poll survey released Tuesday shows that, as is the case in virtually every other poll in the country right now, Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson are the top two favorites of Republican presidential primary voters in Florida, more than four months before the first votes start counting. Trump and Carson’s ascendancy is bad news for Florida native sons Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, who now reside in third and fourth place, respectively in the new…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.10.15 — Few presidential candidates offering specifics on refugee crisis

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Yesterday in Brussels, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union’s top executive, proposed a plan to move approximately 160,000 refugees coming from war-torn and poverty-stricken nations in the Middle East and Africa in response to other countries to deal with the crisis gripping Europe. Although often called “Europe’s problem,” there is increasing discussion about what the United States could, and should, do to take in those fleeing Syria and other volatile parts of the world. Yesterday Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers that he favors “significantly increasing…

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FDP Vice Chair Alan Clendenin not backing away from criticism of Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz was in Tampa last week for a fundraiser for the Florida Democratic Party, and when she confronted Alan Clendenin, things got a little chilly. It was “as good as it always goes,” says Clendenin of the strained meeting that took pace at the law offices of Swope, Rodante in Ybor City. Although the two mix like “oil and water” (in Clendenin’s words), the tension was even greater than usual because the day before Clendenin had posted a story about…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.3.15 — The DNC’s non-debate strategy

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There’s excitement in some quarters this week as it now appears that Carly Fiorina will appear in the second Republican presidential debate taking place in 13 days in Los Angeles (OK, Simi Valley, officially). Meanwhile, we’re still more than five weeks away before the first Democratic presidential debate — and why is that? While some may say that the reason Martin O’Malley is making such an issue out of the paucity of announced forums that might help him climb over two percent in the…

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Joe Biden testing political waters in Florida

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Approaching a time of decision, Vice President Joe Biden tested the political waters in Florida on Wednesday as he mulls over whether to join a 2016 presidential race that’s left a lot Democrats wanting more choice. Biden attended a fundraiser Wednesday night for Senate Democrats after a speech at Miami Dade College promoting the administration’s education agenda. At every turn, he’s been watched for any hints about his 2016 ambitions as Democrats debate whether the race would benefit from his…

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Kathy Castor shares Florida GOP Senate candidates’ frustration with GOP-led Congress

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Call it the Trump/Ted Cruz effect, but the Florida Republicans running for Senate next year seem to be as determined to run as much against “Washington” as they do their ultimate Democratic opponent. David Jolly, Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Ron DeSantis all mentioned they are fed up with how Republicans in Washington have been doing — or not doing — their jobs while appearing at the Republican Party of Florida’s summer quarterly meeting this past weekend in Tampa. “There are millions of Republican…

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Mitch Perry Report for 8.31.15 — Taking Bernie Sanders seriously

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The biggest news on the presidential front this weekend was the Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll that shows Bernie Sanders down just seven points from Hillary Clinton’s support in Iowa, 37-30 percent. The presumptive front-runner has lost a third of her supporters since May in the nation’s first caucus state. So will the mainstream media begin taking him more seriously? ABC’s Martha Raddatz is. Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, she asked the Vermont senator about two things missing from his website: national security and foreign policy.…

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