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Don’t change the channel: Trey Radel to return to radio full-time

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Trey RadelĀ is back. Radel, a Fort Myers Republican, announced Friday he is returning to radio full-time. Beginning Tuesday, Radel will be hosting ā€œDaybreak,ā€ a morning talk radio show on 92.5 Fox News in Southwest Florida. ā€œYour support and kind words have meant more to me than youā€™ll ever know,ā€ wrote RadelĀ on his Facebook pageĀ Friday morning. The new gig marks a return to the radio for Radel. Once a popular television and radio personality, Radel hosted the morning show before his…

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Monday is deadline to register to vote in Florida primary

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Monday is the last day to register to vote before Florida’s Aug. 30 primary election. Floridians who want to switch their party affiliation for the primary also must act by the deadline. There are contested primary races for the U.S. Senate on both the Republican and Democratic sides. There are also several contentious races for Congress and the Florida Legislature that will be decided in the primary. Voters who are registered as independents must change their party affiliation in order…

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Joe Henderson: RNC Day 2 ā€“ starting to get the message

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OK, I think we get the message. Republicans spent the first two days of their convention in Cleveland trying to get one point across: They hate Hillary Clinton. Check that. To them, she is Satan in a pants suit, but without the charm. To break it down, they believe she is a godless, soulless, flesh-eating monster who is responsible for every bad thing that has happened on earth, probably starting at the Garden of Eden. Weā€™re still trying to confirm…

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Donald Trump’s campaign investment tops $43 million

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Donald Trump poured more than $7.5 million of his own money into his presidential campaign in April, bringing his total personal investment to more than $43 million since he declared his candidacy, new campaign finance reports filed late Friday show. The billionaire businessman, who swatted away 16 Republican rivals and relied heavily on wall-to-wall media coverage of his outsized personality and often inflammatory remarks, reported spending about $56 million during the primary, which lasted until his final two rivals, Texas…

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Bob Cortes raises $12K in April for HD 30 race

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Republican incumbent state Rep. Bob Cortes raised $12,680 in April for his re-election campaign in House District 30, renewing the pace he had set before the Florida Legislative Session. Cortes, a first-term Republican in a swing district that straddles Orange and Seminole counties, also spent about $4,700 in April. That leaves him with about $104,000 in the bank. He is being challenged this year by Democrat Ryan Yadav, an Orlando lawyer who has been largely self-financing his campaign in what…

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Steve Schale: Florida state House rankings for May 2016

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Six months before Election Day, now that the candidates and races are starting to develop, I wanted to take a look at my favorite of all subjects: state House races. For those of you all who don’t know me well, I cut my teeth in the Florida House. State House races are my first political love, and for young rising operatives, I believe them to be the best of all proving grounds. Almost everything you do running for president, governor,…

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Federation of Republican Women: We support the nominee

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As big time Republican leaders prop up their egos and influence by supporting this presidential candidate or that presidential candidate and threatening not to support another, a significant grassroots GOP organization, which does the heavy campaign lifting right down to the grassroots, says it will support whoever the nominee is. The board of the National Federation of Republican Women unanimously approved a resolution that chapters, officers and rank-and-file members will support the partyā€™s nominee. That means Donald Trump, Ted Cruz…

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