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Poll: Florida’s GOP U.S. Senate race shaping up as two man race, with David Jolly leading

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Pinellas County Congressman David Jolly has a three-point lead over Ponte Vedra Beach Representative Ron DeSantis in a new St. Pete Polls survey released Wednesday, but over 43 percent of Republicans polled said they’re unsure or would prefer another candidate. Jolly gets 21 percent of the vote, with DeSantis next at 18 percent. Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera is third with 10 percent, and former military veteran and CIA contractor Todd Wilcox is at 8 percent. However, 44 percent of the voters say they’re unsure or…

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Marsha Blackburn endorses “principled conservative” Ron DeSantis for Senate

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Ron DeSantis isn’t the only Republican congressman running for Senate, yet he’s the one getting the D.C. endorsements. Another in a series came through on Monday, from Tennessee Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn. “Ron DeSantis is a principled conservative leader who can always be counted on to stand up for taxpayers, our national security and the Constitution,” Blackburn said. “From defending the Internet against government intrusion to defunding the unconstitutional actions of President Obama, Ron has stood with me in…

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Email insights: David Jolly rips Obama administration on national security

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Recent terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere have shifted the focus of nearly all federal campaigns and U.S. Rep. David Jolly‘s bid for the Senate seat left vacant by Marco Rubio is no exception. Jolly ripped President Barack Obama for a perceived lack of strong leadership in a new web ad released Monday, called “Securing Our Homeland.” The ad, sent in an email appeal under the subject line “What President Obama should have said,” takes the commander-in-chief to task for failing to allay near-universal concerns over terrorism and…

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“Unsure” leads new GOP Florida Senate poll — David Jolly next at 11.9 percent

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Rumors still float that there could be more candidates to enter the Florida U.S. Senate race, and a new survey of that race out on Wednesday from St. Leo University Polling Institute shows why that rumor persists. A majority of voters surveyed — 56.5 percent — say they are unsure who they prefer in the race, which doesn’t go before voters until the end of August of 2016. Next on the list is Pinellas County Congressman David Jolly at 11.6 percent. Lieutenant…

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Patrick Murphy calls on Congress to vote to ban those on terrorist watch list from buying guns

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South Florida Congressman and Democratic Senate hopeful Patrick Murphy announced Tuesday his support for legislation that would ban people put on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy firearms in the U.S. That’s the same legislation that the GOP-led Congress rejected last week in both the House and the Senate, coming in the same week of the massacre in San Bernardino. Two Florida Republicans running for Senate, David Jolly and Ron DeSantis, voted against the bill in the House. “This bill isn’t…

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David Jolly says Donald Trump should leave presidential race after latest comment on Muslims

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Pinellas County Congressman and Florida Republican Senate candidate David Jolly is calling on Donald Trump to resign his bid for the presidency after the latest controversial comments the GOP front-runner made regarding banning all Muslims to enter the U.S. “While ISIS is beheading innocent people for their religious practices, Trump is betraying our freedoms,” Jolly said in a statement issued out early Tuesday morning. “His brutal, bullying bigotry runs contrary to the very principles our forefathers fought so hard to defend.  We are…

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David Jolly hails Chavista defeat in Venezuelan elections

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Voters may have rebuked Venezuela’s ruling United Social Party in elections Sunday, but Congressman David Jolly calls it a “victory for democracy.” In a statement Monday, the Indian Shores Republican hailed the victory of the Democratic Unity Roundtable opposition party, which over the weekend defeated the long-ruling party of former President Hugo Chávez in the National Assembly. “Last night, socialism took a back seat to democracy,” said Jolly, who is in a hotly contested Republican primary to fill Marco Rubio‘s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat.…

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