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Donald Trump leads in four new national polls

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The last national polls to be released before the first GOP presidential debate of the year takes place on Thursday are are in, and all have the same result: Donald Trump leads in all four new polls out from CBS News, Fox, Monmouth University and Bloomberg. The CBS News poll is the latest, coming out at 7 a.m. on Tuesday. It has Trump up with 24 percent. Jeb Bush is next at 13 percent, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is at 10 percent.…

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Donald Trump leads by 23 points in South Carolina in new poll

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Donald Trump’s endless summer of bliss at the polls continues to show no signs of dying out anytime soon. Last week he took the lead in a Florida poll for the first time, and a new Gravis Marketing poll released on Monday night that has him with a huge lead in South Carolina, the first state in the South that will vote in next year’s Republican primaries. Trump has 34 percent in the new poll. That’s three times the lead over the…

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Mitch Perry Report for 8.3.15 — Forget Thursday. 14 GOP prez candidates debate tonight in NH

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Happy Monday, which, if you live or work in Tampa, means another perilous morning for actually driving your car, as it’s raining hard once again as I write this (6:18 a.m.). This weekend’s storms and floods indicate that Tampa may never become the major city it aspires to; though there are plans to raise taxes to pay for stormwater projects this year, the conventional wisdom laid down by geologists and past and present mayors of Tampa is that the way that the…

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Speaking at Koch Brothers event, Jeb Bush says he’s the leader that America needs

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Jeb Bush told a group of elite Republicans and libertarians in a speech in Southern California on Sunday night that America is desperate for leaders, and he is the man who can fill that gap in Washington. “People are desperately looking for is a leader, and I hope you’re looking at him, ” Bush said to Politico reporter Mike Allen in a conversation at the St. Regis Monarch Beach luxury resort, in Dana Point, Calif. The interview was live streamed on Politico’s website.…

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Marco Rubio won’t call for shutdown over Planned Parenthood

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Marco Rubio said Sunday that the government should not be shut down this fall unless Planned Parenthood is defunded, but did say that he supports a proposal to take the federal money that currently goes to that organization and instead spend it on community health care clinics across the nation. “That’s a false choice,” Rubio said when asked that question by POLITICO’s Mike Allen in a conversation at the St. Regis Monarch Beach luxury resort, in Dana Point, Calif. “First of all, I…

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Donald Trump leads GOP field in yet another national poll

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Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican presidential field of candidates just days before the first major debate of the political season, leading with 19 percent support in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. He’s followed by Scott Walker at 15 percent, and Jeb Bush third at 14 percent. All other Republican candidates earn single digit backing. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is favored by 9 percent of primary voters; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul are tied…

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Donald Trump leads GOP field in new Quninnipiac poll

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July continues to be the month of Donald Trump in the GOP presidential campaign, as the New York businessman/celebrity has taken the lead nationally in a new Quinnipiac poll released Thursday morning. Trump gets 20 percent support, followed by Scott Walker at 13 point, and Jeb Bush at 10 percent. No other Republican gets more than six percent (there’s a four-way tie there: Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul & Dr. Ben Carson), while 12 percent are undecided. But not all is nirvana…

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