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Hillary Clinton continues to dominate in Florida in new PPP survey

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Hillary Clinton may be struggling against Vermont independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, but Berniemania hasn’t translated downward to the Sunshine State, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey released on Tuesday. The former secretary of state and New York senator dominates the Democratic primary race, getting 55 percent of the vote. Sanders is a distant second with 18 percent, followed closely by Vice President Joe Biden, who is at 17 percent, despite the…

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Bill Galvano calls redistricting issue ‘more difficult than anything I’ve ever experienced’

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Senate Majority Leader Bill Galvano calls the current redistricting situation he’s engrossed in the most challenging and difficult experience he’s ever worked on in his 13-year legislative career in Tallahassee. The Bradenton Republican chairs the Senate Reapportionment Committee, and has been intricately involved with trying to work with House counterpart Jose Oliva in coming up with a newly redrawn map of the state’s 27 congressional districts. After the Legislature ended their special session on redistricting without coming to an agreement on…

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American Crossroads takes aim at Patrick Murphy in attack email

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Conventional wisdom among some pundits (and Florida Democrats) is that Patrick Murphy is more viable in a general election U.S. Senate contest in Florida in 2016 than his most prominent Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson. While the fire-breathing Grayson is a hero to progressives in the Sunshine State and around the country for his take-no-prisoners attitude toward Republicans, Murphy’s political record and rhetoric is much more centrist in nature, which is what establishment Florida Democrats in particular seem to favor in…

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Jeff Brandes says Florida’s policy on drivers license suspensions is broken, wants it reviewed

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Last month, the Miami Herald reported that the majority of motorists in Florida who have had their drivers licenses suspended in recent years is not because they’ve been cited for driving while under the influence, but simply for failing to pay fines. Failure to pay such fees accounted for 77 percent of all license suspensions from 2012 through 2015, the paper learned. The story showed how Miami-Dade County’s coffers have benefited from the flow of new revenues, but have also led to…

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Ron DeSantis admits GOP faithful are ‘demoralized, depressed and dejected’ at D.C. Republicans

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If Republican primary politics are all about reaching out to the conservative base, then on paper, Jacksonville-area U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis should be a strong contender as the GOP Senate nominee in 2016. The Sunshine State native (who grew up in the quaint Pinellas County town of Dunedin) has only been in elected office for three years, having won a congressional seat in Florida’s 6th District in 2012, but his profile has been growing statewide since he became the first Republican to announce…

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Donald Trump’s favorability ratings rise in new Gallup Poll

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Since Donald Trump began emerging as the front-runner in GOP presidential in late July, skeptics have noted that while he’s been leading a scattered, 17-person field, his unfavorable rankings among Republican still portend poorly for him in acquiring the nomination. That may beginning to change now. A new Gallup survey released on Friday shows that Trump’s net favorable rating among Republicans has climbed 16 points over the last two weeks. Gallup notes that this marks a “significant shift, as Trump’s image previous to the…

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In op-ed, Marco Rubio disdains bankruptcy protection for Puerto Rico

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Marco Rubio opposes giving Puerto Rico the same type of bankruptcy protection available to U.S. towns and cities mired in fiscal crisis, he writes in an op-ed published in both Spanish and English today in El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico’s largest daily newspaper. “While some have suggested Washington can deliver a silver bullet solution to help Puerto Rico, the reality is that Puerto Rico’s leaders must lead and do the difficult but essential work of cutting spending, reining in out-of-control big government and…

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