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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica DONALD TRUMP, BERNIE SANDERS TRIUMPH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE As expected, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were the winners in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, and it wasn’t even close. Sanders and Trump were projected by the Associated Press as the winners of the respective Democratic and Republican primaries at 8 p.m. eastern…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. New Hampshire voters go to the polls today, in what is being predicting to be a record 550,00 cast in the first-in-the-nation’s presidential primary. Secretary of State Bll Gardner believes 282,000 Republican ballots will be cast, a record for the GOP, with 268,000 Democratic ballots, which would the second highest, behind the Obama-Clinton 2008 race.…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. HOUSEKEEPING Before we dive into #RubioGlitch, please allow for some housekeeping. — Orlando-Rising.com — A hyper-local website about the hyper-growing Central Florida region is soft-launching today. With former Orlando Sentinel reporter Scott Powers as its tent-pole reporter, @OrlRising aims to do to Orlando and Orange and Seminole County politics what SaintPetersBlog has clearly accomplished in the…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. DEM DEBATE TAKEAWAYS: HILLARY, BERNIE MIX IT UP OVER WALL STREET For months, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have campaigned against each other with a velvet touch, eager to distinguish their race for the Democratic presidential nomination from the combative contest taking place in the Republican primary. No more. The pair tangled again and again…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, Jim Rosica, and material from the Associated Press. THE WINNOWING (IT’S NOT A M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN MOVIE) To hear exiting presidential primary candidates tell it, their campaigns never die. They are just suspended. Make no mistake. When they suspend a campaign, as Rand Paul did Wednesday and Mike Huckabee and Martin O’Malley did right after the Iowa caucuses, it’s not to take a break…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. IOWA SHOWS POLLING IS SLIPPERY BUSINESS, GETTING MORE SO Iowa’s snow-covered fields and friendly villages were fraught with danger for pollsters, who had a tough time pinning down the state’s fickle electorate. Most poll-takers took it on the chin when Donald Trump‘s lead in pre-election polls ended with a Ted Cruz victory at Monday’s caucuses. Marco Rubio‘s strong third-place…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. IOWA TAKEAWAYS – DONALD TRUMP CAN’T MEET HYPE, HILLARY CLINTON UNDERWHELMS — Donald Trump failed to live up to his own hype and finished second to Ted Cruz, but it was a late surge from Marco Rubio that may wind up the as the biggest surprise of the Iowa caucuses. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders…

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