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Jeb Bush using Paris attacks to pitch broad military buildup

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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is calling for a broad military buildup and says the U.S. armed forces have been left ill-prepared to defeat the Islamic State, blamed for the Paris attacks that killed at least 129 and wounded hundreds more. The former Florida governor is projecting himself as a potential commander in chief able to handle such challenges, as his presidential bid tries to gain traction in a primary campaign likely to be shaken up after the Paris attacks.…

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Donald Trump up 36-18% over Marco Rubio in new Florida poll

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Donald Trump has doubled the vote of his nearest challenger in Florida, Marco Rubio, in a new poll by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative released on Wednesday. The poll also shows that Hillary Clinton trails several GOP frontrunners in head-to-head match-ups. Trump leads the GOP field with 36 percent, followed by Rubio at 18 percent, Ben Carson at 15 percent and Ted Cruz at 10 percent. Jeb Bush placed fifth with just 8.9 percent. “Despite conjecture that Donald…

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Marco Rubio tied for second in New Hampshire in WBUR poll

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Donald Trump continues to lead in New Hampshire in a new poll out on Wednesday, but Marco Rubio is rising. The poll, conducted by the MassInc Polling Group for Boston NPR station WBUR, shows Trump leading with 22 percent, doubling his advantage over Rubio and Dr. Ben Carson, who are tied for second with 11 percent. Ted Cruz is next with 8 percent, followed by Jeb Bush and John Kasich at 7 percent. Chris Christie and Rand Paul are tied at 5…

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Jeb Bush open to letting in properly vetted Syrian Muslims

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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is making it clearer that his call for the U.S. refugee program to give preference to Christians fleeing Syria does not exclude Muslims. His campaign says Bush supports accepting women and children regardless of their religion and does not exclude Syrian Muslims broadly, as long as the refugees can be effectively vetted. President Barack Obama has rebuked what he called a “shameful” religious test in the refugee policies of some Republican candidates. Both Bush and…

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz says GOP has gone too far in responses to Paris terrorist attacks

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Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is accusing Marco Rubio and other Republicans of descending to the bottom of the barrel in their partisan responses to the Paris terrorist attacks. “This weekend our three Democratic candidates for president held a substantive conversation about keeping our country safe that remained serious and demonstrated respect for voters,” Wasserman Schultz said, referring to the Democratic presidential debate broadcast live on CBS on Saturday night from Des Moines. “In sharp contrast, Republican candidates for president…

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Mitch Perry Report for 11.16.15 – A post 11/13 world?

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The rhetoric coming from the two-day cavalcade of Republican presidential candidates that took place in Orlando this past weekend changed halfway through due to the Paris terrorist attacks, but not as much as you might think. That’s because for many of the candidates, criticizing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton‘s foreign policy achievements/objectives has been the stock and trade of their message about why they’re running for president, because they see an America gone adrift, a country that lacks leadership. They just…

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Survey of Democratic super-delegates: Marco Rubio is top 2016 threat

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Bring on Donald Trump, and Ben Carson, too. That’s what Democratic insiders are saying about the Republican outsiders who sit solidly atop preference polls in the race for the GOP nomination for president. They are far more worried about GOP candidates who have experience in office, with Marco Rubio cited most often as the strongest potential competition for their overwhelming choice for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton. “As a Democrat, I’d love to see a Trump-Carson ticket,” said Bob…

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