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Jeb Bush, Ben Carson lead GOP presidential fundraising

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Jeb Bush raised $13.4 million over the summer for his Republican presidential bid — more than almost any other primary competitor, but far less than political newcomer Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who collected about $20 million during the same time period. Meanwhile, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the two leading Democrats in the 2016 race, each raised more than any of the Republicans who have said what donors gave them between July 1 and Sept. 30. Among those…

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Donald Trump and Ben Carson in statistical tie for 1st in new Fox News poll

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Donald Trump leads nationally in a new Fox News poll released on Tuesday with 24 percent support, but Ben Carson is right behind him at 23 percent.  Ted Cruz is third with 10 percent. Marco Rubio is next with 9 percent. Jeb Bush is in fith place with 8 percent. Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee are down at 5 percent, and Rand Paul is at 3 percent. Ben Carson is the only Republican who beats Hillary Clinton in one-on-one match-up — defeating…

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Can Marco Rubio’s lean campaign keep up with Jeb Bush’s behemoth?

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Hundreds of donors to Jeb Bush‘s presidential campaign will gather later this month in Houston. They’ll shake hands with a pair of former presidents, and high-profile lieutenants of the former Florida governor will push them to write generous checks. This weekend in Las Vegas, dozens of donors met up with Marco Rubio. They ate fast-food hamburgers, shook hands with a celebrity pawn-shop owner and played flag football with the Florida senator. “I’d say he threw five interceptions, maybe three or…

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Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz added to RPOF’s Sunshine Summit

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The Republican Party of Florida is racking up still more presidential contenders as guests at its Sunshine Summit next month, scoring U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.  The party made the announcement in a Friday morning news release. The addition of Cruz and Fiorina “is further proof that this is the most significant event in Florida politics this fall,” RPOF Chairman Blaise Ingoglia said. “We look forward to them firing up the grassroots as we build…

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Jeb Bush gets ‘Skimmed’ for popular email news digest

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On Wednesday morning, Jeb Bush got “Skimmed.” The Republican presidential hopeful appeared on theSkimm, a daily email news digest featuring “Skimm Your Candidate,” a series of interviews with the 2016 White House aspirants patterned after a preliminary job interview. Skimm began in 2012 as daily email newsletters with fresh content produced by Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, two NBC News staffers who met at in Rome during college. The Daily Skimm now reaches an audience of more than 1.5 million…

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Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio still in middle of the pack in new Iowa, NH polls

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Florida’s two presidential candidates – Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio- remain in the middle of the pack in two new polls taken in Iowa and New Hampshire and released on Sunday. Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican field in both states, according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist surveys. In New Hampshire, Trump now holds a five-point advantage over Carly Fiorina among GOP primary voters, 21 percent to 16 percent – followed by Bush in third place with  percent, and Marco…

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Today on Context Florida: Jeff Atwater, crazy conservatives and Kevin McCarthy

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Today on Context Florida: Peter Schorsch says imagine you are a well-heeled, card-carrying member of Florida’s Republican establishment. With an already a difficult election cycle, such as choosing between supporting Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio for president, Jeff Atwater is making the election cycle even more difficult. Florida’s CFO was indeed considering entering the race after earlier this year declaring that he would not run. And the Republican establishment is peeved. Autumn has arrived, and Diane Roberts calls it the season…

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