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Mitch Perry Report for 8.7.15 — The morning after

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Last night was the most fun I can remember watching a political debate since Chris Matthews moderated the Charlie Crist-Jim Davis-Max Linn Florida gubernatorial debate in 2006. Anyone remember that? Let’s face it, if the same tough questions were asked by moderators at MSNBC, CNN, Univision or any of the major broadcast networks, the story of the morning (besides whatever Donald Trump did) from Republicans would be how unfair the liberal media was. As it stands, some conservatives on my Twitter…

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GOP debate off to a contentious start as Donald Trump refuses to commit to supporting party nominee

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The latest on the first Republican debate of the 2016 campaign for president: 10:25 p.m. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is emphasizing his opposition to abortion. He says he believes future generations will “call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies.” Rubio disputes the Republican presidential debate moderator’s characterization that he opposes abortion except in the case of rape and incest. He says he has never advocated for those exceptions. ___ 10:18 p.m. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has no apologies…

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Conservative group to air anti-debt ad during GOP presidential debate

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The Campaign to Fix the Debt is making sure its namesake argument is hashed out in Thursday night’s 10-candidate GOP presidential debate. In an ad created by the conservative-leaning Jamestown Associates firm, a game-show style announcer appears on screen with a blurred debate scene in the background. “Our next question comes from Molly about our $18 trillion debt,” he says as a giant screen overlooking an audience shows a smiling young girl with her hair tucked into a girlish ponytail.…

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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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