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UNF poll: Donald Trump holds slight Florida lead

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A new poll shows Donald Trump still leads among Florida’s Republican primary voters, taking 21 percent of the vote if the election were held today, with Ben Carson closing in at 19 percent. The new University of North Florida statewide poll shows Marco Rubio coming in third with 14 percent and Jeb Bush at a distant fourth with 9 percent of the vote. The school’s Public Opinion Research Laboratory conducted the telephone survey. Even though Carson is polling higher than…

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Matt Corrigan: Jeb Bush is ‘really gonna have to earn it’

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Calling the 2016 battleground in Florida “utterly fascinating,” UNF’s Matt Corrigan says Jeb Bush‘s official entry into the presidential race will put to the test Bush’s gamble that he can “lose the primary to win the general.” “Jeb will talk about his policy differences with the base on immigration and Common Core,” says Corrigan, a political science professor and the widely quoted author of Conservative Hurricane: How Jeb Bush Remade Florida. “The question, though, is there space in the Republican primary process…

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