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Bay area Republicans gather to officially open Jeb Bush’s statewide headquarters in Tampa

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Jeb Bush may be struggling in the polls, but there was nothing but unadulterated love for him shown this afternoon in Tampa, where a bevy of local and state Republicans — highlighted by an appearance by Jeb Bush Jr. — gathered to officially open the former Florida governor’s statewide headquarters. Located in the Town N’ Country section in Northwest Tampa off of West Hillsborough Avenue, supporters crammed into a stuffy kitchen area to await the appearance of Bush Jr., the…

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In new Web ad Jeb Bush attacks Hillary Clinton on (his) transparency vs. (her) secrecy

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The conventional wisdom among some political observers is that whatever is happening this summer in U.S. politics, next year’s presidential contest will inevitably come down to a Jeb v. Hillary contest. Whether that will happen will be known soon enough. In the interim, Jeb Bush‘s campaign team continues to look past Donald Trump and aim their energy at Hillary Clinton in a new Web ad released Thursday morning called Transparency vs. Secrecy. In it, the Bush team uses cable and…

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Club for Growth PAC calls on donors to help out Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio & 3 other candidates

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The Club for Growth — the D.C.-based conservative advocacy group focused on cutting taxes and other economic issues — is for the first time in its 16-year history calling on its members to donate to a presidential campaign. But they’re not being exclusive, announcing that there are five of the 17 candidates in the GOP presidential race that they will bundle campaign contributions for — Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Scott Walker. The news was first reported…

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Mitch Perry Report for 8.5.15 — Hillary Clinton is struggling, but is Joe Biden really the answer?

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Maybe the presidential race will be what some fantasize/dread has always been the inevitable challenge — a Jeb Bush v. Hillary Clinton throwback contest of dueling 60-somethings. But it doesn’t look like it in early August of 2015. Forget about Jeb’s misstatements, which are starting to pile up. Let’s look deeper at some of Hillary’s numbers. A Wall Street Journal poll shows Clinton losing support with her supposed base — white women, whose numbers are supposed to make up for the reduction of…

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Marco Rubio won’t call for shutdown over Planned Parenthood

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Marco Rubio said Sunday that the government should not be shut down this fall unless Planned Parenthood is defunded, but did say that he supports a proposal to take the federal money that currently goes to that organization and instead spend it on community health care clinics across the nation. “That’s a false choice,” Rubio said when asked that question by POLITICO’s Mike Allen in a conversation at the St. Regis Monarch Beach luxury resort, in Dana Point, Calif. “First of all, I…

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Donald Trump leads GOP field in yet another national poll

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Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican presidential field of candidates just days before the first major debate of the political season, leading with 19 percent support in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. He’s followed by Scott Walker at 15 percent, and Jeb Bush third at 14 percent. All other Republican candidates earn single digit backing. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is favored by 9 percent of primary voters; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul are tied…

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Ron DeSantis wants Obama to remove IRS commissioner — or else

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Jacksonville area GOP U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis says President Obama needs to fire IRS Commissioner  Josh Koskinen — and says if he fails to do so, Congress should impeach Koskinen. In an op-ed co-written in The Wall Street Journal with Ohio GOP U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday, the duo say that since Koskinen replaced acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel in 2013, he “has failed the American people by frustrating Congress’s attempts to ascertain the truth.” The reason for their ire is what they say has been a dereliction…

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