Former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, now running in a crowded Republican primary to see who will emerge to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, looked to highlight his right-of-center credentials as he reached out to conservative bloggers and media on Wednesday.

My focus remains on the fact that our country is headed in the wrong direction, said Hasner, who insisted he is a proven fighter who had stood for conservative values in the Florida House and on the campaign trail.

A Bloomberg News poll released on Wednesday finds former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney routing other hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire.

From his perch on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney warned that defense cuts -- which are looming as a bipartisan joint committee set up to cut the federal budget appears stalled -- could undermine national security.

Florida Republican U.S. Rep. David Rivera tore into President Barack Obama on Tuesday over the administrations decision to postpone the Keystone XL project.

President Obama has decided to play politics with an issue that intersects at the avenues of jobs, foreign affairs and energy, said Rivera. By postponing the approval of the Keystone pipeline, out of a concern for his own electoral future, the president has jeopardized 20,000 American jobs --something we can ill afford at a time of 9 percent unemployment.

The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) has kicked off a series of video updates from Lenny Curry, the chairman of the state party. In the first video, Curry weighs in on what the state GOP will focus on in 2012.

With reports growing that some members of Congress engaged in insider training, former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, now running in a crowded Republican primary to take on Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, offered his thoughts on the matter.

Dark-horse Republican presidential hopeful former Gov. Buddy Roemer of Louisiana, who has left the door open to making a third-party or independent bid for the White House, came out swinging at NewYork City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday for calling out the cops against the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Bill Keller, the St. Petersburg-based evangelist who reaches an audience of more than 2.4 million around the world each day through LivePrayer.com, has taken aim at President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts.

A new poll from Bloomberg News found that its a dead heat in Iowa with four Republican presidential candidates jammed at the top to lead in the first caucus.

Gov. Rick Scott issued a statement late on Monday with his thoughts on the U.S. Supreme Court announcing it would hear the constitutional challenge launched by 26 states and the NFIB against the federal health-care law backed by President Barack Obama.