The Republican Party of Florida released a video on Monday featuring Esther Scott praising her son, Gov. Rick Scott, for his performance in his first months in office. During the 2010 election cycle, the Scott team ran commercials featuring the candidates mother.

A poll released on Monday showed that Florida is up for grabs in the Republican presidential race.

On Monday, Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio offered his take on the federal government reaching the debt ceiling.

The conservative Club for Growth organization released the first of its white papers on the candidates who are running for the Republican presidential nomination and looked at former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia.

Republicans almost never nominate dark horses for the presidency. While it happened with some regularity in the Gilded Age with the rises of Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield and Benjamin Harrison, the GOP usually relied on front-runners and familiar faces during the 20th century to carry their standard, with a few exceptions (Warren G. Harding and Wendell Willkie come to mind).

Shortly after the space shuttle Endeavor launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral on its final flight, Gov. Rick Scott took to the airwaves to give the Space Coast a boost.

The Atlantis shuttle is tapped to be the last space shuttle flight later this summer, and the end of the shuttle program also signals the end of thousands of jobs directly and indirectly linked to the shuttle missions.

Before being elected as state CFO in 2010, Jeff Atwater served as the state Senate president -- so its no surprise that he is backing current state Senate President Mike Haridopolos in the Republican primary to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012.

A trade delegation from Rugao, China received a tour of Bing Energy's new Tallahassee headquarters Friday from none other than Gov. Rick Scott.

Bing Energy is planning on opening operations in Rugao, and Scott is pleased at the opportunity to highlight the relationship between the "sister cities" as a way to increase job creation in both areas.

Huijan Chen, the vice mayor of the Nantong Municipal Peoples' Government in Rugao's province, agreed.

Former House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, who is running for the Republican nomination to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, took aim at President Barack Obama over immigration on Friday.

In Exeter, N.H., on Friday, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul announced that he was making a second stab at winning the Republican presidential nomination.

Im so glad to see you involved in our revolution, said Paul. The revolution is spreading and our momentum is building. Our time has come.

Paul praised New Hampshire, home of the first presidential primary contest.