A new poll is showing Marco Rubio routing two Democratic congressmen as the GOP looks to hold onto a Senate seat in Florida. 

Quinnipiac University released a poll on Thursday morning showing Rubio ahead of Patrick Murphy 50 percent to 37 percent. Rubio also leads Alan Grayson 50 percent to 38 percent.

Peter Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, noted that Rubio deciding to run for a second term at the last minute, despite promising not to run again, hasn't hurt him. 

Panhandle developer Jay Odom is bankrolling a Northeast Florida operation licensed by health officials to grow, process and distribute non-euphoric marijuana products, a lawyer for Chestnut Hill Tree Farm confirmed Wednesday.

Odom was sentenced to six months in prison three years ago after pleading guilty in a 2007 scheme to funnel $23,000 in campaign contributions through employees or their family members to a presidential candidate.

Education groups from around the state are throwing their weight behind legislative candidates for this year’s election and the state’s largest teachers’ group is joining in the chorus flexing its legislative muscles in 2016.

Two Florida Republicans are once again teaming up to try to reform the Veterans Affairs Department. 

After endorsing them last month, one of the most prominent Republicans on foreign policy doubled down on his support of Florida Republicans Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis on Wednesday. 

Questions about Hillary Clinton’s ethics have led Donald Trump to bounce back in the Sunshine State, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.

Days after the June 12 Pulse nightclub shooting that took the lives of 49 innocent people in Orlando, the political demagoguery began.
 
Many on the liberal left, from the Florida chapter of the National Organization of Women to the Florida Democrat Party, were calling for more gun control laws. If Florida had stricter gun measures, the Pulse nightclub massacre shooting would not have happened, they said.

Florida's citrus industry, struggling in a battle against a fatal citrus disease, will have a little bit sweeter season than projected in an initial forecast.

However, the outlook for the state's orange crop continues to be troubling.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's final forecast for the 2015-2016 citrus growing season, released Tuesday, projected that Florida will produce enough oranges to fill 81.5 million 90-pound boxes.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office is investigating claims that businessman Andrew Korge offered Sen. Dwight Bullard $25,000 to pull out of the Senate District 40 campaign.

Congressional representatives from the Sunshine State want to ensure the Ortega regime in Nicaragua won’t be able to access loans from American banks.