One year ago, there was a decent chance the Republican nominee for president would hail from Florida. Former Gov. Jeb Bush was far ahead of the pack in money and the "invisible primary" that comes before voters cast their ballots. And U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio was the second-favorite candidate for most GOP voters in the polls, signaling that he might have the most to gain as the field started to dwindle.
The U.S. added 160,000 jobs during the month of April, according to new figures released Friday from the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate held steady at 5 percent.
The 2016 presidential election has been one of the most headline-inducing elections in recent memory. A full GOP field and the hotly-contested democratic run off provided endless opportunities and instances where politicians said or did outrageous things on the campaign trail.
As real-estate magnate Donald Trump nailed down the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a resounding win in Indiana, Florida political consultants on both sides of the aisle felt a sense of deja vu.
"Tonight reminds me of Florida on August 25, 2010," tweeted Brian Hughes, a GOP operative who founded Meteoric Media Strategies and worked for Gov. Rick Scott's first bid for office in 2010.
Democrats are hoping to pick up some congressional seats and have one Florida Republican clearly in their sights.
This week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) announced its first ad buys for the general election, purchasing more than $30 million for commercials around the country and almost $4 million of that being used to target freshman Republican Carlos Curbelo.
Despite all the buzz that he would end up on Donald Trump’s shortlist, Rick Scott said he had no interest in being vice president.
Asked Wednesday night if he would accept a bid to become Donald Trump's vice president, Gov. Rick Scott told millions of CNN viewers, "I like my job, I have two years and eight months to go and I'm going to stay in this job."
As Donald Trump essentially locked up the Republican presidential nomination late Tuesday, Florida GOP leaders began facing a decision none of them expected to be making a year ago: Line up behind the real-estate mogul's White House bid, or figure out how to win around him in the fall
Marco Rubio, who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence, is in the Middle East this week, weighing in on military operations as Islamic State (ISIS) terrorism continues to upend the region.
Nearly 100 Florida Republicans will head to Cleveland in July to represent the Sunshine State in the 2016 Republican National Convention, which means Republican Party of Florida Chairman Blaise Ingoglia has a full schedule preparing for the final at-large delegate selection happening in Tampa next week.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the anti-Trump Republicans' last hope for a "hail Mary" into the endzone, has signaled he will drop out of the race.
Kasich's surprise change of heart leaves Donald Trump the last Republican standing.
No more debates, no more internal sniping with the RNC brass, nothing left for Trump but preparation to face the Democrats' presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton, in what promises to be a clash of Titans from now until November.
