Bits and pieces from the second day of the Republican Party of Florida’s (RPOF) Sunshine Summit in Orlando....

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., took his presidential bid to Florida on Saturday as he tried to turn around his campaign. 

A somber U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., now running for the U.S. Senate, called out “militant Islam” on Saturday morning as he spoke in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Speaking at the Republican Party of Florida’s (RPOF) Sunshine Summit, DeSantis spent much of his speech focused on the war against terrorism. 

The Republican Party of Florida held its 2015 Sunshine Summit Friday in Orlando, bringing the top presidential candidates to the Sunshine State in hopes to turn Florida red in 2016.

A Leon County judge on Friday quickly rejected a Florida Senate request to bring in an outside expert to redraw the Senate's 40 districts.

Leon County Circuit Judge George Reynolds III, who turned down the Senate proposal during a 30-minute hearing conducted over the phone, said there wasn't enough time remaining to bring in a "special master" to help draw new district lines.

Tied with businessman Donald Trump at the top of the polls, Dr. Ben Carson made his pitch for the Republican presidential nomination in Orlando on Friday night, urging conservatives and Republicans to stand united.

Businessman Donald Trump sounded confident when he threw down the gauntlet at his presidential rivals left and right on Friday as he took the fight to the other Republican presidential hopefuls and the Democrats in the Sunshine State. 

Echoing U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the man he wants to replace, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera called 2016 a “generational election” and called for change in Washington as he made his case to win a U.S. Senate seat. 

Starting the speech with members of the crowd chanting “CLC,” an energetic Lopez-Cantera addressed the Republican Party of Florida’s (RPOF) Sunshine Summit in Orlando on Friday afternoon. 

“2016 is all about Florida,” Lopez-Cantera said, insisting the stakes would be high in the Sunshine State next November. 

Trying to get his presidential bid back on track, former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., tried to rally Florida Republicans at the Republican Party of Florida’s (RPOF) Sunshine Summit.

Stressing his lack of political experience, conservative Todd Wilcox made a pitch to Florida Republicans as he continues his bid for the U.S. Senate in 2016.