When Donald Trump says he has a great relationship with "the Blacks," I wonder if he also gets along well with the Smiths. We know he's tight with the Whites.
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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It seems there is little or no regard for the people living south of Lake Okeechobee.
Donald Trump. Would that it were unnecessary to mention his name except, say, as a Viagra pitchman.
You may have other ideas which of Tuesday's primaries stand out in Florida.
Submitting a public records request for the South Florida Water Management District's entire 5,000-strong email list? Risky move, environmentalists.
Bernie Sanders never understood the epic quality of the Clinton scandals. In his first debate, he famously dismissed the email issue, it being beneath the dignity of a great revolutionary to deal in things so tawdry and straightforward.
Why doesn't U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy own up? Act like a grown up. If he's under investigation, he should level with Florida voters.
Nowhere do competing interests engage in lustier arguments over how much land should be in public ownership than in Florida.
When I wrote the headline "Hillary's heel," I was thinking of Achilles, not Bill, though the former president is usually within nipping range of his wife's pantsuit hem.
Poor Annette Taddeo. She may be the CD 26 candidate the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee anointed in the primary, but she sure could use a lift right now.
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U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., supported the “Commodity End-User Relief Act” on Tuesday, insisting that it would help rein in Dodd-Frank, namely the overreach of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on agriculture and energy.
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The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that former Gov. Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise super-PAC might not be able to hit the $100 million mark by the end of June:
A super-PAC backing former Florida governor Jeb Bush is likely to fall short of collecting $100 million by the end of this month, despite widespread expectations that the group would hit that record-breaking sum, according to people close to the operation.
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Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, is drawing increasingly closer to a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Kasich ran for the GOP nomination briefly in 1999 when he was the U.S. House budget chairman but he quickly threw his support behind then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
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From his perch as chairman of the U.S. Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., cheered the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill clearing the House on Tuesday.
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Florida Republicans looked to put U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and a South Florida Democrat on the defensive on Wednesday, demanding an apology for his group’s role in running “straw candidate" Roly Arrojo for Congress in 2010.
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., now running for the Republican presidential nomination, slammed President Barack Obama’s handling of Islamic State (IS) forces in the Middle East.
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