Businessman Donald Trump defeated U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the Florida Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, winning all 99 delegates on the line in the Sunshine State.
Florida voters went to the polls Tuesday in its much-anticipated presidential primary with 99 winner-take-all delegates at stake for the GOP and with Democrats dividing up their delegates in the Sunshine State.
It should be no surprise presidential candidate Marco Rubio spent the final days of Florida's Republican primary campaign visiting places like Melbourne and The Villages. Or that former President Bill Clinton was campaigning for his wife, Democrat Hillary Clinton, in places like Tallahassee.
After all, a big part of winning primaries involves turning out the base.
Voter registration for the presidential primaries closed last month. And here are seven party takeaways from numbers compiled by the state Division of Elections:
Liberals constantly complain about the lack of civil discourse in politics, even as they constantly lower the bar themselves.
Placing third in most polls of Florida, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made his final appeal to Sunshine State Republicans on Monday, noting he has the support of almost 400 leading conservatives across the state.
Barely 24 hours until the votes are counted, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi threw her support to businessman Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Bondi, who received national attention for leading a coalition of state attorneys general in an unsuccessful constitutional challenge to President Barack Obama’s federal health-care law, appeared with Trump at an event in her home base of Tampa on Monday afternoon.
With polls showing them ahead, presidential hopefuls former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and businessman Donald Trump brought out the big guns to seal the deal in Florida before Tuesday’s primary.
Clinton is calling on her husband former President Bill Clinton to nail down the Sunshine State. The former president hit North Florida on Monday with appearances scheduled in Jacksonville and Tallahassee before heading down to Winter Park to close the day with a rally at Rollins College.
Trying to catch businessman Donald Trump in the Sunshine State, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made his final pitch to Florida Republicans on Monday.
Florida, the largest swing state on the electoral map, will be on center stage this week as Democrats and Republicans vote in the presidential primaries. Sunshine State News now concludes “What Candidates Have at Stake in Florida,” a look at what the remaining candidates have on the line in Tuesday’s primary.
Donald Trump has the chance to knock out two of his opponents for the Republican nomination on Tuesday with one of his rivals on the ropes in Florida.
As she enters the homestretch in the Florida Democratic presidential primary, former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton is relying heavily on the only member of her party to hold statewide office in the Sunshine State: U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
