Florida, the largest swing state on the electoral map, will be on center stage next week as Democrats and Republicans vote in the presidential primaries. In the coming days, Sunshine State News will present “What Candidates Have at Stake in Florida,” a look at what the remaining candidates have on the line in next Tuesday’s primary. The series kicks off with this look at Bernie Sanders and what he has at stake in Florida as he continues his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Florida, the largest swing state on the electoral map, will be on center stage next week as Democrats and Republicans vote in the presidential primaries. 

In the coming days, Sunshine State News will present “What Candidates Have at Stake in Florida,” a look at what the remaining candidates have on the line in next Tuesday’s primary. 

U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., part of the congressional leadership as senior deputy majority whip, kicked off his bid for a fourth term in the U.S. House on Monday. 

As a Republican voter, if I'm a South Florida Sun Sentinel reader, I am profoundly disappointed in my newspaper. 

Rosemary O'Hara, the editorial page editor, just told me and the nation on CNN that her newspaper -- a publication that unfailingly endorses in the biggest elections -- isn't going to make a selection in the GOP primary because not one man in the diverse four-candidate field is qualified to be president. Not one.

But here's the problem: I don't get to do what they did. 

With barely a week to go until the Florida presidential primary, a new poll shows U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is within “shooting distance” of Donald Trump in the Sunshine State. Rubio also has a lead in the bank with a clear edge with voters who have already cast their ballots. 

Don’t expect Donald Trump to show up at the Conservative Political Action Conference this Sunday -- on Friday, Trump announced he’d forego the annual gathering of conservatives according to CPAC.

Florida’s presidential primary is less than two weeks away and organizations are moving full speed ahead with attacks against current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

The war of words is heating up in the Democratic primary to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., after President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden threw their support to U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla. 

After Obama and Biden backed Murphy on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., fired back, with his campaign spokesman slamming the "Democratic politburo” in an email to the Associated Press .

After a poll came out earlier this week showing most Florida Republicans remain in the dark about their candidates, the GOP’s party hopefuls looking to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took to the airwaves to introduce themselves.