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.
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.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, took his dark horse presidential effort to Florida on Friday as he spoke at the Republican Party of Florida’s (RPOF) Sunshine Summit.
As he has during his presidential bid, Graham focused on foreign affairs, hitting President Barack Obama and former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, the favorite for the Democratic nomination, for their handling of the Benghazi terrorist attacks in 2012.
Calling for the nation “to be America again," former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., tried to rally conservatives at the Republican Party of Florida’s (RPOF) Sunshine Summit in Orlando on Friday, as he continues his second bid for the White House.
Having moved to the Florida Panhandle after his 2008 presidential bid, Huckabee insisted he was ready to take on former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton in 2016. Huckabee pointed to his record in Arkansas and noted he had beaten the Clinton political machine.
Moving up in the polls after some strong debate performances, Republican presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., took his campaign to Florida on Friday.
Looking to replace U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in the U.S. Senate in 2016, U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., made his case to Florida Republicans at the Republican Party of Florida’s (RPOF) Sunshine Summit in Orlando on Friday.
Jolly slammed President Barack Obama’s fiscal policies and the expanding deficit and national debt but also insisted there was a “deficit of trust” with politics. Taking aim at Obama’s record, including his federal health-care law, Jolly insisted he and “liberal Democrats” were undermining personal liberty and making the nation weaker.
