by Jim Heath | Jun 22, 2019 | 2020, Headlines
Florida’s reputation as America’s tightest — and wildest — swing state should stay intact, as a battle over felons’ voting rights seems destined for the courts. At the least, it’s increasingly looking like Florida’s 1.4 million disenfranchised ex-convicts...
by Jim Heath | Jun 20, 2019 | 2020, Headlines, Republicans
Roy Moore, the polarizing Alabama Republican whose Senate campaign in 2017 was derailed by allegations of sexual misconduct, said today that he would seek a rematch next year. His decision was an unsurprising act of overt defiance toward many of his party’s national...
by Jim Heath | Jun 19, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Former Vice President Joe Biden came under fire on Wednesday after invoking his working relationships with two segregationist senators in the 1970s as an example of bygone “civility” in the Senate. Five of Biden’s rivals in the Democratic presidential field, New York...
by Jim Heath | Jun 18, 2019 | 2020, Headlines, Trump
Jabbing at the press and poking the eye of the political establishment he ran against in 2016, President Trump officially kicked off his reelection campaign tonight with a grievance-filled Florida rally that focused more on settling scores than laying out his agenda...
by Jim Heath | Jun 18, 2019 | 2020, Headlines
Hours before President Trump is due to hold a rally in Orlando billed as the kickoff to his reelection campaign, the Orlando Sentinel announced who it is endorsing for president in 2020: not Donald Trump. “Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a...
by Jim Heath | Jun 16, 2019 | 2020, Headlines, Polls, Trump
President Trump’s campaign has purged some of its pollsters after a leak of dismal internal polls for the president that he denied existed. Just two days before the president is set to kick off his bid for re-election, a top adviser said today that the campaign was...
