Florida Politics
Florida politics news and analysis: the governor, the legislature, elections, and the Hispanic and Cuban American voters who shape the state.
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) said the requirements from the Trump campaign to require attendees to sign a medical waiver for the upcoming Tulsa rally on Saturday is a “pretty good clue” that President Trump shouldn’t be holding a large-scale rally. "The president, on the other hand, obviously is desperate and worried about the upcoming election […]
Senate Republicans issued their first subpoena on Wednesday into the Ukrainian energy firm that hired former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines to issue a subpoena for Blue Star Strategies, a firm with ties to Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings. The subpoena asks […]
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL.) during the House debate on the coronavirus relief stimulus package ahead of the vote gave an electrifying speech in which he called Americans "tough SOBs that are defeated by absolutely nothing.” The Florida Republican in his remarks Friday urged his fellow colleagues on the House chambers to approve the $2 trillion stimulus […]
Ahead of Florida voting on, where millions of Cuban immigrants currently reside, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was asked once again during Sunday’s Democratic debate about his previous remarks praising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s literacy programs. “I have opposed authoritarianism, whether it’s in Cuba, whether it’s in Saudi Arabia, whether it’s in China, whether it’s in […]
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) introduced a resolution condemning Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for his recent positive remarks that praised Cuban communist revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. “I remind the senator and the progressive movement that the Castro regime is a threat, not only by the way to the national security of the United States, but also […]
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) introduced a resolution condemning Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for his recent positive remarks that praised Cuban communist revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. “I remind the senator and the progressive movement that the Castro regime is a threat, not only by the way to the national security of the United States, but also […]
Democrats were hoping to get three Republican Senators to vote in favor of calling witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, but those hopes were dashed when Sen. Lamar Alexander (D-TN) flatly dismissed the impeachment trial as being nothing more than a “shallow, hurried and wholly bipartisan” effort by House Democrats.
The December shooting carried out by a Saudi aviation student at Naval Air Station Pensacola that killed three American service members was an “act of terrorism,” Attorney General William Barr said Monday.
“The testimony & evidence considered in a Senate impeachment trial should be the same testimony & evidence the House relied upon when they passed the Articles of Impeachment.”
Miami – During his Evangelicals for Trump kick-off event Friday, President Donald Trump said that he didn’t know where some members of Congress came from because of their support for the anti-Israel, BDS movement.
Shortly after Sen. Marco Rubio (R) held Iran directly responsible conducting the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, where dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and supporters stormed the compound, President Donald Trump echoed the senator from Florida, saying that the Iranian regime would be held “fully responsible.”
“Not only is this common sense, it’s moving through Congress with bipartisan support.”
“Biden knows the names of foreign leaders because their names are on the deposit slips his son is filling out at the bank.”
“We’re not talking about a foreign leader. We’re talking about our president.”
Under the Trump administration, a large focus this year has been on the measures that should be taken in order to ensure that Venezuela is freed from the Maduro regime and turned into a democratic country.
The State of Florida has taken a big hit in the ongoing water war it is currently waging against its neighbors to the north, Georgia.
“We’re not talking about a foreign leader. We’re talking about our president.”
Under the Trump administration, a large focus this year has been on the measures that should be taken in order to ensure that Venezuela is freed from the Maduro regime and turned into a democratic country.
When the Socialist President from Bolivia, Evo Morales, was forced to resign after he was reelected under questionable circumstances, both American and pro-Democracy Latin American legislators welcomed Morales resignation as a win for free and fair elections in that country, and hopefully the end of Socialism.
It took a new president and three years for the U.S. government publicly designate Cuban strongman Raul Castro and his family, banning them from ever entering the U.S. for “his involvement in corruption and gross violation of human rights.”
“Investing in STEM institutions that educate underrepresented populations will create a larger, more diverse STEM talent pool."
Air Force veteran and former Turning Point USA spokesperson Anna Paulino Luna has just announced she is running for the U.S. Congress against Democratic Congressman Charlie Crist in Florida’s 13th congressional district.
Two days after touring the storm-damaged northern Bahamas, Senator Marco Rubio (R) sent a letter to USAID Administrator Mark Green, “urging him” to ask the Department of Defense to reposition the USNS Comfort from the Caribbean to The Bahamas.
According to the latest projected forecast paths, Hurricane Dorian may not hit Florida, but in the event that it does, help is already on the way from Texas Governor Greg Abbot (R), who has already deployed its Texas Task Force 1’s Type III at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The Energy Choice Amendment, a measure that could give Floridian’s a choice in energy, could very well make it on the ballot and pass if it is able to garner 60% support on election day next year.
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was as the center of the Trump-Russian collusion investigation, has once again been thrust onto the political stage an accused of “political espionage.
“Principal finding is that recreational marijuana access significantly decreases opioid mortality, with the most pronounced effects for synthetic opioids.”
The Nicholas Maduro regime has confirmed that it will hold a special session of their governing body, a move that U.S.-acknowledged President Juan Guaido says will be all-but end the current Venezuelan opposition government.
The efforts of U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R) and Rick Scott (R) urging President Donald Trump to recertify Colombia’s efforts to eradicate its drug trade have paid off.
The days of the “Cocaine Cowboys” are long gone, Harrison Ford is not fighting drug lords with the CIA, Colombia is no longer considered to be the epicenter of the illicit drug trade (it still is), and the Pablo Escobars of the world have been replaced by organized Marxist guerrilla groups.
"Republicans have been wrapping themselves in the Venezuelan flag and claiming to be champions for the restoration of Venezuelan democracy."
“The idea that we’re being sued for enforcing existing laws and cracking down on illegal immigration is simply unbelievable.”
Homestead, FL –Reps. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) and Veronica Escobar (D-TX) held a press conference shortly after touring the Homestead immigrant detention facility this past weekend, describing the immigrant living conditions they saw, before casting blame on the Trump administration for the current humanitarian border crisis along the U.S. southern border with Mexico. This was Rep. […]
“If you don’t support the policies of the federal government, you shouldn’t benefit from doing business with the federal government.”
“The administration will not be able to hide the horrors some of these children endure.”






