Florida Gov. Charlie Crist continues to walk an increasingly fine line in his Senate bid as an independent, making a few statements this weekend on CNN’s “State of the Union” that are sure to roil some of his Democratic supporters — and perhaps draw them to Rep. Kendrick More…
Days before Florida’s primary, President Obama finally did what Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D-Fla.) supporters had been begging him to do for some time: He showed up in the Sunshine State and referred to Meek as “the next senator from the state of Florida.”
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Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio (R) just agreed to a debate with Gov. Charlie Crist and Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.), then immediately said yes to six more. This is the kind of scenario that might prove problematic for Crist’s campaign, notes the St. Petersburg Times’ Adam Smith:
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It’s only a day after the primary, but all three Senate hopefuls in Florida are throwing their campaigns into a higher gear. Republican Marco Rubio is out with his first general election ad introducing himself to voters, Independent Charlie Crist kicked off his statewide tour at his headquarters in More…
Rep. Kendrick Meek won tonight’s grueling Democratic primary battle for Florida’s vacant U.S. Senate against self-funded billionaire and Florida politics newcomer Jeff Greene. Meek has earned 55 percent of the nearly 500,000 votes cast so far, compared to 33 percent for Greene, both unofficial numbers posted by the state More…
President Obama might have grabbed a corned beef sandwich with Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) last week in South Beach, but that hasn’t stopped the whisper campaign that Democrats aren’t truly behind Meek’s run for Florida’s open Senate seat. The latest blip comes today in an Organizing for America email More…
Yesterday’s New York Times focused attention on Florida’s other Senate candidate, Republican Marco Rubio. Tomorrow was supposed to be a high point for the former speaker of the Florida House — the moment he would dispatch his primary opponent Gov. Charlie Crist and ride the momentum into November, the Times’s More…
President Clinton will campaign today in South Florida on behalf of Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fl.). Meek is coming off some decidedly better poll numbers in his race against billionaire Jeff Greene for the Democratic Senate nomination and says that Clinton’s appearances in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade, “will More…
As Florida Democratic Senate candidates Rep. Kendrick Meek and billionaire businessman Jeff Greene slugged it out in their only statewide televised debate last night, key Democrats prepared for a fundraiser tonight in Washington that will benefit former Florida Republican governor, now independent senatorial candidate, Charlie Crist.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is hosting a fundraiser today for Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D) Senate bid. No one has come right out and said it, but the event is clearly meant to counteract criticism that Obama has offered tepid support, at best, for Meek.
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