Episodes

  • How Florida joining the national redistricting war could shape the future of Congress, Trump’s agenda

    How Florida joining the national redistricting war could shape the future of Congress, Trump’s agenda
    Aug 20 2025
    The battle for control of Congress in the midterms might be over before voting starts. It all has to do with the political war that is ongoing concerning redistricting. Florida is closely watching the battle in Texas, and many assume it will follow the Lone Star State’s lead. Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez is creating a committee to look at drawing up new districts. So, what you have now is Florida joining this political donnybrook sweeping the nation from New York to Texas to Indiana to California.
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    47 mins
  • If Florida’s first lady decides to run, can she hold on to slim lead for governor over Trump’s pick?

    If Florida’s first lady decides to run, can she hold on to slim lead for governor over Trump’s pick?
    Aug 5 2025
    How do you feel about the issues facing Florida, Florida’s legislative leaders, and the candidates shaping the field in the upcoming gubernatorial race to replace Gov. Ron DeSantis? The UNF Public Opinion Research Lab has the pulse of voters and recently released its latest public opinion poll, which specifically focused on Republican voters in Florida. Floridians go to the polls to elect a new governor on Nov. 3, 2026. Incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is term-limited and can’t run for a third time in a row.
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    47 mins
  • President Trump wants Epstein case to vanish, but Epstein’s ghost likely won’t disappear anytime soon

    President Trump wants Epstein case to vanish, but Epstein’s ghost likely won’t disappear anytime soon
    Jul 29 2025
    Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost seems to haunt the Trump presidency. For President Donald Trump, the Epstein case lingers. It’s a case steeped in alleged conspiracy and political intrigue. There are reports of the powerful protecting the powerful. Everything seems steeped in secrecy. That includes the president’s relationship with Epstein, whether or not there’s a client list, and the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death. Trump wanted the case closed. He still does.
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    49 mins
  • From threats to attacks, growing trend of politically motivated violence highlights dangerous climate

    From threats to attacks, growing trend of politically motivated violence highlights dangerous climate
    Jul 8 2025
    Is the political temperature in America running into the danger zone? Frankly, research and hard data on political violence aren’t readily available, but a growing trend of threats against public officials can’t be ignored. In 2024 alone, U.S. Capitol Police, who are like the Secret Service for Congress members, investigated more than 9,000 threats against lawmakers, marking an 83% increase from the year prior. That year, then-former President Donald Trump survived an attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania and another alleged assassination attempt while golfing at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
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    28 mins
  • Democrats face harsh reality as voters change party affiliation, Dems need to change their strategy

    Democrats face harsh reality as voters change party affiliation, Dems need to change their strategy
    Jul 1 2025
    The two-party system still dominates at the ballot box. And, as the 2024 election bore out, voters still chose a candidate from one of the major parties. But the new reality is that voter registration rolls show that independent and third-party registration are on the rise. In the past 25 years, the number of voters not affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican party has grown nearly 9%, according to Ballotpedia. NBC News recently did an analysis of voter registration data. Its findings proved even more interesting. It found that as of this year, 32% of registered voters across dozens of states and territories chose not to affiliate with either of the major parties. That’s up 23% from 2000. National exit polls support those numbers.
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    31 mins
  • More questions than answers about a real ceasefire between Israel, Iran

    More questions than answers about a real ceasefire between Israel, Iran
    Jun 24 2025
    President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic announcement about a ceasefire between Israel and Iran marked the latest wild swing from the president concerning Iran. Political analyst Daniel Cronrath joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton to discuss the latest developments.
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    41 mins
  • Analyzing the cost of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ & how it aligns with Project 2025

    Analyzing the cost of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ & how it aligns with Project 2025
    Jun 3 2025
    Let’s talk about that Big Beautiful Bill the House passed, which is now in the Senate’s hands. Political analysts say if you look at the bill closely, yes, it delivers on President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda and cuts taxes. But they question at what cost. The answer is that the cost will be to the tune of lost health care for 8.6 million Americans through Medicaid or Obamacare subsidies. It raises a question that people are asking: Didn’t the Republicans wonder if those cuts would make life difficult for people who are aging, unemployed, working poor or disabled?
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    51 mins
  • Did Biden deceive the Democratic Party, or were the party’s eyes closed to reality?

    Did Biden deceive the Democratic Party, or were the party’s eyes closed to reality?
    May 27 2025
    Some Democrats say it was a mistake to allow then-President Joe Biden to remain in the 2024 race for as long as they did. A new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, contains some bombshells and raises some fundamental questions that the Democrats must ask: Did Biden’s team deceive them, or did they deceive themselves? Were their eyes closed to reality? The bottom line is that the book paints a portrait of a president whose faculties, both physical and mental, were “diminished.” And Tapper and Thompson say aides and advisers hid that from the public.
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    32 mins