Former Vice President Dick Cheney is throwing his political weight behind Marco Rubio in Florida?s highly dramatic US Senate race. <\/p>\n

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Cheney made his announcement today and used the occasion to encourage Rubio?s rival, Governor Charlie Crist, not to run as an independent. Cheney?s comments didn?t seem to bother Crist.<\/p>\n

?Sounds like another Washington Politian trying to tell Floridians what to do.?<\/p>\n

Crist has until April 30th to decide if he will run as a No Party Affiliation Candidate. The latest poll shows Crist losing in a primary, but winning as an independent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is throwing his political weight behind Marco Rubio in Florida?s highly dramatic US Senate race. Cheney made his announcement today and used the occasion to encourage Rubio?s rival, Governor Charlie Crist, not to run as an independent. Cheney?s comments didn?t seem to bother Crist. ?Sounds like another Washington Politian trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9355,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}