Florida

Following the unprecedented Romney roundhouse kick to Trump's character, The Donald is about to rebuff "the loser." As John McCain backs Romney's rant, it appears yesterday's Koch Borthers, Icahn, Murdoch mega-donor call for a truce has been broken as Trump prepares to return fire against "failed candidate Romney" and his establishment cronies.

Via Ben Garrison

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Rubio isn’t automatically inheriting Bush’s supporters and donors in Florida as he and his allies assumed he would:

Now with Bush out of the race, many Rubio supporters and campaign observers expected that the governor’s donors and active supporters would quickly switch allegiance to the senator. But that hasn’t happened.

“There’s a lot of people that are going to wait for Gov. Bush before they do anything, both monetarily and with their personal support,” said Will Weatherford, a former Florida House speaker who supported Bush before endorsing Rubio.

Byron York sums up what remains of Rubio’s “strategy”:

Rubio plan, apparently: No need to win IA NH SC NV TX GA VA TN AL AR OK CO VT MN MA MI. Game starts in FL 3/15. Feels a little like Rudy 08.

— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 24, 2016

A study has confirmed that 26 vaccinated Florida toddlers all got sick with whooping cough (B. pertussis) after receiving the DtaP vaccine in 2013.  All of the children, aged one to five year olds, attended the Tallahassee preschool and had received four doses of the pertussis vaccine (DtaP) – according to official CDC recommendations.

Florida Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in four counties where people have been confirmed as having the Zika virus.  Nine people in total have been diagnosed with the Zika virus in Florida so far, and Governor Scott has warned that the virus is likely to spread even further. ABC News reports: The Aedes aegypti mosquito that is the primary vector of Zika virus infections is present in the southeast portion of the country, including Florida, though in winter the mosquito populations are low.