Florida's main parties turn in names for March primary

Republican	Democrat
Jeb Bush	Hillary Clinton
Ben Carson	Martin O'Malley
Chris Christie	Bernie Sanders
Ted Cruz
Lindsey Graham
Carly Fiorina
Jim Gilmore
Mike Huckabee
Bobby Jindal*
John Kasich
Rand Paul
Marco Rubio
Rick Santorum
Donald Trump
*Candidates have until Dec. 14 to request that the Secretary of State's office remove their names from the ballot. Jindal suspended his campaign in November.

Florida voters, especially registered Republicans, will have to contend with a very crowded presidential primary ballot. Florida's two main political parties have officially submitted the names of the candidates on the state's March 15 primary. More from the AP and CBS Miami.

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