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U.S. Rep. Val Demings launched a bid for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, raising hope among Democrats of ousting Republican Sen. Marco Rubio from the evenly divided chamber. With the Senate now split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, the Florida race will undoubtedly be among the nation’s most high profile and expensive battles next year. […]

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried entered the race for Florida governor, setting up a fight between competing visions for the Democratic Party with former Gov. Charlie Crist, who is also running. We spoke to Fried, who told us her focus is on November 2022, not the primary election in August. “Of course, we got a primary […]

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried announced Tuesday she’ll seek the Democratic nomination for governor, calling Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis an authoritarian who’s putting his party and political ambition ahead of Floridians. Fried criticized DeSantis for trying to quash the voice of Floridians by signing bills that make it more difficult to vote, crack down on protests […]

Florida Rep. Val Demings is planning to challenge Sen. Marco Rubio next year, giving Democrats a boost in a competitive race that could be among a handful that determine control of the Senate, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The move ends mounting speculation over the Orlando congresswoman’s political future. She had […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis is collecting money in his campaign for a second term in Florida; although, he has not officially announced he plans to run. He has collected millions of dollars that currently beats the other potential candidates by a landslide. Experts predict the 2022 gubernatorial race is going to break all previous spending records. […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial voting bill into law just days ago. What does it mean for you? For starters, if you submitted a vote-by-mail application before the bill was signed, you’re good until 2022. Those who didn’t will have to fill one out every cycle. The pandemic meant voting by mail was the […]

A supervisor of elections in Southwest Florida is responding to a massive lawsuit over a new voting law that names every county in the state. Those who filed the lawsuit claim the new law does nothing but suppress voters and claim the law violates the First and 14th amendments. Because they expected the governor to […]

Rep. Charlie Crist is expected to announce a return to the campaign trail on Tuesday, this time to run for a seat he once occupied. Crist served as Florida governor from 2007 to 2011 as a Republican. Now a Democrat, he’s expected to announce Tuesday he’ll run for the seat once again. He told WINK […]

Florida’s statehouse swirled with the ghosts of the 2000 presidential election amid charges of voter suppression, as the state Senate approved a nationally watched election package Republicans tout as a move to preserve the integrity of elections but that Democrats worry will make it harder for some voters to cast ballots. The Republican-led Legislature is […]

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at allowing people to use recreational marijuana, saying it would be misleading to voters. Backers of the proposed amendment sought to put it on the 2022 ballot and had submitted hundreds of thousands of petition signatures. But in a 5-2 ruling, the Supreme […]