On the eve of the gubernatorial election, a new poll shows Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum leading Republican candidate Ron DeSantis by 7 points. A Quinnipiac University poll released Monday has Gillum leading DeSantis 50 percent to 43 percent among likely voters. (Read more in Local10.com)
Democrats hold slim leads in Florida’s pivotal statewide races in the final push to Tuesday’s midterm elections, a poll released Monday found. In a Senate race that will help to determine control of the chamber, incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson leads Republican Gov. Rick Scott by 4 percentage points, according to the NBC News/Marist survey. The Democrat
Florida’s turnout broke the 5-million mark overnight, largely on the strength of the largest early voting turnouts yet on Sunday in the big Democratic counties of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. By Monday morning, turnout was 5,094,645 or 38.4 percent of the Florida electorate. Democrats make up 40.6 percent of that total, and Republicans account
At some point, it became clear that this election would be different. When organizers pulled out stops they normally save for presidential campaigns, when a U.S. Senate contest cost nearly $100 million, when a worldwide pop star who has never lived in Florida endorsed a candidate on Instagram, it certainly began to feel different. (Read
Nine months after 17 classmates and teachers were gunned down at their Florida school, Parkland students are finally facing the moment they’ve been leading up to with marches, school walkouts and voter-registration events throughout the country: their first Election Day. (Read more in PBS.org)
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue described the stakes of the Florida governor’s election next week as being “cotton-pickin’ important” at a campaign event on Saturday for Republican Ron DeSantis. DeSantis is running against Democratic Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who is African American. (See VIDEO on CNN.com)
Andrew Gillum shared a stage with laid-back Mr. Margaritaville Saturday, but struck a somber note a day after a gunman killed two people in a Tallahassee yoga studio. Appearing with headliner Jimmy Buffett, the Tallahassee mayor and Democratic nominee for governor pledged to a sun-baked crowd at an outdoor amphitheater that his election to the
If Election Day were today, Democrat Nikki Fried would eke out a victory over Republican Matt Caldwell in Agriculture Commissioner race. That’s according to a new survey from St. Pete Polls conducted Thursday. The poll, commissioned by Florida Politics, found Fried leading by just under a percentage point with 6 percent of voters still undecided. (Read more in FloridaPolitics.com)
Charlotte County Democrats are sponsoring a Facebook campaign that reveals FL-17 Congressional Candidate Greg Steube’s contributors include big polluters Mosaic Mining and Big Sugar. The campaign also notes that Veterans for Common Sense gives Steube a grade of zero and that Steube does not even live in the 17th District.
Former President Barack Obama will attend a rally at the Ice Palace film studio near Downtown Miami, where he will urge voters to cast their ballot for Gillum – who is seeking the become the state’s first black governor and the first Democrat to win in two decades – as well as U.S. Sen. Bill
The Human Rights Campaign is pouring $520,000 into a digital advertising campaign in Florida in the final days of the 2018 election cycle. HRC, which brands itself as America’s largest LGBTQ rights group, said in a press release that it hopes to target “equality voters — voters who are willing to make issues of LGBTQ
Mr. Trump has expended more political capital on Mr. DeSantis than on most other candidates this year, so the president would inevitably own a loss. Neither party is counting out Mr. DeSantis, but he is trailing slightly behind Andrew Gillum, the Democratic mayor of Tallahassee, in most public polls; the president has scheduled another rally on
Andrew Gillum is going to the end of the road to campaign for Florida governor. On Thursday, he’ll be on a Key West beach. Not relaxing, but looking for last-minute votes in a city where he’s likely to find mostly registered Democrats. Unlike the rest of the island chain, the Southernmost City runs blue. (Read
The Florida Democratic Party ramps up the Get-Out-the-Vote effort on Facebook.
Jimmy Buffett is strumming for free again to help get out the vote for statewide Democratic candidates. This time, however, Buffett’s melodies will favor Bill Nelson, who’s hoping to keep his U.S. Senate seat, and Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate for Governor. (Read more in FloridaPolitics.com)
Former GOP Rep. David Jolly (Fla.) is one of a number of Republicans voting for Democrat Andrew Gillum over GOP candidate Ron DeSantis in the Florida gubernatorial election, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
We’ve edited together some of the best soundbites from Andrew Gillum’s visit to Punta Gorda on Oct. 30th. Hear what he has to say about Trump, the environment, his opponent, education and the upcoming election.
President Donald Trump is obsessed with the Florida governor’s race. He’s making two trips here this week, has been tweeting about it since December and trashed Democratic nominee Andrew Gillum as a “stone cold thief” on Fox News on Monday night. (Read more in TampaBay.com)
Dozens of people in the audience captured the excitement inside St. Mary Primitive Baptist Church as Andrew Gillum encouraged every person to vote and bring friends to vote in the election.
‘Bring it home’ Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum visits Punta Gorda Andrew Gillum was greeted with shouts of “Bring it home!” at the St. Mary’s Primitive Baptist Church in Punta Gorda on Tuesday by a crowd clearly wanting change. (Read more in Sun) (Watch Video on NBC-2)
Watch Andrew Gillum at St. Mary Primitive Baptist Church in Punta Gorda Tuesday afternoon.
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