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Multiple candidates, including a Jan. 6 rioter and recent transplants, vie for the Republican nomination in Florida's 19th Congressional District primary.
Republicans in Florida's 19th Congressional District head to the polls Tuesday to choose a nominee for the southwest Florida seat being vacated by Rep. Byron Donalds, who is running for governor. The crowded, 10-candidate race for the strongly Republican district — covering parts of Cape Coral, Naples and Fort Myers — has turned on how many of the candidates can claim genuine ties to the community.
Florida voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose nominees to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and to fill the remainder of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's unexpired U.S. Senate term. The state will also hold its first congressional primaries since adopting a redrawn district map that, according to the Associated Press, was designed to boost Republican candidates in November.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee endorsed substitute teacher Elijah Manley in next week's Florida Democratic primary against Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, an 11-term congresswoman and former DNC chair. The contest unfolds in a newly drawn majority-minority district where Wasserman Schultz does not live, after Republican-drawn maps broke her current seat into five pieces.