Race for Florida governor already gaining attention

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The contention for Florida politician successful 2026 is already gaining attention, with U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Florida, endorsed by President Donald Trump, actively campaigning with beardown fundraising.

A Democrat-turned-independent besides says he’s running. At slightest 3 others are dropping hints and investigating the waters.

Meanwhile, Donalds spoke to Local 10 News successful Miami Gardens connected Wednesday, wherever helium addressed students graduating from St. Thomas University.

“Now it’s astir vigilance connected immoderate of those halfway taste and philosophical issues, but present a absorption connected the economical aboriginal of the state,” helium said.

Jason Pizzo, a South Florida authorities legislator who ditched his Democratic Party, is moving arsenic a no-party candidate.

Pizzo is not the archetypal autarkic to tally for governor, but surely the astir politically well-known and perchance well-self-financed.

David Jolly, a erstwhile Republican congressman, plans to tally for politician arsenic a Democrat, saying helium plans to motorboat his run successful June. He’s hosting municipality halls passim the state.

First Lady Casey DeSantis is keeping the candidacy question unfastened portion moving to flooded still-open questions astir whether the instauration that funds her Hope Florida programme secretly diverted payer funds.

Meanwhile, salient Orlando lawyer John Morgan has the wealth and notoriety from contented campaigns similar aesculapian marijuana and is talking astir creating a 3rd party.

All of this comes well-ahead of the qualifying period: adjacent April.

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