Florida

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Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R) gave a speech on the House floor this week, accusing President Joe Biden (D) of only providing “empty words” in response to the crisis in Cuba.
State Senator Annette Taddeo (D), who’s been rumored to announce a 2022 gubernatorial run, is throwing her support behind Janelle Perez (D) in her Senate District 27 candidacy.
"under Governor Ron DeSantis, Covid deaths in Florida will surpass American deaths" during the entirety of the Vietnam war.
The most intense back-and-forth political fighting in the Florida Capitol isn't between Republicans and Democrats, or even Gov. Ron DeSantis and Commissioner Nikki Fried, but between House Speaker Chris Sprowls (R-FL) and Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R-32), who claims Speaker Sprowls has, "Sabatini Derangement Syndrome." Sabatini recently attacked Sprowls on Twitter, accusing him of being a […]
The team informed of the grassroots effort the Democratic party is mobilizing to “come out on top come Election Day 2022.”
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried (D) directed a letter to the President, addressing his announcement and asking him to “maintain current monoclonal antibody allotments until COVID-19 rates decrease further in Florida.”
Amanda Makki (R) is vying for a Congressional seat, and she’s just enlisted endorsements from a number of Pinellas County Mayors.
He expressed that President Biden “has sentenced Americans and thousands of Afghans who were our friends and allies to death.”
The NRSC spokeswoman criticized Florida Rep. Val Demings’ (D) “silence” while disregarding the the President's budget as a “socialist tax & spending fee.”
the Governor accused the Biden Administration of “targeting Floridians” in a manner he feels could “cost Floridians their lives.”
Although the Republicans may have a solid majority in both the state House and Senate, infighting still occurs. Rising star GOP figure, State Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R-32), has had some choice things to say about the Republican establishment over the years and now Sabatini is attacking Speaker Sprowls (R-65), calling him a "RINO." Sabatini's Trump […]
A Florida lawmaker is accusing the Biden Administration of having lied, saying that it’s “intent to deceive the American people was deliberate.”
Rep. Daniel Webster (R) has offered an amendment “to mitigate COVID-19 risks at the border.”
An issue that has plagued the Republican debate for years now might actually be resolved in Florida. Common Core, which has been debated as far back as the 2015 GOP Presidential Primary, has effectively been eliminated by Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), making Florida the first state to replace it. In Clearwater, Florida, the governor announced […]
The 13th Congressional District race is heating up, at least in the Republican primary. Amanda Makki (R-FL) has called President Trump's (R) endorsement of Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) a result of "bad information" and that her opponent is clinically phony. Makki, who has fully embraced Trump politics as her platform, wanted to get some choice […]
Florida Rep. Darren Soto (D) took to Twitter to criticize lawmakers that oppose the budget, disregarding Manchin’s argument that it will contribute to inflation and arguing that the budget is a response to “the pandemic… that’ll makes us stronger.”
Moody this week expressed that vaccine mandates should not occur and that instead vaccine mandates are "undermining" Floridians when they should “seek out information about the vaccine and make a deliberate, informed decision about their health.”
While everyone already knows Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D), the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist from New York, a lot more people are talking about her tonight. This week, Rep. Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) appeared at the Met Gala wearing a dress that read "Tax the Rich." However, the political statement did not go without backlash, triggering Lt. Gov […]
