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After the dust settled in many competitive and not-so-competitive municipal, state level, and federal races in Florida, it was clear that the Democratic Party effort to co-opt the long-standing Republican absentee ballot effort worked.

Florida Democrats didn't entirely loss every race or initiiative they supported on Election Night. Amendment 2, the controversial measure to raise Florida's mininum wage to $15/hr passed as voters voted for a the pay increase. Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D) was one of a handful of legislator that pushed the amendment from the very beginnning, offering […]

As the 2020 election concludes, the congressional races across the United States have all but finished, but one state that is documenting returns it did not expect is the sunshine state. These returns are currently being calculated by Florida Democrats who lost two key congressional district after they had turned them blue in the 2018 midterm elections.

Sounding more and more like the probable Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 2022, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried spoke out about the “hard losses” or crushing losses, Florida Democrats endured on Election Night.

Hispanics voted for Biden, but the percentage of those Hispanics that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 (30%) was drastically cut to7 percent in 2020, which according to Senator Marco Rubio (R), this new support coming out of the Hispanic community is "the future for the GOP."

And so the litigation begins. As President Donald Trump announced that he would take the election results to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed, the president's presidential campaign has announced that they are formally asking for a recount in Wisconsin.

 President Donald Trump and Florida Republicans crushed the hopes and dreams of their Democratic counterparts in the sunshine state when they pulled off an unexpectedly decisive statewide drumming on election night.

Florida Democrats are reeling after President Donald Trump won Florida by an astonishing 3.5%+ over former Vice President Joe Biden, but the results of two congressional seats in Miami-Dade County have left Democrats speechless.

After turning Florida’s 27th Congressional District blue in 2016, Florida Rep. Donna Shalala (D) celebrated her victory over Maria Elvira Salazar (R). In turn, Shalala rallied against Venezuela and continuously criticized President Donald Trump (R), arguing that he had failed the people of her district and Venezuelans as a whole.

As Americans express their right to vote in the general election, the Department of Justice has released unredacted sections of the Mueller report, which show that the Department of Justice did not pursue a prosecution because there was lack of evidence.

A postal distribution center has been audited after a viral video showed ballots in bins in a Southwest Miami-Dade branch. The order comes from Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, and it’s directed to all of the county’s postal distribution centers after a video from a cellphone showed that dozens of mail-in ballots were found in bins and on the floor...

The day has finally arrived and it appears as if President Donald Trump is surging across all of the key battleground states, including the make or break ultimate swing state of Florida.

President Donald Trump and just about every single Republican running for the U.S. Congress in the 2020 election cycle  is campaigning against President Barack Obama’s legacy legislation — The Affordable Care Act (ACA)

It’s election day and the highly anticipated presidential election is finally here and President Donald Trump is riding a big surge of support from voters with many Republicans expected to come out in droves to vote for the president

The race to lead Florida’s most populous county comes to a head on November 3rd, as County Commissioners Daniella Levine Cava (D) and Esteban Bovo (R) make the final campaign rounds in the hours leading up to election day.

With the election taking place tomorrow, Florida rep. Darren Soto (D) has joined forces with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to introduces the American Families United Act, which is designed to preserve and promote family unity by amending the Immigration and Nationality Act. In turn, this would help millions of U.S. citizens to be reunited with their loved ones.

We are on the eve of the most important and consequential election in American history, and neither Republicans or Democrats are pulling their political punches in hopes that their best efforts will help elect or re-elect their respective presidential candidates.

One of Florida’s most popular and outspoke activist legislators, State Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith (D), has put out a sort of public service announcement for the Florida Democratic Party in order to help promote the political party’s brand and to galvanize its base of support to help elect more Democratic state legislators.