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Member of Congress for Florida's 19th District

He says he was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, in a single-parent household, and that his mother's push toward what he calls the American Dream still guides his work. The campaign describes him as a conservative candidate for governor.

• He says Florida should bring down costs for working families and for seniors on fixed incomes.
• He says patients should know the price of care before treatment and that doctors should face less red tape.
• He says the state should secure the border, keep neighborhoods safe, and stop taxpayer support he ties to illegal immigration.

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Candidate for governor of Florida

His campaign says housing costs, underfunded schools, expensive health care, and climate impacts that raise insurance are what Florida families are living with. He says property insurance is the main reason many people cannot afford a place to live.

• He says a state catastrophic fund that takes natural-disaster risk out of the private market would cut property and car insurance rates, and he supports no-interest state loans for condominium repairs.
• He says Florida should expand Medicaid and commit to health care for residents across the state.
• He says the state should pause construction of hyperscale data centers until protections for water and nearby communities are shown to be enough.

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Independent candidate for governor

His campaign says it takes no party, PAC, or corporate money, and that his running mate is Joe Van Vactor. He says he answers to voters rather than to the people who fund the major parties.

• He says homesteaded homes worth up to twice a county's median should pay no property tax, and that corporations should stop buying single-family homes.
• He says insurer profits should be capped, rate filings written in plain language, and the right to sue restored when a claim is wrongly denied.
• He says he would ban new AI data centers and end warrantless tracking by license-plate reader networks.

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Mayor of Surfside and candidate for governor

He says he was raised in Miami Beach, has lived in Surfside since 1996, and was elected mayor of Surfside, including a 2024 reelection. He says he owns a national investment company and is running for governor.

• He says homestead property taxes should phase out for long-time Florida homeowners, with the benefit able to pass to a spouse or children.
• He says property and auto insurance laws should be rewritten to bring more competition into the market.
• He says a data center should be allowed only after voters in that county and city approve it.

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Scientist and no-party candidate for governor.

Jeffrey Datto's campaign says he is a Hialeah scientist with a doctorate in cell and tissue engineering who researched paralysis recovery at the University of Miami and founded DattoAI. It says he is running with no party affiliation after experiencing illness, disability, and homelessness, and that family and faith are central to the campaign.

• He says he would move toward universal, income-based health care, strengthen public hospitals and clinics, and create a Florida Institutes of Health focused on serious disease, injury, mental health, and longevity.
• He says he would abolish charter schools and bring them into one state public-education system, with academic freedom and pathways from school into Florida jobs.
• He says he would open a public-accountability office, require timely and accessible courts, and make renters share in property-tax relief given to landlords.

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Candidate for governor of Florida

He says he was born Moliere Dimanche, is a first-generation American, and grew up in Orlando, including in Pine Hills. He says that as a teenager he worked in grocery and restaurant jobs and later in flooring and remodeling.

• He says unincorporated communities should be able to form their own cities so residents control safety, taxes, and public works.
• He says he would close Alligator Alcatraz on his first day in office.
• He says he would abolish homeowners associations and end property taxes on homesteaded homes.

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Businessman and insurance executive

He describes himself as a Florida-born businessman, entrepreneur, insurance executive, and developer running for governor, with Rachel Rodriguez as his running mate. He says many people who already live in Florida are being priced out as the state grows.

• He says an affordability plan should take on insurance, housing, property taxes, and everyday costs together and protect homeowners.
• He says he wants Florida's average teacher salary raised to at least $75,000, with more skilled-trades and apprenticeship paths.
• He says lawful medical decisions should be made by patients and their doctors, and that immigration enforcement should focus on violent criminals, traffickers, and gangs while supporting legal immigration.

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Entrepreneur and Libertarian candidate for governor

He says he is a Boca Raton entrepreneur running with his wife, Regina, and that they live with homeownership and rising insurance costs. He says he is running because Florida can do better with less government and more individual liberty.

• He says he would take on the insurance affordability crisis, cut taxes, and shrink government so families keep more of what they earn.
• He says data centers should do no harm and that the state should stop using Flock license-plate cameras.
• He says parents should decide where their children go to school and that education dollars should follow the child.

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U.S. senator and former Florida attorney general

She says she is a fifth-generation Floridian raised in Plant City who earned degrees from the University of Florida and a master of laws from Stetson. She says she was a federal prosecutor and a circuit judge before her election as attorney general, and that she was sworn into the Senate on January 21, 2025, after an appointment by Governor Ron DeSantis.

• She says she supports America First policies on law and order, economic prosperity, and American sovereignty.
• She says that as attorney general she championed public safety, support for law enforcement, and efforts against violent crime.
• She says that as a senator she is working to uphold conservative values and strengthen national security.

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Florida state representative and union organizer

She says she is a state representative, union organizer, and mother who was born and raised in Jacksonville. She says she started as an organizer in Duval County and ran for office because she wanted more working people in government.

• She says she is running to lower costs, raise wages, and put working families ahead of billionaires.
• She says she supports Medicare for All and a national rent freeze with a moratorium on evictions.
• She says she supports free child care and pre-K, and a Working Families Guarantee for workers.

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Attorney General of Florida

He says he previously served as Governor Ron DeSantis's chief of staff and, before that, as counsel to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and as a senior advisor to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. He says he led state legal fights to reopen businesses and schools and to prohibit mask and vaccine requirements.

• He says he is focused on prosecuting dangerous criminals, combating illegal immigration, and keeping Florida safe.
• He says he has sued corporations over what he describes as sexualizing and indoctrinating children.
• He says his work with the governor included education freedom, parental rights, election rules, tax relief, and public safety.

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Candidate for Florida attorney general

His campaign page identifies the candidate as Jose Javier Rodriguez and says he is taking on the corrupt and powerful.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Jimmy Patronis's campaign says he is a fourth-generation Floridian from Panama City who worked in his family's seafood restaurant, served eight years in the Florida House, and was the state's chief financial officer and fire marshal before winning a House seat.

• He says his House priorities follow an America First agenda: cutting taxes, restraining spending, investing in the military, and reforming veterans' services.
• He says that as chief financial officer he pushed benefits for firefighters diagnosed with cancer and mental-health care for first responders.
• He says he fought insurance practices that let contractors take over homeowners' benefits after storms and drive premiums up.

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Gun-violence prevention organizer running for Congress.

Gay Valimont's campaign says she is a Pensacola mother and former athletic trainer who led Florida's Moms Demand Action chapter. It says she cared for her husband and son through terminal illnesses and is running again in the 1st Congressional District.

• She says she would cut home and auto insurance costs, challenge shrinkflation, and stop large investors from buying up houses.
• She says she would seek universal affordable care, oppose Social Security and Medicare cuts or privatization, and restore a $35 insulin cap.
• She says Northwest Florida needs a full-service VA hospital, and she supports universal background checks and red-flag laws.

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Attorney and Republican nominee for Florida's 2nd District

The campaign says he is a Panama City native, a conservative attorney, and former general counsel to U.S. Senator Rick Scott. He graduated from Mosley High School, played college soccer, earned a law degree from Duke, and lives in Panama City with his wife, Hala, and their three children.

• He says he is running to secure the border, defend Florida values, back law enforcement and the military, and put American families first.
• He says he is fully pro-life from conception and will defend parental rights against policies he says undermine families.
• He says he will defend the First and Second Amendments and work so veterans can get care and everyday essentials stay affordable.

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Democratic nominee for Florida's 2nd District

Her campaign says she was born at a Navy hospital in San Diego, moved to Florida at age two, and was raised mainly in St. Petersburg. She studied economics, international affairs, emergency management, and public administration at Florida State, then spent about a decade as an operations director on U.S. government programs. She and her husband are raising their family in the Big Bend.

• She says she would lower the cost of groceries, housing, insurance, and medicine by taking on corporate price gouging and expanding affordable housing and health care.
• She says she wants a seat on the House Agriculture Committee, a strong Farm Bill, and full funding for nutrition programs in the district.
• She says she would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, support term limits, and get dark money out of politics.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Kat Cammack's campaign says she is in her third term from Florida's 3rd District. It says she and her husband, a Gainesville firefighter and paramedic, are raising their daughter in North Central Florida.

• She says she is focused on securing the southern border, advocating for small businesses, and defending the Second Amendment.
• She describes herself as a budget hawk who wants taxes low and federal spending kept minimal.

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Civics teacher and Democratic nominee for Florida's 3rd District

His campaign says he teaches 7th-grade civics at Lincoln Middle School in Gainesville. After college he hosted talk radio in Kalamazoo, then spent more than 25 years managing radio stations, including ESPN Gainesville, and taught as an adjunct in the University of Florida's journalism college. He says he moved to Florida more than a decade ago and is running so government works for working people.

• He says he would protect Social Security by raising the payroll tax cap to $250,000 without cutting retirees' payments.
• He says every American should have affordable health care so a family is not bankrupted by getting sick.
• He says he would expand child care with a sliding-scale subsidy and tax large corporate purchases of single-family homes so more families can buy a house.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Aaron Bean's campaign says he was born and raised in Northeast Florida, built an insurance agency and a local miniature-golf business, and served in the Florida House and Senate, including as Senate president pro tempore, before winning the 4th District in 2022.

• He says his mission is to lower costs for working families, support police, and make Washington account for tax dollars.
• He says he serves on Ways and Means, co-founded a caucus aimed at waste and fraud, and has pushed lower taxes and pro-business, pro-family policy.

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Attorney and Democratic nominee for Florida's 4th District

Her campaign says LaShonda "L.J." Holloway was named a Footsoldier for Justice by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at 15, attended Howard University, and began a federal career at the Environmental Protection Agency. She graduated from Edward Waters University, earned a law degree at the University of Florida, worked on Capitol Hill for Representative Carrie Meek, and later led a mediation firm and community-lending work. She says she is a fourth-generation resident of the district.

• She says affordable health care should mean lower premiums and prescription costs, broader Medicare, and care that does not depend on a person's income.
• She says she would cut red tape and expand capital for small businesses, and make rent lower and homeownership more reachable for working families.
• She says Social Security should be protected and a full-time wage should cover food, housing, health care, and transportation.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

John Rutherford's campaign says he grew up in Northeast Florida, graduated from the FBI National Academy and Florida State in criminology, spent 40 years in law enforcement as Duval County sheriff, and now represents the 5th District.

• He says he would fight inflation by blocking and cutting taxes, cutting red tape for small businesses, and lowering grocery, gas, and electric costs.
• He says he has backed VA reform, higher troop pay, veterans' mental-health care, and a school-safety law he authored.

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Biomedical engineer and Democratic nominee for Florida's 5th District

Her campaign says she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Tulane and worked as a biomedical engineer on biomechanics, cardiac care, and therapies for children with cerebral palsy. She and her husband, a physician who served as an Army medical officer, are raising four children. She says she also served as an elected homeowners-association president.

• She says she would keep health premiums and prescription costs affordable and work to stabilize home insurance.
• She says she would safeguard Medicare and Social Security and their long-term solvency.
• She says she would make campaign finance more transparent, reduce the influence of big money, and hold public officials to the same standards as everyone else.

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U.S. representative for Florida's 6th District

His campaign says he is a third-generation Floridian who built and ran three companies and retired by 40 to spend time with his wife and two sons. The son of two public-school educators, he worked full-time while earning a degree from Harvard College and later an MBA from Harvard Business School. He says that in the Florida House he sponsored a major expansion of school choice.

• He says he would lower insurance rates, hold insurance companies accountable, and protect Social Security and Medicare.
• He says he would secure the border, boost job creation, and counter inflation.
• He says he would defend the right to life and the Second Amendment, and back first responders.

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Small-business owner and Democratic nominee for Florida's 6th District

His campaign says he was born in Florida, raised in the 6th District, grew up in Citra, and graduated from North Marion High School. His father was an Ocala police officer and his mother leads a local Realtor association. He says he managed big-box stores in the district for more than 20 years, hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2022, and started a business renovating vintage Airstream trailers.

• He says families should be able to afford a home, health care, insurance, and everyday essentials, with more workforce housing and a steadier insurance market.
• He says economic growth should reward work, support local businesses, and include wages and schedules that match the cost of living.
• He says Medicare and Social Security must stay strong, and he would negotiate prescription prices.

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News anchor and Republican nominee for Florida's 7th District

His campaign says he is an Emmy-winning news anchor who hosted the weekly show Orlando Matters, and that a consumer segment he created returned money to residents and took on Social Security and consumer-protection cases. He and his wife, Tasha, raised their two boys in Seminole County. He says he has lived in Florida for 20 years, 14 of them in the 7th District.

• He says Congress should keep taxes low, cut regulation, and pursue American energy independence so family costs come down.
• He says health care should be affordable and patient-centered, with expanded health savings accounts and clear prices from hospitals and insurers.
• He says he supports parental rights and school choice, and protection for Volusia County's beaches.

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Navy captain and Democratic nominee for Florida's 7th District

His campaign says he grew up in a Central Florida family, attended the U.S. Naval Academy, and served 24 years in the Navy and Navy Reserve, including medevac flights and combat missions. He later worked at the State Department and for Senator Bill Nelson, then served as NASA chief of staff.

• He says his first priority is making Florida affordable again by reversing health-care premium hikes and tariffs he calls illegal.
• He says he would push competition among power companies and property insurers, raise the federal minimum wage, and pass the PRO Act.
• He says he would restore Medicaid funding, negotiate drug prices, and protect Social Security and Medicare.

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U.S. representative for Florida's 8th District

His campaign says he is an educator and author who, with his wife Stephanie, raised three children in the district. He served in the Florida House and Senate, including as Senate president, and now chairs the House Space Committee and is a whip on the Financial Services Committee.

• He says he focuses on the space industry, the Indian River Lagoon, election integrity, a ban on congressional stock trading, and affordable housing.
• He says he would secure the border and fight inflation, higher taxes, and spending he calls reckless.
• He says he would back law enforcement and the Second Amendment, and make sure the military and veterans get the equipment and care they need.

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Former school board member and Democratic nominee for Florida's 8th District

Her campaign says she is the daughter of a corrections officer and a mother living with a disability, grew up in a working-class family, and built a career in education. She served on the Brevard County School Board and, in 2020, defeated a co-founder of Moms for Liberty. She lives in Satellite Beach with her husband, a middle-school teacher, and their daughter.

• She says she would stabilize Florida property insurance with federal reinsurance and oppose tariffs that raise the price of everyday goods.
• She says she would expand Medicaid, restore Affordable Care Act subsidies, and protect coverage for pre-existing conditions.
• She says she would protect the Department of Education, fully fund special-education law, and invest in teachers and student mental health.

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Navy reserve officer and Republican nominee for Florida's 9th District

His campaign says he was working in the Pentagon on September 11, then joined the Navy and completed four tours in the Middle East and Central Asia, plus a State Department tour in southern Afghanistan. He says he holds the rank of commander, has been selected for promotion to captain, and served with SEAL team deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

• He says he would safeguard constitutional rights and work with President Trump to keep the military funded.
• He says he would take on overdevelopment and rising property-insurance rates.
• He says he would lower grocery, gas, and housing costs.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Darren Soto's campaign says he is a lawyer elected in 2016 and the first member of Congress from Florida of Puerto Rican descent. It says he represents Osceola County and parts of Orange and Polk counties.

• He says his reelection campaign is about lower costs, protecting health care, and stopping corruption.
• He says he would stop tariffs that raise grocery, fuel, and housing costs, stop Medicaid and Affordable Care Act cuts, and protect Social Security and Medicare.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Maxwell Frost's campaign says he was adopted after his mother could not afford another child, saw police abuse and gun violence growing up, and organized with the ACLU, including Florida's voting-rights campaign.

• He says that as the first Generation Z member of Congress he is fighting to end gun violence, win Medicare for All, change the criminal justice system, and address the climate crisis.
• He says he pressed to end the Hyde Amendment and organized to restore voting rights to Floridians with past felony convictions.

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Businessman and Republican nominee for Florida's 11th District

His campaign says he started as a high-school handyman, entered the skilled trades, and grew a family-owned Central Florida company, Strada Services, that created thousands of jobs and paid training pathways. He and his wife raised their family in Central Florida. He says he is a father and grandfather running as an outsider, not for a career in politics.

• He says he would investigate congressional insider trading, enact term limits, and pass a balanced-budget amendment.
• He says he would finish the border wall, back law enforcement, and cut waste before asking taxpayers for more.
• He says he would lower costs, restore energy independence, bring jobs back, and protect Social Security and Medicare.

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Attorney and Democratic nominee for Florida's 11th District

His campaign says that over more than 30 years he has served as a presidential appointee in the Clinton administration, a congressional staff member, an attorney, and a government-affairs executive. Raised in Central Florida, he started as a staff assistant to Senator Bob Graham. He says caring for his aging mother showed him how expensive health care has become.

• He says he would oppose cuts or privatization of Social Security and Medicare and let Medicare negotiate drug prices.
• He says he would protect the Affordable Care Act and seek federal funding to ease the housing crisis and lower property insurance.
• He says he would eliminate income taxes for people making less than $100,000 a year and cut taxes for middle-class families.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Gus Bilirakis's campaign says he is a Tampa Bay husband, father, and attorney whose father, Mike Bilirakis, represented the same community in Congress. It says he is a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

• He says he is taking on property-insurance costs, affordable housing, and the cost of living in Pasco and Hillsborough counties.
• He says he backed a larger senior tax exemption, no tax on tips or overtime, and a deduction for homeowners-insurance premiums.

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Former Hillsborough County commissioner and Democratic nominee for Florida's 12th District

Her campaign says she is a mother, grandmother, and small-business owner who put herself through college, became a certified financial planner, and built an advisory firm. She served as a Hillsborough County commissioner from 2018 to 2022, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. She says she grew up in a working-class family that faced housing insecurity.

• She says she would fight for affordable housing, infrastructure, and fair wages because she knows what it is like to juggle bills and worry about rent.
• She says health care is a right and she would expand access, lower prescription costs, and defend reproductive care and mental-health services.
• She says she would fully fund public schools, raise teacher pay, and make sure veterans get the benefits and care they earned.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Anna Paulina Luna's campaign says she is a mother, Air Force veteran, and one of the younger members of Congress who did not grow up with wealth or a political family. It says her father struggled with substance abuse and her mother raised her on her own.

• She says big government is often the problem, not the solution, and that her politics come from growing up in hard circumstances and serving in the military.
• She says she wants reforms aimed at problems people actually face rather than an elitist approach to Congress.

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Retired Army brigadier general and Democratic nominee for Florida's 13th District

Her campaign says she is a retired Army brigadier general, a third-generation veteran, a lawyer, and a mother who put herself through college, including with Army ROTC at Elon. She served about 30 years, including work at the State Department and as an advisor to Army Cyber Command, and later helped veterans get health care. She and her husband have lived in the Tampa Bay area for more than 20 years and raised their daughter there.

• She says neighbors cannot keep up with the cost of housing, health care, insurance, food, and fuel, and that is why she is running.
• She says she would ban stock trading by officials in Washington, bar former members of Congress from corporate lobbying, and set term limits.
• She says she would protect the beaches and the coastal economy, and keep the promise of care for veterans and military families.

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Attorney and Republican nominee for Florida's 14th District

His campaign says he grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Harvard Law during the Great Recession, and moved to Florida to practice law for individuals and small businesses. He served six years in the Florida House, then returned to his law practice and his family. He lives in southeast Hillsborough with his wife and two sons.

• He says he would expand clinics and telehealth so families do not have to travel an hour or take a day off work to see a doctor.
• He says he would cut spending that drives prices up, after backing what he calls the largest tax cut in Florida history and tax holidays on gas and everyday purchases.
• He says he would cut rules that block workers and small businesses, and require local approval before a data center is built so it does not raise energy bills.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Kathy Castor's campaign says she is a native Floridian and the first woman elected to represent Hillsborough and Pinellas counties in Congress. It says she was a lawyer and Hillsborough County commissioner before joining the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

• She says she works to lower family costs, create jobs, and protect Florida's environment, including wetlands and the coast.
• She says she helped pass the bipartisan infrastructure law, bills expanding care for seriously ill children, and veterans' caucus work.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Laurel Lee's campaign says she serves on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and House Administration committees. It says she was an impeachment manager in the Mayorkas case and served on the task force on the attempt on President Trump's life and the House artificial-intelligence task force.

• The site says that under President Trump she is focused on turning conservative priorities into results for the 15th District.
• It quotes his endorsement of her on the border, innovation, the military and veterans, and the Second Amendment.

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Retired soldier and Democratic nominee for Florida's 15th District

His campaign says he was born in Baltimore in 1979, the second of four children, and grew up with a single mother in poverty. He joined the Army the day after he turned 18, served 21 years including two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, and retired in 2018. He says he took an oath to the Constitution and is still keeping it.

• He says he would protect Social Security and support Medicare for All.
• He says he would protect vote by mail and the environment, and oppose a data center when the community does not want it.
• He says his priorities also include housing, food, utility costs, and disaster preparedness.

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Former congressional aide and Republican nominee for Florida's 16th District

Her campaign says she is a native Floridian, a working mother of three, and the wife of Republican National Committee chairman Joe Gruters. She recently led the New College Foundation, was district director for Representative Greg Steube, and in 2017 was appointed by President Trump as the Agriculture Department's rural-development director for Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She also spent more than a decade working for Representative Vern Buchanan.

• She says she would cut taxes and fight rising costs so families can afford gas, groceries, and everyday essentials.
• She says she would work with President Trump and ICE on the border, and stand with him to keep elections secure.
• She says she would curb overdevelopment, keep homeownership in reach, strengthen veterans' benefits, and protect Social Security and Medicare.

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Former Sarasota mayor and Democratic nominee for Florida's 16th District

His campaign says he is a third-generation Floridian and a single father who grew up working his family's citrus stand near the Sarasota-Bradenton airport. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Georgetown, then spent four years in the Peace Corps in northern Guatemala. He later served as a Sarasota commissioner and mayor, built a nonprofit that helped first-generation students reach college without debt, and was a vice president at Eckerd College.

• He says he would lower insurance, health-care, and prescription costs, restore Medicare and Medicaid funding, and let the government negotiate drug prices.
• He says he would expand affordable housing and stop Wall Street from buying single-family homes.
• He says he would protect Tampa Bay, Sarasota Bay, and the coast by prohibiting offshore drilling and enforcing the Clean Water Act.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Greg Steube's campaign says he is an Army veteran who served in Iraq and a conservative whose name is new on many Lee County ballots. It says he has worked on hurricane recovery for Southwest Florida.

• He says he is focused on rebuilding after disasters, disaster tax relief, and lowering costs.
• He says he stands with veterans, privacy and public safety, and border security.

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Planner and Democratic nominee for Florida's 17th District

His campaign says he was born in South Bend, Indiana, into a family of eleven, and started working in high school as a farmhand, janitor, messenger, and store clerk. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science and Spanish from Catholic University and a master's in public administration from Indiana University, then spent two years in the Peace Corps and 27 years with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. He says he has lived in the district since the 1990s.

• He says he would ease housing costs with workforce housing for teachers, first responders, and families, and take on Florida's property-insurance crisis.
• He says he would make health-care and prescription prices more transparent without taking away consumer choices.
• He says he would modernize border security and create a background-checked path to legal status for people already working in Florida's farms and small businesses.

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U.S. representative for Florida's 18th District

His campaign says he is a conservative Republican, Navy veteran, and small-business owner in his third term. He served 26 years as a naval aviator, flying from 13 aircraft carriers, and was recalled to active duty after September 11. He then ran an insurance business in Lakeland for two decades. He and his wife, Amy, have been married more than 35 years and have three adult children.

• He says he works for Florida agriculture, including help for farmers and ranchers after severe weather and a stable food supply.
• He says he would secure the border, strengthen defense, and restore fiscal discipline in Washington.
• He says he chairs the House Science Committee's environment subcommittee and pushes back on regulations he says threaten economic growth.

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Former city commissioner and Democratic nominee for Florida's 18th District

His campaign says he is a former Lake Wales city commissioner, the manager of Eagle Ridge Mall, a restaurant owner, and a husband and father of five. He says that under his management the mall grew from 35 to 71 stores, and that he and his wife are raising their children in Lake Wales.

• He says he would push a federal reinsurance backstop to bring down property-insurance premiums.
• He says veterans should get timely local care, including covered local providers when the VA cannot see them nearby soon enough.
• He says he would keep property taxes from pushing out homeowners, seniors, and working families, and support citrus growers against disease and unchecked development.

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Broadcaster and Republican nominee for Florida's 19th District

His campaign says he was born at Naples Community Hospital, married his high-school sweetheart, Carly, and raised their children in Southwest Florida. He earned a finance degree at Stetson, worked in Senator Connie Mack's Washington office in 1996, and runs Sun Broadcasting, including 92.5 FOX News Radio.

• He says he would stand with President Trump to secure the border, enforce immigration laws, and deport people who are here illegally.
• He says families are paying too much for groceries, housing, and insurance, and he would fight to bring those costs down.
• He says he would vote to make President Trump's tax cuts permanent so families and small businesses keep more of what they earn.

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Attorney and Democratic nominee for Florida's 19th District

His campaign says he has owned and managed Arias Law Firm since 2002 and previously served as a staff attorney for the Lee County and St. Lucie County school districts.

• He says he would cut Veterans Affairs red tape and protect Medicare and Social Security for seniors.
• He says he would expand economic opportunity and invest in infrastructure and education.
• He says he would protect clean water and improve access to affordable health care.

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Insurance agency owner and Republican nominee for Florida's 20th District

His campaign says he is a Pompano Beach small-business owner who spent 16 years in insurance and founded Pilgrim Bay Insurance Agency in 2010. He is the son of a public-school teacher and a union worker, holds a finance degree from Nichols College, and is raising a daughter in Pompano Beach with his wife, Yula, who was born in Venezuela.

• He says housing and insurance costs are pricing Broward families out, and that 16 years in insurance is what he would take to Congress.
• He says he would fight the higher grocery, energy, and health-care bills hitting working families.
• He says he supports legal immigration and a functioning asylum system, and opposes what he calls open borders.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz's campaign says she is Florida's first Jewish congresswoman, sworn in in 2005 after serving in the Florida House and Senate. It says she is a breast-cancer survivor who has worked on screening access.

• She says she is fighting to protect Social Security and Medicare, defend reproductive freedom, and strengthen public schools.
• She says she wants lower health-care costs and laws that reduce gun violence.

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U.S. representative running for another term.

Brian Mast's campaign says serving the country is what he always wanted to do, following his father and uncles, and that he and his wife, Brianna, hope their children find the same purpose. It says he represents Florida's 18th District and tries to serve without regard for personal gain.

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Coast Guard veteran and Democratic nominee for Florida's 21st District

His campaign says he is a fourth-generation Floridian, born and raised in Hobe Sound, and a U.S. Coast Guard veteran. He graduated from the Coast Guard Academy, commanded two cutters in Fort Pierce, and served at the White House from 2022 to 2025 under both Vice President Harris and Vice President Vance. He holds a commission as a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard Reserve.

• He says he would take on grocery prices, property insurance, and health-care costs, including a public option that leaves employer and union coverage in place.
• He says he would finish Everglades restoration and stop toxic discharges into the St. Lucie Estuary and Indian River Lagoon.
• He says he would not cut Social Security, Medicare, or veterans' benefits, and would ban members of Congress from trading stocks.

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Business owner and Republican nominee for Florida's 22nd District

His campaign says his family immigrated legally to the United States after fleeing religious persecution, and that his first jobs were at McDonald's and mopping floors at CVS. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school. He says he is chairman of Askar Family Office, employing thousands of people in South Florida, and a married father of seven.

• He says grocery and gas prices are his top priority, and that he would cut taxes and regulations he says are driving those costs up.
• He says he would keep deporting people here illegally who have committed crimes, secure the border, and keep a merit-based immigration policy.
• He says he would ban members of Congress from trading stocks and defend parents' say over their children's education.

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Educator and Democratic nominee for Florida's 22nd District

Her campaign says she was born and raised in Palm Beach County to parents who emigrated from India. She taught middle and high school, and at 28 became founding principal of a public high school where she says 86 percent of students came from low-income families and every graduate was admitted to college. She later served as a White House fellow at the Department of Education under both Democratic and Republican presidents, then led public-sector work at Apple.

• She says she would make housing, property insurance, prescriptions, and childcare more affordable, and end tariffs she calls illegal.
• She says she would protect Social Security and Medicare, oppose raising the retirement age, and reverse Medicaid cuts.
• She says she would ban members of Congress from trading stocks, support term limits, fully fund public schools, and back universal pre-K.

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Financial planner and Republican nominee for Florida's 23rd District

Her campaign says she was born in West Palm Beach into a fifth-generation local family, attended Cardinal Newman High School, and studied at Palm Beach State, Florida Atlantic, and Loyola. She says she was one of the first women at her firm to earn a Series 7 license, is a certified financial planner, and has advised families at JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and Citi. She is the mother of three sons.

• She says immigration should be legal, and that illegal entry strains hospitals, schools, and public benefits.
• She says Americans should keep more of what they earn, and that government spending is what creates inflation.
• She says she would protect homeownership from overdevelopment and work on Florida's water, from Lake Okeechobee to the coast.

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U.S. representative for Florida's 23rd District

Her campaign says she has represented Palm Beach County in Congress since 2013, after 14 years in the Florida Legislature, including as the first Democratic woman to serve as minority leader, and eight years as mayor of West Palm Beach. She serves on the Appropriations Committee and is the lead Democrat on its national-security subcommittee. She founded the Democratic Women's Caucus and is the mother of a Marine veteran.

• She says she is fighting cuts to health care, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and working to lower costs for families.
• She says she works to protect the environment and expand access to housing.
• She says she is an advocate for women's reproductive freedom.

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Real estate developer and Republican nominee for Florida's 24th District

Her campaign says she is a real estate developer, small-business owner, and homeschooling mother who grew up in Chicago and built a business from scratch.

• She says federal housing money should help low-income families buy a first home instead of staying in lifelong rental subsidies.
• She says education dollars should follow the student to a public, charter, private, or home school.
• She says she would secure the border and remove people who threaten public safety, and she supports an earned path to citizenship for longtime Haitian TPS holders who have worked, paid taxes, and passed a background check.

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Miami-Dade commissioner and Democratic nominee for Florida's 24th District

His campaign says he grew up in Miami Gardens, attended local public schools through Miami Norland Senior High, worked his way through Florida A&M, and rode the bus to the University of Miami School of Law. He served eight years as mayor of Miami Gardens and now chairs the Miami-Dade County Commission, where he has pushed transit and housing along transit corridors.

• He says health care should be a right, and he would fight for a path to coverage for every American.
• He says he would end funding for immigration raids that he says are separating working families, and put that money into childcare and pre-K.
• He says he would expand rapid transit and job training, and back tax relief scaled to what working families earn.

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Mayor of Boca Raton and Republican nominee for Florida's 25th District

His campaign says he was born in Miami Beach, grew up in Fort Lauderdale, and has lived in the district for 40 years. He graduated from Pine Crest, Harvard, and Georgetown Law, worked for two decades as a lawyer and small-business owner, and is the three-term mayor of Boca Raton. He and his wife, Bella, have two children.

• He says he voted seven times to lower Boca Raton's tax rate and has pledged not to raise taxes.
• He says he would keep the border and national defense strong, cut waste, and work with President Trump.
• He says he supports a term-limits amendment and a ban on members of Congress trading stocks.

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U.S. representative for Florida's 25th District

His campaign says he was born and raised in Broward County, graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and joined the Parkland City Commission while in law school at Nova Southeastern. He served in the Florida House and on the Broward County Commission, then as director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management under Governor Ron DeSantis, before his election to Congress in 2022. He and his wife, Leah, live in Broward with their two sons.

• He says he wrote legislation to cut property-insurance premiums and is fighting prescription prices, housing costs, and price gouging.
• He says he would protect Social Security and Medicare and reverse Medicaid cuts.
• He says that after the 2018 shooting at his high school he helped pass Florida's school-safety law, and that he supports a ban on members of Congress trading stocks.

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U.S. representative for Florida's 26th District

His campaign says he was born and raised in Florida, spent 14 years in the Florida Legislature, and was the youngest person elected to the Florida Senate, at 31. He is in his eleventh term in the U.S. House, vice chair of the Appropriations Committee, and founder of the bipartisan Everglades Caucus.

• He says he would end the tax on tips and overtime and make working-family tax cuts permanent.
• He says he would detain and remove people here illegally who have committed crimes, and crack down on fentanyl trafficking.
• He says he would continue Everglades restoration and fund school-violence prevention and parental rights in education.

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Attorney and Democratic nominee for Florida's 26th District

Her campaign says she grew up in a small Oklahoma farm town, graduated first in her high school class, and was the first in her family to finish college, at the University of Oklahoma. She earned a law degree at Santa Clara, practiced litigation, and later worked as lead counsel at Databricks. She and her husband, Chris, moved to Miami in 2024.

• She says she would fight price gouging on housing, insurance, health care, and groceries, and stop corporate investors from buying up neighborhoods.
• She says she would protect Social Security and Medicare, oppose raising the retirement age, and treat health care as a right.
• She says she refuses corporate PAC money and would ban congressional stock trading and restore abortion rights nationwide.

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U.S. representative for Florida's 27th District

Her campaign says she was born in Miami's Little Havana to Cuban parents who fled after Fidel Castro took power. She graduated from the University of Miami and from Harvard, which she says she paid for herself, then anchored CNN en Español, covered the White House and wars in the Gulf and El Salvador, and interviewed Fidel Castro. She says she won five Emmy Awards and was elected to Congress in 2020.

• She says she has voted to lower taxes, backed small businesses, and worked to recover pandemic money lost to fraud.
• She says she is funding Everglades restoration, coastal flood protection, and cleaner water in Biscayne Bay.
• She says she opposes socialism and communism, has pushed sanctions on the governments of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, and supports term limits.

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Journalist and Democratic nominee for Florida's 27th District

His campaign says he spent forty years telling South Florida's story and recently left the anchor desk. He says he is the son of Cuban immigrants and that his family has lived in the district since the 1960s. He says his daughters moved away because housing in South Florida had become unaffordable.

• He says he would turn unused federal land into mixed-use housing, expand workforce housing, and seek a federal backstop for homeowners' insurance.
• He says he would protect Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, oppose raising the retirement age, and let people ages 55 to 64 buy into Medicare.
• He says he supports a secure border, faster immigration courts, protection for Dreamers, and removal of people who pose a genuine threat.

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U.S. representative for Florida's 28th District

His office says he was born in Cuba in 1954, came to the United States after the communist takeover, and grew up in Miami's Little Havana. He joined the Miami Fire Department in 1975, served 25 years, and was the department's first Cuban American chief. He later was Miami's city manager, a county commissioner, and mayor of Miami-Dade before his election to Congress in 2020. He and his wife, Lourdes, have three children and six grandchildren.

• He says small businesses need lower taxes, less legal liability, and fewer regulations.
• He says immigration shaped South Florida and that the border should be secured in a way that keeps that community intact.
• He says China is America's most aggressive adversary, and he supports domestic energy that stays environmentally conscious.

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Retired Navy commander and Democratic nominee for Florida's 28th District

His campaign says his first Navy mission was the Mariel boatlift, and that he rose from seaman to commander over 26 years on active duty, including Cold War reconnaissance and Desert Storm. He says he advised senior leaders in Washington, including General Colin Powell. He and his wife, Sue, have been married 28 years and have two daughters.

• He says he would lower health premiums and out-of-pocket costs, and enforce anti-fraud rules to stabilize property insurance.
• He says he would protect law-abiding immigrant families, open a path to permanent residency for people stuck in legal limbo, and target criminals and traffickers.
• He says he would pursue a VA hospital or major VA clinic in South Dade and protect the Everglades, including a pause on large AI data centers until their effects are studied.

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