A new poll of likely voters from Quinnipiac University shows Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, ahead of former U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., as the clock ticks down until the election in two weeks.
Likening the November election to “reclaiming America’s soul, for real,” former Vice President Joe Biden held a crowd of supporters spellbound Monday as he shared a stage with Florida’s top two Democratic candidates as early voting started in many parts of the state.
With nearly 1 million votes already cast by mail for the Nov. 6 general election, early voting got underway Monday in almost half of the state’s counties, including three recently ravaged by Hurricane Michael.
Two weeks to go until the general election and polls are showing a wide array of possibilities as Gov. Rick Scott challenges U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who is running for a fourth term.
Two new polls show very different results as Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and former U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., make their cases in the final two weeks to be Florida’s next governor. Florida Politics released a survey of likely voters from St. Pete’s Polls on Monday showing Gillum with the narrowest of leads. Gillum takes 47 percent while DeSantis is right behind him at 46 percent.
There probably are few candidates for any office in America as diametrically opposed as former congressman Ron DeSantis and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the candidates running for governor of Florida.
Democrat Nikki Fried, a medical-marijuana lobbyist, had to defend her desire to move the state’s oversight of medical marijuana into the agency she wants to run.
Historian and political activist Darcy Richardson, the Reform Party’s gubernatorial candidate in Florida, said he was open to having prominent leaders from various political factions--including trial lawyer John Morgan--on the Florida Supreme Court and reeled in the backing of a former presidential candidate.
The fierce winds of Hurricane Michael disrupted life in the Florida Panhandle and could be an equally disruptive force in the 2018 general election.
Visit Florida is moving forward with a $9 million marketing plan to combat media reports and negative public perceptions about how much of the state remains in ruins from Hurricane Michael.
