Even with Congress on recess, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is taking a leading role in political affairs even as Democrats look to make inroads in her South Florida district.

Zika is becoming a hot issue in a South Florida congressional race which is expected to be one of the most competitive in the nation come November. 

After ending his bid for the U.S. Senate at the end of June, Congressman Ron DeSantis is in strong shape in the Republican primary later this month.

Trying to catch Congressman David Jolly in the Republican primary at the end of this month, retired Marines General Mark Bircher has a simple plan: bash Jolly for not backing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. 

With the  Florida Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announcing there are four confirmed cases of mosquitos infecting people with the virus in Florida, Zika is becoming something of an issue in the U.S. Senate race. 

A month until the Republican primary, Sen. Marco Rubio called for more federal action to combat Zika. 

A month until the primary, Marco Rubio released a new TV ad on Thursday, ignoring his Republican challenger to take aim at the Democrats. 

Darcy Richardson is hoping to win the Reform Party’s presidential nomination later this week.

Richardson, who lives in Jacksonville,is a familiar name to many activists and political junkies across the nation. Besides serving as the campaign manager for former U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s, D-Minn.,  independent presidential campaign in 1988, Richardson is an expert on third-party politics, having written a multivolume history on them and he also writes in various media outlets. 

While Virginia has produced more than its share of presidents, the Old Dominion isn’t exactly known for its vice presidents. Of course now that he’s Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine is hoping to change that. 

With Democrats ready to hold their national convention in Philadelphia next week, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton turned to Tim Kaine to be her running mate. 

While Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will play a major role at the convention in her role as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), attention will also be on Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum who will be speaking in Philadelphia.