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President Joe Biden will appear in Tampa next week
The trip comes as polls show the president trailing Trump in the runup to the 2024 election.
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Biden campaign wants Floridians to see a new attack ad featuring Trump’s call for national abortion ban
The Joe Biden reelection campaign has launched a new 30-second television ad starting Tuesday attacking Donald Trump’s stance on reproductive rights
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Issues on Florida’s November ballot will include campaign funds, property taxes, hunting and more
Floridians in November will vote on six proposed constitutional amendments
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‘President Biden’s opening in Florida’: Democrats say abortion could affect races up and down November ballot
Focus on the abortion issue exploded Monday shortly after the seven-member Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent
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Abortion advocates plan Orlando rally this month to support abortion rights measure
Florida voters will get to decide in November whether to extend Florida’s abortion limit to roughly 24 weeks of pregnancy
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Florida GOP extends voter registration lead over Democrats by more than 855,000
Democrats historically held a registration lead in the state, but Republicans overtook them in 2021
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Republicans can still vote for DeSantis in Florida’s primary election, even though he suspended his campaign
‘There is a theory of the case in DeSantis world that, oh, Trump could drop dead’
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Concern about artificial intelligence in political ads grows ahead of election year in Florida
Florida legislators recently approved a bill that requires a disclaimer to be included in political ads that use generative AI
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Judge strikes down part of Florida elections law
The law placed restrictions on what are known as ‘third party’ voter-registration organizations
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Judge ends challenges to Florida election law he admits targets Black voters
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued an order after an appeals court last year overturned a ruling in which he found the law improperly discriminated against Black voters
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Florida Republicans seek again to make it harder for voters to amend the state constitution
The idea’s backed by the Chamber of Commerce, which doesn’t love that people have voted to increase Florida’s minimum wage
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Democrat Tom Keen flips GOP seat, wins House District 35 special election
Keen’s victory offers a ray of hope for Florida Democrats
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Poll shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis now trailing Nikki Haley in Iowa caucus
The survey of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers found 48% pick Trump as their first choice candidate
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Botched Florida GOP mailer advertises wrong date for January special election
Candidate Erika Booth, a classroom teacher, touts a campaign focused on education and financial literacy skills.
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Less than a year before the 2024 elections, Florida is still brawling over DeSantis’ redistricting plan
‘A historically performing benchmark district for Black voters was not just diminished — it was eliminated,’ read the dissent, in part.
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Ohio votes to protect abortion access — will Florida be next?
Abortion rights groups in Florida hope to see a similar victory for abortion access in the Sunshine State next November.
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Orlando 2023 election results: Who won and who lost at the ballot box
Dyer, Sheehan, Burns win reelection easily; HD35 primary races are closely contested
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Florida’s minimum wage went up — but when will the state take minimum wage violations seriously?
Wage violations run rampant in Florida, in part because enforcement is toothless and few politicians are interested.
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Behind an awful stench in St. Louis, an Orlando(ish) Republican
Bowen Kou was president of the store that left 8,000 pounds of seafood to rot — and Bowen Kou is running for state senate in Central Florida
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Democrat Carlos Guillermo Smith continues to snag endorsements in his bid for Florida Senate
So far, he’s been backed by much of Central Florida’s organized labor, as well as other Democratic politicians and Equality Florida’s PAC.