Torres pledged to continue focusing on issues of affordable housing, health care, reforming the criminal justice system, as well as coronavirus relief efforts, which should be welcome news for his district – covering southern Orange County and all of Osceola County – particularly hard hit by the economic shocks of the coronavirus pandemic.
Torres emerged from the election, as of this writing, with 82,813 votes to his Republican challenger Louis T. Minnis Jr.’s 60,450. Independent Mike James walked away with 4,592 votes.
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