Florida governor’s race: Trump-backed Byron Donalds and Democrat David Jolly win primaries<\/p>\n
The Associated Press has called the primary results of Florida\u2019s governor\u2019s race: Byron Donalds has won the Republican nomination and David Jolly the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n
Donalds, 47, was endorsed by Donald Trump<\/a> and would become Florida\u2019s first Black governor if elected in November.<\/p>\n Jolly, 53, is a former Republican who joined the Democratic party last year. His win in the state\u2019s primary marks the second time in a row that Florida Democrats<\/a> have nominated a former Republican \u2013 following the party\u2019s nomination of former Republican governor Charlie Crist in the state\u2019s 2022 election.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.09 EDT<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Nixon defeats Vindman: another progressive shock to an establishment-backed Democrat<\/p>\n Progressive Angie Nixon has won the Democratic nomination for Florida\u2019s open Senate seat, defeating the heavily favored Alex Vindman, a retired army lieutenant colonel, and an impeachment witness against Trump during the president\u2019s first term of office. If elected in November, Nixon would be the state\u2019s first Black senator.<\/p>\n Nixon will compete against Republican Ashley Moody, a former state attorney general, in November. The two are vying to fill the Senate seat Marco Rubio won in 2022.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.18 EDT<\/p>\n Florida governor’s race: Trump-backed Byron Donalds and Democrat David Jolly win primaries<\/p>\n The Associated Press has called the primary results of Florida\u2019s governor\u2019s race: Byron Donalds has won the Republican nomination and David Jolly the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n Donalds, 47, was endorsed by Donald Trump<\/a> and would become Florida\u2019s first Black governor if elected in November.<\/p>\n Jolly, 53, is a former Republican who joined the Democratic party last year. His win in the state\u2019s primary marks the second time in a row that Florida Democrats<\/a> have nominated a former Republican \u2013 following the party\u2019s nomination of former Republican governor Charlie Crist in the state\u2019s 2022 election.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.09 EDT<\/p>\n Polls have closed across all of Florida<\/a> as the clock strikes 7pm in the state\u2019s western panhandle region.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Pia Dandiya has won the Democratic nomination for Florida\u2019s 22nd congressional district. Her race, like many others in Florida<\/a>, was affected by the state\u2019s efforts to gerrymander its districts earlier this year.<\/p>\n As my colleague Richard Luscombe<\/a> reported from Florida this month:<\/p>\n Dandiya, a professional educator dipping her toe for the first time into the often tenebrous world of electoral politics, originally declared her candidacy for Florida\u2019s 21st congressional district, where she was mounting a long-shot campaign to unseat the Republican congressman Brian Mast, an army veteran who bills himself as \u201cFlorida\u2019s America first fighter\u201d.<\/p>\n But then Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida and Donald Trump<\/a> loyalist, intervened. In the consequent Democratic shuffle of candidates<\/a>, she switched to Florida\u2019s newly configured 22nd \u2013 an open seat that Democrats see as one of their best opportunities to reclaim the House majority in November.<\/p>\n \u201cRedistricting, to me, represents what people just hate about politics, that it seems like a solution in search of a problem instead of actually solving the problems that are keeping people up at night,\u201d Dandiya said during a meeting over coffee in south Florida last month. \u201cI would argue that most families are not staying up at night worried about the congressional lines across the state, but they are staying up at night wondering how they\u2019re going to make ends meet, about whether we are handing our children a country, that we are leaving them in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.00 EDT<\/p>\n Debbie Wasserman Schultz has won the Democratic nomination in Florida\u2019s 20th congressional district.<\/p>\n As my colleague David Smith<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n Wasserman Schultz, 59, an 11-term congresswoman and former chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), has faced criticism<\/a> from African American leaders over her decision to run as the sole white candidate in a majority-minority district where she is not a resident.<\/p>\n This followed the creation of gerrymandered congressional maps<\/a> by Florida Republicans that broke Wasserman Schultz\u2019s current seat into five shards. She decided against running in the 22nd district, where she lives, and chose instead to compete in the deep blue 20th, which has been represented by Black Democrats for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.53 EDT<\/p>\n The Associated Press has begun calling results in Florida\u2019s primary House races.<\/p>\n So far:<\/p>\n Debbie Wasserman Schultz has won the Democratic nomination and Brent Andersen has won the Republican nomination in the 20th congressional district.<\/p>\n Mike Beltran has won the Republican nomination for Florida\u2019s 14th congressional district.<\/p>\n Leela Gray is the Democratic nominee in the 13th congressional district.<\/p>\n Rachel Grage won the Democratic nomination and John Rutherford won the Republican nomination in the fifth congressional district.<\/p>\n Pia Dandiya is the Democratic nominee in Florida\u2019s 22nd congressional district.<\/p>\n LaShonda Holloway won the Democratic nomination in the fourth congressional district.<\/p>\n Maria Elvira Salazar won the Republican nomination in the 27th district.<\/p>\n James Pericola is the Democratic nominee for the 11th district.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.53 EDT<\/p>\n The US Department of Justice has issued subpoenas as federal prosecutors in Alaska investigate whether Dan J Sullivan entered a Senate race there to take votes from the incumbent, also named Dan Sullivan, NBC News reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n My colleague Chris Stein<\/a> has more on the tale of the two Dan Sullivans running against each other in Alaska\u2019s primary today:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.38 EDT<\/p>\n Polls begin to close in Florida primary elections<\/p>\n Polls in Florida<\/a> have begun to close as we await results in three primary elections tonight. Polls in Wyoming will remain open until 7pm local time (9pm ET), and polls in Alaska will remain open until 8pm local time.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll bring you the results in Florida\u2019s governor and Senate races as the Associated Press calls them.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.12 EDT<\/p>\n A federal judge in Texas has ruled that Biden-era restrictions on \u201cghost guns\u201d are unconstitutional \u2013 after guns rights groups asked the court to reconsider the case on different grounds after the US supreme court upheld the restrictions last year.<\/p>\n The US district judge Reed O\u2019Connor, who was appointed \u200bby George W Bush, said the 2022 rule infringes on a person\u2019s right to make or repair personal firearms. \u201cSelf-manufacture of firearms in America was common and indeed foundational to establishing our nation,\u201d O\u2019Connor wrote.<\/p>\n The Biden-era regulation requires manufacturers of firearm parts, including \u201cghost guns\u201d, to mark products with a serial number and conduct background checks on purchasers. Ghost gun products are typically bought online and may be quickly assembled at home, without the serial numbers ordinarily used to trace guns or background checks on purchasers required for other firearms.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s more of our coverage from last year, when the conservative-majority supreme court upheld the Biden administration\u2019s regulation on ghost guns:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a019.13 EDT<\/p>\n An Illinois<\/a> man allegedly impersonated doctors \u2013 and evidently referred to himself online as \u201c$hotboy1\u201d \u2013 is facing criminal charges that he secured unauthorized prescriptions for Ozempic and Mounjaro pharmaceutical drugs that facilitate weight loss and are taken by some for cosmetic rather than legitimate medical reasons.<\/p>\n Rodney Greer purportedly launched the allege scheme in early 2023, according to court filings from federal prosecutors and a US justice department news release issued on Monday.<\/p>\n In exchange for obtaining the illicit prescriptions for what are known as GLP-1 medications, customers of Greer would pay him money, federal prosecutors in Manhattan contended.<\/p>\n Greer, who allegedly also went by the name Christian Marchand, pleaded not guilty to the four-count indictment that accused him of wire fraud, healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. Greer\u2019s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Victoria Bekiempis<\/a> with our full report:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n In a social media post, Donald Trump claimed Census Bureau records of non-citizen voting prove he won the 2020 election, despite evidence that non-citizen voting is extremely rare. Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed that he won the 2020 election and blamed practices such as mail-in voting, which he participates in<\/a>, for his loss.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Census Bureau has begun checking the Voter Records from 2020 against their Citizenship Records. On the first 128,000,000 Voters, the Census Bureau proves that over 24,000 Noncitizens voted illegally! The Census Bureau is going to analyze the next 32,000,000 Voters, and this number will explode. I WON THE ELECTION! We must pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,\u201d Trump wrote on his social media platform today.<\/p>\n The Guardian could not independently verify the Census Bureau page Trump cited, which claimed to be \u201ca beginning analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau\u201d. However, 24,000 non-citizen votes represents just 0.01875% of the 128 million votes the bureau has counted so far. Joe Biden won the popular vote in the 2020 election by more than 7 million votes.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no evidence that noncitizen voting has ever been significant enough to impact an election\u2019s outcome,\u201d according to the Bipartisan Policy Center<\/a>, which published an explainer on non-citizen voting this summer, after Trump said thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote in the United States.<\/p>\n In an article<\/a> published this summer, Reuters found that \u201cfederal prosecutors have charged just 129 people under a federal \u2018voting by aliens\u2019 statute created by Congress in 1996.\u201d More than two-thirds of those prosecutions were filed during Trump\u2019s terms in office. \u201cIn none of the cases did prosecutors allege a coordinated effort to influence an election. And no defendant was accused of being paid to vote. Instead, many appear to stem from voter confusion, miscommunication with election officials or administrative errors,\u201d Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n