Age: 31
Party: Republican
Campaign website: fishback2026.com
Education: Fishback attended Georgetown University, enrolling to study international economics before dropping out after his sophomore year to go into finance.
Occupation: Fishback is the founder of the youth debate league Incubate Debate and went on to work as a research analyst at hedge fund Greenlight Capital from 2021 to 2023 and to found investment firm Azoria Partners in 2023. In an April 2026 court hearing, he said he left Azoria in January. Fishback also wrote for The Free Press in 2023 and 2024, a right-leaning publication founded by current Editor-in-Chief of CBS News Bari Weiss.
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If elected, what are the THREE most pressing problems you want to address, and what do you suggest to solve them? Please list each issue and how you will address them:
According to his website, Fishback said home ownership is one of his biggest issues. Fishback said private equity firms, including Blackstone and BlackRock, have made it difficult for young families to own by purchasing single-family homes in bulk.
His solution is to bar private equity firms from buying single-family homes and force them to divest the homes they already own over a five year period. He pairs this with a “Rise and Shine” program – a one-time, zero-interest $10,000 loan toward a home for young married couples where at least one spouse graduated from a Florida high school, at least one works full time, and neither has drawn government welfare in the past year.
Another major issue is homeowners insurance, according to his website.
Fishback frames this argument that fewer claims and more competitors mean lower premiums. He attributes Florida’s insurance costs to four causes: hurricane and flood risk, fraud, too little competition, and insurer conduct – and is proposing a remedy for each.
He would spend 1 billion on drainage infrastructure across all 67 counties to cut flood claims, create a statewide insurance fraud task force to prosecute assignment of benefits abuse and predatory contractors, personally meet with the CEOs of the largest U.S. insurers to draw carriers back into the market and increase competition, and create a no-cost legal advisory service to help homeowners fight wrongful claim denials.
Another priority is public safety and homelessness. Fishback said homeless encampments in communities are “neglect with a bumper sticker on it.” He’s pledged to surge state resources to move people off the streets and into what he describes as structured care and treatment facilities.
According to a University of North Florida poll, Floridians say affordability is their top issue. What are your solutions for dealing with Florida’s affordability issue?
Fishback makes affordability his central theme and has said the emphasis was partly inspired by – though opposed in substance to – Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 New York City mayoral campaign.
Beyond his housing and insurance policies, his affordability agenda includes eliminating homestead property taxes for Florida residents. He wants a $50,000 transaction tax on out-of-state buyers of Florida vacation homes, what he calls the “Mamdani Tax,” to keep residents from competing with wealthy nonresidents, according to his X page. He’s also calling for mandated transparency and itemized budgets for HOA and condominium associations, with criminal penalties for self-dealing.
Finally, he wants to end Florida employers’ use of the H-1B visa program, which he ties to suppressed wages for recent Florida graduates. He proposes paying for new spending through a $50 tourism surcharge on hotel stays, rental cars, theme park tickets, airports and cruise ports, which he claims would raise about $7 billion a year from tourists rather than residents, according to his website.
Will you vote YES or NO on the constitutional amendment to slash property taxes and explain your position. How would you replace lost revenue – fees and/or service reductions?
Fishback’s platform position aligns with eliminating property taxes, but only on the homesteaded properties of Florida residents – explicitly not on second homes, short-term rentals, snowbird properties or high value estates.
On replacing lost revenue, he claims local governments now collect roughly “$20 billion more in property taxes than five years ago,” and he would work with them to roll spending back to free up that money, which he says more than covers the roughly $18 billion cost of eliminating homestead property taxes. He insists this can be done “without compromising funding for essential services like police, fire, and our public schools,” according to his campaign website.
Utility costs are rising for customers in Florida, and the proliferation of data centers is expected to exacerbate that issue. How should Florida’s utility regulators respond?
According to his website, Fishback wants to ban new data centers in all 67 counties through statewide preemption, stopping county commissions from approving them in the first place, rather than regulating or reforming the industry. He argues data centers raise electric bills, jeopardize the water supply and lower nearby property values, according to his website.
What is the single biggest issue the government should address when it comes to public education in Florida?
Fishback says Florida ranks last among all 50 states in teacher pay and pledges a 25% raise, arguing teacher quality is a top driver of student outcomes, according to his campaign website.
He would condition the raise on teachers attending monthly paid seminars on teaching methods and on keeping “one-sided politics” out of the classroom. In the same education policy section, he backs expanding universal school choice and creating the country’s first state homeschool commissioner.
Do you agree with the current federal and state governments’ approaches to immigration enforcement? Why or why not?
Fishback wants enforcement and restriction to go further than current policy, so he is not fully in agreement with either. He has called for a “complete immigration moratorium,” has criticized even legal immigration channels, and has pledged to abolish the H-1B visa program and fire state government employees working under it.
Do you believe abortion restrictions in Florida should be more strict, less strict or stay the same?
Fishback supports a complete ban on abortion, including in cases of rape and incest. He would shut down remaining abortion clinics in Florida and replace each with a crisis pregnancy center offering ultrasounds, diapers, counseling and prenatal and postpartum care. He couples this with support for state-paid maternity leave, arguing a pro-life position obligates the state to help cover childbirth costs. His platform states that “life begins at conception and abortion is murder.”
What do you think is the biggest environmental issue your government should address in Florida?
His biggest environmental issue is overdevelopment and the loss of Florida farmland, according to his website. The concern is closely linked to his opposition to data center construction, plus water quality. Fishback describes himself as a conservationist, pledges to preserve more park space, and has said he supports further Everglades restoration and cleaning the state’s waterways.
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