{"id":142301,"date":"2026-02-03T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142301\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:37:12","slug":"florida-gop-governor-candidate-james-fishback-campaigns-on-tinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142301\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida GOP governor candidate James Fishback campaigns on Tinder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A Republican candidate for governor in Florida<\/a> announced on Monday that he launched a Tinder account so that he can campaign to young female voters in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n

James Fishback, a 31-year-old investment firm CEO<\/a>, shared his latest campaign move on X.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve joined @Tinder to meet young female voters where they are, and share my plan to make it easier for them to get married, buy a home, and raise a family,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

He added a screenshot of the profile that showed: “My hottest take is \u2026 Florida should offer paid maternity leave to all moms.”<\/p>\n

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James Fishback announcing his run for governor (Fishback2026.com)<\/p>\n

Less than an hour later, Fishback added an update: “i ran out of likes. could someone donate so i can get tinder plus?”<\/p>\n

Fishback is running to succeed term-limited Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reached his term limit as governor of the Sunshine State. (Octavio Jones\/Getty Images, File)<\/p>\n

He joins a crowded Republican field that includes U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner and Lt. Gov. Jay Collins.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., arrives to a House Republican Conference meeting with President Donald Trump on the budget reconciliation bill in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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If elected, Fishback has said he\u2019d propose a hefty “sin tax” on OnlyFans<\/a> content creators.<\/p>\n

“Young women once aspired to be devoted mothers, doctors, lawyers, and nurses,” James Fishback told Fox News Digital in a statement last month.<\/p>\n

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Fishback continued: “Today, young women are told by an online platform called OnlyFans that it\u2019s morally right to sell nude photos of themselves to strangers on the internet. I will not tolerate this cultural degeneracy as Florida\u2019s next Republican Governor.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Republican candidate for governor in Florida announced on Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32397,28,30,29,34403,99,32396],"class_list":["post-142301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-elections-state-and-local","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gubernatorial","tag-politics","tag-republicans-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}