{"id":234762,"date":"2026-04-16T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:15:10","slug":"randy-fine-leads-cd-6-fundraising-race-but-some-democrats-are-making-credible-showings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234762\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Fine leads CD 6 fundraising race, but some Democrats are making credible showings"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Rep. Randy Fine<\/a>, a Daytona Beach Republican elected in a Special Election last year in Florida\u2019s 6th Congressional District, raised more than $200,000<\/a> in the first quarter to defend his seat.<\/p>\n

Of that money,\u00a0more than $101,000 came from individuals, $15,000 came from PACs, and an additional $84,000 came in transfers from other authorized committees, which appear to be almost exclusively the Team Fine<\/a> joint fundraising committee.<\/p>\n

The committee brought in $131,000 and doled out nearly $146,000 over the same period, including to the Hebrew Hammer PAC<\/a>. The former account has $5,000 on hand and the latter nearly $33,000 as of the end of February, the last date for which there are records as of this writing.<\/p>\n

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, Associated Builders and Contractors, and Belinda Keiser\u00a0are among the Fine donors this quarter.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Democrat Jennifer Jenkins<\/a> of Satellite Beach raised nearly $212,000, technically topping the money raised to Fine\u2019s primary committee.<\/p>\n

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Democrat Eric Yonce<\/a> of Ormond Beach raised nearly $130,000, with nearly $110,000 of that being unitemized contributions, which are small-dollar donations lumped together without accountability for the source.<\/p>\n

The incumbent holds a substantial cash-on-hand advantage, with nearly $762,000 compared to just over $251,000 for Jenkins, a former member of the Brevard County School Board, and just over $56,000 for Yonce.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s clear is that just as was the case in 2025 when Fine defeated\u00a0Josh Weil<\/a> in what ultimately was a very expensive election on both sides, the\u00a0Donald Trump-endorsed Republican could end up facing a Democrat who is able to engage donors.<\/p>\n

Fine looks poised to face a number of challengers, though the two established candidates\u00a0Aaron Baker and\u00a0Charles Gambaro have just over $3,000 and $14,000 cash on hand. Gambaro has loaned his own campaign more than a quarter million dollars.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, influencer\u00a0Dan Bilzerian<\/a>\u00a0has opened a campaign account. Though he is not from Florida, his address is shared with the law firm of former state legislator Anthony Sabatini. Bilzerian has made a series of antisemitic slurs against Fine that have drawn national scrutiny, including from TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis fat jew Rep. Fine publicly talks s*** about Muslims but says he\u2019s passed laws to throw people in prison for five years for criticizing Jews,\u201d he said recently.<\/p>\n

Bilzerian is a genuine wild card in the race, given that he has 30 million Instagram followers. But visibility into his campaign finance won\u2019t be available until the second-quarter report filed in July.<\/p>\n

But even if Bilzerian raises a lot of money to amplify his toxic message, outside help could come in for Fine, especially given his close ties to the White House.<\/p>\n

As is the case with all Florida districts this cycle, congressional reapportionment in a Special Session set to begin later this month could change the map significantly in the east-central Florida district that runs from Daytona to St. Johns County and points west.<\/p>\n

Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a>, who has feuded with Fine for more than a year and questioned his quality as a candidate during last year\u2019s Special Election, ultimately will produce a proposed redistricting to address alleged malapportionment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s conceivable that an aggressive redistricting may take Republicans from this district to make a Democratic district in the Orlando area more competitive given DeSantis\u2019 animus toward the incumbent.<\/p>\n

However, a number of these candidates have no real ties to the current district as it\u2019s drawn, so who really knows what will happen even if CD 6 as we have known it since 2022 is scrubbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, a Daytona Beach Republican elected in a Special Election last year in Florida\u2019s 6th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104717,104718,104719,28,30,29,104720,12108,9217,104721,104722],"class_list":["post-234762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-aaron-baker","tag-charles-gambaro","tag-dan-bilzerian","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hebrew-hammer-pac","tag-jennifer-jenkins","tag-randy-fine","tag-randy-fine-for-congress","tag-team-fine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234762","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=234762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}