{"id":243058,"date":"2026-04-23T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243058\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:20:17","slug":"whats-qualifying-week-for-floridas-u-s-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243058\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s qualifying week for Florida’s U.S. Senate race?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week is the qualifying window for candidates running for Florida\u2019s up-for-grabs U.S. Senate seat and some judicial offices.<\/p>\n

Candidates have to file the paperwork by noon on Friday to get on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Democrat Alex Vindman came to Tallahassee Wednesday to turn his in, pay the fee \u2014 it\u2019s $10,440 for Senate candidates <\/a>with a party affiliation and $6,960 for those without \u2014 and make the necessary signatures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty special,\u201d Vindman said. \u201cWhat’s amazing is the fact that, you know, I’m signing up to represent 23 million Floridians.”<\/p>\n

\"Democrat<\/p>\n

Democrat Alex Vindman gave a press conference in Tallahassee after he filed paperwork at the Division of Elections to qualify for the ballot.<\/p>\n

Vindman’s a retired Army lieutenant colonel who once testified<\/a> against President Donald Trump during impeachment hearings.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s running against Sen. Ashley Moody, who Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed<\/a> after Marco Rubio joined the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The U.S. House qualifying period should also be this week, but the state moved it to the week of June 8<\/a> because lawmakers might redraw congressional districts in a special session<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those running for state offices also have to file in June.<\/p>\n

If you have any questions about state government or the legislative process, you can ask the Your Florida team\u00a0by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story was produced by WUSF as part of a statewide journalism initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week is the qualifying window for candidates running for Florida\u2019s up-for-grabs U.S. Senate seat and some judicial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-243058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243058","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=243058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}