Prior to diving into politics, the Brooklyn native worked in the banking, finance, and insurance industries. Now, Donalds is on a promising path toward becoming Florida’s first Black governor.<\/p>\n
Who did Byron Donalds beat in the primary?<\/p>\n
Donalds enters with an advantage in November. Republican registration has surged to a 1.5 million voter lead in the last five years over Democrats in Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlorida is now a red state,\u201d Jewett says. \u201cFor years, we were a purple state. We were the most competitive battleground swing state in presidential elections, many other statewide elections, but in the last five years, we have seen a big influx of Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Donalds\u2019s challengers included Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Paul Renner, and investment firm CEO James Fishback, along with eight other hopefuls.<\/p>\n
Collins positioned himself as a foregone successor to the office, running on a campaign that vowed to preserve the \u201cDeSantis legacy.\u201d But friction within the Office of the Governor painted a different picture, according to Politico<\/a>, and it grew noticeable when Collins failed to secure his boss\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior to diving into politics, the Brooklyn native worked in the banking, finance, and insurance industries. Now, Donalds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,15699,41087,4219],"class_list":["post-375326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-midterms","tag-news-desk","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375326","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=375326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}