{"id":421087,"date":"2026-10-07T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:56:12","slug":"south-florida-and-miami-news-today-nbc-6-south-florida-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421087\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida and Miami news today \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

With less than a month to go before the 2026 general election, Florida’s Republican candidates for governor and U.S. Senate are leading their Democratic rivals, a new NBC6\/Telemundo Station Group poll found.<\/p>\n

Florida Governor<\/p>\n

The poll, conducted last week by polling and strategy firm Mason-Dixon, found GOP gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds with a 48% to 41% lead over Democrat David Jolly.<\/a><\/p>\n

Another 1% support an independent candidate while 10% remain undecided.<\/p>\n

Donalds and Jolly are both trying to succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is ineligible to seek another term after eight years in office.<\/p>\n

The poll found Donalds is more popular among men (55% to 33%, 11% undecided) while women support Jolly (49% to 41%, 9% undecided).<\/p>\n

White voters support Donalds (59% to 30%), while Jolly is supported by Black voters (76% to 10%), with Hispanic voters narrowly supporting Donalds (48% to 43%).<\/p>\n

Jolly receives support from Democrats (85% to 19%) and Independents (47% to 28%) while Republicans overwhelmingly support Donalds (87% to 4%).<\/p>\n

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U.S. Senate<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Florida’s U.S. Senate race,<\/a> the poll found Republican Ashley Moody leading Democrat Angie Nixon by 50% to 40%, with 2% supporting Independent Neil Gillespie and 8% undecided.<\/p>\n

Moody receives support from men (57% to 31%) while Nixon is supported by women (48% to 43%).<\/p>\n

White voters support Moody (61% to 29%) while Black voters support Nixon (81% to 10%), with Hispanic voters supporting Moody (47% to 40%).<\/p>\n

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Amendment 3<\/p>\n

The poll also asked voters about Florida’s Amendment 3, a proposed constitutional amendment that would increase the homestead exemption for non-school property taxes to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028, if approved by voters.<\/p>\n

The amendment is supported by 55% of voters with 26% opposed and 19% undecided. Of those who support it, 49% said their primary reason was that property taxes are too high, while 55% of those who are opposed said they’re concerned about cuts to local services.<\/p>\n

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President Trump Approval<\/p>\n

When asked about their approval of President Trump’s job performance, Florida voters were split, with 48% approving, 48% disapproving and 4% not sure.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, support for the president was split on political lines with Republicans approving 83% to 14% and Democrats disapproving 88% to 12%, with Independents disapproving at 55% to 36%.<\/p>\n

Men approved of Trump’s performance (55% to 41%) while women disapproved (54% to 43%).<\/p>\n

White voters in the state support the president’s performance (60% to 37%) while Black voters overwhelmingly disapprove (86% to 11%) and Hispanic voters also disapprove (49% to 45%).<\/p>\n

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Economy<\/p>\n

When asked about how their household is financially compared to two years ago, 34% of voters said it’s about the same, while 21% said they’re “much worse off financially.” Another 18% said they’re somewhat worse off financially while 14% said they’re somewhat better off financially and 12% said they’re much better off financially.<\/p>\n

Voters were also asked about what’s had the greatest impact of their ability to afford everyday expenses and 26% said grocery and food prices, followed by 17% who said their income was not keeping pace with rising costs. Another 15% said they were most impacted by gas prices while 11% said healthcare costs and 10% said housing costs.<\/p>\n

Immigration and Other Issues<\/p>\n

Florida voters were also asked about the greatest influence on their voting decision in 2026, with 30% saying inflation and the cost of living, 17% saying the direction of the state or country, and 16% saying immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

When asked about immigration enforcement, 38% of voters said it should be focused primarily on people who have committed violent crimes, while 28% said it should be applied on all people in the country without legal status.<\/p>\n

Voters also supported local and state police cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement 53% to 45%, with 2% undecided.<\/p>\n

But Florida voters disapproved of the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement 51% to 46%, with 3% not sure.<\/p>\n

When asked about birthright citizenship, 57% said it should remain as it is today, 20% said Congress should pass a law limiting it, and 17% said the Constitution should be amended to eliminate it.<\/p>\n

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Voters were also asked about data centers and artificial intelligence, with 52% believing AI will have a more negative effect on American society compared with 36% saying it will have a more positive effect.<\/p>\n

The poll found 45% oppose having data centers in Florida while 38% support, with another 17% undecided.<\/p>\n

A higher number, 59%, oppose building a data center in their community while 30% support building one and 11% are undecided.<\/p>\n

Poll Details<\/p>\n

The poll was conducted by polling and strategy firm Mason-Dixon,\u00a0from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, surveying a total of 625 randomly selected registered Florida voters live by telephone. All stated they were likely to vote in the Nov. 3 general election.<\/p>\n

Of the 625 voters, 277 were registered Republicans, 214 were registered Democrats and 134 were registered as Independent.<\/p>\n

The survey’s margin for error is no more than \u00b1 4 percentage points, meaning there is a 95 percent probability that the “true” figure would fall within that range if all voters were surveyed.<\/p>\n

Complete poll results<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With less than a month to go before the 2026 general election, Florida’s Republican candidates for governor and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[749,225,227,226,807,729,221],"class_list":["post-421087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-breaking-news","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-south-florida","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421087","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=421087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}